Ardchicken

6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ardchicken, from 219 m² to 84,588 m² (8.46 ha, 20.9 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Ardchicken in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 13 May 2026N/a

  WORKS TO PROPERTY, A PROTECTED STRUCTURE, RPS NO: 40909946 KNOWN AS MAGHERABEG HOUSE CONSISTING OF THE FOLLOWING: (1) PROPOSED CHANGE OF USE FROM AN EXISTING PRIVATE DWELLING TO SHORT-TERM GUEST ACCOMMODATION, (2) DEMOLITION OF NON-ORIGINAL EXTENSIONS TO THE REAR (NORTH-WEST) SIDE OF THE HOUSE, (3) ADDITION OF A NEW ORANGERY EXTENSION TO THE SOUTH OF THE HOUSE, (4) INTERIOR ALTERATIONS AND REFURBISHMENT WORKS TO THE MAIN BUILDING, (5) CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSION TO NORTH-WEST OF THE HOUSE TO INCLUDE UTILITY AND SERVICE SPACES, (6) ADDITION OF NEW BAY WINDOW TO THE NORTH OF THE HOUSE, (7) PROPOSED CHANGE OF USE OF EXISTING OUTBUILDING IN REAR COURTYARD TO ENTERTAINMENT SPACE INCLUDING ELEVATIONAL CHANGES AND THE ADDITION OF A NEW STORE TO THE SOUTHWEST, (8) CREATION OF NEW VEHICULAR ENTRANCE FROM R-267, (9) CREATION OF NEW SELF-CONTAINED RESIDENTIAL ACCOMMODATION WITHIN AN EXISTING DETACHED OUTBUILDING ANCILLARY TO MAGHERABEG HOUSE, (10) REDUCTION IN LEVELS TO EXTEND GARDENS TO THE SOUTH-WEST, (11) WORKS TO THE GROUNDS WITHIN THE CURTILAGE OF THE PROTECTED STRUCTURE INCLUDING DECOMMISSIONING OF EXISTING SEPTIC TANK SYSTEM AND CONNECTION TO THE PUBLIC SEWER AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) ACCOMPANIES THIS APPLICATION

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2660858

• 10 Apr 2026Refused

  CONSTRUCTION OF DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE INCLUDING THE INSTALLATION OF A WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. A SCREENING REPORT FOR APPROPRIATE ASSESSMENT HAS BEEN CARRIED OUT IN RESPECT OF THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2660604

• 6 Aug 2024Conditional

  RELOCATION OF A DWELLING AND SEPTIC TANK, AMENDMENTS TO THE ELEVATIONS OF THE DWELLING AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS FROM THAT WHICH WAS GRANTED PERMISSION UNDER PLANNING PERMISSION REF : 96/236

  Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2461201

• 11 Jun 2024Conditional

  CHANGE OF USE FROM LOFT STORAGE TO SELF-CONTAINED LIVING ACCOMMODATION ANCILLARY TO THE USE OF THE DWELLING HOUSE, INCLUDING PROVISION OF VELUX TYPE ROOFLIGHTS IN A DETACHED OUTBUILDING TO THE REAR OF MAGHERABEG HOUSE (WHICH IS A PROTECTED STRUCTURE REF NO. 40909946)

  Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2460871

• 5 Oct 2022Conditional

  (1) CHANGE OF USE OF 201 METRES SQ. OF EXISTING WAREHOUSE TO OFFICE SPACE (2) ELEVATIONAL CHANGES INCLUDING NEW FEATURE ENTRANCE TO SIDE OF BUILDING AND NEW WINDOWS (3) PROVISION OF (A) NEW CANOPY TO FRONT OF BUILDING (B) NEW CARPARKING ARRANGEMENTS ON SITE (C) NEW SIGNAGE AND (4) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2251660

• 20 Apr 2022Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE INCLUDING THE INSTALLATION OF A WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND FOR ALL ANCILLARY SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Outline permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2250689

• 13 Jan 2021Unconditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO THE EXISTING FACTORY TO PROVIDE FOR ADDITIONAL CLEAN ROOM PRODUCTION/FACTORY AREAS, GENERAL STORAGE AND SERVICES BAYS WITH A TWO STORY ELEMENT CONTAINING ADMINISTRATION OFFICES, LABORATORIES, RECEPTION, TOILETS, PROVISION OF A NEW VEHICULAR ENTRANCE ONTO THE ESTATE ROAD AND PROVISION OF ADDITIONAL CAR PARKING AND A NEW ACCESS ROAD AROUND THE SIDE AND REAR OF THE NEW BUILDING, CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY ESB SUB-STATION, CONNECTION TO THE EXISTING FOUL AND STORM WATER DRAINAGE NETWORKS, PROVISION OF A STORM WATER ATTENUATION UNDERGROUND TANK AND CONNECTION TO THE EXISTING MAINS WATER SUPPLY NETWORK. THE DEVELOPMENT WILL BE PHASED WITH PHASE ONE BEING THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE STORAGE AND SERVICE BAY ELEMENT OF THE OVERALL BUILDING EXTENSION PROPOSAL AND STAGE TWO BEING THE COMPLETION OF THE FACTORY/PRODUCTION AREAS AND RECEPTION/OFFICES. ALL TO INCLUDE ALL ASSOCIATED BOUNDARY TREATMENTS AND SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS AND CONNECTION TO ROADS AND SERVICES ALL AT THE (FORMER IDA) BUSINESS/ INDUSTRIAL PARK

  Extension of duration · Donegal County Council, 2150023

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Donegal Bay (Murvagh) SAC 000133
• Special Protection Area: Donegal Bay SPA 004151
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Donegal Bay (Murvagh) 000133

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ardchicken.

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ardchicken.

Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. Buildings: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Works at or in relation to a recorded monument need two months' written notice to the National Monuments Service (National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994, section 12).

Radon

At the centre of the townland of Ardchicken, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately low, low.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1435 (ZIP).

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under CC BY 4.0. LiDAR: contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland & the Office of Public Works) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.

No address of the register names Ardchicken with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Ardchicken

Area

230,661 m² (23.07 ha, 57 acres)

Civil parish

Donegal, and its townlands

Barony

Tirhugh

Electoral division

Donegal, the unit of the census

Census 2022

4,179 people lived in 1,617 households in the Donegal electoral division. 71% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Lurganboy, Raforker, Rarooey, Tullaghcullion

Placenames

Ardchicken on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland

Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. Census 2022, Small Area Population Statistics by electoral division, Central Statistics Office, CC BY 4.0. A townland is the smallest land division of Ireland, and the unit of a rural address. Old registers such as the 1901 and 1911 censuses file it under its civil parish and barony.