Aghnakeeragh

31 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Aghnakeeragh, from 187 m² to 72,389 m² (7.24 ha, 17.89 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 13 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 Aghnakeeragh 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.

• 6 Jun 2024N/a

  AMENDMENT OF DWELLING DESIGN AND LAYOUT OF PREVIOUSLY APPROVED PLANNING REFERENCE NO. 22/51619 TO A NEW DESIGN OF A SINGLE ONE AND A HALF STOREY STYLE DETACHED DOMESTIC DWELLING WITH DETACHED GARAGE/STORE AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2460844

• 21 Dec 2020Conditional

  ERECTION OF AN EXTENSION TO THE REAR OF EXISTING APPROVED KITCHEN MANUFACTURING AND SHOWROOM PREMISES

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2052027

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

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Aghnakeeragh.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Aghnakeeragh.

Architectural heritage

• Bridge, 1900–1910 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch former railway bridge, built c. 1909, carrying the former Strabane to Letterkenny narrow gauge railway line over road. Railway line now out of use with tracks removed (c. 1960). Squared and mildly rock-faced construction to spandrels, parapets, piers, and abutments; chamfered cut stone coping over parapets. Segmental-headed arch with rock-faced cut stone voussoirs. Squared and coursed rock-faced stone retaining walls to either side of bridge. Deck now overgrown. Located in the rural countryside to the west of Raphoe.

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 Aghnakeeragh, 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Aghnakeeragh.

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 Aghnakeeragh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Aghnakeeragh

Area

312,141 m² (31.21 ha, 77.13 acres)

Civil parish

Raphoe, and its townlands

Barony

Raphoe North

Electoral division

Raphoe, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,521 people lived in 591 households in the Raphoe electoral division. 59% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Braehead, Burnside, Cooladerry, Gort Glebe, Sesnacully, Tullyvinny

Placenames

Aghnakeeragh 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.