Coolaghy

25 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Coolaghy, from 94 m² to 260,845 m² (26.08 ha, 64.46 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 17 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 Coolaghy 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.

• 26 Apr 2025N/a

  VEHICLE SALES / STORAGE AREA

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2560652

• 23 Oct 2024Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL SLATTED SHED, DUNGSTEAD AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2461683

• 16 Oct 2024N/a

  CAR SALES / STORAGE AREA

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2461633

• 2 Oct 2023Refused

  (1) REVISION OF THE PROPOSED LAYOUT OF 3 NO. OVERGROUND STORAGE TANKS AND 1 NO. PART SOLID FLOOR/PART SLATTED SHED (DEVELOPMENTS PREVIOUSLY APPROVED AS PART OF PLANNING REF. NO. 20/51735, 22/50023 AND/OR 22/51723) AND (2) PROVISION OF ANCILLARY INFRASTRUCTURE SUCH AS CHP UNIT, GAS CLEANING UNIT, FLARE, SITE OFFICE (PRIMARILY PRE-FAB/CONTAINERIZED UNITS) AND ANY ADDITIONAL ANCILLARY STRUCTURES (TO INCLUDE ANCILLARY STORAGE BUILDING), EQUIPMENT AND SITE WORKS (TO INCLUDE INTERNAL ACCESS ROUTE, CONCRETE APRONS ETC.) NECESSARY SO AS TO FACILITATE THE PROPOSED OPERATION OF AN ANAEROBIC DIGESTION (AD) FACILITY, ON/ADJACENT TO THE EXISTING PIG AND CATTLE FARMYARD SITE

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2351481

• 13 Oct 2022Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF 1 NO. SLATTED LIVESTOCK SHED, 1 NO. PART DRY BEDDED / PART SLATTED SHED, AND 1 NO. OVERGROUND ANCILLARY MANURE STORAGE TANK TOGETHER WITH ALL ANCILLARY STRUCTURES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS ARISING FROM THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2251723

• 13 Jan 2022Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF 3 NO. PIG HOUSES AND 1 NO. OVERGROUND MANURE STORAGE TANK (IN LIEU OF 3 PIG HOUSES PREVIOUSLY APPROVED UNDER PLANNING REF. 13/50220, NOT YET COMPLETED), TOGETHER WITH ALL ANCILLARY STRUCTURES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS (TO PROVIDE FOR HIGHER ENVIRONMENTAL STANDARDS IN LINE WITH BAT REQUIRMENTS) ARISING FROM THE ABOVE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT ON EXISTING PIG FARM SITE

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2250023

• 16 Nov 2020Conditional

  (1) CONSTRUCTION OF 1 NO. SLATTED SHED (REF. SHED 5), (2) 2NO. (1 OVERGROUND AND 1 UNDERGROUND) ANCILLARY MANURE STORAGE TANKS (3) ALL ANCILLARY STRUCTURES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS ARISING FROM THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2051735

• 19 Oct 2020Conditional

  RELOCATION OF A SECTION OF THE EXISTING 38K V LINE KNOWN AS THE LETTERKENNY, ROSSGEIR, STRANORLAR 38K V LINE

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2051534

• 30 Jun 2020Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF 1 NO. SLATTED SHED AND 1 NO. SOLID FLOOR LIVESTOCK HOUSE (IN LIEU OF 1 NO. SOLID FLOOR LIVESTOCK HOUSE PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF. 18/51405), TOGETHER WITH ALL ANCILLARY STRUCTURE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS ARISING FROM THE ABOVE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2050852

• 30 Apr 2019Conditional

  (1) EXISTING GARAGE AND COURTYARD FOR CAR SALES AND REPAIRS AND (2) AN OFFICE AND STORAGE UNIT ALONG WITH ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS ON SITE

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 1950613

• 12 Feb 2019Conditional

  RETENTION & COMPLETION OF 1 NO. SLATTED SHED (REF. SHED 2) AND 1NO. ROOFED SILAGE PIT (REF. PIT 3), CONSTRUCTED IN LIEU OF THOSE DEVELOPMENTS APPROVED UNDER PLANNING REF. 16/51690, ROOF 2 NO. EXISTING SILAGE PITS (REF. PITS 1 & 2), CONSTRUCTION OF 2 NO. SLATTED SHEDS (REF. SHED 3, SHED 4), TOGETHER WITH ALL ANCILLARY STRUCTURES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS ARISING FROM THE ABOVE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1950168

• 12 Sept 2018Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF 1 NO. SLATTED SHED AND 1 NO. SOLID FLOOR LIVESTOCK HOUSE, TOGETHER WITH ALL ANCILLARY STRUCTURES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS ARISING FROM THE DEVELOPMENT

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1851405

• 4 Sept 2018N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF 1 NO. SLATTED SHED AND 1 NO. SOLID FLOOR LIVESTOCK HOUSE, TOGETHER WITH ALL ANCILLARY STRUCTURES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS ARISING FROM THE DEVELOPMENT

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1851369

• 12 Dec 2017Unconditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF (1)(a) 9 NO. PIG WEANER/FINISHER HOUSES, (b) EXTENSION TO 1 NO. EXISTING PIG FINISHER HOUSE, (c) EXTENSION TO 1 NO. EXISTING PIG HOUSE TO COMPRISE A FEED STORAGE AREA AND, (d) 1 NO. FEED PREPARATION STORE. (2) RELOCATION OF 1 NO. GRAIN STORE(PREVIOUSLY APPROVED UNDER FILE NO. 08/40082). (3) DECOMMISSIONING OF 3 NO. EXISTING PIG HOUSES, AND 1 NO. OVERGROUND MANURE STORAGE TANK (PREVIOUSLY APPROVED UNDER FILE NO. 08/40026) AND (4) ALL ANCILLARY STRUCTURES (TO INCLUDE MEAL STORAGE BINS, RAINWATER HARVESTING TANK, STORAGE TANKS) AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS (INCLUDING UPGRADED SITE ENTRANCE(S)) ARISING FROM THE ABOVE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT, ON EXISTING PIG FARM SITE

  Extension of duration · Donegal County Council, 1751878

• 5 Jul 2017Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, SEPTIC TANK / SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1751052

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 Coolaghy.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Coolaghy.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Coolaghy, 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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1895 (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 Coolaghy with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Coolaghy

Area

800,857 m² (80.09 ha, 197.9 acres)

Civil parish

Raphoe, and its townlands

Barony

Raphoe North

Electoral division

Feddyglass, the unit of the census

Census 2022

456 people lived in 164 households in the Feddyglass electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Broadlea, Coolaghy Glebe, Dromore Little, Drumfad, Drumnabratty, Mass More, Mullaghanny, Oakfield Demesne

Placenames

Coolaghy 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.