Edergole

33 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Edergole, from 164 m² to 9,781,041 m² (978.1 ha, 2,416.95 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 25 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 Edergole 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.

• 2 Mar 2020Conditional

  A SINGLE STOREY SUN-ROOM CONSTRUCTED TO DWELLING HOUSE AT THIS SITE

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2050250

• 15 Mar 2019Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL SLATTED SHED ADJOINING EXISTING SHED AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1950361

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: Lough Eske and Ardnamona Wood SAC 000163
• Special Area of Conservation: River Finn SAC 002301
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Owendoo And Cloghervaddy Bogs 002046

Recorded monuments

• DG085-006001 Booley hut
  Description

  A report by Emmet Byrnes, archaeologist with the Forestry Service in 2003 documents the preliminary archaeological assessment of a number recently discovered archaeological/historical sites in Coillte Teoranta's forestry plantation in Edergole townland, near Lough Eske, Co. Donegal. Coillte Teoranta's Regional Environmental Manager, Mr. John Williams, identified the first of the sites during the course of a clear-fell operation in Autumn 2003. The sites were then inspected by Coillte Teoranta's Consultant Archaeologist, Mr. Michael Cox, who laid out a series of exclusion zones for the re-planting operation. However, following the completion of the entire clear-fell operation a number of additional features were revealed that Mr. Williams suspected to also be of significance. These features were notified to the National Monuments Section, Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government (DoEHLG), and the Forest Service Archaeologist, Emmet Byrnes, agreed to inspect the site on 26th November 2003 and make a preliminary assessment. The forestry plantation at Edergole is located approximately 9km northeast of Donegal town. It is situated on steeply sloping ground, along the lower western side of the Corraber River valley. The overall natural drainage pattern is towards the southeast into the Corraber River, and there are a number of small springs and streams dotted across the site, meandering down slope. The solid geology (parent material) of the area is Lower Avonian shales and sandstone, carboniferous slate and calciferous sandstone and the soils are peaty and peaty gleys. Prior to the clear-fell operation there were only two small farmsteads recorded on the OS 6 inch and 25 inch maps within the area of the forestry, one to the north of the plantation and one in the centre. Neither of these farmsteads is listed in the Record of Monuments and Places for County Donegal. The subsequent inspection of the site revealed a third totally unrecorded 18th / 19th century farmstead (DG085-006003-), with ancillary buildings and features such as a byre and limekiln. In addition to this there were also a number of other structures all sited on a north-south orientated ridge upon which the central farmstead is located. The structures include two conjoined turf: built cottages, a `garraí' or garden plot, seven small clearance cairns and at least two, if not three booleying huts (DG085-006001-/002-). Elsewhere in the plantation there are also what appear to be two small turf and earth built booleying huts. The second, slightly bigger hut is to the south of the `garraí'. It is sub-rectangular in shape and measures approximately 4.5m by 4m. The entrance is also to the southeast. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 21 August 2012

• DG085-006002 Booley hut
  Description

  A report by Emmet Byrnes, archaeologist with the Forestry Service in 2003 documents the preliminary archaeological assessment of a number recently discovered archaeological/historical sites in Coillte Teoranta's forestry plantation in Edergole townland, near Lough Eske, Co. Donegal. Coillte Teoranta's Regional Environmental Manager, Mr. John Williams, identified the first of the sites during the course of a clear-fell operation in Autumn 2003. The sites were then inspected by Coillte Teoranta's Consultant Archaeologist, Mr. Michael Cox, who laid out a series of exclusion zones for the re-planting operation. However, following the completion of the entire clear-fell operation a number of additional features were revealed that Mr. Williams suspected to also be of significance. These features were notified to the National Monuments Section, Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government (DoEHLG), and the Forest Service Archaeologist, Emmet Byrnes, agreed to inspect the site on 26th November 2003 and make a preliminary assessment. The forestry plantation at Edergole is located approximately 9km northeast of Donegal town. It is situated on steeply sloping ground, along the lower western side of the Corraber River valley. The overall natural drainage pattern is towards the southeast into the Corraber River, and there are a number of small springs and streams dotted across the site, meandering down slope. The solid geology (parent material) of the area is Lower Avonian shales and sandstone, carboniferous slate and calciferous sandstone and the soils are peaty and peaty gleys. Prior to the clear-fell operation there were only two small farmsteads recorded on the OS 6 inch and 25 inch maps within the area of the forestry, one to the north of the plantation and one in the centre. Neither of these farmsteads is listed in the Record of Monuments and Places for County Donegal. The subsequent inspection of the site revealed a third totally unrecorded 18th / 19th century farmstead (DG085-006003-), with ancillary buildings and features such as a byre and limekiln. In addition to this there were also a number of other structures all sited on a north-south orientated ridge upon which the central farmstead is located. The structures include two conjoined turf: built cottages, a `garraí' or garden plot, seven small clearance cairns and at least two, if not three booleying huts (DG085-006001-/002-). Elsewhere in the plantation there are also what appear to be two small turf and earth built booleying huts. There is a small circular hut near the northern farmstead. It measures approximately 3m in diameter, with walls surviving to a height of about 0.5m and an entrance to the southeast. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 21 August 2012

• DG085-006003 Settlement cluster
  Description

  A report by Emmet Byrnes, archaeologist with the Forestry Service in 2003 documents the preliminary archaeological assessment of a number recently discovered archaeological/historical sites in Coillte Teoranta's forestry plantation in Edergole townland, near Lough Eske, Co. Donegal. Coillte Teoranta's Regional Environmental Manager, Mr. John Williams, identified the first of the sites during the course of a clear-fell operation in Autumn 2003. The sites were then inspected by Coillte Teoranta's Consultant Archaeologist, Mr. Michael Cox, who laid out a series of exclusion zones for the re-planting operation. However, following the completion of the entire clear-fell operation a number of additional features were revealed that Mr. Williams suspected to also be of significance. These features were notified to the National Monuments Section, Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government (DoEHLG), and the Forest Service Archaeologist, Emmet Byrnes, agreed to inspect the site on 26th November 2003 and make a preliminary assessment. The forestry plantation at Edergole is located approximately 9km northeast of Donegal town. It is situated on steeply sloping ground, along the lower western side of the Corraber River valley. The overall natural drainage pattern is towards the southeast into the Corraber River, and there are a number of small springs and streams dotted across the site, meandering down slope. The solid geology (parent material) of the area is Lower Avonian shales and sandstone, carboniferous slate and calciferous sandstone and the soils are peaty and peaty gleys. Prior to the clear-fell operation there were only two small farmsteads recorded on the OS 6 inch and 25 inch maps within the area of the forestry, one to the north of the plantation and one in the centre. Neither of these farmsteads is listed in the Record of Monuments and Places for County Donegal. The subsequent inspection of the site revealed a third totally unrecorded 18th / 19th century farmstead (DG085-006003-), with ancillary buildings and features such as a byre and limekiln. In addition to this there were also a number of other structures all sited on a north-south orientated ridge upon which the central farmstead is located. The structures include two conjoined turf: built cottages, a `garraí' or garden plot, seven small clearance cairns and at least two, if not three booleying huts (DG085-006001-/002-). The third previously unrecorded 18th/19th century farmstead is located at the very southeastern end of the forestry plantation, situated on a low knoll beside the Corraber River and a series of stepping-stones. It consists of the basal remains of two small two-roomed cottages, one measuring approximately 9m by 4m, and the other 8m by 5m. Nearby, there is a small circular limekiln, with a small sub-rectangular structure attached to its eastern side. The limekiln measures approximately 2.1 m in diameter and 1m in depth with the funnel opening into the interior of the attached structure. Further to the east of these buildings there is another larger wedge- shaped structure, possibly a byre, and a series of dry-stone walls and well-beaten trackways. Two conjoined turf-built cottages were identified approximately 60m north-northeast of the central farmstead. The structures are sub-rectangular in shape, almost square, and cover an area measuring approximately 13m by 9m, and 0.85m in height. They are predominantly built of turf but also have some large boulders incorporated into the structure. The southernmost of the two seems to have been a double-walled structure, with an entrance to the south. A later field wall incorporated the northeastern side of the other structure. Some 10m to the east of the central farmstead there is what appears to be a small `garraí' or garden plot, utilising the top terrace or platform of one of the drumlin-like prominences along the lower sections of the river valley. The feature is roughly oval in shape and measures approximately 30m by 15m, with evidence for some rudimentary dry-stone revetting in places. There is a small sub-rectangular earthen structure on the eastern side of the platform, possibly a booleying hut or some form or animal pen. It measures approximately 10m by 5m, with an entrance to the southeast. There are also two small clearance cairns near the `garraí’, and another five between the central farmstead and the two conjoined turf-built cottages. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 21 August 2012

Architectural heritage

• Edergole Bridge, bridge, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arched bridge carrying small country road over unnamed mountain stream draining into Lough Eske, built c. 1820, having splayed wing walls to parapets (north and south). Round-headed arch having roughly dressed voussoirs, roughly dressed and squared rubble stone construction to arch barrel. Randomly coursed and squared rubble stone construction to spandrels, parapets and wing walls. Vertically-set rubble stone coping over parapets and wing walls. Tarmacadam deck with grass to verges and centre. Located a short distance to the north of Lough Eske and to the north-east of Donegal Town.

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 Edergole, about 1 in 5 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Edergole · Eadargóil

Area

17,691,615 m² (1,769.16 ha, 4,371.69 acres)

Civil parish

Killymard, and its townlands

Barony

Banagh

Electoral division

Lough Eask, the unit of the census

Census 2022

350 people lived in 66 households in the Lough Eask electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 17% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cornaveagh, Crolack, Cronakerny, Cronamuck, Croveenananta, Doocrow, Eglish, Greenan, Sruell, Tawnawully Mountains

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Edergole 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.