Donegall Middle
Donegall Middle is a townland in the civil parish of Creagh, barony of Carbery West (East Division), Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is Dún na nGall Láir.
- Area
- 30.7 ha
- 76 acres
- Land parcels
- 12
- registered freehold, median 4,331 m² (0.43 ha, 1.07 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Donegall Middle, from 1,050 m² to 109,476 m² (10.95 ha, 27.05 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 3 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Donegall Middle 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
26 May 2023Conditional
Construction of alterations and sunroom extension to dwelling house along with all associated site developent works
Permission · Cork County Council, 23/281
8 Dec 2005Withdrawn
Dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/9089
17 Nov 2005Conditional
Conservatory extension to dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/8444
16 Apr 2004Conditional
Construction of two storey extension to dwelling, detached garage/loft and installation of septic tank and percolation area
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/2543
14 Nov 2000Refused
Bungalow
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 00/6854
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Donegall Middle.
Recorded monuments
- CO150-002 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, on N-facing slope, at N end of Ringarogy Island. Circular enclosure hachured on OS 6-inch map (1842). Roughly pentagonal area (24.45m N-S; 22.75m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (H 1.4m) NE->NW; linear stone field fence to N side. Breaks in bank to SW (Wth 4.2m) and NW (Wth 2m), both leading to laneway which skirts bank to W. Interior ploughed, ridges run N-S. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Donegall Middle.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Donegall Middle, 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 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 Donegall Middle.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Donegall Middle with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Donegall Middle · Dún na nGall Láir
- Area
- 306,671 m² (30.67 ha, 75.78 acres)
- Civil parish
- Creagh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Carbery West (East Division)
- Electoral division
- Cape Clear, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 308 people lived in 139 households in the Cape Clear electoral division. 75% of households owned their home. 22% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 34% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Donegall East, Donegall West
- Placenames
- Donegall Middle 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.