Blackrock

7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Blackrock, from 54 m² to 48,054 m² (4.81 ha, 11.87 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 6 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 Blackrock 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.

• 20 Jul 2017N/a

  EXISTING SUB-FLOOR CONSTRUCTION WORKS, SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA, ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS BUILT ORIGINALLY UNDER PLANNING REF: 06/40672, AND AMEND THE PREVIOUS PERMITTED HOUSE DESIGN FROM A TWO STOREY DWELLING TO A SINGLE STOREY BUNGALOW TYPE DWELLING

  Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1751147

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 Blackrock.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Blackrock.

Architectural heritage

• House, 1870–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1880, having single-storey projecting entrance porch to the centre of the front elevation (south-east), added c. 1920, and with modern two-storey flat roof extension to the rear (north-west). Pitched natural slate roof having blue clay ridge tiles, and with rendered verges and smooth rendered chimneystacks to the gable ends (north-east and south-west). Pitched natural slate roof to porch having clay ridge tiles and with decorative bargeboard to the front. Roughcast rendered walls over painted plinth course, and having raised parallel quoins to the corners of the front elevation and to corners of porch. Square-headed window openings with smooth rendered reveals, painted sills, rand having tripartite timber sliding sash windows to ground floor with replacement windows over to first floor. Some two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows surviving to secondary elevations. Square-headed doorway to the north-west face of porch with timber door. Set back from road in own grounds in the rural countryside to the north of Lifford. Complex of two single-storey outbuildings on L-shaped plan to the east of site having hipped corrugated-metal and pitched natural slate slated roofs, rubble stone walls, and with square-headed doorways openings having red brick reveals and battened timber doors and double-doors. Gravel driveway to south and east and rendered rubble stone boundary wall to road to south-east. Gateway to the south comprising a pair of smooth rendered gate piers (on square-plan) having wrought-iron flat bar gates with twisted decoration. Garden to south and rubble stone wall flanking driveway.

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 Blackrock, 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1958 (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 Blackrock with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Blackrock

Area

67,413 m² (6.74 ha, 16.66 acres)

Civil parish

Clonleigh, and its townlands

Barony

Raphoe North

Electoral division

Clonleigh North, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,429 people lived in 520 households in the Clonleigh North electoral division. 84% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Braade, Coolatee, Gortgranagh, Kilnpark, Sixty Acres

Placenames

Blackrock 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.