# Blackrock, Co. Donegal: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Clonleigh, barony of Raphoe North, Co. Donegal. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 67,413 m² (6.74 ha, 16.66 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,548 m² (0.25 ha, 0.63 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Clonleigh, https://everytownland.com/donegal/parish/clonleigh.md - Barony: Raphoe North - Electoral division: Clonleigh North, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Donegal, https://everytownland.com/donegal.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/16209 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 50346 - Centre: latitude 54.856669, longitude -7.478286 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Blackrock, from 54 m² to 48,054 m² (4.81 ha, 11.87 acres); 6 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1331601: 48,054 m² (4.81 ha, 11.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1331601.md - Parcel 1330266: 8,861 m² (0.89 ha, 2.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1330266.md - Parcel 5000018: 3,428 m² (0.34 ha, 0.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5000018.md - Parcel 4775088: 2,548 m² (0.25 ha, 0.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4775088.md - Parcel 4788328: 2,020 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4788328.md - Parcel 4788319: 1,994 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4788319.md - Parcel 4801626: 54 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4801626.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 1 application, newest first. - 20 Jul 2017, Donegal County Council 1751147: N/a. Retention, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1751147/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Blackrock. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Blackrock. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - House, 1870–1890, Regional interest, registry number 40907111, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=DG®no=40907111. 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. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - 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: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_1958.zip (ZIP). - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/donegal/blackrock.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/donegal/blackrock.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/donegal/blackrock.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Blackrock with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal: https://everytownland.com/donegal.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Braade: https://everytownland.com/donegal/braade-50371.md - Coolatee: https://everytownland.com/donegal/coolatee.md - Gortgranagh: https://everytownland.com/donegal/gortgranagh.md - Kilnpark: https://everytownland.com/donegal/kilnpark.md - Sixty Acres: https://everytownland.com/donegal/sixty-acres.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/donegal/blackrock - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/donegal/blackrock