Brockagh

69 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Brockagh, from 68 m² to 683,047 m² (68.3 ha, 168.78 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 34 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Brockagh 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.

• 9 Jun 2025N/a

  (1) AGRICULTURAL SHED, (2) VEHICULAR ENTRANCE AND LAND IMPROVEMENT WORKS WHICH INCLUDED THE IMPORTATION OF SOIL AND PERMISSION FOR CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSION TO SHED WHICH IS THE SUBJECT OF RETENTION PERMISSION HEREIN TO PROVIDE DRY AGRICULTURAL STORAGE AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2560945

• 4 Feb 2025Conditional

  (1) ALTERATION, EXTENSION AND RENOVATION WORKS TO EXISTING DERELICT DWELLING HOUSE INCLUDING CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW TWO STOREY EXTENSION TO THE NORTHERN SIDE IN ADDITION TO RAISING THE PERIMETER WALLS AND ROOF HEIGHT OF THE EXISTING DERELICT DWELLING HOUSE TO PROVIDE USEABLE FIRST FLOOR ACCOMMODATION, (2) DEMOLITION OF THE ATTACHED STORAGE SHED / OUTBUILDINGS, (3) INSTALLATION OF A SEPTIC TANK / SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND (4) UPGRADING OF EXISTING VEHICULAR ENTRANCE AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2560124

• 19 Dec 2024N/a

  RENOVATION AND EXTENSION WORKS TO EXISTING COTTAGE INCLUDING DEMOLITION OF ATTACHED SHED / STORE AND INSTALLATION OF A SEPTIC TANK / SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2462132

• 13 Sept 2024Conditional

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

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2461439

• 22 Apr 2024Conditional

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

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2460554

• 1 Feb 2019Unconditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ASSOCIATED WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM ALONG WITH ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Extension of duration, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1950120

• 27 Jul 2018Refused

  CLOSURE OF AN EXISTING VEHICULAR ENTRANCE AND CONSTRUCTION OF A REPLACEMENT VEHICULAR ENTRANCE AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS TO ACCESS LANDS

  Temporary permission · Donegal County Council, 1851179

• 29 Sept 2017Conditional

  (1) RETENTION OF GROUND-WORKS/SITE CLEARANCE WORKS CARRIED OUT TO DATE AND (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, THE INSTALLATION OF AN EFFLUENT TREATMENT UNIT WITH PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1751492

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: River Finn SAC 002301
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Tullytresna Bog 001870

Recorded monuments

• DG068-003 Standing stone
  Description

  There is no trace of the 'Standing Stone' marked on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map. Situated in rough pasture land on the side of a fairly steep hill sloping down W to the River Finn. The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated. Date of upload: 22 September 2008

• DG068-004 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Internal diam. 22m. The SW half of an originally circular area enclosed by an earthen bank 1m high. The SW half had to be artificially raised on account of the steep slope. A wet area to the NE might indicate a silted-up fosse. It is situated in rough pasture high up on the side of the valley of the River Finn. The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated. Date of upload: 22 September 2008

• DG068-005 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  There is no trace of the possibly double-banked 'Fort' shown on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map. It was situated on the steep side of the valley of the River Finn in rough pasture. The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated. Date of upload: 22 September 2008

• DG068-030 Penal Mass station
  Description

  This feature, listed as a 'dolmen' (Borlase 1897) and a 'prehistoric chamber tomb' (Killanin and Duignan 1962; 1967), is described in OS records as an altar where Mass was said until 1799, when a chapel was built nearby. OS Memoirs, Kilteevoge parish [c. 1835-6], 7; Borlase 1897, 236, Raphoe South no. 1; Killanin and Duignan 1962, 81; Killanin and Duignan 1967, 92. The above description was published in the 'Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume VI, County Donegal.' Compiled by: Eamon Cody (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). Date of upload: 22 September 2008

Architectural heritage

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

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

About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Brockagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Brockagh · An Bhrocaigh

Area

3,419,352 m² (341.94 ha, 844.94 acres)

Civil parish

Kilteevoge, and its townlands

Barony

Raphoe South

Electoral division

Cloghan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Cloghan electoral division: 935 people in 318 households; 86% of households own their home; 31% of homes were built since 2001; 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cloghan Beg, Galwolie, Meenanamph, Meenbog, Mooneennahasragh, Stranabrattoge

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Brockagh 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.