Claggan

12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Claggan, from 1,502 m² to 583,892 m² (58.39 ha, 144.28 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 15 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 Claggan 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.

• 23 Nov 2023Conditional

  SIDE EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING AND PERMISSION FOR DEMOLITION OF EXISTING MICA DEFECTIVE DWELLING AND CONSTRUCTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2351799

• 16 Mar 2023Refused

  CONSTRUCTION OF A 20KV OVERHEAD & UNDERGROUND ELECTRICITY CABLE TO SERVE APPROVED WINDFARM DEVELOPMENT. THE PLANNING APPLICATION IS ACCOMPANIED BY A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS)

  Extension of duration · Donegal County Council, 2350340

• 29 May 2019N/a

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH ON-SITE SEWERAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Outline permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1950803

• 12 Jul 2017Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A 20KV OVERHEAD & UNDERGROUND ELECTRICITY CABLE TO SERVE APPROVED WINDFARM DEVELOPMENT. THE PLANNING APPLICATION IS ACCOMPANIED BY A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS)

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1751115

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 Claggan.

Recorded monuments

• DG036-007 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  The single-ringed enclosure shown, on the 2nd edition of the OS 6-inch map is now represented by a semicircle of fosse c. 25m in diameter, probably the remains of the N half of the original monument. The fosse is c. 2m wide and 0.5m deep. The site which slopes from N to S is overgrown and is located in good pasture land. 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

• DG036-010 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  Internal diam. 20m. A circular area enclosed by a collapsed stone wall. The inner face survives to the N for 3m up to .8m in height. An entrance marked by two stones 1.17m apart, set transversely to the wall exists on the E side. There are a number of shapeless features and loose stone in the interior. It is situated on a low rise in rough pasture sloping down to the W. 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

• DG036-012 Megalithic tomb - unclassified
  Description

  The various editions of the OS 6-inch map differ regarding the location of this feature. On the original OS six- inch map (1834) it is shown 50m SE of, and on the 1848 edition it is 90m SW of, the position marked on the 1905 edition. The feature in question is named 'Giant's Grave' on all three editions. The position shown on the 1848 edition is in the adjoining townland of Kilwarry, but in 1834, before a slight boundary change, it lay in Claggan townland. This supposed 'Giant's Grave' is mentioned in two documents of the 1834 survey, but no details are provided. According to an entry in a Name Book relating to the 1848 edition of the map, the feature named 'Giant's Grave' on the 1834 map was an 'old altar where mass used to be said about forty years since'. It claimed that at the position shown on the 1848 map there was a grave 'of a circular form' but that it could 'scarcely be traced'. It appears from this that little if anything then survived at the spot. The feature identified on the 1905 edition of the map, according to an entry in an accompanying Name Book (1903), was 'a cairn of stones supposed to have been the burial place of giants'. No remains are visible at the position indicated on the 1848 edition of the map, which is on level ground close to the shore of Columbkille Lough. The positions identified on the 1834 and 1905 editions of the map are on a densely overgrown slope rising above the lough. There is a small heap of slabs of uncertain origin at the position shown on the 1905 map, but it was not possible to identify the feature shown on the 1834 map. Kinahan (1879-88b, 475; 1889, 281) failed to find this site toward the end of the 19th century. There is no convincing evidence that a megalithic tomb ever stood at any of the three locations. OS Memoirs, Aughnish and Tullyfern parishes (1834), 45; OS Name Book, Aughnish and Tullyfern parishes (1834), book 2, 26; OS Revision Name Book, sheet 36 (1848), 26; Kinahan 1879-88b, 475 ('Giant's Grave'); Kinahan 1889, 281 ('Giant's Grave' under Kilwarry); Borlase 1897, 232, Kilmacrenan no. 17; OS 1:2,500 Name Book, sheet 36 (1903), 33; Ó Nualláin 1983a, 47, no. 18; SMR 1987, 36:12; RMP 1995, 36:12. 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 Claggan.

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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Claggan

Area

909,525 m² (90.95 ha, 224.75 acres)

Civil parish

Tullyfern, and its townlands

Barony

Kilmacrenan

Electoral division

Millford, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Millford electoral division: 1,633 people in 608 households; 72% of households own their home; 40% of homes were built since 2001; 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballygay, Conaghrud, Garrygort, Kilwarry, Loughdoo, Urbalshinny

Placenames

Claggan 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.