Claragh

11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Claragh, from 3,193 m² (0.32 ha, 0.79 acres) to 54,136 m² (5.41 ha, 13.38 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 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 Claragh 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 2025Conditional

  (1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING CHALET DWELLING, (2) REMOVAL OF 2 NO. MOBILE HOME UNITS, (3) DECOMMISSIONING OF EXISTING ON-SITE SEPTIC TANK AND SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT SYSTEM AND (4) ERECTION OF NEW DWELLING HOUSE AND SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2562049

• 10 Feb 2025N/a

  ERECTION OF A TEMPORARY MARQUEE STRUCTURE WITH ANCILLARY TOILET FACILITIES ON THE GROUNDS OF CLARAGH HOUSE (A PROTECTED STRUCTURE, RPS NO. 40800308), TOGETHER WITH ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS AND CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2560155

• 8 Jan 2025N/a

  ERECTION OF A TEMPORARY MARQUEE STRUCTURE WITH ANCILLARY TOILET FACILITIES ON THE GROUNDS OF CLARAGH HOUSE (A PROTECTED STRUCTURE, RPS NO. 40800308), TOGETHER WITH ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS AND CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2560006

• 28 Nov 2024N/a

  ERECTION OF A TEMPORARY MARQUEE STRUCTURE WITH ANCILLARY TOILET FACILITIES ON THE GROUNDS OF CLARAGH HOUSE (A PROTECTED STRUCTURE, RPS NO. 40800308), TOGETHER WITH ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS AND CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2461947

• 12 Aug 2021Conditional

  ERECTION OF A EXTENSION TO SILAGE PIT AT REAR OF EXISTING SILAGE PIT

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2151625

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: Leannan River SAC 002176
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Fern 001162

Recorded monuments

• DG045-021 Standing stone
  Description

  A standing stone 2.15m high, .65m at the base NE-SW and 0.45m thick. It is situated on good flat pasture close to the Leannan river. 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

Architectural heritage

• Claragh House, farmyard complex, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Complex of detached single and two-storey outbuildings, built c.1800, to south of Claragh House, with pitched natural slate roofs, rubble stone walls, segmental-headed carriage-arches with brick voussoirs and timber fittings, and square-headed window and door openings with timber fittings. Detached seven-bay two-storey outbuilding to southwest, having pitched artificial slate roof with cast-iron roof-lights, timber roof vents, and some surviving sections of cast-iron rainwater goods; rubble stone walls with dressed stone quoins to the corners; square-headed window openings with stone sills, dressed and squared rubble stone voussoirs, and with horizontal pivoting lights; depressed segmental-headed carriage-arches with red brick voussoirs and timber doors, and having roundel opening at first floor level with red brick surround.

• Claragh House, house, 1610–1630 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached nine-bay two-storey former planter's house with attic storey, built c.1620, with two-storey extension of c.1890 to rear. Built on on sloping site. Pitched natural slate roof with low chimneystacks to gable ends. Partly rendered rubble stone walls. Square-headed window and door openings with timber fittings. Later converted to watermill and later again to diesel power. Building contains generator and mill workings. Single-storey outbuilding attached to up-slope long wall, having pitched natural slate roof with low chimneystack, rubble stone walls, red brick elliptical-arch vehicular opening to up-slope long wall and square-headed pitching door to one upper gable. Millstone stands at same gable.

• Claragh House, country house, 1880–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay two-storey former country house, built c.1890, having lower two-bay two-storey wing attached to southwest with single-storey pantry attached to southwest of latter. Shallow projecting breakfront to entrance front (northwest), offset to northeast side of centre, having moulded red brick pilasters to either end and with flanking central doorway. Shallow hipped natural slate roof with moulded red brick eaves course, profiled cast-iron gutters, profiled clay ridge tiles, clay finials, and ribbed red brick chimneystacks. Snecked rubble limestone construction with chamfered ashlar sandstone plinth course, and with red brick block-and-start quoins to corners. Square-headed window openings to front and garden elevations, having red brick block-and-start surrounds with moulded red brick cornices, moulded brick sills, red brick apron panels and six-over-two and six-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Large square-headed window opening over main entrance, having multiple-pane fixed timber window (lighting stairwell to interior) with flanking fixed-pane timber windows; flanking square-headed sidelights to garden front with two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed doorway to breakfront with lugged ashlar sandstone doorcase with architraved surround, ashlar sandstone panel over, and timber panelled door. Segmental-headed doorway to garden front, having red brick surround with red brick keystone motif over, timber panelled door with glazed upper panels and fielded lower panels, flanking sidelights over fielded timber panels, and leaded overlights with coloured glass; doorway flanked by moulded red brick pilasters having red brick corbels over supporting balcony with modern timber balustrade above. Interior has timber panelled window shutters and doors with lugged architraves, moulded plaster cornice to drawing room, and timber open-well staircase. Set back from road in extensive mature landscaped grounds in countryside southwest of Ramelton, with Leannan River to south. Garden to south and mature trees to east, west and north. Complex of detached single and two-storey outbuildings to south.

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 Claragh, 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1769 (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 Claragh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Claragh

Area

1,028,080 m² (102.81 ha, 254.04 acres)

Civil parish

Tullyfern, and its townlands

Barony

Kilmacrenan

Electoral division

Ballyarr, the unit of the census

Census 2022

735 people lived in 241 households in the Ballyarr electoral division. 82% of households owned their home. 50% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ards Big, Ballyarr, Carnisk, Glen Lower, Gortin, Tully Hall

Placenames

Claragh 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.