# Claragh, Co. Donegal: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Tullyfern, barony of Kilmacrenan, Co. Donegal. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,028,080 m² (102.81 ha, 254.04 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 18,592 m² (1.86 ha, 4.59 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 5 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Tullyfern, https://everytownland.com/donegal/parish/tullyfern.md - Barony: Kilmacrenan - Electoral division: Ballyarr, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Donegal, https://everytownland.com/donegal.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/15707 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 50611 - Centre: latitude 55.03259, longitude -7.686714 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 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); 16 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 6007413: 54,136 m² (5.41 ha, 13.38 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6007413.md - Parcel 1331894: 50,656 m² (5.07 ha, 12.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1331894.md - Parcel 1394064: 47,668 m² (4.77 ha, 11.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1394064.md - Parcel 6007405: 30,164 m² (3.02 ha, 7.45 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6007405.md - Parcel 6007399: 22,193 m² (2.22 ha, 5.48 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6007399.md - Parcel 6007403: 18,592 m² (1.86 ha, 4.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6007403.md - Parcel 6007409: 8,179 m² (0.82 ha, 2.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6007409.md - Parcel 6007411: 6,217 m² (0.62 ha, 1.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6007411.md - Parcel 6007401: 6,047 m² (0.6 ha, 1.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6007401.md - Parcel 6007387: 4,783 m² (0.48 ha, 1.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6007387.md - Parcel 5437692: 3,193 m² (0.32 ha, 0.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5437692.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 5 applications, newest first. - 23 Nov 2025, Donegal County Council 2562049: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. (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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2562049/0 - 10 Feb 2025, Donegal County Council 2560155: N/a. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560155/0 - 8 Jan 2025, Donegal County Council 2560006: N/a. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560006/0 - 28 Nov 2024, Donegal County Council 2461947: N/a. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2461947/0 - 12 Aug 2021, Donegal County Council 2151625: Conditional. Permission. ERECTION OF A EXTENSION TO SILAGE PIT AT REAR OF EXISTING SILAGE PIT. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2151625/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: Leannan River SAC, site code 002176, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/002176 - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Fern, site code 001162 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - DG045-021: Standing stone, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDG045-021----. 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 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Claragh House, farmyard complex, 1780–1820, Regional interest, registry number 40904522, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=DG®no=40904522. 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, registry number 40904523, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=DG®no=40904523. 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, registry number 40904572, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=DG®no=40904572. 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. ## 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 Claragh, 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1769, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_1769.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/claragh.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/donegal/claragh.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/donegal/claragh.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Claragh 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) - Ards Big: https://everytownland.com/donegal/ards-big.md - Ballyarr: https://everytownland.com/donegal/ballyarr.md - Carnisk: https://everytownland.com/donegal/carnisk.md - Glen Lower: https://everytownland.com/donegal/glen-lower.md - Gortin: https://everytownland.com/donegal/gortin.md - Tully Hall: https://everytownland.com/donegal/tully-hall.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/claragh - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/donegal/claragh