Cloghan More

30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cloghan More, from 82 m² to 338,856 m² (33.89 ha, 83.73 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 30 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 Cloghan More 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.

• 16 Jan 2026Conditional

  ALTERATIONS/RENOVATION TO EXISTING DWELLING TO INCLUDE CHANGES TO THE ELEVATIONS AND CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO THE REAR AND SIDES OF THE EXISTING DWELLING AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS REQUIRED TO FACILITATE THE DEVELOPMENT

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2660042

• 7 Jul 2025Conditional

  SITE EXCAVATION WORKS TO FACILITATE THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT BEING SOUGHT HEREIN AND PERMISSION FOR (1) RETENTION AND COMPLETION OF THE CONSTRUCTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL SLATTED SHED PREVIOUSLY APPROVED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 23/50576 AND (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A SLATTED SHED WITH UNDERGROUND TANK AND SHEEP HANDLING FACILITY AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2561154

• 18 Sept 2024Conditional

  (1) CONSTRUCTION OF A MULTI-PURPOSE BUILDING WITH CAR AND BICYCLE PARKING FACILITIES, (2) CONNECTION TO EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA APPROVED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 06/60875 AND (3) CONNECTION TO EXISTING FOUL STORMWATER AND EXISTING PUBLIC WATER MAINS WITH ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2461477

• 8 Sept 2023Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL POULTRY HOUSE ADJOINING EXISTING FARMYARD AND ALL ASSOCIATED AND ANCILLARY SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2351349

• 27 Jul 2023N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL POULTRY HOUSE ADJOINING EXISTING FARMYARD AND ALL ASSOCIATED AND ANCILLARY SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2351121

• 26 Jul 2023Conditional

  (A) CHILDCARE FACILITY WHICH INCLUDES 2 NO. SINGLE STOREY CRECHE BUILDINGS AND 1 NO. STORAGE BUILDING AND (B) CONNECTION INTO EXISTING FOUL EFFLUENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION PERMITTED UNDER PLANNING REF: 06/60875 AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2351104

• 23 Jun 2023Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO THE SOUTHERN SIDE OF DWELLING HOUSE AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2350897

• 28 Apr 2023Conditional

  AGRICULTURAL STORAGE SHED AND PERMISSION FOR (1) CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO AGRICULTURAL SHED WHICH IS THE SUBJECT OF RETENTION PERMISSION INCORPORATING A SLATTED UNDERGROUND TANK AND (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A ROOF YARD AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2350576

• 14 Nov 2022Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF (1) A STEEL FRAMED SHED TO ACCOMMODATE A PET INCINERATOR FOR A PROPOSED PET CREMATORIUM WITHIN EXISTING FARM ENCLOSURE (2) A NEW VEHICULAR ENTRANCE AND ACCESS ROAD AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2251849

• 17 Oct 2022Refused

  (1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DERELICT DWELLING AND SHEDS (2) THE ERECTION OF 5 NO. GLAMPING PODS (3) THE INSTALLATION OF A WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) ACCOMPANIES THIS APPLICATION

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2251736

• 24 Nov 2021Conditional

  DEMOLITION OF EXISTING (DEFECTIVE/MICA) DWELLING HOUSE AND ERECTION OF A NEW REPLACEMENT DWELLING HOUSE WITH MINOR ALTERATIONS TO THE ELEVATIONS AND A SMALL EXTENSION TO THE REAR OF THE DWELLING AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2152347

• 28 Jun 2021Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2151274

• 15 Apr 2021Conditional

  (1) ERECTION OF AN EXTENSION, INCORPORATING AN ASSEMBLY HALL, STAFF ROOM AND TOILETS (2) A CAR PARKING AREA (3) CONNECTION TO THE EXISTING WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA AS GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF: 06/60875 AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2150675

• 19 Sept 2019Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A CRÉCHE WITH EXTERNAL PLAY AREA & CONNECTION TO EXISTING FOUL SEWER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA AS GRANTED UNDER PLANNING 06/60875, A NEW ACCESS ROAD TO THE CRÉCHE, CAR PARKING AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1951436

• 29 Mar 2017Conditional

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

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1750455

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

Recorded monuments

• DG068-016 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Internal diam. 20m. A circular platform .5m high enclosed by an earthen bank, 1m high to the W but gone elsewhere. There is a possible entrance to the N where the site is approached by a narrow ridge. The interior is covered by tree stumps and undergrowth. It is situated on a small hill now well wooded facing up Glen Reelin. 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

• DG068-029 Penal Mass station
  Description

  Listed as a 'dolmen' (Borlase 1897) and later as a 'prehistoric chamber tomb' (Killanin and Duignan 1962; 1967), this was an altar that served as a place of worship during the era of the Penal laws and was removed in around 1845 (OS 1:2,500 Name Book, 1904). Borlase 1897, 236, Raphoe South no. 2; OS 1:2,500 Name Book, sheet 68 (1904), 13; 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

• Cloghan Lodge, country house, hunting/fishing lodge, 1910–1920 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay two-storey country house/fishing lodge with attic level, built or rebuilt c. 1911, having projecting gable-fronted bays to either end of the front elevation (south-west), central shallow projecting gable-fronted centre bay to front elevation, and with three-bay loggia /colonnade with Doric columns (on circular and square-plan). Central projecting shallow gable-fronted two-bay breakfront to the north-west side elevation. Later in use as a hotel and guest house with large incomplete two-storey extension to the rear (north-east). Pitched natural slate roofs with smooth rendered chimneystacks having corniced coping, profiled cast-iron rainwater goods, decorative timber bargeboards to gable-fronted bays, and with timber finials to gable-fronted bays. Roughcast rendered walls with raised painted ashlar quoins to the corners of the projecting bays to either end of the front elevation (south-west), and with decorative curvilinear Tudoresque half-timber work to gable apexes of gable-front bays and Tudoresque timber work to central three bays at first floor level. Painted rendered walls with ashlar quoins and decorative timberwork to gables. Square-headed timber window openings having cut stone sills, timber casement windows, and with multi-paned overlights. Paired timber casement windows (four lights) to centre three-bays of front elevation (south-west). Recessed square-headed doorway to centre of loggia/colonnade having timber-panelled double entrance doors with leaded coloured glass panels to upper half, leaded coloured glass sidelights and overlight. Doric columns supporting upper stories of central bay. Square-headed doorway to the south-east elevation having battened timber door and multi-paned overlight. Complex of single- and two-storey outbuildings arranged around a yard to the north of see including detached two-storey outbuilding on T-shaped plan to the south-east side of yard, built c. 1800 and possibly originally a coach house, having hipped natural slate roofs with projecting cut stone eaves courses, limewashed and rendered rubble stone walls, square-headed window openings with remains of timber sliding sash windows, square-headed doorways with battened timber doors (some with multi-pan overlights), and square-headed carriage-arch set in segmental-headed recess having battened timber double-doors. Detached single-bay two-storey outbuilding to the south-west corner of yard of outbuildings having hipped natural slate roof, rubble stone walls, and square-headed openings. Attached single-storey outbuilding to the north-west side of yard having pitched corrugated-metal roof, rubble stone walls, and square-headed doorways with remains of timber fittings. High rubble stone boundary wall to the north-west side of yard of outbuildings. Gateways to site having rubble stone or modern gate piers (on square-plan) with wrought-iron gates and double-gates. Terrace of three two-storey probable former workers houses (see 40906815) to the north-east side of yard of outbuildings; remains of walled garden to the south-east of house, now heavily overgrown, having high rubble stone boundary walls. Set back from road in extensive mature parkland grounds to the north of Croghan Lodge (see 40906801), and to the north-west/west of Ballybofey with River Finn flowing across estate a short distance to the south/south-west of house.

• Croghan Lodge, worker's house, outbuilding, 1770–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terrace of two-storey probable former estate worker’s houses associated with Croghan Lodge (see 40906801), built c. 1800 and extended c. 1850, comprising a pair of attached two-bay two-storey structures with adjoining three-bay two-storey dwelling. Single-bay entrance porch to the south-west elevation. Also in use as outbuildings. Possibly formerly in use as a police barracks. Now out of use/in use as stores. Pitched natural slate roofs (purple slate) having three smooth rendered chimneystacks, projecting cut stone eaves course, and with remains of cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls to main elevations (north-east and south-west) with smooth render walls to the gable ends (north-west and south-east); render failing in places exposing rubble stone construction. Square-headed window openings to the north-east elevation having cut stone sills, and with six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed window openings to the south-west elevation having cut stone sills and with two-over-two and one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows, and replacement timber casement windows. Square-headed doorways with battened timber doors. Flight of external steps to the north-west end of the rear elevation (south-west) giving access to square-headed doorway at first floor level with battened timber door. Interiors retain original features. Fenced gardens and yards to rear (south-west) with range of single-storey outbuildings. Detached two-storey outbuilding to the south-west on T-shaped plan having hipped natural slate roofs, rendered rubble stone walls, and square-headed openings with replacement fittings. Located in extensive mature parkland grounds to the north of Croghan Lodge (see 40906801), and to the north-west/west of Ballybofey.

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 10 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 Cloghan More.

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

Name

Cloghan More · An Clochán Mór

Area

1,892,849 m² (189.28 ha, 467.73 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

Ballybotemple, Cloghan Beg, Clonclayagh, Corlacky, Gortiness, Kiltyfergal, Lettershanbo, Mooneennahasragh, Tonduff (Thompson)

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Cloghan More 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.