Cloghard

3 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cloghard, from 3,591 m² (0.36 ha, 0.89 acres) to 261,191 m² (26.12 ha, 64.54 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 14 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 Cloghard 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.

• 11 Mar 2025Conditional

  (1) RESTORATION WORKS AND CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSION TO EXISTING DERELICT DWELLING HOUSE, (2) RAISING WALL HEIGHT OF EXISTING DERELICT DWELLING HOUSE AND (3) INSTALLATION OF NEW SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA ON SITE TOGETHER WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS AND SERVICES

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2560336

• 23 Dec 2024N/a

  (A) RENOVATION AND EXTENSION OF AN EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, (B) INSTALLATION OF SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA ON SITE TOGETHER WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS AND SERVICES

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2462176

• 13 Dec 2024N/a

  (1) RENOVATION AND CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND (2) INSTALLATION OF SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA ON SITE TOGETHER WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS AND SERVICES

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2462072

• 22 Apr 2024Conditional

  (1) COMPLETION OF A DETACHED MACHINERY STORAGE SHED, (2) 4 NO. POLYTUNNELS/STORAGE STRUCTURES, (3) METAL STORAGE SHED AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2460557

• 5 Jul 2019Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA ON SITE, TOGETHER WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS AND SERVICES

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1951025

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 Cloghard.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Cloghard.

Architectural heritage

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

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 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 Cloghard.

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

Name

Cloghard · An Chloch Ard

Area

362,728 m² (36.27 ha, 89.63 acres)

Civil parish

Donaghmore, and its townlands

Barony

Raphoe South

Electoral division

Cloghard, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Cloghard electoral division: 621 people in 234 households; 90% of households own their home; 30% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballybun, Demesne, Lisnamulligan, Mullanboy, Tirinisk, Tirnagushoge or Bicketstown

Placenames

Cloghard 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.