Cloghboy

115 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cloghboy, from 86 m² to 146,657 m² (14.67 ha, 36.24 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 28 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 Cloghboy 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.

• 17 Oct 2025Conditional

  CHANGE OF USE OF PART OF AN EXISTING AGRICULTURAL SHED TO A WORKSHOP FOR SERVICING GARDEN EQUIPMENT AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2561814

• 11 Mar 2024Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2460304

• 14 Feb 2024Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2460149

• 21 Dec 2023N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2351989

• 21 Dec 2022Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE, SEWERAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM, PERCOLATION AREA AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2252052

• 29 Jul 2021Conditional

  REPLACING OF EXISTING ROOF STRUCTURE WITH INCREASED RIDGELINE, CONSTRUCTION OF A DOMESTIC EXTENSION TO THE GABLE OF EXISTING DWELLING, CONSTRUCTION OF A DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2151514

• 26 Jun 2019Conditional

  (1) CHANGE OF USE FROM A STUDIO GRANTED PERMISSION (07/31088) TO A DOMESTIC DWELLING AND (2) PERMISSION FOR (A) AN EXTENSION CONSISTING OF AN ENTRANCE HALL, BEDROOM, ACCESSIBLE BATHROOM AND A GARAGE AND (B) DECOMMISSIONING EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND INSTALLATION OF PROPRIETARY WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1950987

• 4 Jun 2019N/a

  (1) CHANGE OF USE FROM A STUDIO GRANTED PERMISSION (07/31088) TO A DOMESTIC DWELLING AND (2) PERMISSION FOR (A) AN EXTENSION CONSISTING OF AN ENTRANCE HALL, BEDROOM, ACCESSIBLE BATHROOM AND A GARAGE AND (B) DECOMMISSIONING EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND INSTALLATION OF PROPRIETARY WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 1950844

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: Slieve Tooey/Tormore Island/Loughros Beg Bay SAC 000190
• Special Protection Area: West Donegal Coast SPA 004150
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Slieve Tooey/Tormore Island/Loughros Beg Bay 000190

Recorded monuments

• DG073-008 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  Internal Diam 14.6m E-W, 11.3m N-S. A subcircular area enclosed by a collapsed stone wall, a modern square structure is built of robbed stones on the E side. At the SE corner the beginnings of a modern wall runs off the cashel. A gap of 2.7m to the W seems to have been the original entrance. Rock outcrop has been incorporated in places in the cashel wall. The site is located on a bench of an E-W ridge with sparse rough vegetations. 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

• DG073-017 Cross-slab (present location)
  Description

  A cross-inscribed slab probably broken but now .68m in length and 0.33m at one end and 0.15m at the other. It is up to .06m thick. It is decorated on both sides (I) A single Latin cross with T-bar terminals. (II) Three smaller Latin crosses two of which have T-bar terminals. It now lies in front of a private house but originally came from an unknown location in the townland of Newtownburke (DG073-043). 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

• DG073-019 Cross-slab
  Description

  A NNW-facing area of vertical rock face, 10m long × 1m in height, has a Latin cross with T-bar terminals inscribed on it. The cross is .37m × 0.19m. The site is located on a S facing slope overlooking Maghera strand in an area of rough grazing and rock outcrop. 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

• House, 1840–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c.1850, having single-storey addition to rear. Marram grass thatched roof with wire mesh over, some canvas protection, and roped and pegged to stone pegs to eaves and gable, and with two rendered chimneystacks; flat felt roof to extension. Smooth lime-rendered walls. Square-headed openings with painted stone sills and two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows and timber battened door. Stone flag paving to front of house. Multiple-bay single-storey farm building adjacent, having pitched corrugated-asbestos roof and rubble stone walls.

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 5 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.

Terrain model

The Geological Survey did not answer.

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

Name

Cloghboy · An Chloch Bhuí

Area

2,053,438 m² (205.34 ha, 507.42 acres)

Civil parish

Inishkeel, and its townlands

Barony

Banagh

Electoral division

Glengesh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Glengesh electoral division: 694 people in 263 households; 82% of households own their home; 30% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 22% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Drumirrin, Newtownburke

Placenames

Cloghboy 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.