Cloghroe
Townland in the civil parish of Kilmacrenan, barony of Kilmacrenan, Co. Donegal; in Irish An Chloch Rua
- Area
- 111.3 ha
- 275 acres
- Land parcels
- 38
- registered freehold, median 11,700 m² (1.17 ha, 2.89 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 10
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
38 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cloghroe, from 32 m² to 155,776 m² (15.58 ha, 38.49 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 31 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Cloghroe 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
29 Jun 2026Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2661198
4 Jun 2026N/a
ERECTION OF DWELLING AND DOMESTIC GARAGE, INSTALLATION OF WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2650084
24 Oct 2025Refused
ERECTION OF DWELLING, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2550147
30 May 2025Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND DOMESTIC GARAGE INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2560895
23 Oct 2024Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH ONSITE SEWERAGE TREATMENT INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2461684
17 Jan 2024Conditional
(1) DEMOLITION OF REAR WALL OF EXISTING DERELICT COTTAGE, (2) REMOVAL OF EXISTING ROOF OF DERELICT COTTAGE, (3) ERECTION OF NEW EXTENSION TO REAR AND FIRST FLOOR OF EXISTING DERELICT COTTAGE, (4) CONSTRUCTION OF NEW SUN ROOM TO SIDE OF EXISTING DERELICT COTTAGE, (5) RENOVATION AND REFURBISHMENT OF EXISTING DERELICT COTTAGE, (6) INSTALLATION OF NEW SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT AND (7) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2450014
19 Jul 2023Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH DOMESTIC GARAGE INCLUDING SEPTIC TANK AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2351064
22 Jun 2023Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A PART TWO STOREY, PART SINGLE STOREY DWELLING, WITH INSTALLATION OF A WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2350884
18 May 2021Refused
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH DOMESTIC GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK AN ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2150942
15 May 2017Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND A DOMESTIC GARAGE AND RETENTION PERMISSION FOR MATERIAL FILL ON SITE
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1750739
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
- Special Area of Conservation: Leannan River SAC 002176
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Cloghroe.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Cloghroe.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 10 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
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Cloghroe.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Cloghroe with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Cloghroe · An Chloch Rua
- Area
- 1,112,624 m² (111.26 ha, 274.94 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilmacrenan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kilmacrenan
- Electoral division
- Edenacarnan, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Edenacarnan electoral division: 1,824 people in 586 households; 69% of households own their home; 70% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cashelgay, Edenacarnan North, Keenaghan, Killydesert, Legnahoory
- Placenames
- Cloghroe 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.