Cloghroe

86 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cloghroe, from 3 m² to 204,595 m² (20.46 ha, 50.56 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 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 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.

• 12 Jun 2026Conditional

  (1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING AFFECTED BY DEFECTIVE CONCRETE BLOCKWORK (MICA) AND CONSTRUCTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING TO INCLUDE A REVISED HOUSE DESIGN FROM A TWO-STOREY DWELLING TO A BUNGALOW AND A REVISED DWELLING ORIENTATION FROM THAT PREVIOUSLY APPROVED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 03/8399, (2) CONVERSION OF EXISTING DOMESTIC GARAGE TO LIVING ACCOMMODATION AND (3) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT AND ANCILLARY WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2661077

• 4 Jun 2026Conditional

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

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2661027

• 25 Nov 2025Conditional

  EXTENSION AND CONVERSION OF PREVIOUSLY APPROVED DOMESTIC GARAGE (PLANNING REF. NO. 20/50913 REFERS) INTO DOMESTIC LIVING ACCOMMODATION TO FACILITATE HOUSING OF FAMILY FOR DURATION OF REBUILD OF DEFECTIVE CONCRETE BLOCKWORK DWELLING

  Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2562064

• 26 Sept 2025N/a

  EXTENSION AND CONVERSION OF PREVIOUSLY APPROVED DOMESTIC GARAGE (PLANNING REF. NO. 20/50913 REFERS) INTO DOMESTIC LIVING ACCOMMODATION TO FACILITATE HOUSING OF FAMILY FOR DURATION OF REBUILDING OF DEFECTIVE CONCRETE BLOCKWORK DWELLING

  Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2561669

• 31 Jul 2025Conditional

  (A) SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS AND (B) PLACING OF A MOBILE HOME STRUCTURE AS TEMPORARY ACCOMMODATION FOR THE DURATION OF THE PROPOSED DWELLING HOUSE DEVELOPMENT WORKS SOUGHT HEREIN AND PERMISSION FOR (A) DECOMMISSIONING OF EXISTING SEPTIC TANK SYSTEM AND (B) CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, SEPTIC TANK/SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention, 2 homes · Donegal County Council, 2561318

• 3 Apr 2025N/a

  (1) CONVERSION OF PREVIOUSLY APPROVED DOMESTIC GARAGE (PLANNING REF. NO. 20/50913) INTO DOMESTIC LIVING ACCOMMODATION TO FACILITATE HOUSING OF FAMILY FOR DURATION OF REBUILDING OF DEFECTIVE CONCRETE BLOCKWORK DWELLING AND (2) NEW VEHICULAR ENTRANCE AND DRIVEWAY

  Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2560490

• 10 May 2024Conditional

  CHANGE OF HOUSE DESIGN AND REPOSITIONING OF DWELLING HOUSE PREVIOUSLY APPROVED UNDER PLANNING REF: 21/51671 AND (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A DETACHED STORAGE SHED AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2460686

• 2 May 2024Conditional

  (1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE CONSTRUCTED WITH DEFECTIVE CONCRETE BLOCKWORK, (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING HOUSE AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2460640

• 3 Apr 2024Conditional

  (1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE CONSTRUCTED WITH DEFECTIVE CONCRETE BLOCKWORK, (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING HOUSE AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2460435

• 20 Aug 2021Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, PROPRIETARY WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM & PERCOLATION AREA AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2151671

• 10 Aug 2021N/a

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, PROPRIERARY WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM & PERCOLATION AREA AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2151604

• 9 Jul 2020Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2050913

• 19 Jun 2020Conditional

  (1) CHANGE OF HOUSE DESIGN AND REPOSITIONING OF DWELLING HOUSE PREVIOUSLY APPROVED UNDER PLANNING REF NO:17/51824 (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2050799

• 31 Jul 2019Conditional

  EXISTING DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 1951178

• 17 Jul 2019Conditional

  COMPLETION OF AN ATTIC CONVERSION TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE. DEVELOPMENT INCLUDES RETENTION OF WINDOWS TO BOTH GABLES AND PROPOSED DORMER WINDOWS AND ROOFLIGHTS TO THE PITCHED ROOF OF THE DWELLING HOUSE

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 1951105

• 25 Jun 2019N/a

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, GARAGE, ON-SITE WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1950951

• 19 Jun 2019N/a

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, GARAGE, ON-SITE WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1950924

• 4 Dec 2017Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A STOREY AND A HALF DWELLING HOUSE, THE INSTALLATION OF AN EFFLUENT TREATMENT UNIT WITH PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1751824

• 2 Aug 2017Refused

  CONSTRUCTION OF A STOREY AND A HALF DWELLING HOUSE, THE INSTALLATION OF AN EFFLUENT TREATMENT UNIT WITH PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1751222

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 Cloghroe.

Recorded monuments

• DG069-018 Megalithic tomb - portal tomb
  Description

  This monument lies c. 6km N of Ballybofey. It stands on the northern slope of the broad shallow valley of the Cloghroe River, itself a tributary of the River Deele. There is an extensive outlook eastward along the Deele valley, and Liskeran Hill is visible to the S across the Cloghroe valley. Much of the land in the vicinity of the tomb is devoted to pasture, and wettish land on the lower ground to the S and E has been planted with trees. This single-chambered monument lacks a roofstone. Two portal-stones survive at the NNW, and 2m to the S is a gabled backstone. A single sidestone, half the length of the chamber, leans inward against the eastern end of the backstone. A displaced stone lying in the chamber is partly obscured by field stones. It is at least 1m in maximum dimension. The portal-stones are 0.6m apart at ground level. The eastern one now leans against the upper part of the western. It would stand 2.3m high if upright. The western one is 2.5m high at its inner face and exposed to a depth of 2.8m at its outer face. The backstone, 1.3m high, leans inward slightly. The adjoining sidestone is 1.9m long and up to 0.4m thick and at its highest rises 0.4m above the top of the backstone. Thomas Fagan (1845-8) visited the site in 1846, and it is clear from his account that the monument was then as it is now. He noted that 'in labouring the ground around it in 1843 and at a depth of 2 feet [c. 0.6m] a small earthen urn containing calcined bones and ashes was dug up. The crock and bones mouldered down when exposed to the air.' Fagan 1845-8, book 10, 13; Ó Nualláin 1968a, 297; Ó Nualláin 1983a, 30, no. 51 (plan); Ó Nualláin 1983b, 94, Donegal no. 14; SMR 1987, 69:18; Ó Nualláin 1989, 124; RMP 1995, 69:18. 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 See linked document with details from Eamon Cody, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume VI. County Donegal. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002)

• DG069-021 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Internal diam. 30-35m. A subcircular space enclosed by an earthen bank up to 1m high. There are possible traces of an external fosse on the S and W sides. An opening to a filled-in souterrain is visible in the SW quadrant. It is situated in a rolling landscape of fairly good land. 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

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).

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 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.

No address of the register names Cloghroe with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Cloghroe · An Chloch Rua

Area

2,121,864 m² (212.19 ha, 524.32 acres)

Civil parish

Convoy, and its townlands

Barony

Raphoe South

Electoral division

Lettermore, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Lettermore electoral division: 368 people in 127 households; 89% of households own their home; 39% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Callan, Drumnacross, Lettermore, Liskeran, Magheravall or Midcut, Meenavoy

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.