Clonconwal
Clonconwal is a townland in the civil parish of Lower Killybegs, barony of Banagh, Co. Donegal. Its name in Irish is Cluain Conbhála.
- Area
- 189.9 ha
- 469 acres
- Land parcels
- 69
- registered freehold, median 11,120 m² (1.11 ha, 2.75 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
69 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Clonconwal, from 28 m² to 259,301 m² (25.93 ha, 64.07 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 21 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Clonconwal 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
4 Jan 2017Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A SIDE EXTENSION TO DWELLING
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1750007
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: West of Ardara/Maas Road SAC 000197
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: West Of Ardara/Maas Road 000197
Recorded monuments
- DG074-006 Ringfort - cashel
Description
Internal diam. 20m. A subcircular area enclosed by a collapsed stone wall. A modern field wall cuts the site on the W side. The site is located at the E end of a limestone ridge with gorse and rush vegetation. 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
- DG074-016002 Mound
Description
A field and a mound here are known as 'Parkananchory'. The mound appears to be earthen and is almost square in shape (each side 19m). It is up to 1m in height. It is said to be a burial place of a cleric and is located on good grassland. 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 Clonconwal.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Clonconwal, about 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Clonconwal.
- Flooding
- The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Clonconwal with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Clonconwal · Cluain Conbhála
- Area
- 1,899,005 m² (189.9 ha, 469.25 acres)
- Civil parish
- Lower Killybegs, and its townlands
- Barony
- Banagh
- Electoral division
- Ardara, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,280 people lived in 509 households in the Ardara electoral division. 65% of households owned their home. 39% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 14% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Garvegort Glebe, Kilrean Lower, Tully More, Tullycleave More, Urbaldeevan
- Placenames
- Clonconwal 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.