Cloontagh

387 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cloontagh, from 17 m² to 1,697,803 m² (169.78 ha, 419.54 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 54 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Cloontagh 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.

• 16 Jun 2026Conditional

  (1) RETENTION OF DEMOLITION OF THE ATTACHED SHED TO THE SIDE OF EXISTING DWELLING AND (2) CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO THE SIDE OF THE DWELLING, OF THE SAME FOOTPRINT

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2661108

• 10 Jun 2026N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A SHED TOGETHER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2661058

• 3 Apr 2026Conditional

  ELEVATIONAL ALTERATIONS TO PREVIOUSLY GRANTED PLANNING APPLICATION REF. NO. 23/51870 AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2660566

• 11 Dec 2025Conditional

  EXTENSION TO DWELLING HOUSE AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2562198

• 6 Nov 2025Conditional

  AS BUILT CONFIGURATION, SITING AND DESIGN OF A DWELLING HOUSE NOT CONSTRUCTED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE APPROVED PLANS AND PARTICULARS SUBMITTED WITH PLANNING REF. NO. 00/4067

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2561940

• 5 Nov 2025Conditional

  DEMOLITION OF EXISTING ONE AND A HALF STOREY DWELLING (DEFECTIVE CONCRETE BLOCKWORK) AND CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW 2 STOREY REPLACEMENT DWELLING ALONG WITH ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS AND CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2561924

• 3 Nov 2025N/a

  AS BUILT CONFIGURATION, SITING AND DESIGN OF A DWELLING HOUSE NOT CONSTRUCTED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE APPROVED PLANS AND PARTICULARS SUBMITTED WITH PLANNING REF. NO. 00/4067

  Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2561908

• 8 Oct 2025Conditional

  (1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DERELICT DWELLING AND OUTBUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW REPLACEMENT DWELLING (92M2), CONNECTION TO NEW ON SITE WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW AGRICULTURAL SHED (53M2); TOGETHER WITH ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS AND CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2561752

• 28 Aug 2025Conditional

  CHANGES TO DWELLING PREVIOUSLY APPROVED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 01/4349 INCLUDING CONVERSION OF ATTIC SPACE TO HABITABLE LIVING SPACE AND PERMISSION FOR DEMOLITION OF THE AFOREMENTIONED DWELLING DUE TO DEFECTIVE CONCRETE BLOCKWORK AND CONSTRUCTION OF NEW REPLACEMENT DWELLING WITH ELEVATIONAL CHANGES, ADDITIONAL FLOOR AREA AND RAISED RIDGE HEIGHT

  Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2561484

• 12 Dec 2024Conditional

  (1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING DUE TO DEFECTIVE MICA BLOCKWORK, (2) ERECTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING AND (3) CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSION AND CONVERSION OF EXISTING SHED TO TEMPORARY ACCOMMODATION WITH CONNECTION TO ALL EXISTING SERVICES

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2462053

• 25 Nov 2024Conditional

  RENOVATION AND CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING LISTED ON NIAH (REG. NO. 40901032 REFERS) WITH CONNECTION TO ON SITE EFFLUENT TREATMENT PLANT AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2461921

• 19 Nov 2024N/a

  RENOVATION AND CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING (LISTED ON NIAH WITH REGISTER NUMBER 40901032) WITH CONNECTION TO ON SITE EFFLUENT TREATMENT PLANT AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2461874

• 19 Nov 2024Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2461884

• 18 Oct 2024Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY DETACHED DOMESTIC SHED TOGETHER WITH ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS AND CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2461657

• 9 Oct 2024N/a

  RENOVATION AND EXTENSION OF EXISTING DWELLING LISTED ON NIAH (REG. NO.: 40901032 REFERS) WITH CONNECTION TO ON SITE EFFLUENT TREATMENT PLANT AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2461597

• 20 Aug 2024Conditional

  EXISTING EXTENSION TO DWELLING AND PERMISSION FOR DEMOLITION OF EXISTING MICA AFFECTED EXTENSION AND CONSTRUCTION OF NEW EXTENSION AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2461268

• 20 Aug 2024N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW SINGLE STOREY DETACHED DOMESTIC SHED, TOGETHER WITH ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS AND CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2461271

• 1 Aug 2024Conditional

  DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE DUE TO DEFECTIVE CONCRETE AND ERECTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING HOUSE TOGETHER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS AND CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2461183

• 29 Jul 2024N/a

  EXTENSION TO DWELLING AND PERMISSION FOR DEMOLITION OF EXISITNG MICA AFFECTED EXTENSION AND CONSTRUCTION OF NEW EXTENSION AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2461157

• 21 Jul 2024Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE, WITH EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2461110

• 25 Mar 2024Conditional

  DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING DUE TO DEFECTIVE MICA BLOCKWORK AND THE ERECTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2460393

• 20 Feb 2024Refused

  REFURBISHING AND EXTENSION TO EXISTING DERELICT DWELLING WITH CONNECTION TO ON SITE EFFLUENT TREATMENT PLANT AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2460177

• 10 Jan 2024Conditional

  (1) DEMOLITION OF AN EXISTING DETACHED MICA-AFFECTED 1 1/2 STOREY DWELLING AND (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DETACHED 2 STOREY REPLACEMENT DWELLING ALONG WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2450009

• 5 Dec 2023Conditional

  (1) ALTERATIONS TO DWELLING CONSISTING OF (A) RELOCATION OF DWELLING, (B) REDUCED GROUND FLOOR AREA, (C) ADDITIONAL FIRST FLOOR AND PERMISSION FOR (2) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING DUE TO DEFECTIVE MICA BLOCKWORK AND (3) ERECTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2351870

• 16 Nov 2023Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW SINGLE STOREY DETACHED DWELLING WITH ATTIC ACCOMMODATION; PROPOSED NEW WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT AND PERCOLATION AREA; TOGETHER WITH ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2351744

The 25 most recent of 55 applications.

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Fad West 001161

Recorded monuments

• DG010-034 Rock art
  Description

  A natural exposed surface of rock, aligned E-W and measuring 4.3m × 1.1m. The slightly convex face carries at least 12 cupmarks, both plain and cup-and circles, some with grooves. It is situated in an uncultivated field, which slopes eastwards; heathery, boggy terrain. 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

• DG010-040 Rock art
  Description

  Large square shaped block (dims. 1.3m x 1.4m x 0.5m) lying on the E side of Lough Fad which is decorated with four separate cup-marks. There is a large central cup-mark with two open circles surrounding it, a second smaller cup mark in the upper right hand corner, this is also encircled by two open circles. In the upper left hand corner is a small plain cup-mark and there is a second, slightly longer plain cup-mark in the area near the lower left hand corner (Nolan 1994, 138). Area marked on 6-inch map was visited but there was no visible sign of the square-shaoed rock with the panel of rock art described above. The National Grid Reference for this panel of rock art may be incorrect. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload / revsion : 18 January 2011

Architectural heritage

• House, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c. 1820, with windbreak porch to front elevation, bed outshot to rear, single bay extension to bed outshot, two-bay byre to south-west gable. Pitched flax thatched roof with steel rod and pegs and lattice of chicken wire, corrugated-metal roof to extension and byre, chimneystacks to gable ends and extension with blocked capping to extension chimneystack. Lime-wash to rendered random rubble stone walls. Square-headed window openings over painted stone sills, timber two-over-two horned sash windows. Square-headed door opening to porch, timber panelled door. Set in own grounds adjacent road with rubble stone boundary wall and yard to rear.

• House, 1840–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c. 1860, with windbreak porch to front and single-bay byre to west gable. Pitched flax thatch roof with lattice of chicken wire, stays and pegs, limewashed rendered chimneystacks to gable ends and centre right. limewashed roughcast to rubble stone walls incorporating red brick rubble, raised rendered pilasters to either end of front elevation. Square-headed window openings over painted cut stone sills with uPVC windows. Square-headed door opening to porch with timber panelled and glazed door. Set in own grounds off road with limewashed rendered rubble stone boundary wall with concrete capping. Four-bay single-storey outbuilding to south-west with pitched corrugated-metal roof, concrete gable coping, cast-iron rainwater goods and limewashed rendered 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

At the centre of the townland of Cloontagh, about 1 in 10 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2062 (ZIP).

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.

• Cloontagh, Clonmany9 sales

Name

Cloontagh

Area

7,889,796 m² (788.98 ha, 1,949.61 acres)

Civil parish

Clonmany, and its townlands

Barony

Inishowen East

Electoral division

Ballyliffin, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,529 people lived in 493 households in the Ballyliffin electoral division. 83% of households owned their home. 37% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 24% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Altahalla, Altashane or Cabadooey, Ballinlough, Ballyliffin, Carndoagh, Clehagh, Meendoran, Tullynabratilly

Placenames

Cloontagh 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.