Convoy Demesne

39 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Convoy Demesne, from 102 m² to 181,698 m² (18.17 ha, 44.9 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 17 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 Convoy Demesne 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.

• 24 Sept 2025Conditional

  ERECTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2561658

• 1 Aug 2025Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF TWO-STOREY DWELLING AND DETACHED SINGLE STOREY DOMESTIC GARAGE, INSTALLATION OF A SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS ACCESSED VIA EXISTING ROADWAY

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2561326

• 13 Mar 2025Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A SAND BASED HORSE GALLOP

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2560357

• 13 Dec 2023Conditional

  ERECTION OF NEW EXTENSION TO SIDE OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND A DOMESTIC GARAGE TO SIDE AND REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2351912

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 Convoy Demesne.

Recorded monuments

• DG069-011 Megalithic tomb - unclassified
  Description

  This monument is 2.2km NW of Convoy village on a level patch of ground broken by rock outcrops. It commands an extensive outlook to the E. The site is overlooked from the W by a sharply rising, gorse-grown ridge not more than 30m away. Immediately E of the monument is an abrupt rise in ground level of 0.5m to 0.8m. The lower courses of a ruined masonry building stand immediately to the NE of the site. The monument is greatly ruined. Two opposed slabs, each aligned NNE-SSW, are in place. They are 0.9m apart at ground level. The eastern one, 1.8m high, leans away from the western, which is 1m high. The latter stone may have been taller. The eastern stone rests against the top of a slight upright stone 0.2m E of its base, which is 0.3m long, 0.15m thick and 0.7m high. It is uncertain whether this is a structural stone, and it is not hatched on the plan. This small stone also supports one end of a displaced slab, 2m by 1.5m by 0.8m thick, which leans against it from the E. Approximately 2m to the N of the set stones are two upright stones (not hatched on plan) that are not definitely part of the monument and may belong to a ruined field fence, aligned N-S, which is represented by other intermittent large stones beyond the monument. The southern one of these two stones is 1.4m high, and the northern, c. 0.3m to the N, is 1.1m high. Less than 1m W of the southern stone is a prostrate stone, 0.8m by 0.7m by 0.9m. There are a number of other stones lying around the site, some of which seem to have been deliberately smashed. The two tall uprights appear to be the jambs or portal-stones of a megalithic chamber. However, the monument must remain unclassified. Thomas Fagan (1845-8) visited the site in 1846 and described it as the remains of a 'druidical sepulture called Grania's Bed'. There were then eight stones at the site, but their arrangement is not clear from Fagan's account. Fagan 1845-8, book 10, 12; Ó Nualláin 1983a, 44, no. 121; SMR 1987, 69:11; Ó Nualláin 1989, 142; RMP 1995, 69:11. 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)

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Convoy Demesne.

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 low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1771 (ZIP).

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

Name

Convoy Demesne

Area

1,204,282 m² (120.43 ha, 297.58 acres)

Civil parish

Convoy, and its townlands

Barony

Raphoe South

Electoral division

Convoy, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Convoy electoral division: 2,559 people in 926 households; 72% of households own their home; 38% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Convoy Townparks, Drumgumberland, Glasly, Macmeenstown, Magheranappan, Prieststown

Placenames

Convoy Demesne 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.