Cottage
Cottage is a townland in the civil parish of Raymoghy, barony of Raphoe North, Co. Donegal.
- Area
- 27.2 ha
- 67 acres
- Land parcels
- 1
- registered freehold, median 6,205 m² (0.62 ha, 1.53 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
1 registered freehold parcel lies mostly in Cottage, from 6,205 m² (0.62 ha, 1.53 acres) to 6,205 m² (0.62 ha, 1.53 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 7 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 Cottage 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 Mar 2024Conditional
(1) DEMOLITION OF (A) EXISTING REDUNDANT HOUSE WITH ATTACHED SHED INCLUDING THE DECOMMISSIONING OF THE EXISTING SEPTIC TANK, (B) EXISTING DOMESTIC SHED ATTACHED TO A STORAGE DEPOT SHED AND (C) WALL SEPARATING THE DEPOT YARD AND AREA TO THE REAR OF THE HOUSE, (2) CONSTRUCTION OF (A) NEW CONCRETE YARD FOR THE PARKING OF ARCTIC TRACTOR TRAILERS INCLUDING THE AMENDING OF THE GROUND LEVELS AND (B) NEW WALLS WITH BUMPER RAILS AND ACCESS BARRIER TO ENCLOSE THE YARD AND (3) ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS AND SITE WORKS INCLUDING CONNECTION TO EXISTING STORM DRAINAGE
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2450072
12 Jul 2018Conditional
THE EXISTING HARD STANDING AREA ADJACENT TO THE EXISTING MAINTENANCE BUILDING AND PLANNING PERMISSION CONSISTING OF (A) CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO THE EAST SIDE OF THE EXISTING MAINTENANCE BUILDING FOR STORAGE OF ARTIC TRACTOR UNITS AND ALSO CONTAINING AN OFFICE, WCs, STAFF CANTEEN, STORE WITH FIRST FLOOR ADMIN STORAGE, (B) DECOMMISSIONING OF THE EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND INSTALLATION OF A NEW SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH PERCOLATION AREA AND (C) ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS AND SITE WORKS INCLUDING EXTERNAL CONCRETE HARD STANDING, CONNECTION TO EXISTING STORM DRAINAGE
Retention · Donegal County Council, 1851085
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Cottage.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Cottage.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Cottage.
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 Cottage, 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 low.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1893 (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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Cottage with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Cottage
- Area
- 272,307 m² (27.23 ha, 67.29 acres)
- Civil parish
- Raymoghy, and its townlands
- Barony
- Raphoe North
- Electoral division
- Newtown Cunningham, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,028 people lived in 372 households in the Newtown Cunningham electoral division. 66% of households owned their home. 49% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Killyverry, Milltown, Moneymore, Monfad, Tinklersford
- Placenames
- Cottage 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.