# Cottage, Co. Donegal: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Raymoghy, barony of Raphoe North, Co. Donegal. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 272,307 m² (27.23 ha, 67.29 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 1 registered freehold parcel lies mostly in it, median 6,205 m² (0.62 ha, 1.53 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Raymoghy, https://everytownland.com/donegal/parish/raymoghy.md - Barony: Raphoe North - Electoral division: Newtown Cunningham, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Donegal, https://everytownland.com/donegal.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/15353 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 50747 - Centre: latitude 54.982688, longitude -7.539574 (WGS 84) ## 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); 7 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 5197753: 6,205 m² (0.62 ha, 1.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5197753.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 2 applications, newest first. - 4 Mar 2024, Donegal County Council 2450072: Conditional. Permission. (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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2450072/0 - 12 Jul 2018, Donegal County Council 1851085: Conditional. Retention. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1851085/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Cottage. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Cottage. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Cottage. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - 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: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_1893.zip (ZIP). - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/donegal/cottage.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/donegal/cottage.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/donegal/cottage.kml ## Homes sold (Residential 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: https://everytownland.com/donegal.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Killyverry: https://everytownland.com/donegal/killyverry.md - Milltown: https://everytownland.com/donegal/milltown-52050.md - Moneymore: https://everytownland.com/donegal/moneymore-52071.md - Monfad: https://everytownland.com/donegal/monfad.md - Tinklersford: https://everytownland.com/donegal/tinklersford.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/donegal/cottage - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/donegal/cottage