# Cottown, Co. Donegal: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Raphoe, barony of Raphoe North, Co. Donegal. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,008,623 m² (100.86 ha, 249.24 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 17,561 m² (1.76 ha, 4.34 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Raphoe, https://everytownland.com/donegal/parish/raphoe.md - Barony: Raphoe North - Electoral division: Raphoe, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 1,521 people lived in 591 households in the Raphoe electoral division. 59% of households owned their home. 33% 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/16485 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 50749 - Centre: latitude 54.838491, longitude -7.597153 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cottown, from 339 m² to 170,025 m² (17 ha, 42.01 acres); 10 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1420074: 170,025 m² (17 ha, 42.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1420074.md - Parcel 1301449: 129,458 m² (12.95 ha, 31.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1301449.md - Parcel 1346913: 128,912 m² (12.89 ha, 31.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1346913.md - Parcel 1420073: 108,637 m² (10.86 ha, 26.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1420073.md - Parcel 1393800: 104,928 m² (10.49 ha, 25.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1393800.md - Parcel 1305337: 87,787 m² (8.78 ha, 21.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1305337.md - Parcel 1380534: 65,787 m² (6.58 ha, 16.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1380534.md - Parcel 1428826: 32,538 m² (3.25 ha, 8.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1428826.md - Parcel 1426645: 31,741 m² (3.17 ha, 7.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1426645.md - Parcel 1423965: 28,688 m² (2.87 ha, 7.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1423965.md - Parcel 1382525: 23,959 m² (2.4 ha, 5.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1382525.md - Parcel 1309836: 18,514 m² (1.85 ha, 4.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1309836.md - Parcel 1311270: 16,609 m² (1.66 ha, 4.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1311270.md - Parcel 1369213: 16,450 m² (1.65 ha, 4.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1369213.md - Parcel 1408891: 14,537 m² (1.45 ha, 3.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1408891.md - Parcel 1371950: 11,370 m² (1.14 ha, 2.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1371950.md - Parcel 1335554: 8,376 m² (0.84 ha, 2.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1335554.md - Parcel 1336330: 8,138 m² (0.81 ha, 2.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1336330.md - Parcel 4801480: 3,300 m² (0.33 ha, 0.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4801480.md - Parcel 1334644: 2,105 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1334644.md - Parcel 1392108: 1,435 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1392108.md - Parcel 4800697: 1,206 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4800697.md - Parcel 1421744: 583 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1421744.md - Parcel 1378564: 339 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1378564.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Cottown 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) 1 application, newest first. - 26 Feb 2025, Donegal County Council 2560260: Conditional. Retention, 1 home. (1) VEHICULAR ENTRANCE AND (2) SEPTIC TANK SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED DRAINAGE AND PERMISSION FOR DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE CONSTRUCTED WITH DEFECTIVE CONCRETE BLOCKWORK AND CONSTRUCTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING HOUSE AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560260/0 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 Cottown. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - DG070-041: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDG070-041----. An aerial photograph (St. Joseph, ATC 9) indicates a large cropmark, c. 40m-50m in diameter, here. The site which is located in excellent farmland was not inspected. 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 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Cottown. ## 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 Cottown, about 1 in 5 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1836, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_1836.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/cottown.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/donegal/cottown.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/donegal/cottown.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Cottown 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) - Ballymonaster: https://everytownland.com/donegal/ballymonaster.md - Beltany: https://everytownland.com/donegal/beltany.md - Bogagh: https://everytownland.com/donegal/bogagh.md - Carnowen: https://everytownland.com/donegal/carnowen.md - Lisnabert: https://everytownland.com/donegal/lisnabert.md - Stranorlaghan: https://everytownland.com/donegal/stranorlaghan.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/cottown - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/donegal/cottown