# Craigroe, Co. Donegal: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Donegal, barony of Tirhugh, Co. Donegal. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 479,066 m² (47.91 ha, 118.38 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 48,932 m² (4.89 ha, 12.09 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Donegal, https://everytownland.com/donegal/parish/donegal.md - Barony: Tirhugh - Electoral division: Clogher, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 928 people lived in 314 households in the Clogher electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 41% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Donegal, https://everytownland.com/donegal.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/13966 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 50760 - Centre: latitude 54.659788, longitude -8.06655 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Craigroe, from 5,661 m² (0.57 ha, 1.4 acres) to 233,200 m² (23.32 ha, 57.62 acres); 20 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1308137: 233,200 m² (23.32 ha, 57.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1308137.md - Parcel 1308139: 64,229 m² (6.42 ha, 15.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1308139.md - Parcel 1308138: 57,160 m² (5.72 ha, 14.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1308138.md - Parcel 5134260: 48,932 m² (4.89 ha, 12.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5134260.md - Parcel 1308141: 35,683 m² (3.57 ha, 8.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1308141.md - Parcel 1308140: 24,580 m² (2.46 ha, 6.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1308140.md - Parcel 1399517: 5,661 m² (0.57 ha, 1.4 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1399517.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Craigroe 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. - 28 May 2018, Donegal County Council 1850836: N/a. Permission. (1) CONSTRUCTION OF A SLATTED UNIT, (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A DAIRY UNIT BUILDING WITH CONNECTION TO THE PROPOSED SLATTED UNIT, (3) CONSTRUCTION OF A MEAL BIN AND (4) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1850836/0 - 14 May 2018, Donegal County Council 1850747: N/a. Permission. (1) CONSTRUCTION OF A SLATTED UNIT, (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A DAIRY UNIT BUILDING WITH CONNECTION TO THE PROPOSED SLATTED UNIT, (3) CONSTRUCTION OF A MEAL BIN AND (4) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1850747/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: Lough Eske and Ardnamona Wood SAC, site code 000163, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/000163 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Craigroe. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Craigroe. ## 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 Craigroe, about 1 in 20 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. Parts of the land are water. - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1450, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_1450.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/craigroe.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/donegal/craigroe.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/donegal/craigroe.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Craigroe 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) - Clarcam: https://everytownland.com/donegal/clarcam.md - Clarcarricknagun: https://everytownland.com/donegal/clarcarricknagun.md - Drumlonagher: https://everytownland.com/donegal/drumlonagher.md - Drummenny Middle: https://everytownland.com/donegal/drummenny-middle.md - Drummenny Upper: https://everytownland.com/donegal/drummenny-upper.md - Keeldrum: https://everytownland.com/donegal/keeldrum.md - Tinnycahil: https://everytownland.com/donegal/tinnycahil.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/craigroe - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/donegal/craigroe