Cranford

181 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cranford, from 28 m² to 282,838 m² (28.28 ha, 69.89 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 23 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 Cranford 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.

• 12 Aug 2026N/a

  (1) CONSTRUCTION OF A MARINE HATCHERY BUILDING FOR THE PRODUCTION OF SHELLFISH AND SEAWEED SEEDS FOR CULTIVATION AND INCLUDING OFFICE, STORAGE, CANTEEN AND TOILET FACILITIES, (2) INSTALLATION OF A WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM, (3) PROVISION OF DRIVEWAY FROM THE EXISTING SITE ENTRANCE AND CAR PARKING WITHIN THE SITE AND (4) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) ACCOMPANIES THIS APPLICATION

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2661504

• 8 Jul 2026N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH ON-SITE SEWERAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Outline permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2650096

• 20 Oct 2025Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2561826

• 21 Apr 2025Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2560618

• 16 Oct 2024Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC SHED AND INSTALLATION OF SEPTIC TANK

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2461642

• 28 Aug 2024Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DETACHED DWELLING HOUSE WITH CONNECTION TO NEW WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS, BOUNDARY TREATMENTS, SITE ACCESS, CONNECTION TO PUBLIC SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND LANDSCAPING

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2461306

• 27 May 2024Conditional

  REMOVAL OF AN EXISTING 3 METRE CLUSTER POLE ON AN EXISTING 18 METRE MONOPOLE TELECOMMUNICATIONS ANTENNA SUPPORT STRUCTURE PREVIOUSLY GRANTED PERMISSION (PL. REF 1551636) AND REPLACEMENT WITH A 6 METRE EXTENSION ON TOP OF THE EXISTING MONOPOLE TELECOMMUNICATIONS SUPPORT STRUCTURE TO GIVE AN OVERALL HEIGHT OF 21 METRES, TOGETHER WITH ANTENNAS, REMOTE RADIO UNITS (RRU’S), DISHES, GPS, SUPPORTING FIXTURES TOGETHER AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS TO PROVIDE FOR HIGH-SPEED WIRELESS DATA AND BROADBAND SERVICES

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2460768

• 19 Apr 2024Conditional

  (A) RELOCATION OF THE SAND AND WASH PLANT FROM CURRENT QUARRY FLOOR TO THE EXISTING COMPOUND LEVEL (PREVIOUS PA REG. REF. NOS. 20/50298 AND 23/51505 SCHEDULE B REFER), (B) DOWN-SIZING OF THE EXISTING PERMITTED ELECTRICAL CONTROL BUILDING, (C) REDUCTION OF GROUND LEVELS AT MAIN QUARRY ENTRANCE AND ACCESS ROAD, INCLUDING RELOCATION OF WHEEL WASH AND WEIGH BRIDGE, (D) DEMARCATION OF CAR PARKING SPACES AT MAIN ENTRANCE AND ACCESSIBLE PARKING SPACE PROVIDED CLOSE TO THE EXISTING OFFICE BUILDING AND (E) ALL ASSOCIATED AND RELATED SITE WORKS, OPERATIONS, ANCILLARY AND DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATED WITH THE ABOVE PROPOSED WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2460552

• 11 Apr 2024N/a

  REMOVAL OF AN EXISTING 3M CLUSTER POLE ON AN EXISTING 18M MONOPOLE TELECOMMUNICATIONS ANTENNA SUPPORT STRUCTURE PREVIOUSLY GRANTED PERMISSION (PI REF. 1551636) AND REPLACEMENT WITH A 6M EXTENSION ON TOP OF THE EXISTING MONOPOLE TELECOMMUNICATIONS SUPPORT STRUCTURE TO GIVE AN OVERALL HEIGHT OF 21M TOGETHER WITH ANTENNAS, REMOTE RADIO UNITS (RRU'S), DISHES, GPS, SUPPORTING FIXTURES TOGETHER AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS TO PROVIDE FOR HIGH SPEED WIRELESS DATA AND BROADBAND SERVICES

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2450103

• 4 Apr 2024N/a

  (1) RELOCATION OF THE SAND AND WASH PLANT FROM CURRENT QUARRY FLOOR TO THE EXISTING COMPOUND LEVEL (PREVIOUS PA REG. REFS. 20/50298 AND 23/51505 SCHEDULE B REFER), (2) DOWN-SIZING OF THE EXISTING PERMITTED ELECTRICAL CONTROL BUILDING, (3) REDUCTION OF GROUND LEVELS AT MAIN QUARRY ENTRANCE AND ACCESS ROAD INCLUDING RELOCATION OF WHEEL WASH AND WEIGH BRIDGE, (4) DEMARCATION OF CAR PARKING SPACES AT MAIN ENTRANCE AND ACCESSIBLE PARKING SPACE PROVIDED CLOSE TO THE EXISTING OFFICE BUILDING, (5) ALL ASSOCIATED AND RELATED SITE WORKS, OPERATIONS, ANCILLARY AND ASSOCIATED DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2460456

• 9 May 2023Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH DOMESTIC GARAGE, WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2350629

• 27 Jan 2023Conditional

  EXTENSION AND REFURBISHMENT OF EXISTING COMMUNITY CENTRE AND UPGRADE OF THE EXISTING WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2350074

• 27 May 2022Conditional

  HABITABLE ACCOMMODATION AT ATTIC LEVEL IN EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE INCLUDING ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2250918

• 18 May 2022Refused

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2250877

• 29 Apr 2022N/a

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2250762

• 21 Dec 2021Conditional

  EXISTING FOUNDATIONS, SUBSTRUCTURE WALLS AND SITE EXCAVATIONS IN EXCESS TO THAT APPROVED PREVIOUSLY UNDER PLANNING APPLICATION 11/40292 AND PERMISSION FOR CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW 2 STOREY DWELLING ON THE EXISTING FOUNDATIONS AND SUBSTRUCTURE WALLS, INCLUDING THE PROVISION OF SEPARATE ON-SITE WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM TOGETHER WITH ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS

  Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2152569

• 30 Nov 2021N/a

  FOUNDATIONS, SUBSTRUCTURE WALLS AND SITE EXCAVATIONS IN EXCESS TO THAT APPROVED PREVIOUSLY UNDER PLANNING APPLICATION 11/40292 AND PERMISSION FOR CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW 2 STOREY DWELLING ON THE EXISTING FOUNDATIONS AND SUBSTRUCTURE WALLS, INCLUDING THE PROVISION OF SEPARATE ON-SITE WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM TOGETHER WITH ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS

  Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2152380

• 18 Nov 2021Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE, WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT WITH SAND POLISHING FILTER

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2152301

• 8 Oct 2021N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE, WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT WITH SAND POLISHING FILTER AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2151993

• 13 Sept 2021N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A TWO AND HALF STOREY DWELLING (ON EXISTING FOUNDATIONS OF DWELLING APPROVED UNDER PLANNING APPLICATION 11/40292) & PROVISION OF SEPARATE ON-SITE WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM TOGETHER WITH ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2151818

• 6 Nov 2020Conditional

  ERECTION OF AN EXTENSION TO DWELLING

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2051680

• 16 Jun 2020Conditional

  WORKS AT PUBLIC HOUSE KNOWN AS LOGUES OF CRANFORD TO INCLUDE (1) CONSTUCTION OF A NEW KITCHEN, BEER STORE AND WASH ROOM TO THE REAR OF BUILDING (2) CONVERSION OF EXISTING SMOKING AREA AT FRONT OF BUILDING TO FORM PART OF THE PUBLIC BAR (3) CONSTRUCTION OF NEW SMOKING AREA INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2050339

• 11 Mar 2020Conditional

  CONTINUATION OF THE EXISTING OPERATIONAL QUARRY FOR A 25-YEAR PERIOD. OPERATIONS WILL INCLUDE: 1) EXTRACTION, BLASTING AND ROCKING BREAKING WITHIN THE 2.62 HECTARES PREVIOUSLY PERMITTED QUARRYING AREA IN A DOWNWARD DIRECTION; 2) PROCESSING OF ROCK, SCREENING & WASHING OF MATERIAL INCLUDING SAND; 3) THE CONTINUATION OF USE OF ALL STRUCTURES AND OTHER ANCILLARY FACILITIES; 4) PROPOSED WATER TREATMENT PLANT TO CLEAN & RECYCLE WATER; 5) PREVIOUSLY PERMITTED SITE ACCESS AND 6) ALL RELATED OPERATION INCLUDING BLASTING AND EXTRACTION WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS; AND 7) ANCILLARY AND ASSOCIATED DEVELOPMENTS; ALL AT THE PERMITTED/OPERATIONAL QUARRY (PREVIOUS REFS: 09/40336, 13/50841 & 07/51043). A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT ACCOMPANIES THIS APPLICATION

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2050298

• 19 Jul 2019N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK / SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1951122

• 8 Apr 2019Conditional

  CHANGE OF HOUSE DESIGN FROM THAT PREVIOUSLY APPROVED UNDER PLANNING PERMISSION REF: 10/40167 (EXTENSION OF DURATION REF: 15/50783) AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1950476

The 25 most recent of 27 applications.

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Mulroy Bay SAC 002159
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Carlan Isles (Mulroy Bay) 002055

Recorded monuments

• DG027-005 Megalithic tomb - unclassified
  Description

  This feature, now destroyed, was first shown on the 1848-9 edition of the OS 6-inch map. It stood on sloping bog-grown ground overlooking Mulroy Bay 1.2km to the E. In 1952 all that remained was an oval mound, in the centre of which was a pit. The pit seemed to have been but recently dug. No structural remains were apparent. More recently the site has been overgrown by furze bushes. According to an account in an OS Revision Name Book (1848-9), this was a structure 15 feet (c. 4.6m) long and 5 feet (c. 1.5m) broad, composed of flagstones 2-3 feet (c. 0.6-0.9m) high on each side and covered by a stone 81/2 feet (c. 2.6m) long, 51/2 feet (c. 1.7m) broad and 8 inches (c. 0.2m) thick. The report notes that 'this monument is similar to others in the country called Dermot and Grania's Bed'. A later account by Kinahan (1889, 277-8) identified it as 'a fosleac [a term he has explained as 'a habitation or structure, constructed of flags or long blocks of stone'] running nearly north and south, the cover-stone about 9.5 feet by 4.5 feet [c. 2.9m by 1.4m], on six uprights'. Kinahan added that workmen repairing the nearby road had knocked the structure and uprooted the uprights shortly before his visit. It is thus clear that his account is based on hearsay and perhaps, if the dislodged stones lay at the site, on a conjectural reconstruction. It appears that a partly roofed megalithic gallery c. 4.5m long may have stood here until the second half of the 19th century. OS Revision Name Book, sheet 27 (1848-9), 46; Kinahan 1889, 277-8; Killanin and Duignan 1962, 373; Killanin and Duignan 1967, 374; Ó Nualláin 1983a, 44, no. 122; SMR 1987, 27:5; Ó Nualláin 1989, 142; RMP 1995, 27:5. 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

• DG027-031 Megalithic tomb - unclassified
  Description

  There is no trace of this feature, which was named 'Giant's Grave' on the 1835 edition of the OS 6-inch map and shown but not named on the 1848-9 edition. It is mentioned in an OS Name Book (1835), but no details are provided about what it may have been. OS Name Book, Kilmacrenan parish (1834-5), book 1, 19; Borlase 1897, 231, Kilmacrenan no. 5. 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

Architectural heritage

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

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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Cranford.

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

Name

Cranford · Creamhghort

Area

2,921,348 m² (292.13 ha, 721.88 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmacrenan, and its townlands

Barony

Kilmacrenan

Electoral division

Cranford, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Cranford electoral division: 610 people in 238 households; 89% of households own their home; 35% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 16% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carmoney, Devlinmore, Tullagh, Woodquarter

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Cranford 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.