Crevary Upper
Townland in the civil parish of Killygarvan, barony of Kilmacrenan, Co. Donegal; in Irish Craobhaire Uachtarach
- Area
- 74.7 ha
- 185 acres
- Land parcels
- 45
- registered freehold, median 4,164 m² (0.42 ha, 1.03 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 12
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
45 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Crevary Upper, from 45 m² to 212,052 m² (21.21 ha, 52.4 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 27 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Crevary Upper 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
9 Apr 2026Conditional
DEMOLITION OF EXISTING MICA DAMAGED DETACHED DWELLING AND CONSTRUCTION OF REPLACEMENT DWELLING AND CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES AND ANCILLARY SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2660595
26 Nov 2025Refused
ERECTION OF NEW DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2562080
16 Jul 2025Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK INCLUDING ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2561216
25 Nov 2024Conditional
CHANGE OF HOUSE AND GARAGE DESIGN CONSISTING OF A PART SINGLE STOREY, PART STOREY AND A HALF HOUSE DESIGN WITH SINGLE STOREY DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE AND MODIFICATIONS TO EXISTING APPROVED SEWAGE SYSTEM PREVIOUSLY PERMITTED (PLANNING REF. NO. 23/50658 REFERS) INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2461920
2 Feb 2024Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF TWO-STOREY DWELLING WITH ATTACHED SINGLE STOREY DOMESTIC GARAGE, WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2460081
15 May 2023Conditional
(1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING STORAGE SHED, (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A MONO PITCH ROOFED CONTEMPORARY STYLE DWELLING CONSISTING OF PART SINGLE STOREY AND PART TWO STOREY, WITH PROVISION OF A FLAT ROOF CARPORT TO THE REAR, (3) CONSTRUCTION OF A DETACHED MONO PITCH ROOFED DOUBLE GARAGE, (4) INSTALLATION OF A SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND (5) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND SERVICES, INCLUDING NEW VEHICULAR ENTRANCE. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) ACCOMPANIES THIS APPLICATION
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2350658
11 May 2022Refused
(1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING STORAGE SHED (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A MONO PITCH ROOFED CONTEMPORARY STYLE DWELLING CONSISTING OF PART SINGLE STOREY, PART TWO STOREY WITH PARTIAL BASEMENT STORAGE UNDER PROVISION TO THE REAR OF A FLAT ROOF CARPORT LINKING A MONO PITCH ROOFED DOUBLE GARAGE (3) INSTALLATION OF SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM (4) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND SERVICES INCLUDING NEW VEHICULAR ENTRANCE. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) ACCOMPANIES THIS APPLICATION
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2250818
14 Mar 2022Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2250428
20 Dec 2021Refused
(1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING STORAGE SHED (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A MONO PITCHED ROOFED CONTEMPORARY STYLE DWELLING CONSISTING OF PART SINGLE STOREY, PART TWO STOREY WITH PARTIAL BASEMENT STORAGE UNDER, PROVISION TO THE REAR OF A FLAT ROOF CARPORT LINKING A MONO PITCH ROOFED DOUBLE GARAGE (3) INSTALLATION OF A SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM (4) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND SERVICES, INCLUDING NEW VEHICULAR ENTRANCE
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2152556
27 Aug 2018Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A TWO STOREY DWELLING, DETACHED GARAGE, WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM & ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1851335
10 Jan 2018Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW TWO STOREY DWELLING HOUSE WITH APPROVED WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1850010
28 Jun 2017Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW TWO STOREY DWELLING HOUSE WITH APPROVED WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1751009
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Lough Swilly SAC 002287
Recorded monuments
- DG037-006 Megalithic tomb - court tomb
Description
This monument is 1.5km W of Rathmullan and stands on level pasture overlooking Lough Swilly 1km to the E. Croaghan Hill, 1.6km to the NW, restricts the outlook in that direction. The monument consists of two tall longitudinally set jambs, 1.25m apart, with a slab around half their height set transversely between them. Running to the SSE from just beyond the western jamb is the base of a low field fence. In this fence, c. 2m from the jamb, are two large stones beside each other. Although the status of these stones is uncertain, it appears that they are two of a line of four stones that, according to a report in an OS Revision Name Book (1847-9), formed the W side of a grave c. 18 feet (c. 5.5m) long here. The E side of the grave was said to be defaced. De Valera (1960) recorded a local claim that in addition to the two surviving jambs there were formerly two others. The western jamb is 1.6m high, and the eastern rises 0.3m above it. The intervening slab is 0.9m high. A stone, 0.4m long, 0.3m thick and 0.5m high, at the outer face of the western jamb is not part of the original structure. A partly concealed stone lies prostrate immediately S of the same jamb. The northern of the two slabs in the wall to the S of the western jamb leans westward. It is 1.3m long and 0.5m thick and would stand 1.1m high if upright. It does not appear to be set in the ground. The southern slab is 1.45m long, 0.6m thick and 0.75m high and is somewhat loose. The two jambs and intervening stone may have formed the segmentation of or entry to a court tomb gallery or, alternatively, may be the portal-stones and doorstone of a portal tomb. In the light of the indications that there was a long gallery here and perhaps a second pair of jambs, as noted above, this tomb is assigned, with caution, to the court tomb class. OS Memoirs, Killygarvan parish (1834), 22 (sketch); OS Revision Name Book, sheet 37 (1847-9), 15; Kinahan 1889, 282; Borlase 1897, 233, Kilmacrenan no. 22; Somerville 1909, 221-4; de Valera 1960, 106, DG. 12 (plan); Ó Nualláin 1983a, 20, no. 17 (plan); SMR 1987, 37:6; Ó Nualláin 1989, 117; RMP 1995, 37:6. 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 See linked document with details from Eamon Cody, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume VI. County Donegal. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002)
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Crevary Upper.
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
- 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
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1863 (ZIP).
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Crevary Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Crevary Upper · Craobhaire Uachtarach
- Area
- 747,269 m² (74.73 ha, 184.65 acres)
- Civil parish
- Killygarvan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kilmacrenan
- Electoral division
- Rathmullan, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Rathmullan electoral division: 965 people in 357 households; 75% of households own their home; 32% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 47% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Carnafeagh, Craigmaddyroe Near, Crevary Lower, Gortlough, Millbrook, Rathmullan and Ballyboe
- Placenames
- Crevary Upper 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.