Croagh

37 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Croagh, from 1 m² to 239,339 m² (23.93 ha, 59.14 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 14 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 Croagh 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.

• 25 Jan 2026Conditional

  RENOVATION AND CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSION TO THE EXISTING DERELICT DWELLING, INSTALLATION OF PACKAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM, PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2660079

• 15 Dec 2025Conditional

  (1) CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSION AND RENOVATION OF DERELICT DWELLING HOUSE AND (2) DECOMMISSIONING OF EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND INSTALLATION OF A NEW SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM, AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2562219

• 15 Feb 2019Refused

  CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY DWELLING HOUSE WITH TREATMENT SYSTEM/ PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Extension of duration, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1950196

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

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Croagh.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Croagh.

Architectural heritage

• House, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey vernacular house with attic level, built c. 1800, having single-bay single-storey outbuilding attached to the south gable end under the same roofline. Pitched corrugated-metal roof having rendered brick chimneystack to the north gable end. Formerly thatched. Painted or limewashed rubble stone walls. Square-headed window openings with roughly squared stone sills and two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed doorway, offset to the north side of centre, having smooth rendered reveal, battened timber door and stone threshold. Square-headed doorway to outbuilding to the south having sheet metal double-doors. Located adjacent to road in corner site/round bend in the rural landscape to the north of Pettigoe. Modern farm buildings to rear (south-west).

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 20 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.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Croagh

Area

1,441,414 m² (144.14 ha, 356.18 acres)

Civil parish

Templecarn, and its townlands

Barony

Tirhugh

Electoral division

Pettigoe, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Pettigoe electoral division: 368 people in 170 households; 76% of households own their home; 19% of homes were built since 2001; 19% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghalough, Boeeshil, Carn, Drumchrin, Portcreevy

Placenames

Croagh 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.