Croaghacullion
Croaghacullion is a townland in the civil parish of Glencolumbkille, barony of Banagh, Co. Donegal. Its name in Irish is Cruach an Chuilinn.
- Area
- 184.6 ha
- 456 acres
- Land parcels
- 4
- registered freehold, median 479,446 m² (47.94 ha, 118.47 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 8
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
4 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Croaghacullion, from 2,903 m² (0.29 ha, 0.72 acres) to 892,209 m² (89.22 ha, 220.47 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 10 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Croaghacullion 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
17 Apr 2025Conditional
PARTIALLY SUBTERRANEAN POD STRUCTURE WITH A SINGLE ELEVATION EXPOSED ABOVE GROUND WHICH IS ANCILLARY TO THE USE OF THE EXISTING ADJOINING HOUSE INCLUDING ALL SERVICES AND SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2560601
27 Mar 2025N/a
PARTIALLY SUBTERRANEAN POD STRUCTURE WITH A SINGLE ELEVATION EXPOSED ABOVE GROUND WHICH IS ANCILLARY TO THE USE OF THE EXISTING ADJOINING HOUSE INCLUDING ALL SERVICES AND SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2560456
28 Nov 2024N/a
PARTIALLY SUBTERRANEAN POD STRUCTURE WITH A SINGLE ELEVATION EXPOSED ABOVE GROUND WHICH IS ANCILLARY TO THE USE OF THE EXISTING ADJOINING HOUSE INCLUDING ALL SERVICES AND SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2461949
25 May 2022Conditional
EXISTING PARTIALLY SUBTERRANEAN ONE-BEDROOM HOLIDAY POD (APPROX 18M2) WITH A SINGLE ELEVATION EXPOSED ABOVE GROUND AND PERMISSION FOR DECOMMISSIONING OF AN EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND INSTALLATION OF A REPLACEMENT ON-SITE WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2250910
10 Feb 2022Refused
(1) EXISTING PARTIALLY SUBTERRANEAN ONE-BEDROOM HOLIDAY POD (APPROX. 18m2) WITH A SINGLE ELEVATION EXPOSED ABOVE GROUND (2) DECOMMISSIONING OF AN EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND INSTALLATION OF A REPLACEMENT ON-SITE WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2250204
25 Jan 2019Conditional
ERECTION OF SHEEPWIRE FENCING AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS IN A SPECIAL CONSERVATION AREA. THE APPLICATION INCLUDES A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1950088
3 Apr 2018N/a
ERECTION OF SHEEPWIRE FENCING AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS IN A SPECIAL CONSERVATION AREA. THE APPLICATION INCLUDES A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1850492
9 May 2017N/a
ERECTION OF SHEEPWIRE FENCING AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS IN A SPECIAL CONSERVATION AREA
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1750708
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: Slieve Tooey/Tormore Island/Loughros Beg Bay SAC 000190
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Slieve Tooey/Tormore Island/Loughros Beg Bay 000190
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Croaghacullion.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Croaghacullion.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Croaghacullion, about 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Croaghacullion.
- Flooding
- The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Croaghacullion with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Croaghacullion · Cruach an Chuilinn
- Area
- 1,846,356 m² (184.64 ha, 456.24 acres)
- Civil parish
- Glencolumbkille, and its townlands
- Barony
- Banagh
- Electoral division
- Kilgoly, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 365 people lived in 152 households in the Kilgoly electoral division. 84% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 22% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 26% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Bangort, Kiltyfanned, Kinnakillew, Largybrack, Lougheraherk, Meenacross, Straboy, Stranagartan
- Gaeltacht
- In an Irish-speaking area
- Placenames
- Croaghacullion 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.