# Croaghan, Co. Donegal: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Clondavaddog, barony of Kilmacrenan, Co. Donegal.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,405,448 m² (140.54 ha, 347.29 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 52 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 4,097 m² (0.41 ha, 1.01 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 12 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Clondavaddog, https://everytownland.com/donegal/parish/clondavaddog.md
- Barony: Kilmacrenan
- Electoral division: Rosnakill, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 264 people lived in 99 households in the Rosnakill electoral division. 81% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 13% were holiday homes.
- County: Co. Donegal, https://everytownland.com/donegal.md
- Gaeltacht: in an Irish-speaking area
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/16076
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 50795
- Centre: latitude 55.211825, longitude -7.696015 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

52 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Croaghan, from 17 m² to 308,662 m² (30.87 ha, 76.27 acres); 19 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 1369550: 308,662 m² (30.87 ha, 76.27 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1369550.md
- Parcel 1315584: 289,705 m² (28.97 ha, 71.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1315584.md
- Parcel 1357389: 94,802 m² (9.48 ha, 23.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1357389.md
- Parcel 1318873: 90,775 m² (9.08 ha, 22.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1318873.md
- Parcel 1343427: 89,199 m² (8.92 ha, 22.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1343427.md
- Parcel 1317860: 68,588 m² (6.86 ha, 16.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1317860.md
- Parcel 1372313: 58,120 m² (5.81 ha, 14.36 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1372313.md
- Parcel 1382815: 44,194 m² (4.42 ha, 10.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1382815.md
- Parcel 1389128: 36,309 m² (3.63 ha, 8.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1389128.md
- Parcel 5302635: 35,904 m² (3.59 ha, 8.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5302635.md
- Parcel 1346439: 32,072 m² (3.21 ha, 7.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1346439.md
- Parcel 5971279: 25,490 m² (2.55 ha, 6.3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5971279.md
- Parcel 1523151: 24,216 m² (2.42 ha, 5.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1523151.md
- Parcel 1319371: 20,693 m² (2.07 ha, 5.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1319371.md
- Parcel 1321795: 20,514 m² (2.05 ha, 5.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1321795.md
- Parcel 5971290: 19,246 m² (1.92 ha, 4.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5971290.md
- Parcel 1380723: 17,612 m² (1.76 ha, 4.35 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1380723.md
- Parcel 1387073: 14,049 m² (1.4 ha, 3.47 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1387073.md
- Parcel 1391623: 13,475 m² (1.35 ha, 3.33 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1391623.md
- Parcel 1315937: 13,290 m² (1.33 ha, 3.28 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1315937.md
- Parcel 1314889: 9,796 m² (0.98 ha, 2.42 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1314889.md
- Parcel 1376834: 8,167 m² (0.82 ha, 2.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1376834.md
- Parcel 4475214: 7,571 m² (0.76 ha, 1.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4475214.md
- Parcel 1331344: 5,885 m² (0.59 ha, 1.45 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1331344.md
- Parcel 4982280: 4,986 m² (0.5 ha, 1.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4982280.md
- Parcel 1313043: 4,148 m² (0.41 ha, 1.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1313043.md
- Parcel 4862183: 4,047 m² (0.4 ha, 1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4862183.md
- Parcel 5971287: 3,669 m² (0.37 ha, 0.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5971287.md
- Parcel 5971275: 3,569 m² (0.36 ha, 0.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5971275.md
- Parcel 5442281: 3,259 m² (0.33 ha, 0.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5442281.md
- Parcel 1312322: 2,733 m² (0.27 ha, 0.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1312322.md
- Parcel 1526377: 2,665 m² (0.27 ha, 0.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1526377.md
- Parcel 5136728: 2,644 m² (0.26 ha, 0.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5136728.md
- Parcel 1427802: 2,310 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1427802.md
- Parcel 4620758: 2,308 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4620758.md
- Parcel 1332148: 2,292 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1332148.md
- Parcel 4782843: 2,115 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4782843.md
- Parcel 4025640: 1,802 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4025640.md
- Parcel 5442276: 1,287 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5442276.md
- Parcel 1352562: 1,176 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1352562.md
- Parcel 1349688: 1,130 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1349688.md
- Parcel 1317352: 1,087 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1317352.md
- Parcel 2458735: 1,043 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2458735.md
- Parcel 1316161: 580 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1316161.md
- Parcel 1315587: 447 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1315587.md
- Parcel 1348785: 440 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1348785.md
- Parcel 1361526: 410 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1361526.md
- Parcel 1314400: 374 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1314400.md
- Parcel 3663031: 194 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3663031.md
- Parcel 4829004: 192 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4829004.md
- Parcel 1313942: 135 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1313942.md
- Parcel 1345485: 17 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1345485.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

No zone of a development plan covers Croaghan 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)

12 applications, newest first.

- 30 Sept 2026, Donegal County Council 2661806: N/a. Permission. ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND DOMESTIC GARAGE INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2661806/0
- 21 Dec 2023, Donegal County Council 2352002: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. ERECTION OF DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND DOMESTIC GARAGE. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2352002/0
- 20 Mar 2023, Donegal County Council 2350352: N/a. Permission, 1 home. ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND DOMESTIC GARAGE. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2350352/0
- 27 Feb 2023, Donegal County Council 2350230: N/a. Permission, 1 home. ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND DOMESTIC GARAGE. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2350230/0
- 26 Oct 2021, Donegal County Council 2152099: Conditional. Retention. TWO STOREY PITCHED ROOF PORCH ON THE FRONT ELEVATION AND PERMISSION FOR CONVERSION OF THIS TWO-STOREY PITCHED ROOF PORCH TO A SINGLE STOREY PITCHED ROOF PORCH. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2152099/0
- 20 Oct 2021, Donegal County Council 2152083: N/a. Permission, 1 home. ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK & DOMESTIC GARAGE. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2152083/0
- 1 Oct 2021, Donegal County Council 2151959: N/a. Retention. CONVERSION OF A TWO STOREY PITCHED ROOF PORCH ON THE FRONT ELEVATION TO A SINGLE STOREY PITCHED ROOF PORCH. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2151959/0
- 2 Mar 2020, Donegal County Council 2050255: Conditional. Retention, 1 home. RETENTION AND COMPLETION OF DWELLING HOUSE, INSTALLATION OF WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2050255/0
- 20 Aug 2018, Donegal County Council 1851271: Unconditional. Extension of duration, 1 home. RETENTION AND COMPLETION OF DWELLING (206.03M2) , AND INSTALLATION OF WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND CONSTRUCTION OF A DOMESTIC GARAGE. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1851271/0
- 10 Aug 2018, Donegal County Council 1851224: Refused. Retention. PORCH EXTENSION TO THE FRONT OF EXISTING BUILDING. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1851224/0
- 13 Feb 2018, Donegal County Council 1850204: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, GARAGE AND WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH PERCOLATION AREA. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1850204/0
- 31 Oct 2017, Donegal County Council 1751646: N/a. Outline permission, 1 home. ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, GARAGE AND WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH PERCOLATION AREA ON SITE. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1751646/0

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## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

- Special Area of Conservation: Mulroy Bay SAC, site code 002159, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/002159

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- DG017-006: Cairn - unclassified, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDG017-006----. A small cairn of loose stones, subcircular in plan measuring c. 7m N-S by c. 5m E-W and up to 1m in height. It is inconspicuously sited in a narrow valley between, to the W a steep faced ridge of rock and to the E, a steep hill-face. To the S the valley rises gently. To the N, it widens and lowers giving an excellent view over Mulroy Bay. The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated. Date of upload: 22 September 2008
- DG017-008: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDG017-008----. Internal diam. c. 18m. A circular area is enclosed by an earthen bank .36m high and an outer fosse c. 3.5m wide and 0.4m deep. There is a causeway c. 4m wide across the fosse on the NE. The interior slopes gently downwards from W to E. The site is on a slight rise on a low ridge running N-S, in low-lying wettish grassland about 450m E of the shore of Mulroy Bay. The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated. Date of upload: 22 September 2008

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).

## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage)

- St. Columba’s Roman Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1770–1790, Regional interest, registry number 40901703, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=DG&regno=40901703. Freestanding double-height Catholic church, built c. 1780-5, comprising five-bay hall with slightly projecting breakfront to the centre of the south elevation having bellcote over, and with projecting single-bay single-storey gable-fronted entrance porch to the east side of breakfront to south elevation. Altered c. 1980 with single-storey additions including sacristy attached to the north-east corner. Pitched natural slate roof having raised smooth rendered parapets to gable ends (east and west) with smooth rounded rendered copings over and with smooth rendered kneeler stones at eaves level, projecting eaves course, and having painted cast-iron rainwater goods. Pitched slate roof to bellcote with rendered kneeler stone detail to eaves; round-headed opening with bellcote with bell metal bell. Roughcast rendered walls over smooth rendered plinth course (to north and south elevations), and with rendered cornice stringcourse to bellcote. Quatrefoil motif with smooth rendered surround to the east gable end having date ‘1780’. Pointed arched window openings having multi-pane timber sliding sash windows with timber Y-tracery, diamond pane windows over ‘Y’ of Y-tracery, stone sills and smooth rendered surrounds. Pointed-arched window opening to the west gable having ashlar granite hoodmoulding. Pointed-arched doorway to porch having replacement battened timber double-doors with battened timber panel over, and with smooth rendered reveal. Pointed-arched door opening to the east gable end having replacement battened timber doors. Interior re-ordered c. 1980 having gallery to east supported on fluted columns and with timber parapet having inset trefoil-headed recesses, altar to west, timber pews and open timber king post roof with timber panelled ceiling finish. Located on elevated site on shores of Lagmore Bay to the north of Tamney, and to the south-west end of the Fanad Peninsula. Graveyard to set having collection of nineteenth and twentieth-century gravemarkers of mainly upstanding type; recumbent gravemarkers to the south end of graveyard. Roughcast rendered and modern rubble stone-clad boundary walls to graveyard. Wrought-iron and modern metal pedestrian gates\turnstiles to site.

## 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 Croaghan, about 1 in 5 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Croaghan.
- 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/croaghan-50795.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/donegal/croaghan-50795.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/donegal/croaghan-50795.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Croaghan 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)

- Carrowkeel Glebe: https://everytownland.com/donegal/carrowkeel-glebe.md
- Maghernalaght: https://everytownland.com/donegal/maghernalaght.md
- Tawny: https://everytownland.com/donegal/tawny-52480.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.

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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.

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