Croaghanarget
Croaghanarget is a townland in the civil parish of Killymard, barony of Banagh, Co. Donegal. Its name in Irish is Cruach an Airgid.
- Area
- 553.9 ha
- 1,369 acres
- Land parcels
- 14
- registered freehold, median 48,322 m² (4.83 ha, 11.94 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Croaghanarget, from 755 m² to 2,083,133 m² (208.31 ha, 514.75 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 14 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 Croaghanarget 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
12 May 2022Conditional
(1) CONSTRUCTION OF A TWO-STOREY EXTENSION TO AN EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND ALTERATIONS AND REFURBISHMENT OF THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE TO PROVIDE A KITCHEN, LIVING ROOM, BEDROOMS AND HOME OFFICE IN THE EXTENSION AND INTERNAL ALTERATIONS AND ELEVATIONAL CHANGES TO THE EXISTING (2) INSTALLATION OF A NEW SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2250825
12 Apr 2022N/a
CONSTRUCTION OF A TWO-STOREY EXTENSION TO AN EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND ALTERATIONS AND REFURBISHMENT OF THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE TO PROVIDE A KITCHEN, LIVING ROOM, BEDROOMS AND HOME OFFICE IN THE EXTENSION AND INTERNAL ALTERATIONS AND ELEVATIONAL CHANGES TO THE EXISTING, INSTALLATION OF A NEW SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2250642
14 Dec 2021N/a
(1) CONSTRUCTION OF A TWO-STOREY EXTENSION TO AN EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND ALTERATIONS AND REFURBISHMENT OF THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE TO PROVIDE A KITCHEN, LIVING ROOM, BEDROOM AND HOME OFFICE IN THE EXTENSION AND INTERNAL ALTERATIONS AND ELEVATIONAL CHANGES (2) INSTALLATION OF A NEW SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2152493
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: Meenaguse Scragh SAC 001880
- Special Area of Conservation: Lough Nillan Bog (Carrickatlieve) SAC 000165
- Special Protection Area: Lough Nillan Bog SPA 004110
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Nillan Bog (Carrickatlieve) 000165
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Meenaguse Scragh 001880
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Croaghanarget.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Croaghanarget.
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 Croaghanarget, about 1 in 5 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 Croaghanarget.
- 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 Croaghanarget with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Croaghanarget · Cruach an Airgid
- Area
- 5,539,264 m² (553.93 ha, 1,368.78 acres)
- Civil parish
- Killymard, and its townlands
- Barony
- Banagh
- Electoral division
- Graffy, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 150 people lived in 65 households in the Graffy electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 19% of homes were built since 2001. 33% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 12% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Croaghubbrid, Cronacarkfree, Doocrow, Lacklea, Meenaguse More, Sruell, Tangaveane
- Gaeltacht
- In an Irish-speaking area
- Placenames
- Croaghanarget 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.