Croaghbeg

53 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Croaghbeg, from 34 m² to 174,889 m² (17.49 ha, 43.22 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 26 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Croaghbeg 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 Aug 2026N/a

  DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DERELICT DWELLING AND CONSTRUCTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING HOUSE WITH NEW SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2661570

• 2 Apr 2026Refused

  DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DERELICT DWELLING AND CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW REPLACEMENT DWELLING HOUSE WITH NEW SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2660559

• 23 Apr 2025Conditional

  EXTENSION AND RENOVATION OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE WITH ALTERATIONS TO ALL FACADES, CONNECTION TO ALL EXISTING SITE SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2560629

• 5 Jul 2023Conditional

  EXISTING SHEEP SHED AND PERMISSION FOR RETENTION AND COMPLETION OF AN EXTENSION TO AN EXISTING AGRICULTURAL LANE

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2350968

• 15 Jun 2022Refused

  EXISTING SHEEP SHED AND PERMISSION FOR RETENTION AND COMPLETION FOR AN EXTENSION TO AN EXISTING AGRICULTURAL LANE

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2251033

• 15 Mar 2022N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING WITH SEPTIC TANK & SAND FILTER

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2250449

• 8 Sept 2021Unconditional

  EXTENSION TO DWELLING HOUSE PLUS ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Extension of duration · Donegal County Council, 2151782

• 9 Aug 2021Refused

  SHEEP SHED & AN ACCESS ROAD OVER LANDS TO THE SHEEP SHED

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2151596

• 28 Jun 2021Conditional

  RELOCATED TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA FROM THAT PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER PLANNING PERMISSION 00/396 AND PERMISSION FOR CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION AND RENOVATION OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE WITH ELEVATIONAL CHANGES TO ALL FACADES TO PROVIDE FOR ADDITIONAL LIVING ACCOMMODATION AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2151270

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 Croaghbeg.

Recorded monuments

• DG097-017001 Megalithic tomb - court tomb
  Description

  This monument, like the two (Dg. 12 and Dg. 113) nearby in the same coastal valley, has been excavated. It is sited on a low but steep-sided rocky ridge and faces upslope to the head of the valley. Before excavation it was so obscured by collapsed cairn stones that its precise design was unclear (de Valera 1960). The excavation was carried out over five seasons (1969-73), and preliminary accounts have been published (Flanagan 1970; 1971a; 1971b; 1972; 1973; 1974). It consists of a long cairn at the northern end of which is a court leading to a two-chambered gallery. A lintel surmounts the gallery entrance, and there is another above the jambs separating the two chambers. Tiers of corbelling survive along the sides and back of the gallery. A subsidiary chamber opens into the outer end of the W side of the court. Considerable stretches of a dry-wall revetment were revealed along the sides of the cairn. The W arm of the court and the cairn outside it were found to have been removed. Excavation showed that the surviving E arm of the court had been built on several layers of random rubble spread, apparently to secure a level surface. The finished implements among the finds recovered from the chambers were two heat-shattered flint plano-convex knives, a classic flint hollow scraper and a concave scraper. The 1971 season, devoted to the excavation of the court and the determination of the shape and extent of the cairn, resulted in the recovery of a large number of flint flakelets and a small number of finished implements of flint, namely, two end scrapers, one hollow scraper and two knives. The plan and sections published here were made in 1990. The cairn, as it now survives, is 36.5m long and narrows from 13.5m wide at the northern end to 10.5m at the southern. The northern end consists of a low bank of earth and stones that lacks any identifiable formal edge. Five stones at the outer face of this bank are shown on the plan. These are somewhat loose and of uncertain status. The largest measures 0.75m by 0.6m by 0.2m high. There is no trace of the expected entrance through the front of the cairn to the court, but a brief reference to such a feature suggests that it was apparent during the excavation (Flanagan 1973). The remainder of the cairn is composed of a mass of stones rising from both ends to reach a maximum height of 2.3m at the back of the gallery. The rear of the cairn as portrayed on the plan represents the present limit of the cairn mass, but it is doubtful that this accords with the original outline, which, though badly eroded, 'was satisfactorily established' during the excavation (Flanagan 1973). The dry-wall revetment exposed along the sides of the cairn survives to two layers in places, but for the most part only a single course remains. The stones of the lowest visible layer, some now somewhat displaced, are shown on the plan. These range from 0.15m to 1.5m long and from 0.15m to 1.1m high. Immediately S of the gap in the W side of the cairn are some large slabs at the cairn edge, but it is not clear whether these formed part of the revetment, and they are not shown on the plan. A stone just beyond the rear of the cairn mass may be displaced. It measures 0.8m by 0.75m by 0.3m. Because of destruction in the court area the excavator encountered some difficulty in 'the determination of its inner facade' (Flanagan 1972). The preliminary accounts of the excavation do not contain any elaboration on this matter other than a description of the court as being of the full variety (Flanagan 1972; 1974, 9). The precise relationship of the court to the subsidiary chamber is also unclear, but if, like at two other Donegal court tombs (Dg. 56 and Dg. 95), the front of the subsidiary chamber lay on the court perimeter, a court length of c. 10m would seem likely. The E arm of the court is represented by ten stones. The edge of the cairn mass beside the gallery entrance seems to follow the line of the missing western arm. An original court width of at least 8m appears to be indicated. The outermost courtstone at the E, slightly inside the line of the others, is split vertically. It measures 0.7m by 0.1m by 0.4m high. The heights of the next seven are 0.75m, 0.65m, 0.75m, 1m, 0.6m, 0.8m and 1.05m. The next, the second from the gallery entrance, rises 0.45m above the top of the first. The base of this stone is exposed and is clearly seen to stand on the rubble fill, already mentioned, that was noted on this side of the ridge during the excavation. There is dry-wall filling in the slight gaps between it and the courtstones at either side, and a corbel, 0.5m by 0.9m and 0.5m in maximum thickness, rests on its sloping top. The innermost courtstone is 0.6m high, but two superimposed blocks, so placed that all three present a vertical face, act to increase its effective height to c. 0.5m more than the last-described courtstone and the entrance jamb at its other side. The lower of the two superimposed blocks measures 0.7m by 0.4m by 0.45m high, and the upper 0.8m by 0.45m by 0.5m high. A large slab, 1.2m by 0.45m by 0.5m thick, lying in an almost horizontal position on the last and on the cairn behind it may be a corbel. Just 1m beyond the outer end of the E arm of the court is a displaced slab, 1.25m by 1.2m by 0.45m thick. The gallery is c. 5.5m long. Entry to it is between two well-matched, transversely set jambs of similar height set 0.8m apart at ground level. The eastern one is 1.2m high, and the western is 1.4m. Wedged between them is a sillstone now no longer set in the ground. This is 0.75m long, 0.08m thick and 0.45m high. The lintel above the entrance rests on the flat-topped jambs. This is a rectangular block of stone and measures 2.2m by 1.25m by 0.9m thick. There is a pad-stone (not on plan), 0.05m by 0.04m, between it and the inner end of the top of the western jamb. The segmenting jambs, transversely set, are well-matched, flat-topped stones. They stand inside the gallery walls and are 0.65m apart. The eastern one is 1.3m high, and the western is 1.25m high. A sillstone between them is 0.65m long, 0.08m thick and 0.4m high. The lintel resting above the jambs, a rectangular block, measures 2.1m by 0.9m by 0.8m thick. There is a pad-stone between the top of the western jamb and the lintel. Beside the E end of the lintel and at the same height is a block of stone, 0.65m by 0.3m by 0.55m high, wedged between it and the gallery side. This rests on the middle orthostat on this side of the gallery and on a pad-stone, 0.15m by 0.08m by 0.08m thick, set on top of the segmenting jamb. Also helping to wedge this block in place is a stone, 0.25m by 0.2m by 0.1m thick, jammed between it and the top of the inner end of the first orthostat of the gallery. The front chamber, measured from sill to sill, is 2.6m long and 2.7m wide; the rear chamber is 2.7m long and c. 3m wide near the front, narrowing to 2.3m at the back. Three orthostats form each side of the gallery, the middle ones overlapping the adjacent jambs and serving as sidestones to both chambers, the same arrangement as at Shalwy (Dg. 113). The outermost orthostat at the W overlaps the inner end of the adjacent entrance jamb. It is 1.6m high. The middle orthostat on this side is 1.6m high. Immediately outside this and rising c. 0.3m above its highest point is a slab, 1.2m long, 0.25m thick and 0.6m high. This flat-topped slab is positioned so as to raise the height of the gallery here and seems to be supported by the cairn mass alongside the gallery. The third orthostat on this side is 2m in maximum height. The outermost orthostat at the E side of the gallery rises from 1m high at the front to 1.75m at mid-length. The next one is 1.3m high. Mirroring the arrangement on the W side of the gallery, a slab immediately outside this orthostat rises 0.5m above it. This slab, its base hidden, leans inward slightly and is 1.4m long and 0.15m thick. The innermost orthostat on this side of the gallery is 1.7m high.

• DG097-017002 Enclosure
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Croaghbeg.

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

At the centre of the townland of Croaghbeg, 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.

Terrain model

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

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.

No address of the register names Croaghbeg with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Croaghbeg · An Chruach Bheag

Area

839,853 m² (83.99 ha, 207.53 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcar, and its townlands

Barony

Banagh

Electoral division

Largymore, the unit of the census

Census 2022

523 people lived in 216 households in the Largymore electoral division. 84% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 23% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bavan, Gortalia, Letter, Meentakeeraghan, Shalwy

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Croaghbeg 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.