Crocam

6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Crocam, from 246 m² to 1,101,789 m² (110.18 ha, 272.26 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 18 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Crocam 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Crocam in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: River Finn SAC 002301
• Special Protection Area: Derryveagh And Glendowan Mountains SPA 004039
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Finn 001163

Recorded monuments

• DG066-002 Megalithic tomb - unclassified
  Description

  This monument stands in rough pasture on the boggy saddle between Aghla Mountain to the SW and Scraigs Mountain to the E. The site overlooks Lough Finn to the N and Lough Muck to the S. The monument, deeply embedded in the bog, consists of a narrow gallery, 5m long, orientated SSW-NNE. It is described as if it lay W-E. The present floor of the gallery is somewhat below the level of the surrounding ground. There is a set stone, 0.55m high, N of and at right angles to the western end of the gallery. A slab covering the W end of the gallery may not be an original feature. There are six stones along the N side of the gallery and six along the S side. Only those definitely in situ are hatched on the plan. The westernmost stone at the S side is 0.5m high. The next, 0.5m to the E, is 0.3m high. The third stone, 0.3m beyond this, is outside the line of the first two and is 0.45m high. Approximately 2m beyond the last is a stone 0.3m high. Approximately 0.4m beyond this is a set stone 0.25m high. Immediately beside it to the E the top of another stone rises just above the boggy surface. The westernmost stone at the N side of the gallery, 0.4m high, is loose in the ground. The second is 0.15m high. There is a gap of 0.2m to the third stone, which leans outward. It is 0.4m high. The fourth is slightly outside the line of the other three and is 0.1m high. There is a gap of 0.35m to the fifth stone, 0.25m high, the eastern end of which is concealed in the bog. From the point where the E end of the last disappears into the bog there is a gap of 0.6m to the last stone on this side. This is 0.3m high. The slab covering the western end of the gallery measures 1.3m by 1.15m and is 0.2m thick. It rests on the westernmost stone on the northern side of the gallery, on a stone (not on plan) measuring 0.35m by 0.15m by 0.1m on top of the third stone at the same side, and on a displaced slab (not on plan) c. 0.5m in maximum dimension that leans against the eastern end of the second sidestone on the S side of the gallery. It is also wedged against the eastern edge of the westernmost sidestone at the S. As the two supporting stones at the N are not definitely in situ and the main supporting stone at the S is clearly displaced, there is reason to doubt that this slab is in situ. The gallery may originally have been somewhat longer, according to a report in an OS Name Book (1835) that states that the grave was then 21 feet (c. 6.4m) long. According to Thomas Fagan (1845-8), there was a 'massive oblong flag' at the site that had originally rested on the gallery sides but had been toppled long before his visit there in 1848. The remains are those of a megalithic tomb, but it cannot reliably be classified in its present state. However, the stone at right angles to the western end of the gallery could be interpreted as a facade-stone, which would suggest that this may be a wedge tomb (Ó Nualláin 1983a). OS Name Book, Inishkeel parish (1835), book 1, 26, and book 3, 138; Fagan 1845-8, book 23, 18; OS Revision Name Book, sheet 66 (1848-51), 31 (a traditional story associated with the site is recorded here, but there are no details of the monument); Borlase 1897, 239, Boylagh no. 2; Crozier 1957, 65-6 and photograph (no. 8) opposite p. 120; Killanin and Duignan 1962, 295; Killanin and Duignan 1967, 297; Ó Nualláin 1983a, 41, no. 102; SMR 1987, 66:2; Ó Nualláin 1989, 142; RMP 1995, 66:2. The above description was published in the 'Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume VI, County Donegal.' Compiled by: Eamon Cody (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). Date of upload: 22 September 2008 See linked document with details from Eamon Cody, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume VI. County Donegal. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002)

Architectural heritage

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

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 Crocam, 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 Crocam.

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

Name

Crocam · An Cró Cam

Area

2,950,765 m² (295.08 ha, 729.15 acres)

Civil parish

Inishkeel, and its townlands

Barony

Boylagh

Electoral division

Glenleheen, the unit of the census

Census 2022

156 people lived in 57 households in the Glenleheen electoral division. 84% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 25% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 24% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Beaghmore, Currynanerriagh, Dalraghan Beg, Dalraghan More, Loughmuck, Loughnambraddan, Meenamanragh, Meentymorgal, Shallogan More

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Crocam 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.