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

Townland in the civil parish of Inishkeel, barony of Boylagh, Co. Donegal; in Irish An Cró Cam.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 2,950,765 m² (295.08 ha, 729.15 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 392,752 m² (39.28 ha, 97.05 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Inishkeel, https://everytownland.com/donegal/parish/inishkeel.md
- Barony: Boylagh
- Electoral division: Glenleheen, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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.
- County: Co. Donegal, https://everytownland.com/donegal.md
- Gaeltacht: in an Irish-speaking area
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/14699
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 50811
- Centre: latitude 54.850474, longitude -8.144081 (WGS 84)

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

6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Crocam, from 246 m² to 1,101,789 m² (110.18 ha, 272.26 acres); 18 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 1381924: 1,101,789 m² (110.18 ha, 272.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1381924.md
- Parcel 1416432: 812,221 m² (81.22 ha, 200.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1416432.md
- Parcel 1381923: 783,802 m² (78.38 ha, 193.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1381923.md
- Parcel 4936412: 1,703 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4936412.md
- Parcel 4936414: 454 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4936414.md
- Parcel 1395920: 246 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1395920.md

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

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.

## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)

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

## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

- Special Area of Conservation: River Finn SAC, site code 002301, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/002301
- Special Protection Area: Derryveagh And Glendowan Mountains SPA, site code 004039, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/spa/004039
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Finn, site code 001163

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

- DG066-002: Megalithic tomb - unclassified, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDG066-002----. 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)

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)

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

## 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 Crocam, 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. 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 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/crocam.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/donegal/crocam.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/donegal/crocam.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Crocam 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)

- Beaghmore: https://everytownland.com/donegal/beaghmore.md
- Currynanerriagh: https://everytownland.com/donegal/currynanerriagh.md
- Dalraghan Beg: https://everytownland.com/donegal/dalraghan-beg.md
- Dalraghan More: https://everytownland.com/donegal/dalraghan-more.md
- Loughmuck: https://everytownland.com/donegal/loughmuck.md
- Loughnambraddan: https://everytownland.com/donegal/loughnambraddan.md
- Meenamanragh: https://everytownland.com/donegal/meenamanragh.md
- Meentymorgal: https://everytownland.com/donegal/meentymorgal.md
- Shallogan More: https://everytownland.com/donegal/shallogan-more.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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