Crohyboyle
Crohyboyle is a townland in the civil parish of Templecrone, barony of Boylagh, Co. Donegal. Its name in Irish is Croich Uí Bhaoill.
- Area
- 656.1 ha
- 1,621 acres
- Land parcels
- 171
- registered freehold, median 11,209 m² (1.12 ha, 2.77 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
171 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Crohyboyle, from 276 m² to 302,012 m² (30.2 ha, 74.63 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 60 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 Crohyboyle 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
21 Nov 2023Conditional
A FIRST FLOOR ATTIC CONVERSION WITH MINOR ELEVATIONAL ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2351770
4 May 2023Conditional
REPOSITIONING OF DWELLING HOUSE PREVIOUSLY GRANTED PLANNING PERMISSION UNDER PLANNING REF: 05/2190 AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS AND PERMISSION FOR REPLACEMENT OF EXISTING THATCHED ROOF WITH SLATES
Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2350610
16 Feb 2022Conditional
DOMESTIC GARAGE INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2250244
11 Sept 2018Conditional
DECOMMISSIONING EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA, RELOCATION AND INSTALLATION OF A TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH POLISHING FILTER AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1851408
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: Cloghernagore Bog and Glenveagh National Park SAC 002047
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Cloghernagore Bog And Glenveagh National Park 002047
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Crohyboyle.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Crohyboyle.
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 Crohyboyle, about 1 in 20 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 Crohyboyle.
- 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
- Crohyboyle, Dungloe5 sales
The townland
- Name
- Crohyboyle · Croich Uí Bhaoill
- Area
- 6,560,812 m² (656.08 ha, 1,621.21 acres)
- Civil parish
- Templecrone, and its townlands
- Barony
- Boylagh
- Electoral division
- Dunglow, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,919 people lived in 798 households in the Dunglow electoral division. 63% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 16% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Annagary, Crovehy, Lettercau, Loughanure, Meenbannad, Sheskinarone
- Gaeltacht
- In an Irish-speaking area
- Placenames
- Crohyboyle 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.