Cronadun
Townland in the civil parish of Kilteevoge, barony of Raphoe South, Co. Donegal; in Irish Cró na Doinne
- Area
- 373.9 ha
- 924 acres
- Land parcels
- 31
- registered freehold, median 43,982 m² (4.4 ha, 10.87 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
31 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cronadun, from 1,321 m² to 1,156,933 m² (115.69 ha, 285.88 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 35 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Cronadun 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
24 May 2020Conditional
DEVELOPMENT WILL CONSIST OF PLANTING CIRCA 855 TREES (CONSISTING OF EQUAL MIX OF ALDER, WILLOW, SILVER BIRCH & ROWAN) IN A 5M RIPARIAN BUFFER ZONE FROM THE RIVER'S EDGE WITH ERECTION OF 1005 M GALVANISED WIRE FENCE WHICH WILL INCLUDE 6 UNIGATES, 5 STILES AND 7 2,000 LITRE WATER STORAGE TANKS (BURIED) AS WELL AS 7 CONCRETE DRINKING TROUGHS AND 7 HYDRAULIC RAM PUMPS ON THE NORTHERN BANK OF THE CUMMIRK RIVER. A NATURA IMPACT ASSESSMENT ACCOMPANIES THIS APPLICATION
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2050519
6 Mar 2019Conditional
(1) CONSTRUCTION OF VEHICULAR ENTRANCE AND LANEWAY INTO AGRICULTURAL FARM LANDS AND (2) DEVELOPMENT OF SHEEP HANDLING FACILITY, CONCRETE APRON AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1950302
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: River Finn SAC 002301
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Cronadun.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Cronadun.
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
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, low, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Cronadun.
- Flooding
- The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Cronadun with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Cronadun · Cró na Doinne
- Area
- 3,739,333 m² (373.93 ha, 924.01 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilteevoge, and its townlands
- Barony
- Raphoe South
- Electoral division
- Cloghan, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Cloghan electoral division: 935 people in 318 households; 86% of households own their home; 31% of homes were built since 2001; 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Altatraght, Ballynaman, Garvan, Glashagh Beg, Kilrean, Letterbrick, Meenalig
- Gaeltacht
- In an Irish-speaking area
- Placenames
- Cronadun 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.