Cronaguiggy
Townland in the civil parish of Tullaghobegly, barony of Kilmacrenan, Co. Donegal; in Irish Cró na gCúigeadh
- Area
- 320.5 ha
- 792 acres
- Land parcels
- 96
- registered freehold, median 3,412 m² (0.34 ha, 0.84 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 9
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
96 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cronaguiggy, from 109 m² to 659,783 m² (65.98 ha, 163.04 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 46 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 Cronaguiggy 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
23 Apr 2026N/a
DEMOLITION OF DILAPIDATED SHED, CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSION AND RENOVATION OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND INSTALLATION OF A WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH POLISHING FILTER AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2660705
14 Apr 2026N/a
(1) DEMOLITION OF DILAPIDATED SHED AND (2) EXTENSION AND RENOVATION OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND INSTALLATION OF A WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH POLISHING FILTER AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2660638
13 Apr 2026N/a
(1) DEMOLITION OF DILAPIDATED SHED AND (2) EXTENSION AND RENOVATION OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, INSTALLATION OF WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH POLISHING FILTER AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2660623
10 Dec 2025Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH ASSOCIATED SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL OTHER SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2562177
28 May 2025Conditional
DEMOLITION OF EXISTING SHED AND CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH ASSOCIATED SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2560869
23 May 2025N/a
DEMOLITION OF EXISTING SHED AND CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH ASSOCIATED SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2560832
27 Sept 2023Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH ASSOCIATED SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL OTHER SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) ACCOMPANIES THIS APPLICATION
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2351451
15 Aug 2023Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH ASSOCIATED SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL OTHER SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) ACCOMPANIES THIS APPLICATION
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2351201
13 Dec 2019Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEWERAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1951944
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 Protection Area: Derryveagh And Glendowan Mountains SPA 004039
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Crolly Bridge Woods 001102
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Cronaguiggy Bog 001176
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Cronaguiggy.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Cronaguiggy.
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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Cronaguiggy.
- 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 Cronaguiggy with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Cronaguiggy · Cró na gCúigeadh
- Area
- 3,204,576 m² (320.46 ha, 791.87 acres)
- Civil parish
- Tullaghobegly, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kilmacrenan
- Electoral division
- Magheraclogher, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Magheraclogher electoral division: 2,841 people in 1,130 households; 78% of households own their home; 31% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 24% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Bunawack, Crolly, Killindarragh, Loughanure, Meencorwick, Meenderrynasloe
- Gaeltacht
- In an Irish-speaking area
- Placenames
- Cronaguiggy 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.