Cronalaghy
Townland in the civil parish of Donaghmore, barony of Raphoe South, Co. Donegal; in Irish Cruach na Locha
- Area
- 495.4 ha
- 1,224 acres
- Land parcels
- 33
- registered freehold, median 48,874 m² (4.89 ha, 12.08 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
33 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cronalaghy, from 35 m² to 592,096 m² (59.21 ha, 146.31 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 12 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 Cronalaghy 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
14 Aug 2026N/a
CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY DWELLING WITH EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND DOMESTIC STORE
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2661517
14 Jul 2021N/a
PORCH, CAR PORT AND CHIMNEY STACK TO DWELLING HOUSE AND PERMISSION FOR ERECTION OF AN EXTENSION/ANCILLARY ACCOMMODATION TO DWELLING HOUSE WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING SEPTIC TANK INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2151408
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Cronalaghy.
Recorded monuments
- DG087-006 Standing stone
Description
A standing stone c. 1.65m high × 1.7m wide at base × 0.9m thick; N-S. Situated on a SSE facing rocky slope, on pasture land immediately N of an area of level bog land. The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated. Date of upload: 22 September 2008
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Cronalaghy.
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 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Cronalaghy.
- 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 Cronalaghy with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Cronalaghy · Cruach na Locha
- Area
- 4,954,237 m² (495.42 ha, 1,224.22 acres)
- Civil parish
- Donaghmore, and its townlands
- Barony
- Raphoe South
- Electoral division
- Gleneely, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Gleneely electoral division: 1,672 people in 557 households; 89% of households own their home; 41% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Corlea, Corradooey, Lismullyduff, Meenagolan
- Placenames
- Cronalaghy 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.