Crossconnell

71 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Crossconnell, from 299 m² to 320,605 m² (32.06 ha, 79.22 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 10 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Crossconnell 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.

• 24 Jun 2026Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING WITH CONNECTION TO THE EFFLUENT TREATMENT PLANT AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2661168

• 1 Jul 2025Refused

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING WITH CONNECTION TO THE EFFLUENT TREATMENT PLANT AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2561109

• 7 Sept 2021Conditional

  DEMOLITION OF AN EXISTING MICA AFFECTED DETACHED SINGLE STOREY DWELLING HOUSE(PREVIOUSLY PERMITTED UNDER FILE REF 02/5304) AND CONSTRUCTION OF REPLACEMEMNT 3 BED SINGLE STOREY DWELLING & ASSOCIATED WORKS INCLUDING RECONNECTION TO EXISTING SEWAGE TREATMENT UNIT & REUSE OF EXISTING VEHICULAR ACCESS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2151774

• 19 Jan 2018Conditional

  (1) EXTENSION OF THE EXISTING CARAVAN PARK TO PROVIDE 28 NO. NEW FULLY-SERVICED CARAVAN PITCHES WITH ASSOCIATED ACCESS ROADS AND (2) REPLACEMENT OF EXISTING WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT AND PERCOLATION AREA WITH NEW WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT AND PERCOLATION AREA; ALONG WITH ASSOCIATED LANDSCAPING, SITE-WORKS AND CONNECTIONS TO EXISTING SERVICES

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1850054

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: North Inishowen Coast SAC 002012
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: North Inishowen Coast 002012

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Crossconnell.

Architectural heritage

• House, 1830–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay single-storey house, built c. 1850, windbreak porch to the east end of the front facade, with a two-bay and a one-bay byre to east gable. Round pitched rope and peg thatch roof, gable copings, limewashed render chimneystacks to centre and west gable; pitched rounded ridge tarred roof to byres. Limewashed rendered random rubble stone walls. Square-headed window openings, timber windows, with top-hung outward opening lights. Square-headed door opening with timber panelled door. Set in own grounds with limewashed rubble stone boundary wall and hedge to main road.

• House, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay two-storey house, built c. 1820, having projecting porch to centre front elevation. Now disused. Garage to west gable. Pitched natural slate roof with painted rendered chimneystacks to each gable end, concrete gable coping, and with rounded cornice to porch. Painted rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with limestone sills, and with one-over-one pane horned timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed door opening to porch having battened timber door. Set in own grounds with roughly dressed limestone wall and concrete coping incorporating modern roughly dressed quartz wall. Two outbuildings to east with corrugated catslide roofs and limewashed rubble stone walls. Located to the north-west of Clonmany.

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).

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, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1976 (ZIP).

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.

• Crossconnell, Clonmany7 sales

Name

Crossconnell

Area

1,022,481 m² (102.25 ha, 252.66 acres)

Civil parish

Clonmany, and its townlands

Barony

Inishowen East

Electoral division

Dunaff, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Dunaff electoral division: 705 people in 248 households; 90% of households own their home; 32% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 29% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Binnion, Straid, Tullagh

Placenames

Crossconnell 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.