Crowbane
Townland in the civil parish of Kilcar, barony of Banagh, Co. Donegal; in Irish An Cró Bán
- Area
- 549.4 ha
- 1,358 acres
- Land parcels
- 20
- registered freehold, median 42,021 m² (4.2 ha, 10.38 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Crowbane, from 3,182 m² (0.32 ha, 0.79 acres) to 1,757,935 m² (175.79 ha, 434.4 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 16 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 Crowbane 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
3 Mar 2025Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, SEPTIC TANK / SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2560288
26 Jun 2019Conditional
(1) DEMOLITION OF THE EXISTING UPSTANDING REMAINS OF DERELICT FAMILY HOMESTEAD, (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A DOMESTIC ARTIST STUDIO/DOMESTIC STORAGE BUILDING, PART SINGLE STOREY, PART STOREY AND HALF, ANCILLARY TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND ON THE FOOTPRINT OF FORMER HOMESTEAD AND (3) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS INCLUDING CONNECTION TO ALL ON-SITE SERVICES
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1950981
4 Jun 2019N/a
(1) DEMOLITION OF THE EXISTING UPSTANDING REMAINS OF DERELICT FAMILY HOMESTEAD, (2)CONSTRUCTION OF A DOMESTIC ARTIST STUDIO/DOMESTIC STORAGE BUILDING, PART SINGLE STOREY, PART STOREY AND HALF, ANCILLARY TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND ON THE FOOTPRINT OF FORMER HOMESTEAD AND (3) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS INCLUDING CONNECTION TO ALL ON-SITE SERVICES
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1950839
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
- Natural Heritage Area: Crocknamurrin Mountain Bog NHA 001878
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Crowbane.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Crowbane.
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 high, 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 Crowbane.
- 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 Crowbane with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Crowbane · An Cró Bán
- Area
- 5,493,867 m² (549.39 ha, 1,357.56 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilcar, and its townlands
- Barony
- Banagh
- Electoral division
- Crowkeeragh, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Crowkeeragh electoral division: 123 people in 47 households; 82% of households own their home; 19% of homes were built since 2001; 25% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 25% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Balbane, Crowdoo, Fintragh, Leamagowra, Meenreagh, Meentadun, Stravally, Tieveskeelta
- Gaeltacht
- In an Irish-speaking area
- Placenames
- Crowbane 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.