Croweighter

22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Croweighter, from 1,502 m² to 832,153 m² (83.22 ha, 205.63 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 13 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Croweighter 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.

• 9 Apr 2026Conditional

  (1) CHANGE OF USE OF PART OF EXISTING DOMESTIC GARAGE TO A MUSIC STUDIO FOR PRIVATE USE AND ANCILLARY TO THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND (2) ADDITIONAL WINDOWS TO THE SIDE AND REAR ELEVATIONS AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2660594

• 1 Apr 2026N/a

  CHANGE OF USE OF PART OF EXISTING DOMESTIC GARAGE TO A MUSIC STUDIO FOR PRIVATE USE AND ANCILLARY TO THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2660543

• 6 Nov 2018Conditional

  DEVELOPMENT OF THE ATTIC IN THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, COMPLETION OF EXISTING DOMESTIC GARAGE FROM SUB FLOOR LEVEL AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1851703

• 21 Apr 2017Conditional

  (A) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, OUTBUILDING AND DECOMMISSIONING OF EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND (B) CONSTRUCTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING HOUSE, DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK/SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1750594

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

Designated sites

• Natural Heritage Area: Crocknamurrin Mountain Bog NHA 001878
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Coguish Bog 001938

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Croweighter.

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Croweighter.

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

At the centre of the townland of Croweighter, about 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Croweighter.

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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.

No address of the register names Croweighter with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Croweighter · Cróibh Íochtair

Area

5,013,160 m² (501.32 ha, 1,238.78 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcar, and its townlands

Barony

Banagh

Electoral division

Crowkeeragh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

123 people lived in 47 households in the Crowkeeragh electoral division. 82% of households owned their home. 19% of homes were built since 2001. 25% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 25% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Coguish, Crowanrudda Beg, Crowkeeragh, Crowlar, Meenacharvy, Meenaneary, Owenteskiny, Stranakirk

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Croweighter 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.