# Croweighter, Co. Donegal: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Kilcar, barony of Banagh, Co. Donegal; in Irish Cróibh Íochtair. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 5,013,160 m² (501.32 ha, 1,238.78 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 54,695 m² (5.47 ha, 13.52 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 4 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Kilcar, https://everytownland.com/donegal/parish/kilcar.md - Barony: Banagh - Electoral division: Crowkeeragh, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Donegal, https://everytownland.com/donegal.md - Gaeltacht: in an Irish-speaking area - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/14581 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 50844 - Centre: latitude 54.70273, longitude -8.579942 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Croweighter, from 1,502 m² to 832,153 m² (83.22 ha, 205.63 acres); 13 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1305296: 832,153 m² (83.22 ha, 205.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1305296.md - Parcel 1371907: 758,307 m² (75.83 ha, 187.38 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1371907.md - Parcel 1353007: 755,183 m² (75.52 ha, 186.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1353007.md - Parcel 1393678: 606,717 m² (60.67 ha, 149.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1393678.md - Parcel 1362061: 603,343 m² (60.33 ha, 149.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1362061.md - Parcel 1369091: 472,985 m² (47.3 ha, 116.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1369091.md - Parcel 1346986: 353,893 m² (35.39 ha, 87.45 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1346986.md - Parcel 5478374: 236,212 m² (23.62 ha, 58.37 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5478374.md - Parcel 5515827: 142,791 m² (14.28 ha, 35.28 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5515827.md - Parcel 1321377: 107,070 m² (10.71 ha, 26.46 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1321377.md - Parcel 1346015: 77,468 m² (7.75 ha, 19.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1346015.md - Parcel 5214236: 31,922 m² (3.19 ha, 7.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5214236.md - Parcel 4873508: 13,975 m² (1.4 ha, 3.45 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4873508.md - Parcel 1375469: 8,240 m² (0.82 ha, 2.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1375469.md - Parcel 1362784: 5,308 m² (0.53 ha, 1.31 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1362784.md - Parcel 5388123: 2,858 m² (0.29 ha, 0.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5388123.md - Parcel 1398526: 2,583 m² (0.26 ha, 0.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1398526.md - Parcel 1395014: 2,334 m² (0.23 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1395014.md - Parcel 5214231: 2,225 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5214231.md - Parcel 1392035: 1,955 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1392035.md - Parcel 1327053: 1,819 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1327053.md - Parcel 1332828: 1,502 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1332828.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 4 applications, newest first. - 9 Apr 2026, Donegal County Council 2660594: Conditional. Retention. (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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660594/0 - 1 Apr 2026, Donegal County Council 2660543: N/a. Retention. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660543/0 - 6 Nov 2018, Donegal County Council 1851703: Conditional. Permission. DEVELOPMENT OF THE ATTIC IN THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, COMPLETION OF EXISTING DOMESTIC GARAGE FROM SUB FLOOR LEVEL AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1851703/0 - 21 Apr 2017, Donegal County Council 1750594: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. (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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1750594/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Natural Heritage Area: Crocknamurrin Mountain Bog NHA, site code 001878, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/nha/001878 - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Coguish Bog, site code 001938 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Croweighter. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Croweighter. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - 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: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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 flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/donegal/croweighter.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/donegal/croweighter.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/donegal/croweighter.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Croweighter with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal: https://everytownland.com/donegal.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Coguish: https://everytownland.com/donegal/coguish.md - Crowanrudda Beg: https://everytownland.com/donegal/crowanrudda-beg.md - Crowkeeragh: https://everytownland.com/donegal/crowkeeragh.md - Crowlar: https://everytownland.com/donegal/crowlar.md - Meenacharvy: https://everytownland.com/donegal/meenacharvy.md - Meenaneary: https://everytownland.com/donegal/meenaneary.md - Owenteskiny: https://everytownland.com/donegal/owenteskiny.md - Stranakirk: https://everytownland.com/donegal/stranakirk.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/donegal/croweighter - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/donegal/croweighter