Dalraghan More

13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Dalraghan More, from 915 m² to 929,517 m² (92.95 ha, 229.69 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 18 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 Dalraghan More 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.

• 7 Oct 2021Refused

  A 10 YEAR PERMISSION FOR AN AMENDED WIND FARM DEVELOPMENT, WITH AN OPERATIONAL LIFE OF 30 YEARS FROM THE DATE OF THE FIRST COMMISSIONING, IN LIEU OF THE PREVIOUSLY PERMITTED WIND FARM DEVELOPMENT [AN BORD PLEANÁLA REFERENCE NUMBER: PL 05B.237656] CONSISTING OF (A) ERECTION OF EIGHT WIND TURBINES WITH BOTH A NORDEX 133 AND AN ENERCON 126 MODEL ASSESSED, WITH ONLY ONE TYPE OF THE IDENTIFIED TURBINE MODELS TO BE ERECTED IN THE TOWNLANDS OF GRAFFY, MEENAMANRAGH, AND DALRAGHAN MORE, GLENTIES; (B) ASSOCIATED ACCESS TRACKS & HARDSTANDS, UNDERGROUND CABLE CONNECTIONS AND PEAT RECOVERY AREAS IN THE TOWNLANDS OF GRAFFY, MEENAMANRAGH, DALRAGHAN MORE, GLENTIES; (C) A METEOROLOGICAL MAST 80M HIGH IN THE TOWNLAND OF GRAFFY, GLENTIES; (D) A SUBSTATION AND A TEMPORARY CONSTRUCTION COMPOUND IN THE TOWNLAND OF MEENAGRUBBY, GLENTIES; (E) AN UNDERGROUND GRID CONNECTION, CIRCA 7.5KMS LONG, FROM THE PROPOSED SUBSTATION AT MEENAGRUBBY TO THE TIEVEBRACK ELECTRICITY STATION AT DRUMNALOUGH THROUGH THE TOWNLANDS OF MEENAGRUBBY, MEENAMANRAGH, GRAFFY, BANGANBOY, STRACASHEL, MEENAMALRAGH, DRUMCONCOOSE AND DRUMNALOUGH, GLENTIES; (F) ROAD STRENGTHENING, VERGE WIDENING AND CULVERT EXTENSIONS ALONG THE DELIVERY ROAD THROUGH THE TOWNLANDS OF LUGAVEEN, TIEVERAGH, DALRAGHAN MORE, MEENAMANRAGH AND GRAFFY AND A NEW ROAD SECTION AT LUGAVEEN TO FACILITATE DELIVERIES OF TURBINES. AN ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT REPORT (EIAR) AND NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) ACCOMPANIES THIS APPLICATION

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2151990

• 16 Jun 2021N/a

  10 YEAR PERMISSION FOR AN AMENDED WIND FARM DEVELOPMENT, WITH AN OPERATIONAL LIFE OF 30 YEARS FROM THE DATE OF THE FIRST COMMISSIONING, IN LIEU OF THE PREVIOUSLY PERMITTED WIND FARM DEVELOPMENT [AN BORD PLEANÁLA REFERENCE NUMBER: PL O5B. 237656] CONSISTING OF (A) 8 NO. TURBINES WITH A MAXIMUM HUB HEIGHT OF 84M, A MAXIMUM BLADE DIAMETER OF 132M AND A MAXIMUM BLADE TIP HEIGHT OF 150M, ASSOCIATED ACCESS TRACKS AND HARDSTANDS, UNDERGROUND CABLE CONNECTIONS AND PEAT RECOVERY AREAS IN THE TOWNLANDS OF GRAFFY, MEENAMANRAGH, AND DALRAGHAN MORE, GLENTIES, (B) A METEOROLOGICAL MAST 80M HIGH IN THE TOWNLAND OF GRAFFY, GLENTIES, (C) A SUBSTATION AND A TEMPORARY CONSTRUCTION COMPOUND IN THE TOWNLOAD OF MEENAGRUBBY BY GLENTIES, COUNTY DONEGAL. (D) AN UNDERGROUND GRID CONNECTION, CIRCA 7.5KMS LONG, FROM THE PROPOSED SUBSTATION AT MEENAGRUBBY TO THE TIEVBRACK ELECTRICITY STATION AT DRUMNALOUGH THROUGH THE TOWNLOADS OF MEENAGRUBBY, MEENAMANRAGH, GRAFFY, BANGANBOY, STRACASHEL, MEENAMALRAGH, DRUMCONCOOSE AND DRUMNALOUGH, GLENTIES, (E) ROAD STRENGTHENING, VERGE WIDENING AND CULVERT EXTENSIONS ALONG DELIVERY ROAD THROUGH THE TOWNLOADS OF LUGAVEEN, TIEVERAGH, DALRAGHAN MORE, MEENAMANRAGH AND GRAFFY AND A NEW ROAD SECTION AT LUGAVEEN, TO FACILITATE DELIVERIES OF TURBINES. AN ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT REPORT (EIAR) AND NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) ACCOMPANIES THIS APPLICATION

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2151202

• 21 Apr 2017Conditional

  CHANGE OF USE OF APPROVED SELF CATERING ACCOMMODATION UNIT TO USE AS HOSTEL ACCOMMODATION

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1750596

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: River Finn SAC 002301

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Dalraghan More.

Architectural heritage

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

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 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; parts are water.

Terrain model

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

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.

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

Name

Dalraghan More · An Dearachán Mór

Area

3,435,076 m² (343.51 ha, 848.83 acres)

Civil parish

Inishkeel, and its townlands

Barony

Boylagh

Electoral division

Graffy, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Graffy electoral division: 150 people in 65 households; 86% of households own their home; 19% of homes were built since 2001; 33% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 12% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Crocam, Dalraghan Beg, Meenachuit, Meenagrubby, Meenamanragh, Meenanarwa, Shallogan More, Tievereagh

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Dalraghan More 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.