Dawros

29 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Dawros, from 104 m² to 703,190 m² (70.32 ha, 173.76 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 6 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 Dawros 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Dawros in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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: West of Ardara/Maas Road SAC 000197
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: West Of Ardara/Maas Road 000197

Recorded monuments

• DG064A001 Signal tower
  Description

  Situated at the back of a rocky beech (12m OD) with low lying unenclosed blanket bog with rocky outcrops to the E. Located immediately W of a low vertical rock face and likely constructed on exposed bedrock. The site has unobstructed views in all directions. It was built to be intervisible with the signal tower at Crohy Head (DG056-003----), now collapsed, which is located c. 12.6kms to the NNE and of which the site is visible in clear weather; and the tower at Glen Head (DG080-036----; NIAH No. 40908001), which is located c. 16.3kms to the SW, which is also visible in clear weather. Site located c. 3.8kms WNW of a group of three crannogs (DG064-015----\DG064-026----\DG064-027----) at Kiltooris Lough. A nineteenth-century two-storey square-plan signal tower, built with roughly coursed rubble (int. dims. 4.29m NE-SW x 4.22m NW-SE). The signal tower is collapsed and now consists of low sections of the ground floor level surrounded by and infilled with rubble stone. If the tower has a semi-basement level it is concealed by the rubble inside the building. The tower is positioned with walls facing NE, SE, SW and NW. The SE wall, and parts of the NE wall, are the best-preserved sections of the signal tower and protrude through the rubble spread. The SE internal wall face features the lower parts of two alcoves flanking the base of a central fireplace. The bottom part of a square-section vertical drainage channel is located in the E corner of the building. This is believed to have brought rainwater from the roof to storage barrels in the semi-basement. The presence of these features allow for the original orientation of the tower to be calculated; the first floor door would have been on the NW wall facing the sea, the NE and SW walls would have featured pairs of ground floor and first floor windows, and the rear wall with the fireplaces and chimneystack would have been at the SE. Only the base of the first few courses of the NW and SW walls are now visible, and the external and internal wall faces are concealed by the rubble spread. Modern structure, probably an automated weather station, located a short distance to the E. The signal tower was part of a system of over 80 signal stations constructed by the British Board of Ordnance in the first decade of the 19th century to warn of the approach of a French invasion fleet. Signalling between sites was accomplished using a naval signal post. The system formed a continuous chain from Dublin Bay running clockwise all the way around the coast to Malin Head in County Donegal. It was abandoned by the mid-1810s when the threat of a French invasion diminished (Kerrigan 1995, 157-66). Compiled by: Stuart Rathbone Uploaded on 23\08\21 Images: DG064A001----.01.jpg Detail of NE internal corner DG064A001----.02.jpg Detail of NE interior corner DG064A001----.03.jpg View from W DG064A001----.04.jpg View from W

• DG064A002 Well
  Description

  One of two 'Spa Wells' marked on 1907 ed. of OS 6-inch map.

• DG064A003 Well
  Description

  One of two 'Spa Wells' marked on 1907 ed. of OS 6-inch map.

Architectural heritage

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

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.

Terrain model

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

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 Dawros with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Dawros · Damhros

Area

1,849,684 m² (184.97 ha, 457.07 acres)

Civil parish

Inishkeel, and its townlands

Barony

Boylagh

Electoral division

Dawros, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Dawros electoral division: 717 people in 288 households; 82% of households own their home; 26% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 51% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Middletown

Placenames

Dawros 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.