Demesne

26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Demesne, from 58 m² to 170,576 m² (17.06 ha, 42.15 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 17 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 Demesne 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.

• 22 Apr 2024Conditional

  (1) COMPLETION OF A DETACHED MACHINERY STORAGE SHED, (2) 4 NO. POLYTUNNELS/STORAGE STRUCTURES, (3) METAL STORAGE SHED AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2460557

• 7 Feb 2020Conditional

  (A) CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY EXTENSIONS TO THE FRONT, REAR AND SIDE ELEVATIONS OF OUR EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND REMOVAL OF EXISTING ROOF COVERING AND PROVIDING A REPLACEMENT ROOF COVERING INCORPORATING A RAISED ROOF PITCH, (B) DECOMMISSIONING OF EXISTING SEPTIC TANK SYSTEM AND CONSTRUCTION OF A REPLACEMENT SEPTIC TANK / SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2050143

• 19 Dec 2018Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK/SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1851917

• 15 May 2018Conditional

  (1) EXISTING 2 NO. SILO PITS AND (2) EXISTING CATTLE SHED AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND PLANNING PERMISSION FOR CONSTRUCTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL LIVESTOCK SLATTED SHED WITH UNDERGROUND EFFLUENT STORAGE TANK

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 1850785

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

• DG079-024 Standing stone
  Description

  A standing stone c. 2m high × 0.5m wide at base tapering to 15cms at the top. Situated on good, level land with a good view along the Finn Valley. The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated. Date of upload: 22 September 2008

Architectural heritage

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

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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility 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 Demesne.

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

Name

Demesne · An Diméin

Area

462,288 m² (46.23 ha, 114.23 acres)

Civil parish

Donaghmore, and its townlands

Barony

Raphoe South

Electoral division

Cloghard, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Cloghard electoral division: 621 people in 234 households; 90% of households own their home; 30% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Castlefinn, Cloghard, Grahamsland, Mullanboy, Tirinisk

Placenames

Demesne 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.