# Demesne, Co. Donegal: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Donaghmore, barony of Raphoe South, Co. Donegal; in Irish An Diméin. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 462,288 m² (46.23 ha, 114.23 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 1,949 m² - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 4 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Donaghmore, https://everytownland.com/donegal/parish/donaghmore.md - Barony: Raphoe South - Electoral division: Cloghard, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Donegal, https://everytownland.com/donegal.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/16191 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 50885 - Centre: latitude 54.795798, longitude -7.600122 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Demesne, from 58 m² to 170,576 m² (17.06 ha, 42.15 acres); 17 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1312328: 170,576 m² (17.06 ha, 42.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1312328.md - Parcel 1330211: 103,037 m² (10.3 ha, 25.46 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1330211.md - Parcel 1423899: 55,392 m² (5.54 ha, 13.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1423899.md - Parcel 1412153: 43,651 m² (4.37 ha, 10.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1412153.md - Parcel 1393048: 24,640 m² (2.46 ha, 6.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1393048.md - Parcel 3660797: 17,201 m² (1.72 ha, 4.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3660797.md - Parcel 1417019: 15,056 m² (1.51 ha, 3.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1417019.md - Parcel 4855215: 5,500 m² (0.55 ha, 1.36 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4855215.md - Parcel 3660796: 2,584 m² (0.26 ha, 0.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3660796.md - Parcel 4839568: 2,111 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4839568.md - Parcel 1412819: 1,998 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1412819.md - Parcel 1408808: 1,961 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1408808.md - Parcel 1337842: 1,959 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1337842.md - Parcel 1325465: 1,939 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1325465.md - Parcel 1405564: 1,915 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1405564.md - Parcel 1376577: 1,895 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1376577.md - Parcel 1391239: 1,611 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1391239.md - Parcel 1352902: 1,496 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1352902.md - Parcel 1428011: 1,400 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1428011.md - Parcel 1301390: 1,363 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1301390.md - Parcel 1340063: 1,354 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1340063.md - Parcel 1365988: 1,316 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1365988.md - Parcel 1333759: 1,019 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1333759.md - Parcel 1380464: 517 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1380464.md - Parcel 1406639: 500 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1406639.md - Parcel 1336436: 58 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1336436.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 4 applications, newest first. - 22 Apr 2024, Donegal County Council 2460557: Conditional. Retention. (1) COMPLETION OF A DETACHED MACHINERY STORAGE SHED, (2) 4 NO. POLYTUNNELS/STORAGE STRUCTURES, (3) METAL STORAGE SHED AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460557/0 - 7 Feb 2020, Donegal County Council 2050143: Conditional. Permission. (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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2050143/0 - 19 Dec 2018, Donegal County Council 1851917: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK/SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1851917/0 - 15 May 2018, Donegal County Council 1850785: Conditional. Retention. (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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1850785/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: River Finn SAC, site code 002301, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/002301 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - DG079-024: Standing stone, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDG079-024----. 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 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Demesne. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: About 1 in 10 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: 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, 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/demesne.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/donegal/demesne.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/donegal/demesne.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Demesne 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) - Castlefinn: https://everytownland.com/donegal/castlefinn.md - Cloghard: https://everytownland.com/donegal/cloghard.md - Grahamsland: https://everytownland.com/donegal/grahamsland.md - Mullanboy: https://everytownland.com/donegal/mullanboy.md - Tirinisk: https://everytownland.com/donegal/tirinisk.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/demesne - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/donegal/demesne