Devlinreagh
Townland in the civil parish of Mevagh, barony of Kilmacrenan, Co. Donegal; in Irish Duibhleann Riach
- Area
- 158 ha
- 390 acres
- Land parcels
- 121
- registered freehold, median 3,457 m² (0.35 ha, 0.85 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 13
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
121 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Devlinreagh, from 17 m² to 264,872 m² (26.49 ha, 65.45 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 33 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Devlinreagh 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
4 Mar 2026Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE INCLUDING ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING ELEVATIONS AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2660331
6 Mar 2024Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE WITH ATTACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ONSITE SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2460285
27 Oct 2020Conditional
RELOCATION OF EXISTING DWELLING, WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM, PERCOLATION AREA AND PERMISSION TO UPGRADE EXISTING PERCOLATION AREA
Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2051595
14 Oct 2020Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE & DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM & ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2051513
7 Oct 2020N/a
RELOCATION OF EXISTING DWELLING WITH WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA AND PERMISSION TO UPGRADE EXISTING PERCOLATION AREA
Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2051447
24 May 2020N/a
RELOCATION OF EXISTING DWELLING WITH WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA
Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2050462
9 Oct 2019Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A SHED FOR TYRE SALES AND REPAIRS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1951531
13 Sept 2019Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DETACHED GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK / SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1951389
20 May 2019Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1950687
19 Nov 2018Conditional
DEMOLITION OF EXISTING STORE AND CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO THE EASTERN END OF THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE; CONSTRUCTION OF A SHED TO THE NORTHERN ELEVATION OF EXISTING SHOP FOR THE STORAGE OF ANIMAL FEEDS & HOUSEHOLD FUELS, CONSTRUCTION OF A SHED FOR TYRE SALES & REPAIRS INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND RETENTION OF THE EXCAVATION AND HARD CORING OF AN AREA USED FOR VEHICULAR PARKING
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1851767
3 Oct 2018N/a
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1851523
28 Feb 2018Conditional
DOMESTIC SHED AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Retention · Donegal County Council, 1850297
5 Jul 2017Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1751078
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
- Special Area of Conservation: Mulroy Bay SAC 002159
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Devlinreagh.
Architectural heritage
- Mulroy National School, school, 1885–1890 · Regional interest
Description
Detached four-bay single-storey national school, dated 1889, having gabled porch projection to one end of front elevation. Now disused. Pitched slate roof with exposed rafter ends, cast-iron rainwater goods and yellow brick chimneystacks with flat rendered copings. Roughcast rendered walls, with plaque to gable of porch inscribed "MULROY/NATIONAL SCHOOL/1889". Square-headed openings with six-over-six pane timber casement windows to front elevation and six-over-nine pane timber sliding sash windows and one six-over-six pane casement to rear, with stone sills, and timber battened door to porch with rendered brick jambs. Set parallel to road, with central rubble stone separating wall to rear with two single-storey outbuildings to south and square-plan piers to northeast.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 10 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 Devlinreagh.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
- Devlinreagh, Carrigart7 sales
The townland
- Name
- Devlinreagh · Duibhleann Riach
- Area
- 1,579,938 m² (157.99 ha, 390.41 acres)
- Civil parish
- Mevagh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kilmacrenan
- Electoral division
- Cranford, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Cranford electoral division: 610 people in 238 households; 89% of households own their home; 35% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 16% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Carrick, Devlinmore, Tullagh
- Gaeltacht
- In an Irish-speaking area
- Placenames
- Devlinreagh 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.