Doorabble
Doorabble is a townland in the civil parish of Raphoe, barony of Raphoe North, Co. Donegal.
- Area
- 54.6 ha
- 135 acres
- Land parcels
- 29
- registered freehold, median 7,811 m² (0.78 ha, 1.93 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 7
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
29 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Doorabble, from 555 m² to 86,128 m² (8.61 ha, 21.28 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Doorabble 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
21 May 2026Conditional
THE FOLLOWING DEVELOPMENT TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE: (1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING REAR EXTENSION AND REMOVAL OF EXISTING PITCHED ROOF STRUCTURE, (2) CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSIONS TO THE FRONT, REAR AND SIDE ELEVATIONS WHICH INCLUDE DEVELOPMENT OF AN ATTACHED CAR PORT AND GARAGE, (3) DEVELOPMENT OF A NEW RAISED PITCHED ROOF INCORPORATING HABITABLE ROOMS AND (4) ALL ELEVATIONAL AMENDMENTS AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2660929
16 Apr 2025Conditional
(1) DEMOLITION OF THE EXISTING, DETACHED, TWO STOREY HOUSE DAMAGED DUE TO DEFECTIVE (MICA) PRECAST CONCRETE BLOCKS, (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A REPLACEMENT DETACHED, TWO STOREY HOUSE WITH ALTERATIONS FROM THAT OF THE EXISTING HOUSE AND (3) PLACEMENT OF A MOBILE HOME ON SITE TO PROVIDE TEMPORARY LIVING ACCOMMODATION FOR THE DURATION OF THE BUILD (APPROXIMATELY 14 MONTHS) WITH THE RELEVANT ASSOCIATED REPLACEMENT WORKS TO BE CONNECTED TO THE EXISTING SITE SERVICES
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2560584
22 Nov 2022Conditional
DOMESTIC GARAGE AND PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF DWELLING THAT WILL BE ANCILLARY TO EXISTING HOME WITH CONNECTION TO PROPOSED TREATMENT PLANT AND POLISHING FILTER ALONG WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2251885
25 May 2022N/a
ERECTION OF A DWELLING THAT WILL BE ANCILLARY TO THE EXISTING FAMILY HOME WITH CONNECTION TO PROPOSED TREATMENT PLANT AND POLISHING FILTER ALONG WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2250908
1 Dec 2021N/a
ERECTION OF A DWELLING WITH CONNECTION TO PROPOSED SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA ALONG WITH ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2152394
29 Mar 2021Refused
CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DETACHED DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH SEPTIC TANK, WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2150547
14 Oct 2019Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DETATCHED DOMESTIC GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK/SEWERAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1951545
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Doorabble.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Doorabble.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Doorabble.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Doorabble, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Doorabble.
- Flooding
- The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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
No address of the register names Doorabble with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Doorabble
- Area
- 545,732 m² (54.57 ha, 134.85 acres)
- Civil parish
- Raphoe, and its townlands
- Barony
- Raphoe North
- Electoral division
- Kincraigy, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,036 people lived in 337 households in the Kincraigy electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 37% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyholey Far, Castledowey, Galdonagh Glebe, Mondooey Middle, Woodhill
- Placenames
- Doorabble 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.