# Dooros, Co. Donegal: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Clonleigh, barony of Raphoe North, Co. Donegal; in Irish Dúros. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 347,585 m² (34.76 ha, 85.89 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 4,406 m² (0.44 ha, 1.09 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Clonleigh, https://everytownland.com/donegal/parish/clonleigh.md - Barony: Raphoe North - Electoral division: Clonleigh South, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 2,156 people lived in 853 households in the Clonleigh South electoral division. 64% of households owned their home. 32% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Donegal, https://everytownland.com/donegal.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/16264 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 50949 - Centre: latitude 54.823131, longitude -7.542803 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Dooros, from 2,831 m² (0.28 ha, 0.7 acres) to 211,367 m² (21.14 ha, 52.23 acres); 12 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1394986: 211,367 m² (21.14 ha, 52.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1394986.md - Parcel 1331698: 123,287 m² (12.33 ha, 30.46 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1331698.md - Parcel 1393833: 4,437 m² (0.44 ha, 1.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1393833.md - Parcel 4729824: 4,375 m² (0.44 ha, 1.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4729824.md - Parcel 1321414: 4,297 m² (0.43 ha, 1.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1321414.md - Parcel 1369223: 2,831 m² (0.28 ha, 0.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1369223.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Dooros 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) No planning application touches the townland of Dooros in the national file, which goes back to 2010. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Dooros. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - DG070-073: Megalithic tomb - unclassified, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDG070-073----. There is no trace of this feature, which was first shown on the 1845-7 edition of the OS 6-inch map, where it is named 'Giant's Grave'. It stood on a gentle fall of ground in pasture just W of the base of Croaghan Hill and almost 2km E of the cruciform passage tomb (Site A) in Kilmonaster Middle townland. Thomas Fagan (1845-8), who visited here in 1846, described it as 'the ruins of a Giant's Grave 22 feet [c. 6.7m] long and 2 to 4 feet [c. 0.6-1.2m] wide and lie nearly N and S and was enclosed by flat stones, a few of which still remain 1 to 3 feet [c. 0.3-0.9m] high, but not otherwise large. A flat stone in its south end seem to cover a grave and measure 7 feet [c. 2.15m] long, 4 feet [c. 1.2m] broad and 1 to 2 feet [c. 0.3-0.6m] thick. Several smaller flags lie about the grave.' No trace of this structure survived after 1870 according to an entry in the OS 1:2,500 Name Book (1903-4). This may have been a megalithic tomb. However, the evidence is insufficient to warrant its acceptance as a definite one. Fagan 1845-8, book 10, 32; OS 1:2,500 Name Book, sheet 70 (1905), 74; Ó Nualláin 1968b, 14, site K; Herity 1974, 215, Dg. 11; Ó Nualláin 1983a, 37, no. 85; SMR 1987, 70:73; Ó Nualláin 1989, 142; RMP 1995, 70:73. The above description was published in the 'Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume VI, County Donegal.' Compiled by: Eamon Cody (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). 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 Dooros. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Dooros, 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: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1898, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_1898.zip (ZIP). - 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/dooros.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/donegal/dooros.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/donegal/dooros.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Dooros 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) - Aghawee: https://everytownland.com/donegal/aghawee.md - Croaghan: https://everytownland.com/donegal/croaghan-50793.md - Glensmoil: https://everytownland.com/donegal/glensmoil.md - Keeloges: https://everytownland.com/donegal/keeloges-51529.md - Tirkeeran: https://everytownland.com/donegal/tirkeeran.md - Unshinagh Upper: https://everytownland.com/donegal/unshinagh-upper.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/dooros - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/donegal/dooros