Dunross

190 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Dunross, from 3 m² to 167,151 m² (16.72 ha, 41.3 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 50 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Dunross 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.

• 9 Jun 2026Conditional

  EXTENSION TO THE FRONT AND SIDE OF EXISTING SHED

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2661048

• 18 Feb 2026Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING, WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA, CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2660230

• 16 Dec 2025Conditional

  (1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING DUE TO DEFECTIVE CONCRETE BLOCKWORK GRANTED UNDER PLANNING PERMISSION REF. NO. 03/4587 AND (2) ERECTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING ON THE SAME FOOTPRINT, WITH CONNECTION TO THE EXISTING FOUL DRAINAGE SYSTEM, TOGETHER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2562236

• 18 Apr 2025Refused

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING WITH ATTACHED GARAGE, WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA, CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES, AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2560611

• 10 Dec 2024Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC SHED WITH EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2462037

• 3 Oct 2024Conditional

  REAR EXTENSION AND DOMESTIC GARAGE TO SIDE OF EXISTING DWELLING AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2461554

• 23 Sept 2024Refused

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING WITH ATTACHED GARAGE, WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA, CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES, AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2461492

• 30 Aug 2024Conditional

  DEMOLITION OF EXISTING MICA AFFECTED HOUSE AND CONSTRUCTION OF NEW DWELLING HOUSE, AND CONNECTION TO EXISTING SEPTIC TANK ON SITE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2461321

• 23 Mar 2024N/a

  EXTENSION TO AN EXISTING AGRICULTURAL SHED WITH EFFLUENT STORAGE UNDER AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2460380

• 16 Aug 2023Conditional

  (1) DEMOLITION OF MICA AFFECTED DWELLING HOUSE AND (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING HOUSE WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2351205

• 11 Aug 2023N/a

  (1) DEMOLITION OF MICA AFFECTED DWELLING HOUSE AND (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING HOUSE WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2351190

• 1 Aug 2023N/a

  (1) DEMOLITION OF MICA AFFECTED DWELLING HOUSE AND (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING HOUSE WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2351140

• 20 Jun 2022Conditional

  (1) DEMOLITION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AFFECTED BY MICA DEFECTIVE BLOCKS (2) ERECTION OF A REPLACEMENT DETACHED DWELLING HOUSE CONSISTING OF 2 STOREYS, 4 BEDROOMS WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2251067

• 28 Jan 2022Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH INSTALLATION OF AN ON-SITE SEWAGE SYSTEM, TOGETHER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2250093

• 19 Apr 2021Conditional

  REFURBISHMENT AND ERECTION OF AN EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2150690

• 19 Feb 2018Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING, TREATMENT PLANT AND ASSOCIATED WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1850228

• 21 Jul 2017Conditional

  REPLACEMENT OF EXISTING DEVELOPMENT GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REFERENCE 02/5275 WITH PROPOSED SINGLE DWELLING, DOMESTIC SHED, TREATMENT PLANT AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1751160

• 6 Jun 2017Conditional

  (1) COMPLETION OF SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS, WHICH WERE PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF: 05/70598 & 10/70487 AND (2) INSTALLATION OF 2 NO. SEPTIC TANKS WITH ONE REED BED AND WET LAND TREATMENT SYSTEM IN LIEU OF THE PREVIOUSLY GRANTED TREATMENT PLANT AND PERCOLATION AREA UNDER PLANNING REF: 05/70598 & 10/70487

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1750888

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Dunross.

Recorded monuments

• DG005-019 Enclosure
  Description

  Marked on the 3rd edition of the OS 6-inch map as the W section of a possible circular enclosure. Nothing survives above ground to indicate the nature of the site. It was situated in good grass land. 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

• Faherna Cottage, house, 1835–1865 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey vernacular thatched house, built c. 1850, with windbreak porch to front, two-bay extension to west and four-bay outbuilding sited perpendicularly to extension. Now in use as a holiday home. Pitched thatch roof, smooth rendered gable ended chimneystacks with rendered coping. Roughcast rendered walls with smooth rendered plinth course, eaves course and smooth rendered ruled-and-lined porch. Square-headed window openings with uPVC windows, smooth rendered reveals and painted sills. Square-headed door opening with matchboard timber door behind half-door. Outbuilding with whitewashed rubble stone walls, pitched thatch roof and square-headed door openings with matchboard timber doors.

• House, 1820–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c. 1840, with windbreak porch and three-bay extension and attached outbuilding to north gable. Pitched slate roof with clayware ridge tiles, corrugated tin roof to extension, smooth rendered gable ended chimneystacks with rendered coping. Whitewashed rubble stone walls. Square-headed window openings with six-over-six timber sash windows and stone sills. Square-headed door opening with matchboard timber half-door. Outbuilding with pitched slate roof with rendered gable coping, whitewashed rubble stone and smooth rendered walls and square-headed door openings with battened timber doors. Set within own grounds off the Malin to Culdaff road.

• St. Mary's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1820–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay T-plan Catholic church, built 1824, with four-stage tower to west, extended c. 1848, projecting vestry to east. Pitched purple slate roof with ashlar copings and carved skew-ends to gable-parapets, cast-iron rainwater goods and stucco cornice eaves courses; brick chimneystack to vestry. Roughcast rendered walls with ashlar green limestone diagonal buttresses with cast-iron finials to west end, buttresses culminating in colonnettes to tower, ashlar moulded stringcourses to tower. Date-stone to tower reads ‘1836-1936’. Pointed-arch lancet window openings with green limestone ashlar surrounds, hoodmouldings and sills; leaded stained and coloured glass windows; timber louvers to bell chamber of tower. Pointed-arch headed door opening with battened timber double doors with decorative hinges and coloured-glass fanlight. Set within own grounds with graveyard surrounding containing memorial tablets and crosses to graves. Roughcast rendered boundary wall and piers with smooth rendered coping and modern painted steel gates. Timber ribs to coffers of suspended ceiling, timber balustrade to choir-loft, elliptical chancel and aisle arches clad in timber panelling.

• Bocan Community Playgroup, school, 1930–1940 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached six-bay single-storey former national school, dated 1933, T-shaped on plan with single-bay single-storey return to north, now in use as play-group building. Pitched slate roof, grey clayware ridge tiles, yellow-brick on stretcher bond chimneystacks with ashlar coping and terracotta pots, ashlar eaves course and cast-iron rainwater goods. Smooth rendered walls with ashlar name plaque to east elevation. Square-headed window openings with six-over-six and four-over-four horned timber sash windows and ashlar sills. Square-headed door opening with battened timber door. Set within own grounds with random rubble boundary wall with ashlar coping and wrought-iron gate mounted on rubble gate-piers with ashlar coping to south. Single-cell flat-roofed toilet block to rear.

• St. Congal's Temperance Hall, church hall/parish hall, 1890–1895 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached six-bay single-storey over basement Temperance Hall, dated 1891, with projecting single-bay entrance porch, and external entrance stairway to north. Pitched slate roof with moulded yellow brick cornice eaves course, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls with yellow brick block-and-start quoins, yellow brick stringcourse to basement, and smooth rendered tapered plinth. Date plaque with yellow brick surround reads ‘ST CONGAL'S TEMPERANCE HALL BOCAN A.D. 1891’. Paired Tudor-arched window openings with yellow brick surrounds, continuous hoodmouldings, continuous sill course, with one-over-one horned timber sash windows over panelled stall riser. Square-headed window openings with yellow brick surround and painted sills to basement. Blank oculus with yellow brick surrounds to both gables. Segmental-arched door opening to porch with battened timber double doors and glazed overlight and sidelights. Tudor-arched door opening to north gable with yellow brick block-and-start surround and hoodmoulding with battened timber double-doors and glazed overlight. Square-headed door opening to basement.

• House, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c. 1800, with bed outshot to rear and attached two-bay single-storey thatched outbuilding to south. Pitched rounded thatched roofs with netting restraint and timber and metal rope stays to eaves, smooth rendered chimneystacks to gables with stepped coping and terracotta pots, and smooth rendered eaves course. Roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with replacement uPVC windows, and painted concrete sills. Square-headed door opening with replacement uPVC door. Set within own grounds with gravel courtyard to front. Single-storey outbuildings to south-east comprising of pitched corrugated-metal roofs and roughcast rendered walls. Modern metal-clad farm building to north.

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

At the centre of the townland of Dunross, 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Dunross.

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.

• Dunross, Culdaff6 sales

Name

Dunross

Area

2,418,098 m² (241.81 ha, 597.53 acres)

Civil parish

Clonca, and its townlands

Barony

Inishowen East

Electoral division

Culdaff, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,027 people lived in 366 households in the Culdaff electoral division. 76% of households owned their home. 38% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 32% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Balleeghan Lower, Clonca, Culdaff, Glackadrumman, Gort, Laraghirril, Muff, Templemoyle

Placenames

Dunross 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.