# Eighterross, Co. Donegal: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Aghanunshin, barony of Kilmacrenan, Co. Donegal.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 715,418 m² (71.54 ha, 176.78 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 1 registered freehold parcel lies mostly in it, median 56,398 m² (5.64 ha, 13.94 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Aghanunshin, https://everytownland.com/donegal/parish/aghanunshin.md
- Barony: Kilmacrenan
- Electoral division: Castlewray, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 3,681 people lived in 1,340 households in the Castlewray electoral division. 83% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 5% 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/15443
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 51199
- Centre: latitude 54.988085, longitude -7.649192 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

1 registered freehold parcel lies mostly in Eighterross, from 56,398 m² (5.64 ha, 13.94 acres) to 56,398 m² (5.64 ha, 13.94 acres); 2 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 1395434: 56,398 m² (5.64 ha, 13.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1395434.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

No zone of a development plan covers Eighterross 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 Eighterross in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

- Special Area of Conservation: Lough Swilly SAC, site code 002287, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/002287
- Special Protection Area: Lough Swilly SPA, site code 004075, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/spa/004075
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Swilly Including Big Isle, Blanket Nook & Inch Lake, site code 000166

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Eighterross.

## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage)

- Castlegrove, walled garden, 1770–1830, Regional interest, registry number 40905330, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=DG&regno=40905330. Walled garden associated with Castlegrove (see 40905409) on sub-rectangular plan having canted corner to the north, erected c. 1790. Now partially in use as farmland. High rubble stone boundary walls with rubble stone coping over with modern cement repairs in places. Integral square-headed pedestrian entrance to north-east with battened timber door and linear path consisting of square limestone paving. Square-headed vehicular entrance to north-east with battened timber double-doors. Detached four-bay two-storey gardener’s cottage to north, with pitched artificial slate roof with replacement fascia, soffit and rainwater goods, and rendered chimneystacks to gables. Painted rendered walls with plinth course. Square-headed window openings with replacement windows and painted stone sills. Square-headed door opening with replacement timber door. Located to the south-west of Castlegrove, and to the north-east of Letterkenny a short distance to the west of the shores of Lough Swilly.
- Castlegrove, outbuilding, 1840–1880, Regional interest, registry number 40905331, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=DG&regno=40905331. Complex of outbuildings associated with Castlegrove (see 40905409), built c. 1860, comprising two ranges of single and two-storey outbuildings on either side of laneway to the rear (north-west) for main house. Range adjacent to house comprising single- and two-storey outbuildings arranged around courtyard. Detached three-bay single-storey outbuilding on L-plan having pitched natural slate roof, rubble limestone walls, and segmental-headed openings. Range to west comprising eight-bay single-storey outbuilding with pitched natural slate roof, limestone walls, square-headed window openings with red brick surrounds, and square-headed door opening with corrugated-metal covering, and with single-storey coursed rubble limestone extension to rear. Adjacent five-bay single-storey outbuilding to south comprising half-hipped natural slate roof and some terracotta ridge tiles, roughcast rendered walls, square-headed window openings with multiple-pane fixed timber windows, and square-headed door opening with timber battened door. Detached three-bay single-storey building to west with natural slate roof, rubble limestone walls, square-headed window and door openings, and with window opening to east gable. Detached three-bay single-storey outbuilding to north with pitched corrugated-metal roof, rubble limestone walls and square-headed window and door openings. Detached two-bay two-storey outbuilding adjoining house having half-hipped corrugated-metal roof, roughcast rendered walls, square-headed openings with six-pane fixed timber windows, and with lean-to extension to south with natural slate roof and remains of square-headed window and door openings. Gateway to the north comprising a pair of ashlar limestone gate piers (on square-plan) surmounted by spherical limestone finials. Set back in shared grounds to the north-west of main house, and to the north-east of Letterkenny.
- Castlegrove, worker's house, office, 1850–1900, Regional interest, registry number 40905383, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=DG&regno=40905383. Detached three-bay two-storey former land agent’s house or estate worker’s house associated with Castlegrove (see 40905409), built c. 1875. Now in use as a private house. Pitched natural slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles, and rendered chimneystacks to the gable ends (north-west and south-west). Roughcast rendered walls. Irregularly-spaced square-headed window openings with painted sills, and one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed doorway, offset to the north-west side of centre, having battened timber door. Set slightly back of rear laneway serving Castlegrove, and to the north-west of the main house. Yard to front (north-east) having two-bay single-storey outbuilding with mono-pitched roof, roughcast rendered walls, and square-headed openings with battened timber doors. Section of rubble stone boundary wall to the south-east.
- Castlegrove, country house, 1740–1830, Regional interest, registry number 40905409, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=DG&regno=40905409. Detached four-bay two-storey former country house, built c. 1750 and altered c. 1825, with two-storey wings on L-shaped plan to the north-west, two-bay single-storey flat-roofed wing to the north-west end of the north-east elevation, and with altered single-storey glazed conservatory attached to the south-west side of entrance front. Possibly containing fabric of earlier house to site, c. 1695. Now in use as a hotel and restaurant. Hipped purple natural slate roof with central valley to main elevation having ashlar eaves course\cornice, raised dwarf parapet, and with rendered chimneystacks having cornice coping over. Pitched artificial slate roofs to two-storey wings, flat roof to two-bay single-storey addition, and mono-pitched glazed metal or timber roof to conservatory. Smooth rendered ruled-and-lined walls to main block over smooth rendered plinth course and with smooth rendered block-and-start quoins to the corners. Roughcast rendered walls over smooth rendered plinth course to two-storey wings. Square-headed window openings to main block with six-over-six pane timber sash windows, stone sills, and with stucco entablatures on console brackets over ground floor window openings to main block. Square-headed window openings to two-storey wings having replacement timber casement windows. Central square-headed doorway to the south-west elevation of main block, c. 1750 but moved to current location c. 1825, having timber panelled door with bolection mouldings, flanking four-over-four pane timber sliding sash windows\sidelights, and with tripartite cut stone Tuscan doorcase comprising central projecting Tuscan porch with Tuscan columns (on circular-plan) supporting entablature and pediment over, and with flanking sections to sidelights having engaged Tuscan pilasters (on square-plan) with entablatures over. Square-headed door openings to wings with replacement timber doors. Moulded plaster cornices, timber panelled doors, linings and window shutters, timber pilasters and teardrop fanlight in segment-arched opening to stair hall to interior. Set well back from road in extensive mature landscape grounds to the north-east of Letterkenny and to the south of Ramelton overlooking the western shores of Lough Swilly a short distance to the east. Complex of outbuildings (see 40905331) and former estate manger’s residence (see 40905383) to the rear (north-west), walled garden (see 40905330) to the south-west having altered two-storey former gardener’s house, and with gateway (see 40905340) and gate lodge to the west.

## 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 Eighterross, 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 low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Eighterross.
- 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/eighterross.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/donegal/eighterross.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/donegal/eighterross.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Eighterross 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)

- Cashelshanaghan: https://everytownland.com/donegal/cashelshanaghan.md
- Castlewray: https://everytownland.com/donegal/castlewray.md
- Drumnaskea: https://everytownland.com/donegal/drumnaskea-51134.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.

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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.

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