# Errity, Co. Donegal: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Raymoghy, barony of Raphoe North, Co. Donegal. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,180,781 m² (118.08 ha, 291.78 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 6,141 m² (0.61 ha, 1.52 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 5 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Raymoghy, https://everytownland.com/donegal/parish/raymoghy.md - Barony: Raphoe North - Electoral division: Manorcunningham, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 1,314 people lived in 475 households in the Manorcunningham electoral division. 66% of households owned their home. 57% of homes were built since 2001. 7% 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/15641 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 51207 - Centre: latitude 54.950387, longitude -7.608225 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Errity, from 1,133 m² to 284,845 m² (28.48 ha, 70.39 acres); 17 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1393917: 284,845 m² (28.48 ha, 70.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1393917.md - Parcel 1315273: 198,931 m² (19.89 ha, 49.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1315273.md - Parcel 1352774: 194,271 m² (19.43 ha, 48.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1352774.md - Parcel 1321509: 141,976 m² (14.2 ha, 35.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1321509.md - Parcel 1305448: 112,183 m² (11.22 ha, 27.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1305448.md - Parcel 4967692: 99,353 m² (9.94 ha, 24.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4967692.md - Parcel 1395339: 55,087 m² (5.51 ha, 13.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1395339.md - Parcel 4967695: 52,528 m² (5.25 ha, 12.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4967695.md - Parcel 1414969: 12,602 m² (1.26 ha, 3.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1414969.md - Parcel 1419725: 6,141 m² (0.61 ha, 1.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1419725.md - Parcel 1372061: 3,996 m² (0.4 ha, 0.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1372061.md - Parcel 1386940: 3,847 m² (0.38 ha, 0.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1386940.md - Parcel 1398946: 3,627 m² (0.36 ha, 0.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1398946.md - Parcel 5770415: 3,206 m² (0.32 ha, 0.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5770415.md - Parcel 4663062: 3,089 m² (0.31 ha, 0.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4663062.md - Parcel 5285689: 3,089 m² (0.31 ha, 0.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5285689.md - Parcel 4073180: 2,780 m² (0.28 ha, 0.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4073180.md - Parcel 1301550: 1,307 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1301550.md - Parcel 1369346: 1,133 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1369346.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Errity 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) 5 applications, newest first. - 21 Feb 2025, Donegal County Council 2550013: Conditional. Retention, 2 homes. AS BUILT DWELLING WHICH DIFFERS FROM THE DWELLING PREVIOUSLY APPROVED UNDER PLANNING PERMISSION REF. NO. 01/6220 AND PERMISSION FOR (1) DEMOLITION OF THE EXISTING DWELLING CONSTRUCTED FROM DEFECTIVE CONCRETE BLOCKS AND CONSTRUCTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING INCLUDING CONNECTION TO THE EXISTING APPROVED ONSITE SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS AND (2) PROVISION OF A MOBILE HOME ON SITE TO BE USED AS A TEMPORARY DWELLING FOR THE DURATION OF THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE REPLACEMENT DWELLING. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2550013/0 - 21 Jul 2023, Donegal County Council 2351076: Conditional. Permission. (1) ALTERATIONS & EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING, (2) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING GARAGE & CONSTRUCTION OF A REPLACEMENT DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2351076/0 - 8 Jun 2022, Donegal County Council 2250981: Conditional. Permission. INSTALLATION OF AN ON-SITE SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM TOGETHER WITH PERCOLATION AREA TO SERVICE THE EXISTING MULTI PURPOSE HALL PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF 18/51938. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2250981/0 - 20 Dec 2018, Donegal County Council 1851938: Conditional. Permission. (1) RETENTION OF EXCAVATION, LEVELLING AND SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS CARRIED OUT TO DATE AND (2) THE CONSTRUCTION OF A MULTI-PURPOSE HALL, DEVELOPENT OF ANCILLARY CAR PARKING AND CONNECTION TO PUBLIC SEWER TOGETHER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1851938/0 - 10 Apr 2018, Donegal County Council 1850524: N/a. Permission. CONSTRUCTION OF A MULTI-PURPOSE HALL, AN ANCILLARY CAR PARKING AREA AND CONNECTION TO PUBLIC SEWER TOGETHER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1850524/0 Applicants are not shown. ## 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 Errity. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - DG054-033: Megalithic tomb - unclassified, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDG054-033----. This feature is named 'Giant's Grave' on the 1846-8 edition of the OS 6-inch map. It stood on rolling pasture 2.2km S of the inner reaches of Lough Swilly. Thomas Fagan (1845-8) described it as 'the remains of a pagan sepulture commonly called the giant's grave'. According to him, it occupied a space c. 13 yards (c. 11.9m) square, which was elevated 'some feet' above adjoining ground. On top, lying E-W, was 'an enclosure 20 feet [c. 6.1m] long, 7 to 9 feet [c. 2.15-2.75m] wide…divided into different graves'. This enclosure, then 'much deranged', was built of 'large blocks of stone', several of which were then still in place. Many other stones were missing or lay prostrate at the site. Kinahan (1885-6, 427) remarked that 'this structure had been broken up and removed' just before his visit to the area. There is now no trace of it, unless a slab, c. lm in maximum dimension, in a fence adjacent to the site of the monument was part of it. Fagan's account may describe a megalithic tomb, but without corroboration it cannot be accepted as a definite one. Fagan 1845-8, book 8, 12; Kinahan 1885-6, 427; Borlase 1897, 235, Raphoe North no. 2; Ó Nualláin 1983a, 45, no. 126; SMR 1987, 54:33; RMP 1995, 54:33. 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) - Second Ray Presbyterian Church, church/chapel, 1820–1900, Regional interest, registry number 40827006, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=DG®no=40827006. Freestanding Presbyterian Church, built c. 1830 and altered c. 1880, comprising four-bay double-height hall with three-bay two-storey entrance porch to the north-west gable end, and with single-storey over basement vestry attached to the south-east gable end. Renovated c. 1995. Half-hipped artificial slate roof to main body of building having terracotta ridge tiles with terracotta finials to gable apexes, and with overhanging eaves. Mono-pitched half-hipped artificial slate roof to entrance porch having terracotta ridge tiles and overhanging eaves; pitched artificial slate roof to vestry. Roughcast rendered walls over projecting smooth rendered plinth course, and with raised smooth rendered block-and-start quoins to corners of main body of building and to porch. Pointed-arched window openings to the side elevations of hall having smooth rendered reveals and surrounds, painted stone sills, timber or painted cut stone intersecting tracery, and with leaded coloured glass windows. Square-headed window openings to porch having smooth rendered reveals and surrounds, painted stone(?) sills, and replacement timber casement windows. Central square-headed doorway to north-west elevation of porch having smooth rendered surround forming pointed-arched smooth rendered panel over with roundel motif, and with a pair of replacement timber double-doors. Set back from road in elevated site to the south-east of the centre of Manorcunningham. Graveyard to site with collection of nineteenth- and twentieth-century gravemarkers of mainly upstanding type. Bounded on road-frontage to the north by roughcast rendered boundary wall with ashlar copings, and with wrought-iron railings over having cast-iron finials over; terminating ashlar(?) piers (on square-plan) to either end of road-frontage having moulded capstones. Gateway to the north comprising a pair of ashlar(?) piers (on square-plan) having moulded capstones over, and with a pair of wrought-iron gates with cast-iron finials. Single-storey former school located to the north-east boundary of site, now altered and out of use. ## 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 Errity, 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: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Errity. - 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/errity.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/donegal/errity.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/donegal/errity.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Errity 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) - Carrickballydooey: https://everytownland.com/donegal/carrickballydooey.md - Carrickballydooey Glebe: https://everytownland.com/donegal/carrickballydooey-glebe.md - Errity Churchland: https://everytownland.com/donegal/errity-churchland.md - Grawky: https://everytownland.com/donegal/grawky.md - Highbank: https://everytownland.com/donegal/highbank.md - Manorcunningham: https://everytownland.com/donegal/manorcunningham.md - Raymoghy: https://everytownland.com/donegal/raymoghy.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/errity - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/donegal/errity