Grahamsland
Townland in the civil parish of Donaghmore, barony of Raphoe South, Co. Donegal; in Irish Fearann Graham
- Area
- 115.5 ha
- 285 acres
- Land parcels
- 208
- registered freehold, median 374 m²
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 14
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
208 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Grahamsland, from 8 m² to 205,577 m² (20.56 ha, 50.8 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 31 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Grahamsland 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
16 Jun 2026N/a
EXTENSIONS TO EXISTING DWELLING WITH CONNECTION TO ALL EXISTING SERVICES ALONG WITH ALL ANCILLARY WORKS
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2661110
10 Feb 2026Refused
EXTENSIONS TO EXISTING DWELLING WITH CONNECTION TO ALL EXISTING SERVICES ALONG WITH ALL ANCILLARY WORKS
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2660160
4 Apr 2025Conditional
DEMOLITION OF 2 NO. OUTBUILDINGS AND PERMISSION FOR (1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING HOUSE AND (2) CONSTRUCTION OF AN OVER GROUND SLURRY STORAGE TANK (4M HIGH x 25M DIAMETER) AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2560502
18 Dec 2024Conditional
TWO-STOREY EXTENSION TO THE REAR OF DWELLING HOUSE AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2462111
17 Aug 2023Conditional
ERECTION OF A 24M MULTI-USER LATTICE TYPE TELECOMMUNICATIONS SUPPORT STRUCTURE, CARRYING ANTENNA AND DISHES ENCLOSED WITHIN A 2.4M HIGH PALISADE FENCED COMPOUND TOGETHER WITH ASSOCIATED GROUND EQUIPMENT CABINETS, NEW ACCESS AND GATE, POST AND RAIL FENCING AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2351220
22 May 2023Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION AND CHANGE OF USE OF EXISTING DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE INTO A RESIDENTIAL ANNEX, CONNECTION INTO EXISTING SERVICES ON SITE AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2350713
30 Jan 2023Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, CONNECTION TO PUBLIC MAINS SEWER AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2350084
14 Nov 2022N/a
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE, CONNECTION TO PUBLIC MAINS SERVICES AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2251846
26 Oct 2021Conditional
VEHICULAR ENTRANCE, ACCESS ROAD AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2152105
24 May 2021N/a
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE, CONSTRUCTION TO PUBLIC MAINS SERVICES AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2151002
27 Jun 2018Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE, CONNECTION TO PUBLIC MAIN SERVICES AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1850991
4 Apr 2018Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO THE FRONT OF DWELLING HOUSE AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1850514
7 Mar 2018Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, CONNECTION TO PUBLIC MAINS SEWER AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1850340
11 May 2017Conditional
2 STOREY EXTENSION CONSTRUCTED TO REAR OF DWELLING HOUSE AND ALTERATIONS TO FRONT FACADE OF DWELLING HOUSE WITH EXISTING CONNECTIONS TO PUBLIC SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Retention · Donegal County Council, 1750711
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
- Special Area of Conservation: River Finn SAC 002301
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Grahamsland.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Grahamsland.
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
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Grahamsland.
- Flooding
- The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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
- Grahamsland, Castlefin7 sales
The townland
- Name
- Grahamsland · Fearann Graham
- Area
- 1,155,323 m² (115.53 ha, 285.49 acres)
- Civil parish
- Donaghmore, and its townlands
- Barony
- Raphoe South
- Electoral division
- Castlefinn, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Castlefinn electoral division: 1,252 people in 488 households; 67% of households own their home; 24% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Breaghy, Castlefinn, Demesne, Donaghmore Glebe, Dooghan, Sessiagh (Allison), Tirinisk
- Placenames
- Grahamsland 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.