Grahamstown

11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Grahamstown, from 221 m² to 66,763 m² (6.68 ha, 16.5 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 18 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Grahamstown 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.

• 23 Apr 2025Conditional

  (1) ATTIC UTILISATION WITHIN THE EXISTING BUILDING TO PROVIDE FOR 4 NO. ADDITIONAL BEDROOMS AND GENERAL STORAGE AND ACCOMMODATION AREAS FOR BED & BREAKFAST USE; (2) ELEVATIONAL CHANGES TO INCLUDE PROVISION OF UPPER FLOOR WINDOWS IN BOTH SIDE GABLES AND PROVISION OF 2 NO. FIRE ESCAPE DOORS IN LIEU OF WINDOWS AT GROUND LEVEL IN BOTH GABLES AND PROVISION OF VELUX ROOF LIGHT WINDOWS ALONG THE REAR ELEVATION AT ROOF LEVEL; (3) REPLACEMENT & UPGRADE OF THE EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND INSTALLATION OF A SEWERAGE TREATMENT UNIT AND PERCOLATION AREAS AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS AND SERVICES AND (4) ALL ASSOCIATED ELEVATIONAL CHANGES & SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS TO PROPERTY KNOWN AS DRUMNACROIL HOUSE

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2560634

• 22 Nov 2023N/a

  EXISTING SINGLE STOREY (4.25M HIGH TO EAVES) PITCHED ROOF, METAL CLAD STORAGE SHED AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2351774

• 24 Sept 2021Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEWERAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2151916

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 Grahamstown.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Grahamstown.

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Grahamstown.

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

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 Grahamstown.

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.

No address of the register names Grahamstown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Grahamstown

Area

266,752 m² (26.68 ha, 65.92 acres)

Civil parish

Drumhome, and its townlands

Barony

Tirhugh

Electoral division

Ballintra, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballintra electoral division: 755 people in 290 households; 81% of households own their home; 25% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 41% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardnagalliagh, Drumnacroil, Lacklom, Lismintan or Ballyruddelly, Moneymore, Rosscanlan, Tobernahoory

Placenames

Grahamstown 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.