# Grahamstown, Co. Donegal: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Drumhome, barony of Tirhugh, Co. Donegal. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 266,752 m² (26.68 ha, 65.92 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,833 m² (0.28 ha, 0.7 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 3 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Drumhome, https://everytownland.com/donegal/parish/drumhome.md - Barony: Tirhugh - Electoral division: Ballintra, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 755 people lived in 290 households in the Ballintra electoral division. 81% of households owned their home. 25% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 41% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Donegal, https://everytownland.com/donegal.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/13787 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 51452 - Centre: latitude 54.584509, longitude -8.136204 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Grahamstown, from 221 m² to 66,763 m² (6.68 ha, 16.5 acres); 18 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1412440: 66,763 m² (6.68 ha, 16.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1412440.md - Parcel 1378265: 65,584 m² (6.56 ha, 16.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1378265.md - Parcel 1378298: 59,038 m² (5.9 ha, 14.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1378298.md - Parcel 1412468: 48,616 m² (4.86 ha, 12.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1412468.md - Parcel 1427101: 13,406 m² (1.34 ha, 3.31 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1427101.md - Parcel 6194777: 2,833 m² (0.28 ha, 0.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6194777.md - Parcel 1362167: 2,240 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1362167.md - Parcel 1353116: 1,200 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1353116.md - Parcel 1330040: 1,177 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1330040.md - Parcel 1347175: 475 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1347175.md - Parcel 1321198: 221 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1321198.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 3 applications, newest first. - 23 Apr 2025, Donegal County Council 2560634: Conditional. Retention. (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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560634/0 - 22 Nov 2023, Donegal County Council 2351774: N/a. Retention. EXISTING SINGLE STOREY (4.25M HIGH TO EAVES) PITCHED ROOF, METAL CLAD STORAGE SHED AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2351774/0 - 24 Sept 2021, Donegal County Council 2151916: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEWERAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2151916/0 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 Grahamstown. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Grahamstown. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Grahamstown. ## 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 Grahamstown, 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 Grahamstown. - 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/grahamstown.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/donegal/grahamstown.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/donegal/grahamstown.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Grahamstown 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) - Ardnagalliagh: https://everytownland.com/donegal/ardnagalliagh.md - Drumnacroil: https://everytownland.com/donegal/drumnacroil.md - Lacklom: https://everytownland.com/donegal/lacklom.md - Lismintan or Ballyruddelly: https://everytownland.com/donegal/lismintan-or-ballyruddelly.md - Moneymore: https://everytownland.com/donegal/moneymore-52070.md - Rosscanlan: https://everytownland.com/donegal/rosscanlan.md - Tobernahoory: https://everytownland.com/donegal/tobernahoory.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/grahamstown - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/donegal/grahamstown