Grange

114 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Grange, from 50 m² to 771,548 m² (77.15 ha, 190.65 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 11 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Grange 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.

• 6 Aug 2026N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK, REED BED AND WETLAND SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM EFFLUENT TREATMENT PLANT, ACCESS VIA EXISTING ACCESS ROAD, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2661476

• 20 Apr 2026Conditional

  INSTALLATION OF NEW EFFLUENT TREATMENT PLANT SEWAGE SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2660680

• 9 Dec 2025Conditional

  (1) RETENTION of (A) HARDSTAND AREA, (B) ACCESS ROAD FROM PUBLIC ROAD TO HARDSTAND AREA AND (C) WATER AND ELECTRICAL CONNECTIONS UP TO HARDSTAND AREA AND (2) (A) REMOVAL OF ROADWAY TO SHORELINE, (B) REMOVAL OF SHED AND ALL SURPLUS INFRASTRUCTURE CONNECTIONS, (C) REMEDIATION AND REGRADING OF LAND BETWEEN HARDSTAND AREA AND SHORELINE, (D) CONSTRUCTION OF AGRICULTURAL BUILDING ON RETAINED HARDSTAND AREA WITH CONNECTION TO WATER AND ELECTRICAL INFRASTRUCTURE AND (E) LANDSCAPING TO SCREEN DEVELOPMENT. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) ACCOMPANIES THIS APPLICATION

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2562173

• 2 Dec 2025N/a

  (1) HARDSTAND AREA, (2) ACCESS ROAD FROM PUBLIC ROAD TO HARDSTAND AREA AND (3) WATER AND ELECTRICAL CONNECTIONS UP TO HARDSTAND AREA AND PERMISSION FOR (1) REMOVAL OF ROADWAY TO SHORELINE, (2) REMOVAL OF SHED AND ALL SURPLUS INFRASTRUCTURE CONNECTIONS, (3) REMEDIATION AND REGRADING OF LAND BETWEEN HARDSTAND AREA AND SHORELINE, (4) CONSTRUCTION OF AGRICULTURAL BUILDING ON RETAINED HARDSTAND AREA WITH CONNECTION TO WATER AND ELECTRICAL INFRASTRUCTURE AND (5) LANDSCAPING TO SCREEN DEVELOPMENT. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) ACCOMPANIES THIS APPLICATION

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2562122

• 20 Nov 2025N/a

  (1) ACCESS ROAD FROM PUBLIC ROAD TO HARDSTAND AREA, (2) WATER AND ELECTRICAL CONNECTIONS UP TO HARDSTAND AREA AND (3) HARDSTAND AREA AND PERMISSION FOR (1) REMOVAL OF ROADWAY TO SHORELINE, (2) REMOVAL OF SHED AND ALL SURPLUS INFRASTRUCTURE CONNECTIONS, (3) REMEDIATION AND REGRADING OF LAND BETWEEN HARDSTAND AREA AND SHORELINE, (4) CONSTRUCTION OF AGRICULTURAL BUILDING ON RETAINED HARDSTAND AREA WITH CONNECTION TO WATER AND ELECTRICAL INFRASTRUCTURE AND (5) LANDSCAPING TO SCREEN DEVELOPMENT

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2562033

• 6 Mar 2025Conditional

  (1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING HOUSE WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES TOGETHER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2560320

• 31 Oct 2023N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW TWO AND A HALF STOREY DETACHED DWELLING AND TWO STOREY SEMI-DETACHED GARAGE WITH THE PROVISION OF SEPARATE ON-SITE WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM TOGETHER WITH ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2351657

• 6 Apr 2023Conditional

  (1) CREATION OF ACCESS ROAD (2) REGRADING/LEVELLING OF SITE AND CREATION OF PLATFORMS AND BERMS (3) INSTALLATION OF WATER AND ELECTRICAL INFRASTRUCTURE AND CONNECTIONS FROM THE SITE (4) CONSTRUCTION OF A SHED WITH HARDSTAND AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) ACCOMPANIES THIS APPLICATION

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2350459

• 30 Aug 2022Conditional

  (1) TEMPORARY PLACEMENT OF MOBILE HOME ON SITE TO BE REMOVED UPON COMPLETION OF DWELLING (2) ERECTION OF A SINGLE STOREY DWELLING WITH UTILIZED ROOF SPACE, EFFLUENT TREATMENT PLANT, ACCESS VIA EXISTING ACCESS ROAD, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 2 homes · Donegal County Council, 2251438

• 21 Dec 2020Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING WITH EFFLUENT TREATMENT PLANT AND DOMESTIC GARAGE, ACCESS VIA EXISTING ROAD AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2052004

• 9 Sept 2019Conditional

  ALTERATIONS TO DWELLING PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REFERENCE 00/4509

  Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1951372

• 10 May 2019Conditional

  (A) RETENTION OF DWELLING PARTLY CONSTRUCTED AS PERMITTED UNDER PLANNING REFERENCES 04/5705, 07/71866 AND 13/50392 WITH RELOCATED EFFLUENT TREATMENT PLANT AND PERCOLATION AREA AND (B) COMPLETION OF DWELLING WITH ELEVATIONAL ALTERATIONS AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1950723

• 5 Nov 2018N/a

  RETENTION AND COMPLETION OF A DETACHED TWO STOREY DWELLING

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1851689

• 12 Jul 2018N/a

  REPLACEMENT SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ASSOCIATED INSFRASTRUCTURE

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1851072

• 28 May 2018N/a

  COMPLETION OF DETACHED TWO STOREY DWELLING

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1850832

• 28 Feb 2018N/a

  REPLACEMENT OF A SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ASSOCIATED INFRASTRUCTURE

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1850292

• 19 Feb 2018Conditional

  ERECTION OF A BUNGALOW STYLE DWELLING WITH WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM & PERCOLATION AREA, CONNECTION TO PUBLIC SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1850243

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Lough Swilly SAC 002287
• Special Protection Area: Lough Swilly SPA 004075
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Swilly Including Big Isle, Blanket Nook & Inch Lake 000166

Recorded monuments

• DG038-019 Souterrain
  Description

  A souterrain about 20 yards long 4ft wide and 4ft high was recorded here (M. R. Colhoun). It was located in level tillage land. The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated. Date of upload: 22 September 2008

Architectural heritage

• Inch Fort, battery, 1800–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Two-gun fortification, built 1813, extensively modified, c. 1870. Roughly triangular in shape; mass concrete scarp walls to sunken yard and vaulted subterranean chambers and passageways. Rampart to north and north-west with irregular line taking form of low cliff comprising squared coursed granite rubble walls, surmounted by concrete terreplein, to inside of yard with cast-iron rails and pulleys. Right-angled trench to south and west with sloping concrete glacis incorporating ravelin redoubt trench; defence blockhouse to south-west angle. Yard entered from south-west through chamfered segmental-arch headed gateway, formerly with double battened timber doors. Segmental-arched niches with hoodmouldings around yard. Detached six-bay single-storey block-house to south of yard comprising of flat concrete roof, smooth rendered walls with English garden wall bond brick and dressed squared stone, square-headed window openings with bullnose reveals, casement windows with top-hung lights and ashlar granite lintels, square-headed door openings. Platform to rear of blockhouse, with tooled ashlar granite retaining walls and parapet to south. Cogged runner cast-iron gun mounts to north of yard enclosed by rounded concrete wall. Single-storey concrete blockhouse to north of yard. Concrete stairways to north and east giving access to subterranean chambers. Brick vaults to magazines. Complex of single-storey outbuildings to south of battery. Outbuilding to south comprising, flat concrete roof, smooth rendered walls with English garden wall bond brick and dressed squared stone, square-headed window openings with bullnose reveals and horned timber sash windows. House to south of battery comprising pitched fibre cement tiled roof with smooth rendered chimneystack, and squared course rock-faced walls, square-headed window openings with uPVC windows, and square-headed door opening with replacement battened timber door with glazed overlight. Outbuilding to south-west of battery comprising red brick walls and flat concrete roof. Battery located to north-west of Inch Island, at narrowest point of Lough Swilly opposite Rathmullan.

• House, 1905–1910 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay two-storey house, built 1908. Rectangular on plan with single-storey canted bays with paired windows and gablets over, flanking central entrance, flat-roofed extension to rear. Pitched slate roof, canted slate roofs to canted bays, red clay ridge tiles, rectangular off-set yellow brick chimneystacks capped with corbelled concrete cornice to gables, projecting painted timber eaves, timber barge boards with timber horizontal brace to gablets, cast-iron replacement rainwater goods. Pebbledash rendered walls, cement rendered walls to canted bays, cement rendered crown band on moulded stringcourse and chamfered cement rendered brick plinth to front. Segmental-headed window openings, with timber two-over-two horned sash windows, one-over-one timber sashes to first floor gables, cement rendered reveals, concrete sills, concrete sill course to front first floor windows; square-headed window openings to rear, with timber two-over-two horned sash windows, one two-over-two sash window with coloured margin lights, cement rendered reveals, concrete sills. Round-headed entrance door opening, timber bolection moulded flat panelled double doors surmounted by timber plain glass pane fanlight, cement rendered pilasters to doorcase supporting moulded string to extrados and moulded keystone, door addressed by concrete threshold and doorstep. House set back from road, with garden to front with decorative cast-iron double gates on rectangular lined-and-ruled piers with concrete diamond-headed cap continued by curvilinear roughcast rendered boundary wall. Two-storey outbuilding, built c. 1830, to south-west of house with pitched slate roof, projecting brick eaves, rubble stone walls and square-headed entrance and window openings.

• Mill (water), 1820–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached two-bay two-storey former threshing mill, built c. 1850, now in use as storage with remains of former flax mill, built c. 1820, to south. Pitched slate roof, blue-black clay ridge tiles, projecting stone eaves, modern rainwater goods. Random rubble stone walls with remains of iron and timber water wheel. Square-headed window opening with timber lintel, surmounted by segmental-headed relieving brick arch to south opening, flag stone sill to east window opening. Square-headed door openings, one with red brick surrounds, with timber lintels and red brick relieving arches. Inside, water wheel mechanism set into dressed rubble stone elliptical arch, threshing mechanism to first floor. Set into natural slope with millrace to south.

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

At the centre of the townland of Grange, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1919 (ZIP).

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Grange with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Grange

Area

2,604,570 m² (260.46 ha, 643.6 acres)

Civil parish

Inch, and its townlands

Barony

Inishowen West

Electoral division

Inch Island, the unit of the census

Census 2022

396 people lived in 140 households in the Inch Island electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 32% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 12% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynakilly, Glack or Bohullion, Moress

Placenames

Grange 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.