Gransha

144 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gransha, from 8 m² to 250,325 m² (25.03 ha, 61.86 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 28 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Gransha 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.

• 28 May 2025Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH DETACHED GARAGE AND WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2560874

• 16 May 2025Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW SINGLE STOREY DWELLING, INSTALLATION OF PROPOSED NEW WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT AND PERCOLATION AREA, TOGETHER WITH ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS AND CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2560795

• 20 Dec 2024Conditional

  ERECTION OF A SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO THE SIDE OF EXISTING DWELLING FOR THE PROVISION OF AN EN SUITE AND WARDROBE, TOGETHER WITH INSTALLATION OF TWO FIRST FLOOR WINDOWS TO THE EXISTING DWELLING

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2450264

• 20 Sept 2024Conditional

  EXISTING SITE WORKS (CONCRETE FLOOR SLAB) AND PERMISSION FOR ERECTION OF STABLES AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2450214

• 16 Sept 2024Conditional

  AN AGRICULTURAL STORAGE SHED, TOGETHER WITH ASSOCIATED WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2450207

• 8 Feb 2023Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE ALONG WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2350140

• 16 Sept 2022Conditional

  ERECTION OF 2 NO. SEMI-DETACHED TWO STOREY DWELLINGS, CONNECTION TO EXISTING PUBLIC SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 2 homes · Donegal County Council, 2251552

• 28 Mar 2022N/a

  (1) DECOMMISSIONING OF SEPTIC TANK SERVING EXISTING DWELLING (2) INSTALLATION OF NEW EFFLUENT TREATMENT PLANT AND OUTLINE PLANNING PERMISSION FOR ERECTION OF A DWELLING WITH EFFLUENT TREATMENT PLANT WITH ACCESS VIA RIGHT-OF-WAY OVER AN ESTABLISHED ACCESS ROAD AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2250529

• 13 Sept 2021Conditional

  ALTERATIONS INCLUDING SCALE INCREASE OF PREVIOUSLY PERMITTED GARAGE (PLANNING REF NO. 15/50922) TOGETHER WITH ASSOCIATED WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2151810

• 28 Apr 2021N/a

  ERECTION OF AN EXTENSION TOEXISTING DWELLING HOUSE INCLUDING AN INTEGRATED DOMESTIC GARAGE

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2150768

• 5 Jan 2021Conditional

  ERECTION OF STABLES WITH ANCILLARY STORAGE AND ASSOCIATED WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2150003

• 4 Nov 2020N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF 8 NO. TWO STOREY SEMI DETACHED 3 BEDROOM DWELLINGS AND 6 NO TWO STOREY SEMI-DETACHED 4 BEDROOM DWELLINGS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2051651

• 10 Oct 2019Conditional

  CONTINUATION OF QUARRYING ACTIVITY FOR A 25 YEAR PERIOD OVER AN AREA OF APPROXIMATELY 17.8 HA; EXTRACTION OF ROCK BY BLASTING AND ROCK BREAKING MEANS FROM AN AREA OF 11.3 HA. (WITHIN 17.8 HA. AREA); PROCESSING OF ROCK USING FIXED AND MOBILE PLANT AND WASHING OF MATERIAL; CONTINUATION OF USE OF THE EXISTING WORKSHOP, OFFICE, CANTEEN, TOILET FACILITIES, WEIGHTBRIDGE, WHEELWASH, SETTLEMENT LAGOONS AND ALL OTHER ANCILLARY FACILITIES. CONSTRUCTION OF REFUELLING AREA AND ATTENUATION & SETTLEMENT LAGOONS; LANDSCAPING AND RESTORATION OF THE SITE AND ALL ASSOCIATED ANCILLARY FACILITIES/WORKS. THIS APPLICATION IS ACCOMPANIED BY AN ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT REPORT (EIAR) AND A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS)

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1951534

• 8 Apr 2019Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING WITH EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1950490

• 12 Dec 2018Conditional

  ERECTION OF A SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO THE FRONT OF EXISTING DWELLING, RELOCATION OF EXISTING BEDROOM TOGETHER WITH PROVISION OF NEW GABLE END WINDOW TO EXISTING KITCHEN AND ASSOCIATED WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1851896

• 11 Dec 2017Conditional

  ERECTION OF A 2-STOREY DWELLING USING EXISTING SITE ACCESS AND WITH ON SITE WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1751856

• 17 Nov 2017N/a

  ERECTION OF A 2-STOREY DWELLING USING EXISTING SITE ACCESS AND WITH ON SITE WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1751727

• 2 Nov 2017Unconditional

  ERECTION OF 2 NO. STOREY AND A HALF DWELLING HOUSES, MECHANICAL AERATION TREATMENT PLANTS, SAND POLISHING FILTERS AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Extension of duration, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1751658

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 Gransha.

Recorded monuments

• DG029-038001 Standing stone
  Description

  A standing stone c. 1.8m high × 0.57m wide × 0.43m maximum thickness; E-W. The 3rd edition of the OS 6-inch map notes two stones here but there is no visible trace of the second one. Situated on fairly level ground sloping gently W to Lough Swilly. 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

• DG029-038002 Standing stone
  Description

  A standing stone (DG029-038001-) orientated E-W. The 3rd edition of the OS 6-inch map notes two stones here but there is no visible trace of the second one. Situated on fairly level ground sloping gently W to Lough Swilly. 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

• DG029-039001 Standing stone
  Description

  Two standing stones. One is 2.77m high × 0.84m wide at base. The other, to the NE, is 1.05m high × 1.1m wide at base. Situated on rich, level, pasture land, in the next field to another standing stone (DG029-038001-). 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

• DG029-039002 Standing stone
  Description

  Two standing stones. One is 2.77m high × 0.84m wide at base. The other, to the NE, is 1.05m high × 1.1m wide at base. Situated on rich, level, pasture land, in the next field to another standing stone (DG029-038001-). 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

• DG029-044 Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb
  Description

  The monument is 1.5km from the E side of Lough Swilly, at the edge of a terrace on the NE slope of Mouldy Hill and above the valley of the Mill River. The land surrounding the site bears a light cover of peat broken by numerous rock outcrops. There is a good outlook to the N and E across the central hilly area of the Inishowen peninsula. The rising slope of Mouldy Hill limits the view to the S and W. The monument consists of a partly collapsed roofed gallery, aligned WSW-ENE. It is c. 5m long and divided by a septal-stone into a portico and main chamber of approximately equal length. The portico is 1.4m wide at its inner end. The main chamber is 2.4m long and c. 1.5m wide. A facade-stone at the W marks the front of the portico. A leaning orthostat to the N of this may be part of the gallery side or may represent close-set outer-walling. If this is part of the gallery side, it may be that the lone facade-stone acted to divide the gallery entrance. A slab that covered the inner end of the portico now lies in a sloping position across it. A large roof stone above the slab also covers the greater part of the main chamber. This too lies in a sloping position because of the partial collapse of the S side of the chamber. A low heather-grown mound, subrectangular in outline and c. 0.3m high, is visible around the eastern half of the gallery. Its overall dimensions are 6m N-S by 5.5m E-W. There are three displaced slabs at the N side of the mound and another 1.5m beyond the NW corner of the structure. These range from lm to 2m in maximum dimension. A single orthostat survives on each side of the portico, and the septal-stone, which is 2.4m E of the facade- stone, is set between the inner ends of these. The septal-stone is exposed to a height of 0.7m at its eastern face and 0.5m at its western face. A slight groove has been cut in the top of this stone. The sidestone on the S side of the portico is split vertically at about mid-length. The inner half of the stone, to the E of the split, is 0.6m high but may have been taller, and the outer half is 1.15m high. Immediately outside the inner end of this is a partly concealed low stone 0.2m high. This appears to be in situ. The sidestone on the N side of the portico rises 0.3m above the top of the septal-stone. The W end of this sidestone is overlapped slightly by a low set stone, now 0.25m high but perhaps originally taller. The sidestone here supports the N end of the roofstone that lies across the inner end of the portico. The S end of this roof stone now rests on the floor of the portico but would originally have been supported on top of the S sidestone. When in place its underside would have been c. 0.3m above the top of the septal-stone. It measures 1.8m by lm and is 0.25m thick. The back of the main chamber has been disturbed by digging. A large orthostat forms the greater part of its N side. This rises 1.1m above the present floor of the chamber. A small stone, 0.25m high, is set askew between the W end of the last and the orthostat flanking the septal-stone. A single large stone, 2.4m long, 0.15m thick and c. 1.5m high, formed the S side of the chamber. This is now broken. Part of the stone is still in situ at the inner end of the chamber and is 1.3m long, 0.15m thick and 0.7m high at its inner face. The detached upper part rests on this and also leans inward against the stone forming the back of the chamber. The backstone, 1.7m high, is set between the gallery sides. The large roof stone above the gallery, now sloping to the S, rests on the detached portion of the southern sidestone and on the smaller roof stone. It is 3.6m long by 2.5m wide near its outer end, from where it narrows to both extremities, and is up to 0.4m thick. The front of this great stone overlies the inner half of the portico. The lone facade-stone is 1.5m high. The leaning stone to the N of it would stand 1.3m high if upright. The groove cut in the top of the septal-stone is 0.5m from the inner face of the N side of the gallery. It runs parallel to the long axis of the monument and is 70mm long (the thickness of the top of the stone), 3mm wide and 2mm deep. The surface of this groove is very smooth. Its age and function are quite uncertain. A brief description in an OS Revision Name Book (1848) indicates that the structure was then in much the same condition as now, although the 'vast quantity of loose stones' then around it is no longer apparent. OS Revision Name Book, sheet 29 (1848), 38; Doherty 1891, 65 ('cromleac' in Buncrana may refer); Borlase 1897, 230, Inishowen West no. 3; Somerville 1929, 162-4 (plan, incorrectly captioned 'Luddan townland'); H. Morris 1947, 41, no. B9; S.P. O'Riordan 1947, 43; Colhoun 1949, 116 (photograph); OS Field Memorandum, sheet 29 (1949), A/138b/9 (sketch); Anon. 1951, 350; Killanin and Duignan 1962, 113; Killanin and Duignan 1967, 127; Ó Nualláin 1983a, 41-2, no. 104; SMR 1987, 29:44; Ó Nualláin 1989, 136; Colhoun 1995, 70 (photograph); RMP 1995, 29:44. 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 See linked document with details from Eamon Cody, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume VI. County Donegal. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002)

• DG029-045 Enclosure
  Description

  There is no trace of the single-ringed 'Fort' shown on the 1st and 2nd editions of the OS 6-inch maps. It was situated on a rocky poorly cultivated hillside, sloping to the N, possibly indicating a cashel. 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

• DG029-063 Cremated remains
  Description

  Monitoring of the construction of a residential development at Gransha, Buncrana (April 2007) BY Maurice F. Hurley under licence No. 07E0861, revealed a spread of charcoal-rich material containing six sherds of pottery that are likely to be of Early Bronze Age date, together with six fragments of cremated bone and three flakes of quartz (not worked). The apparent extent of the spread measured 4.5m east–west by 8.5m. Preliminary examination of the pottery suggests the sherds were part of a bowl food vessel. Excavation (September 2007) of the spread revealed the heavily truncated and disturbed remains of an Early Bronze Age cremation burial. The remains consisted of a shallow spread of charcoal-rich grey clay lying directly on the natural boulder clay. No further finds of archaeological significance were uncovered during the excavation of the site (Bennett 2010, 78-9). Compiled by Caimin O'Brien Date of upload/revision : 18 November 2011

Architectural heritage

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

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 Gransha, 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. Parts of the land are made ground.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1982 (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 Gransha with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Gransha

Area

1,813,184 m² (181.32 ha, 448.05 acres)

Civil parish

Lower Fahan, and its townlands

Barony

Inishowen West

Electoral division

Buncrana Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

4,039 people lived in 1,386 households in the Buncrana Rural electoral division. 70% of households owned their home. 51% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghilly and Lenynarnan, Ardaravan, Ballymacarry Lower, Ballynahone, Luddan, Roosky, Trillick

Placenames

Gransha 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.