Inishdooey
Townland in the civil parish of Tullaghobegly, barony of Kilmacrenan, Co. Donegal; in Irish Oileán Dúiche
- Area
- 39.3 ha
- 97 acres
- Land parcels
- 1
- registered freehold, median 391,440 m² (39.14 ha, 96.73 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 0
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
1 registered freehold parcel lies mostly in Inishdooey, from 391,440 m² (39.14 ha, 96.73 acres) to 391,440 m² (39.14 ha, 96.73 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 0 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 Inishdooey 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
No planning application touches the townland of Inishdooey in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
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 Protection Area: Inishbofin, Inishdooey and Inishbeg SPA 004083
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Inishbeg 001143
Recorded monuments
- DG014-001001 Church
Description
A disused burial ground (DG014-001002-) and church (DG014-001001-) in ruins are marked on the 3rd edition of the OS 6-inch map. It was not possible to visit the site during the course of the survey. The site is associated with St. Duach according to local tradition. A previous description of the site recorded the church as being 15 ft by 10 ft with a doorway on the S side 5 ft high, 2 ft wide at the bottom but tapering inwards towards the top. (UJA 1858, 353) 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
- DG014-001002 Graveyard
Description
A disused burial ground (DG014-001002-) and church (DG014-001001-) in ruins are marked on the 3rd edition of the OS 6-inch map. It was not possible to visit the site during the course of the survey. The site is associated with St. Duach according to local tradition. A previous description of the site recorded the church as being 15 ft by 10 ft with a doorway on the S side 5 ft high, 2 ft wide at the bottom but tapering inwards towards the top. (UJA 1858, 353) 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
- DG014-003 Promontory fort - coastal
Description
The S end of Inishdooey is marked Doon More on the 3rd edition of the OS 6-inch map but was not visited on this occasion (Duignan and Killanin 1967, 300). 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
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Inishdooey.
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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility high, moderately high, 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 Inishdooey.
- 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
No address of the register names Inishdooey with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Inishdooey · Oileán Dúiche
- Area
- 393,126 m² (39.31 ha, 97.14 acres)
- Civil parish
- Tullaghobegly, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kilmacrenan
- Electoral division
- Gortahork, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Gortahork electoral division: 1,693 people in 667 households; 83% of households own their home; 32% of homes were built since 2001; 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 21% were holiday homes.
- Gaeltacht
- In an Irish-speaking area
- Placenames
- Inishdooey 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.