Laraghirril

59 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Laraghirril, from 550 m² to 134,776 m² (13.48 ha, 33.3 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 39 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 Laraghirril 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.

• 24 Jun 2026Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW SILAGE PIT WITH ASSOCIATED CONCRETE APRON AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2661163

• 21 Dec 2025Refused

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DRY AGRICULTURAL SHED WITH CONNECTION TO ALL EXISTING SERVICES

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2562315

• 18 Jul 2025Refused

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DRY AGRICULTURE SHED WITH CONNECTION TO ALL EXISTING SERVICES

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2561238

• 12 Jul 2024Conditional

  (1) RAISED ROOF LEVEL TO EXISTING DWELLING GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 05/70749, TO PROVIDE HABITABLE ACCOMMODATION ON FIRST FLOOR LEVEL, (2) MODIFICATIONS TO ELEVATIONS AND (3) EXTENSION TO EXISTING GARAGE WITH MODIFICATIONS TO ELEVATIONS GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 15/50929 AND PERMISSION FOR (1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING DUE TO DEFECTIVE BLOCKS GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 05/70749 AND (2) ERECTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING, CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS

  Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2461070

• 19 Apr 2022Conditional

  (1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING AGRICULTURAL SHED (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A REPLACEMENT SLATTED AGRICULTURAL SHED & ASSOCIATED WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2250674

• 15 May 2019Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A SLATTED AGRICULTURAL SHED AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1950745

• 1 Apr 2019N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A SLATTED AGRICULTURAL SHED AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1950451

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 Laraghirril.

Recorded monuments

• DG012-003 Megalithic tomb - court tomb
  Description

  The monument, like Knockergrana (Dg. 74), is on the tract of good agricultural land between Trawbreaga Bay and Tremone Bay at the N end of the Inishowen peninsula. It occupies a prominent position on Black Hill and commands good views of the district, with the sea visible c. 3km to the N. The structure consists of a gallery c. 8.5m long divided into two chambers. Doubled jambs at its ESE end appear to mark the entrance to the gallery, but there is no trace of a court. The gallery stands in a low grass-grown mound 12m long, 6m wide and c. 0.6m high. According to 'Maghtochair' (1867), a circle of stones laid at intervals and c. 70 yards (c. 64m) in circumference enclosed the gallery. There is now no trace of such a feature. The two jambs at the N side of the E end of the gallery are both transversely set. The inner one, 0.8m high, rises 0.3m above the top of the outer one. The outer one of the two jambs at the S side is longitudinally set and at 0.75m high rises 0.25m above the top of the inner, transversely set one. The eastern chamber is c. 3m long and 2.4m wide. Three orthostats form the northern side, and their heights from E to W are 1.3m, 1.55m and 1.1m. The outermost of these overlaps the adjoining jambs and rises 0.5m above the innermost one. Only two orthostats remain on the S side of the chamber. That toward the front, its outer face hidden by the mound, is only 0.25m high and may be broken. The other stone is 1.15m high. The segmenting jambs are longitudinally set and placed inside the lines of the gallery walls. These are especially tall stones, with the northern one 1.7m high and the southern 1.8m. Between the jambs are two septal-stones, one immediately in front of the other. The eastern one leans slightly to the E and, though now slightly loose in the ground, seems to be in situ. It is 0.85m high, c. 0.05m taller than the western septal-stone. The western chamber is c. 3.5m long and reaches a maximum width of 2.5m at mid-length. It narrows to 1.9m at its open W end. The orthostats forming the sides of this chamber are generally lower than those of the eastern chamber. The heights of the three on the N side from E to W are 0.95m, 1m and 0.6m. The heights of the four on the S side from E to W are 0.8m, 0.65m, 0.65m and 0.6m. There are a number of displaced blocks of stone at the site, only two of which, at the E end of the gallery, are shown on plan. The smaller one, 1.5m by 0.4m, is almost buried. The larger measures 2.1m by 1.1m and may be a displaced lintel from above the entrance jambs. One end of this now rests above a third displaced stone (not on plan). Two other displaced stones (not on plan), both measuring 0.9m in maximum dimension, lie just W of the three already referred to. The general design of the monument suggests that this was a two-chambered gallery entered, as suggested above, from the ESE. Doubling of jambs is a recognised though infrequently occurring entrance feature, and the narrowing of the sides of the western chamber toward the back suggests that it is the endchamber. An earlier suggestion that this chamber was a narrow court (Davies 1942, 82; Davies and Evans 1943, 8, 17) now seems most unlikely. 'Maghtochair' 1867, 16; Borlase 1897, 229-30, Inishowen East, no. 9; R.S. Young 1897, 199 ('the bed of Diarmuid and Greine' on the hill of Deen); Anon. 1902; A.I. Young 1929, 8; Davies 1942, 82, fn. 8; Davies and Evans 1943, 8 (plan), 17; S.P. O'Riordan 1947, 43; Davies 1948, 10 (plan); Colhoun 1949, 112 (plan), 116; Swan 1949, 22-3 (photograph); O'Kelly 1958, 57; Corcoran 1960, 146, no. 112; de Valera 1960, 104, DG. 1 (plan); Killanin and Duignan 1962, 185; Killanin and Duignan 1967, 193; Bonner 1972, 116; Ó Nualláin 1983a, 24, no. 30 (plan); SMR 1987, 12:3; Ó Nualláin 1989, 117; Colhoun 1995, 48 (plan), plate 8 (a); RMP 1995, 12:3. 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)

Architectural heritage

• Presbytery/parochial/curate's house, 1890–1910 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay two-storey parochial house, built c. 1900, with single-storey canted bays to front, entrance porch to gable and two-bay two-storey return to rear. Pitched slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles, coping-stones with decorative triangular skew-ends, yellow brick on stretcher bond chimneystacks with ashlar coping and terracotta pots, moulded cornice eaves course and cast-iron rainwater goods. Smooth rendered chimneystack with rendered stepped coping to return. Lead roofs to canted bays. Smooth rendered walls with smooth rendered plinth; articulated block-and-start quoins to porch. Segmental-arched window openings, with round-arch headed window to central bay, moulded architrave surrounds and continuous sill course. Square-headed window openings to return and porch. Replacement uPVC windows to all openings. Round-arched door with Greek-Doric doorcase surmounted by ball finials; uPVC doors and glazed overlight. Set within own landscaped grounds on elevated site, with platform to front with roughcast rendered retaining wall and central steps. Gateway comprising of roughcast rendered walls and piers with central vehicular opening flanked by pedestrian openings served by wrought-iron gates. Two-bay two-storey outbuilding to rear comprising of pitched slate roof with yellow brick on stretcher bond chimneystack; roughcast rendered random-rubble walls; square-headed window openings with three-over-three timber sash windows and stone sills; square-headed door openings with battened timber doors.

• House, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c. 1800, with modern single-bay single-storey extension to rear. Rounded pitched thatched roof with netting restraint and timber and metal rope stays to eaves, smooth rendered chimneystacks to gables with stepped coping. Roughcast rendered walls with smooth rendered plinth. Square-headed window openings with one-over-one horned timber sash windows and painted stone sills. Timber casements windows to rear. Square-headed door opening with half-glazed timber panelled door. Set within own grounds with remains of outbuildings to site. Entered by hedgerow-lined dirt-track driveway from north-west.

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 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 Laraghirril.

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 Laraghirril with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Laraghirril

Area

1,488,398 m² (148.84 ha, 367.79 acres)

Civil parish

Clonca, and its townlands

Barony

Inishowen East

Electoral division

Culdaff, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Culdaff electoral division: 1,027 people in 366 households; 76% of households own their home; 38% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 32% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghatubbrid, Baskill, Clonca, Dunross, Freehold, Glackadrumman, Gort

Placenames

Laraghirril 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.