Maghera

89 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Maghera, from 92 m² to 4,579,071 m² (457.91 ha, 1,131.51 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 8 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 Maghera 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.

• 3 Oct 2024Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO BOTH SIDES OF THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2461559

• 27 Nov 2023N/a

  ERECTION OF AN EXTENSION TO BOTH SIDES OF THE EXISTING DWELLING AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2351812

• 21 Jul 2023Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) ACCOMPANIES THIS APPLICATION

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2351071

• 30 May 2019Conditional

  ERECTION OF SHEEPWIRE FENCING AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS IN A SPECIAL CONSERVATION AREA. THE APPLICATION INCLUDES A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1950812

• 4 Dec 2018Conditional

  EXISTING PARTLY CONSTRUCTED EXTENSION TO EXISTING SHED AND PERMISSION FOR COMPLETION OF THE EXTENSION TO THE EXISTING SHED

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 1851838

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: Slieve Tooey/Tormore Island/Loughros Beg Bay SAC 000190
• Special Protection Area: West Donegal Coast SPA 004150
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Slieve Tooey/Tormore Island/Loughros Beg Bay 000190

Recorded monuments

• DG073-031001 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  Internal Diam 23.5m N-S. A subcircular area enclosed by a partially collapsed stone wall except on the N and NE sides where the natural slope may have precluded the need for a wall. The wall survives up to 2.38m in height to the SW. There is a definite entrance to the SSW. This entrance has been deliberately blocked by the building of a rectangular structure (DG073-031002-) 2.4m E-W × 1.5m N-S. The site is located on top of a knoll in an exposed but naturally defended position. There is pasture and arable land nearby and Loughros Beg Bay is to the N. 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

• DG073-031002 Structure
  Description

  A subcircular area (DG073-031001-) enclosed by a partially collapsed stone wall except on the N and NE sides where the natural slope may have precluded the need for a wall. The wall survives up to 2.38m in height to the SW. There is a definite entrance to the SSW. This entrance has been deliberately blocked by the building of a rectangular structure 2.4m E-W × 1.5m N-S. The site is located on top of a knoll in an exposed but naturally defended position. There is pasture and arable land nearby and Loughros Beg Bay is to the N. 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

• DG073-032 Mound
  Description

  Known as Ardnaglogh the site consists of a massive mound of sand and stone roughly flat-topped with steep sides and vegetated over. The mound is c. 7m to 8m in height with a basal diameter of 39m and a top diameter of 29m-35m. There has been much speculation about the nature of this site. It has been suggested as the site of a ringfort, a burial place and a motte-and-bailey. (D'Evelyn 1933, 88-100; McGill 1970, 10) 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

• DG073-033 Burial ground
  Description

  Kilchreaghy graveyard is located 130m S of the Maghera mound (263). The land has been tilled here and the original extent of the site is not clear. A rise 16.7m NW-SE, 12.7m NE-SW and up to 1m in height survives. The site is bounded on the N and E by sand dunes and on the S by the valley of the Owenwee river. 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

• DG073-034 Midden
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• DG073-035 Midden
  Description

  Several hearth-sites were discovered here. Split-stones, hammer-stones, flint implements, sea-food shells and broken and split bones have been found. (Brunicardi 1914, 196-7) 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

• House, 1840–1920 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c.1860, northeast end bay being addition of c.1900, having windbreak entrance, and with recent flat-roof extension to rear. Pitched straw-thatched roof with ropes and wire mesh over, secured to metal pegs and rods below eaves, and having two rendered chimneystacks. Smooth-rendered walls with painted plinth course. Enlarged square-headed window openings with painted concrete sills and replacement windows, and replacement timber door. Yards to front and rear, and small garden to east. Detached two-bay single-storey outbuilding to southwest with pitched corrugated-iron roof, smooth-rendered walls and square-headed openings with replacement fittings.

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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility high, high (inferred), moderately high, moderately low, moderately low (inferred), low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Maghera.

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

Name

Maghera · An Machaire

Area

7,584,085 m² (758.41 ha, 1,874.07 acres)

Civil parish

Inishkeel, and its townlands

Barony

Banagh

Electoral division

Inishkeel, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Inishkeel electoral division: 84 people in 36 households; 79% of households own their home; 20% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 43% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Glenlough, Laconnell, Loughnalughraman, Meenacurrin, Meentashesk, Straboy

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Maghera 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.