Magheracorran
Townland in the civil parish of Convoy, barony of Raphoe South, Co. Donegal
- Area
- 222.5 ha
- 550 acres
- Land parcels
- 72
- registered freehold, median 2,750 m² (0.27 ha, 0.68 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
72 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Magheracorran, from 36 m² to 264,193 m² (26.42 ha, 65.28 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 29 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 Magheracorran 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
29 Aug 2024Conditional
REMOVAL OF EXISTING REAR LEAN TO EXTENSION AND ADD A CONNECTION CORRIDOR/STORAGE AREA TO THE SIDE OF DWELLING AND TO CHANGE THE USE OF THE ADJACENT STRUCTURE FROM GOSPEL HALL TO DOMESTIC USAGE AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2461316
4 Feb 2020Unconditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK/SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Extension of duration, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2050092
29 Nov 2017Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK/SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1751791
23 May 2017Conditional
CHANGE OF DESIGN OF EXTENSIONS TO REAR AND SIDE PREVIOUSLY PERMITTED UNDER PLANNING REF'S 12/60088 & 16/51435, INCLUDING ADDITIONAL ROOF LIGHTS TO APPROVED COTTAGE RENOVATIONS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1750778
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Magheracorran.
Recorded monuments
- DG069-025 Children's burial ground
Description
Marked as a 'Caldragh' or 'Burying Ground for Children' on the 2nd edition of the OS 6-inch map. There are now no surface features. It was situated in rolling pasture 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
- DG069-029 Ringfort - rath
Description
Internal diam. 13m. A subcircular level space raised c. 1m above the surrounding field and enclosed by an earthen bank .75m high. There are several gaps but no obvious entrance. It is situated on the E cliff edge of a plateau of excellent 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
- Barn, 1800–1860 · Regional interest
Description
Detached six-bay two-storey outbuilding, built c. 1830, having external flight of cut stone steps to the north gable end giving access to doorway at first floor level. Land slopes to the west with single-storey elevation to the rear (west). Associated with altered two-storey house (not in survey) adjacent to the north-east. Pitched natural slate roof with ridge tiles, smooth rendered verges to the gable ends, and with cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls rubble stone walls. Square-headed doorways and loading bays having battened timber doors; wrought-iron flat-bar inner gates to ground floor door openings. Set slightly back from road to the west of Convoy.
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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1751 (ZIP).
- 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
- Magheracorran, Convoy5 sales
The townland
- Name
- Magheracorran
- Area
- 2,224,504 m² (222.45 ha, 549.69 acres)
- Civil parish
- Convoy, and its townlands
- Barony
- Raphoe South
- Electoral division
- Convoy, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Convoy electoral division: 2,559 people in 926 households; 72% of households own their home; 38% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Aughagault Big, Callan, Callanacor, Gobnascale, Killynure or Wilson's Fort, Knockagarran, Lisnaree, Lisnaree, Magheranappan, Meenavoy, Teangue, Teevickmoy
- Placenames
- Magheracorran 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.