Magherahee

18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Magherahee, from 417 m² to 298,890 m² (29.89 ha, 73.86 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 16 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 Magherahee 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.

• 27 Aug 2025Conditional

  (1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE CONSTRUCTED WITH DEFECTIVE CONCRETE BLOCKWORK AND CONSTRUCTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING HOUSE AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS AND (2) PLACEMENT OF A MOBILE HOME WITHIN THE SITE TO BE USED AS TEMPORARY ACCOMMODATION FOR THE DURATION OF CONSTRUCTION WORKS RELATING TO THE REPLACEMENT DWELLING HOUSE

  Permission, 2 homes · Donegal County Council, 2561474

• 22 Jan 2025Conditional

  (1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DETACHED STORE AND EXISTING SINGLE STOREY FLAT ROOF EXTENSION TO THE REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING AND (2) RENOVATION OF EXISTING DWELLING TO INCLUDE THE ERECTION OF A 2 STOREY EXTENSION TO THE REAR INCLUDING CONNECTION TO THE EXISTING ONSITE SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2550003

• 21 Jan 2025Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK / SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2560055

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 Magherahee.

Recorded monuments

• DG070-035 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Internal diam. c. 20m-30m. The W sector of an earthen circular platform is all that survives of the enclosure shown on the 2nd edition of the OS 6-inch map. It was situated in a rolling landscape of good land with good views. 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

• Green Hills, country house, 1740–1790 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay two-storey over basement house, built c. 1770 and altered c. 1870. Later possibly in use as an outbuilding, now in use as a house. Pitched natural slate roof having yellow brick chimneystacks to the gable ends (north and south) with terracotta pots, raised cement rendered copings to the gable ends, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls over red brick and rubble stone construction (partially exposed to rear) with raised render block-and-start quoins to the corners of the main elevation (west). Blocked former segmental-headed carriage arch to the centre of the rear elevation (east) having roughly squared rubble stone voussoirs. Square-headed window openings having cut stone sills, smooth rendered reveals, and with mainly six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows. Central square-headed door opening to the main elevation (west) having smooth rendered reveal, replacement glazed timber door, and with overlight. Set well back from road in extensive mature grounds with stands of mature trees to site. Located in the rural countryside to the south-west of Raphoe. Complex of single- and two-storey former outbuildings and possible former house to site (see 40907030). Main gateway to the north-east comprising a pair of gate piers (on square-plan) flanked to either side by splayed sections of rubble stone walls with cement coping over. Detached two-bay single-storey with attic level former gate lodge adjacent to gateway, now ruinous, having remains of pitched natural slate roof with projecting cut stone eaves course, roughcast rendered rubble stone walls, square-headed window openings with stone sills and remains of timber fittings, and square-headed doorway with timber door. Freestanding turret or folly (see 40907031) located to the south-west of house.

• Green Hills, house, 1740–1800 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay two-storey building with attic level, built c. 1750, associated with Green Hills (see 40907030). Possibly originally in use as a dwelling, later in use as an outbuilding. Pitched natural slate roof, now failing, having raised rendered verges to the gable ends (north and south), projecting stepped brick eaves course, and brick chimneystack with terracotta pot over. Roughcast rendered finish, now failing, over randomly coursed rubble stone masonry. Carved limestone plaque (on rectangular-plan) over blocked opening to west elevation depicting (in relief) a lion standing over prone human figure, surmounted by a further human figure with a sword and spear, and with a donkey above. Square-headed window openings with flush red brick block-and-start reveals, cut stone sills, remains of six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows , and with wrought iron railings to ground floor. Square headed door openings with timber lintels, stone steps to doorway on north side of east elevation. Openings to west elevation now blocked including two shallow segmental-headed openings with roughly squared voussoirs. Abutment wall to front and rear elevation connecting with house on north side. Complex of now generally ruinous single-storey outbuildings to site having pitched mainly corrugated-metal roofs, rendered rubble stone walls, square-headed openings (some with brick reveals) having remains of timber fittings. Set well back from road in own grounds to the south-west of Raphoe and adjacent to the north of Green Hills. Remains of former walled garden (on rectangular-plan) adjacent to the east having rubble stone walls; remains of tower or bellcote to one corner. Remains of former two-storey coach house to the north having rubble stone walls, square-headed window openings at first floor level having some surviving stone sills and with red brick reveals, segmental-headed carriage arches at ground floor level having red brick reveals, and square-headed doorways with remains of timber fittings. Modern farm buildings and structures to site.

• Green Hills, folly, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding tapering two-stage tower\turret\folly (on square-plan), built c. 1780, having projecting base\first stage with open segmental-headed arches to three faces (arch to the east face now infilled with rubble stone masonry. Parapet now denuded. Randomly coursed rubble stone walls, remains of cut stone coping over projecting base stage. Square-headed opening to the north elevation having cut stone sill\threshold. Series of three segmental-headed arches at first stage level having brick reveals. Brick groin vaulted roof structure to interior at base\first stage level. Located on the summit of a small hillock to the south of Green Hills (see 40907022), and to the south-west of Raphoe. Remains of small-scale ornamental pond a short distance to the south-west at corner of field, now partially infilled, formerly with decorative tiled or mosaic flooring (no longer visible).

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 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_1814 (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.

No address of the register names Magherahee with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Magherahee · Machaire Bheithe

Area

1,544,407 m² (154.44 ha, 381.63 acres)

Civil parish

Raphoe, and its townlands

Barony

Raphoe North

Electoral division

Castlefinn, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Castlefinn electoral division: 1,252 people in 488 households; 67% of households own their home; 24% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carnowen, Carrickbrack, Figart, Kiltole, Milltown, Newrow, Roosky Lower

Placenames

Magherahee 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.