Magheramenagh

45 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Magheramenagh, from 57 m² to 187,526 m² (18.75 ha, 46.34 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 26 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 Magheramenagh 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.

• 18 Jan 2026Conditional

  (1) CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND GARAGE ACCESSED USING EXISTING ENTRANCE OFF LOCAL RD. L-3263-3, (2) PROVISION OF A NEW EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM/PERCOLATION AREA TO THE NORTH OF THE PROPOSED HOUSE AND (3) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS RELATING TO THE ITEMS ABOVE INCLUDING DEFINED BOUNDARY TREATMENT

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2660044

• 25 Apr 2025N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE & GARAGE ACCESSED USING EXISTING ENTRANCE OFF LOCAL RD. L-3263-3, PROVISION OF A NEW EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM/PERCOLATION AREA TO THE NORTH OF THE PROPOSED HOUSE & ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS INCLUDING DEFINED BOUNDARY TREATMENT

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2560645

• 30 May 2022Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH A WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2250930

• 23 Nov 2020Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2051775

• 21 Oct 2020N/a

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2051561

• 20 Jun 2018Conditional

  COMPLETION OF A DWELLING HOUSE UNDER CONSTRUCTION WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REFERENCE NO:07/31358 (12/30134 ALSO REFERS)

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1850971

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 Magheramenagh.

Recorded monuments

• DG025-022 Standing stone
  Description

  There is no trace of the 'Standing Stone' marked on the 2nd and 3rd editions of the OS 6-inch map. Situated on a slight rise in undulating 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

• DG025-023 Megalithic tomb - unclassified
  Description

  This feature was first shown on the 1847-9 edition of the OS 6-inch map. All trace of it had been removed by 1952. At the beginning of the 20th century 'two large boulders' are said to have marked the site (OS 1:2,500 Name Book, 1903). The word 'boulders' in the Name Book entry was inserted in place of the words 'standing stones', which are crossed out. According to Thomas Fagan (1845-8), this feature consisted of 'one traceable grave, 12 feet [c. 3.65m] long and 3 feet [c. 0.9m] wide formerly enclosed at sides and ends by large flag stones, two of which still remain and stand 3 feet [c. 0.9m] high, 21/2 feet [c. 0.75m] broad and 1 foot [c. 0.3m] thick. All the others have been removed within memory.' Although it is possible that there were the scant remains of a megalithic tomb here at the time of Fagan's visit, the evidence is insufficient to warrant its acceptance as a proven one. Fagan 1845-8, book 3, 21; OS 1:2,500 Name Book, sheet 25 (1905), 9; Ó Nualláin 1983a, 49, no. 173; SMR 1987, 25:23; RMP 1995, 25:23. 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

• DG025-024 Crannog
  Description

  A flat, tree-covered, small island, low in the water of Loughnatooey North and c. 40m offshore may be artificially constructed. To the ESE rising from the lake is the sheer cliff of Croaghderg Hill otherwise the surrounding land is pasture. 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

• Farm house, 1840–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey vernacular house, built c.1860, with porch to front. Slightly higher single-bay two-storey outbuilding attached to one end, with external stone steps to front elevation giving access to first floor. Pitched Roshin slate roofs with cast-iron downpipes, replacement gutters on raised eaves course, rendered parapets, and rendered chimneystacks with copings. Flat roof to porch. Limewashed smooth-rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with two-over-two pane and margined one-over-one pane horned timber sliding sash and replacement timber casement windows, with painted stone sills. Square-headed timber battened doors to house and outbuilding. Set perpendicular to road. Single-storey rubble stone outbuilding attached further to southeast, with corrugated-iron roof and rubble stone walls.

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 high, 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 Magheramenagh.

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

Name

Magheramenagh

Area

1,121,176 m² (112.12 ha, 277.05 acres)

Civil parish

Clondahorky, and its townlands

Barony

Kilmacrenan

Electoral division

Dunfanaghy, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Dunfanaghy electoral division: 1,015 people in 376 households; 78% of households own their home; 36% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 50% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Corcreggan, Derryreel, Greenhill, Murroe, Roshin

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Magheramenagh 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.