Magheranappan
Townland in the civil parish of Convoy, barony of Raphoe South, Co. Donegal
- Area
- 182.1 ha
- 450 acres
- Land parcels
- 65
- registered freehold, median 2,542 m² (0.25 ha, 0.63 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 8
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
65 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Magheranappan, from 91 m² to 393,383 m² (39.34 ha, 97.21 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 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 Magheranappan 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
21 Jan 2026Conditional
DECOMMISSIONING OF EXISTING SEPTIC TANK SYSTEM AND INSTALLATION OF A REPLACEMENT SEPTIC TANK / SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2660060
21 Jan 2026Conditional
DECOMMISSIONING OF EXISTING SEPTIC TANK SYSTEM AND INSTALLATION OF A REPLACEMENT SEPTIC TANK / SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2660061
21 May 2025Conditional
DRY BEDDED AGRICULTURAL SHED AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2560814
9 Jul 2024Conditional
(1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DEFECTIVE CONCRETE BLOCK DWELLING HOUSE AND GARAGE AND (2) CONSTRUCTION OF NEW REPLACEMENT DWELLING, NEW GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2461043
11 Nov 2022Conditional
DOMESTIC SHED/STORE AND PERMISSION FOR (1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING SHED/STORE (2) CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO THE SIDE OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE (3) ALTERATIONS TO THE FRONT ELEVATION OF THE DWELLING HOUSE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2251840
8 Jun 2022Conditional
(1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING TWO STOREY OUTBUILDING ADJOINING EXISTING AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY SHED (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A DRY AGRICULTURAL STORAGE SHED (3) DECOMMISSIONING OF EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND INSTALLATION OF REPLACEMENT SEPTIC TANK SYSTEM TO SERVICE EXISTING FARM TOILET AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2250999
4 Apr 2022N/a
(1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING TWO STOREY OUTBUILDING WHICH ADJOINS EXISTING AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY SHED (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW TWO STOREY BUILDING FOR THE STORAGE OF EQUIPMENT IN CONJUNCTION WITH EXISTING ONLINE FARM SALES BUSINESS, ACCOMMODATION INCLUDES ANCILLARY OFFICE SPACE (3) INSTALLATION OF A SEPTIC TANK/SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2250569
31 Dec 2019Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE DOMESTIC BUNGALOW TYPE DWELLING HOUSE WITH ROOF SPACE ACCOMODATION, ON SITE FOUL SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM & PERCOLATION AREA, ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1952041
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 Magheranappan.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Magheranappan.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Magheranappan.
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 high, 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_1771 (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
No address of the register names Magheranappan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Magheranappan
- Area
- 1,820,501 m² (182.05 ha, 449.86 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, Aughagault Big, Convoy Demesne, Drumgumberland, Gobnascale, Gortadragon, Lissinisk, Magheracorran, Prieststown
- Placenames
- Magheranappan 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.