Magheraroarty
Townland in the civil parish of Clondahorky, barony of Kilmacrenan, Co. Donegal; in Irish Machaire Rabhartaigh
- Area
- 89.8 ha
- 222 acres
- Land parcels
- 27
- registered freehold, median 4,204 m² (0.42 ha, 1.04 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 11
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
27 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Magheraroarty, from 96 m² to 192,536 m² (19.25 ha, 47.58 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 13 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 Magheraroarty 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
31 Jul 2026N/a
CHANGE OF HOUSE TYPE FROM THAT PREVIOUSLY APPROVED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 23/51646 CONSISTING OF (1) CONSTRUCTION OF A TWO-STOREY DWELLING WITH A SINGLE-STOREY LIVING AREA AND SINGLE-STOREY GARAGE, (2) INSTALLATION OF A WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT WITH PERCOLATION AREA, (3) CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW ACCESS TO EXISTING ROAD AND (4) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2661441
3 Dec 2025Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND DOMESTIC GARAGE INCLUDING ALL OTHER SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2562132
3 Mar 2025Conditional
RETENTION AND COMPLETION OF VEHICULAR ENTRANCE AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2560282
17 Sept 2024Conditional
(1) CONSTRUCTION OF A DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH HOME GYM AND OFFICE, (2) DECOMMISSIONING OF EXISTING SEPTIC TANK SERVING EXISTING DWELLING AND INSTALLATION OF A NEW SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT TO SERVE EXISTING DWELLING AND GARAGE, (3) CONSTRUCTION OF (A) A POLYTUNNEL, POTTING SHED AND GREENHOUSE FOR GARDEN HOBBY, (B) 2 NO. SHEDS FOR BIKES AND WOOD STORAGE AND (C) A GARDEN ROOM TO THE REAR OF THE SITE AND (4) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2461461
2 Apr 2024Conditional
ERECTION OF A DOMESTIC GARAGE/STUDIO ANCILLARY TO APPROVED DWELLING HOUSE AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2460427
6 Mar 2024Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND DOMESTIC GARAGE INCLUDING ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2460282
21 Dec 2023Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK & DOMESTIC GARAGE INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2351994
27 Oct 2023Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND DOMESTIC GARAGE INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2351646
19 May 2023Conditional
ERECTION OF DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2350695
8 Jun 2022Conditional
ERECTION OF (A) A ROOF ON EXISTING SILAGE PIT (B) AN AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY STORAGE SHED WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2250992
20 Oct 2021Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2152084
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Sheephaven SAC 001190
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Sheephaven 001190
Recorded monuments
- DG026-030 Religious house - Franciscan Third Order Regular
Description
Ballymacswiny Friary; This friary was founded probably in the second half of the 15th century by McSwiny Doe for the Franciscan Third Order Regular. The friary was sold in 1612 to Sir Ralph Bingley (Gwynn and Hadcock 1970, 268; Ó Domhnaill 1952, 101). No visible trace of the friary buildings survive. 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
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Magheraroarty.
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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, 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 Magheraroarty.
- 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 Magheraroarty with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Magheraroarty · Machaire Rabhartaigh
- Area
- 897,879 m² (89.79 ha, 221.87 acres)
- Civil parish
- Clondahorky, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kilmacrenan
- Electoral division
- Creeslough, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Creeslough electoral division: 783 people in 329 households; 64% of households own their home; 36% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 21% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Creeslough, Magherablad, Masiness, Ummerafad
- Placenames
- Magheraroarty 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.