# Magheraroarty, Co. Donegal: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Clondahorky, barony of Kilmacrenan, Co. Donegal; in Irish Machaire Rabhartaigh. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 897,879 m² (89.79 ha, 221.87 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 27 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 4,204 m² (0.42 ha, 1.04 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 11 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Clondahorky, https://everytownland.com/donegal/parish/clondahorky.md - Barony: Kilmacrenan - Electoral division: Creeslough, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Donegal, https://everytownland.com/donegal.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/14351 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 51858 - Centre: latitude 55.129361, longitude -7.895162 (WGS 84) ## 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); 13 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1394163: 192,536 m² (19.25 ha, 47.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1394163.md - Parcel 5030701: 178,635 m² (17.86 ha, 44.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5030701.md - Parcel 1352597: 128,194 m² (12.82 ha, 31.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1352597.md - Parcel 1361668: 104,013 m² (10.4 ha, 25.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1361668.md - Parcel 1357430: 77,731 m² (7.77 ha, 19.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1357430.md - Parcel 1345812: 64,225 m² (6.42 ha, 15.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1345812.md - Parcel 1356749: 30,380 m² (3.04 ha, 7.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1356749.md - Parcel 1337983: 27,168 m² (2.72 ha, 6.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1337983.md - Parcel 5818093: 8,122 m² (0.81 ha, 2.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5818093.md - Parcel 5305723: 5,467 m² (0.55 ha, 1.35 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5305723.md - Parcel 1332092: 4,456 m² (0.45 ha, 1.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1332092.md - Parcel 4911572: 4,235 m² (0.42 ha, 1.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4911572.md - Parcel 1356153: 4,212 m² (0.42 ha, 1.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1356153.md - Parcel 1356151: 4,204 m² (0.42 ha, 1.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1356151.md - Parcel 3133615: 4,074 m² (0.41 ha, 1.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3133615.md - Parcel 6155271: 4,042 m² (0.4 ha, 1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6155271.md - Parcel 1426948: 3,250 m² (0.32 ha, 0.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1426948.md - Parcel 1387112: 2,801 m² (0.28 ha, 0.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1387112.md - Parcel 1398496: 2,726 m² (0.27 ha, 0.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1398496.md - Parcel 5135215: 1,970 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5135215.md - Parcel 5390723: 1,600 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5390723.md - Parcel 4728024: 594 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4728024.md - Parcel 1399183: 478 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1399183.md - Parcel 4911567: 240 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4911567.md - Parcel 4728020: 210 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4728020.md - Parcel 1319472: 173 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1319472.md - Parcel 1366054: 96 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1366054.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 11 applications, newest first. - 31 Jul 2026, Donegal County Council 2661441: N/a. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2661441/0 - 3 Dec 2025, Donegal County Council 2562132: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND DOMESTIC GARAGE INCLUDING ALL OTHER SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2562132/0 - 3 Mar 2025, Donegal County Council 2560282: Conditional. Permission. RETENTION AND COMPLETION OF VEHICULAR ENTRANCE AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560282/0 - 17 Sept 2024, Donegal County Council 2461461: Conditional. Permission. (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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2461461/0 - 2 Apr 2024, Donegal County Council 2460427: Conditional. Permission. ERECTION OF A DOMESTIC GARAGE/STUDIO ANCILLARY TO APPROVED DWELLING HOUSE AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460427/0 - 6 Mar 2024, Donegal County Council 2460282: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND DOMESTIC GARAGE INCLUDING ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460282/0 - 21 Dec 2023, Donegal County Council 2351994: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK & DOMESTIC GARAGE INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2351994/0 - 27 Oct 2023, Donegal County Council 2351646: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND DOMESTIC GARAGE INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2351646/0 - 19 May 2023, Donegal County Council 2350695: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. ERECTION OF DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2350695/0 - 8 Jun 2022, Donegal County Council 2250992: Conditional. Permission. ERECTION OF (A) A ROOF ON EXISTING SILAGE PIT (B) AN AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY STORAGE SHED WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2250992/0 - 20 Oct 2021, Donegal County Council 2152084: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2152084/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: Sheephaven SAC, site code 001190, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/001190 - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Sheephaven, site code 001190 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - DG026-030: Religious house - Franciscan Third Order Regular, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDG026-030----. 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 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Magheraroarty. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/donegal/magheraroarty-51858.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/donegal/magheraroarty-51858.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/donegal/magheraroarty-51858.kml ## Homes sold (Residential 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: https://everytownland.com/donegal.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Creeslough: https://everytownland.com/donegal/creeslough.md - Magherablad: https://everytownland.com/donegal/magherablad.md - Masiness: https://everytownland.com/donegal/masiness.md - Ummerafad: https://everytownland.com/donegal/ummerafad.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/donegal/magheraroarty-51858 - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/donegal/magheraroarty-51858