Magheraroarty Mountain
Townland in the civil parish of Tullaghobegly, barony of Kilmacrenan, Co. Donegal; in Irish Sliabh Mhachaire Uí Rabhartaigh
- Area
- 563.1 ha
- 1,392 acres
- Land parcels
- 101
- registered freehold, median 3,294 m² (0.33 ha, 0.81 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 8
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
101 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Magheraroarty Mountain, from 345 m² to 4,628,559 m² (462.86 ha, 1,143.74 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 30 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 Mountain 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
30 Mar 2026Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF (1) DWELLING HOUSE WITH WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND POLISHING FILTER AND (2) GARAGE/STORE TO REAR FOR PRIVATE USE ONLY WITH ALL ASSOCIATED DRAINAGE AND SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2650051
16 Jan 2026N/a
CONSTRUCTION OF (1) A NEW DWELLING HOUSE WITH WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND POLISHING FILTER AND (2) GARAGE-STORE TO THE REAR OF DWELLING FOR PRIVATE USE ONLY WITH ALL ASSOCIATED DRAINAGE AND SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2650004
24 Jun 2025Conditional
TEMPORARY LIVING ACCOMMODATION AND CONNECTION TO EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND PERMISSION FOR (1) ALTERATION, CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSION AND RENOVATION WORKS TO EXISTING DERELICT DWELLING HOUSE AND (2) INSTALLATION OF A NEW FOUL WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND DISPOSAL AND ALL ASSOCIATED EXTERNAL SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2550092
23 Oct 2024N/a
TEMPORARY LIVING ACCOMMODATION WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND PERMISSION FOR CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING, INSTALLATION OF NEW FOUL WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND DISPOSAL AND ALL ASSOCIATED EXTERNAL SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Retention, 2 homes · Donegal County Council, 2450229
17 Feb 2023Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2350181
24 Jul 2018Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSION TO REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1851149
18 Apr 2018Refused
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1850606
20 Dec 2017N/a
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1751958
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
- Natural Heritage Area: Corveen Bog NHA 001108
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Magheraroarty Mountain.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Magheraroarty Mountain.
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 20 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 Mountain.
- 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 Mountain with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Magheraroarty Mountain · Sliabh Mhachaire Uí Rabhartaigh
- Area
- 5,631,383 m² (563.14 ha, 1,391.55 acres)
- Civil parish
- Tullaghobegly, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kilmacrenan
- Electoral division
- Gortahork, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Gortahork electoral division: 1,693 people in 667 households; 83% of households own their home; 32% of homes were built since 2001; 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 21% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ards Beg, Ardsmore Mountain, Attatantee, Corveen, Derryconor, Glashagh, Glasserchoo, Meenaclady
- Gaeltacht
- In an Irish-speaking area
- Placenames
- Magheraroarty Mountain 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.