Magheravall or Midcut
Townland in the civil parish of Convoy, barony of Raphoe South, Co. Donegal
- Area
- 109.9 ha
- 272 acres
- Land parcels
- 25
- registered freehold, median 22,825 m² (2.28 ha, 5.64 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
25 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Magheravall or Midcut, from 478 m² to 263,245 m² (26.32 ha, 65.05 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 Magheravall or Midcut 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
25 Jul 2025Conditional
MOBILE HOME TO PROVIDE TEMPORARY LIVING ACCOMMODATION FOR THE DURATION OF CONSTRUCTION OF HOUSE (APPROXIMATELY 14 MONTHS) AS GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REFERENCE 24/60853 AND CONNECTION TO EXISTING SITE SERVICES
Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2561275
29 Apr 2025N/a
PLACEMENT OF A MOBILE HOME ON SITE TO PROVIDE TEMPORARY LIVING ACCOMMODATION FOR THE DURATION OF THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE HOUSE (APPROXIMATELY 14 MONTHS) AS GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 24/60853, WITH CONNECTION TO THE EXISTING SITE SERVICES
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2560669
7 Jun 2024Conditional
(1) DEMOLITION OF THE EXISTING, DETACHED, TWO STOREY DWELLING HOUSE DAMAGED DUE TO DEFECTIVE (MICA) PRECAST CONCRETE BLOCKS, AND (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A REPLACEMENT DETACHED, BUNGALOW DWELLING HOUSE WITH ALTERATIONS FROM THAT OF THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND CONNECTION TO THE EXISTING SITE SERVICES
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2460853
22 May 2024N/a
(1) DEMOLITION OF THE EXISTING, DETACHED, TWO STOREY DWELLING HOUSE DAMAGED DUE TO DEFECTIVE (MICA) PRECAST CONCRETE BLOCKS, (2) RECONSTRUCTION OF A REPLACEMENT DETACHED BUNGALOW DWELLING HOUSE WITH ALTERATIONS FROM THAT OF THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE. THE RELEVANT ASSOCIATED REPLACEMENT WORKS WILL BE CONNECTED TO THE EXISTING SITE SERVICES
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2460745
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 Magheravall or Midcut.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Magheravall or Midcut.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Magheravall or Midcut.
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
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Magheravall or Midcut.
- 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 Magheravall or Midcut with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Magheravall or Midcut
- Area
- 1,099,134 m² (109.91 ha, 271.6 acres)
- Civil parish
- Convoy, and its townlands
- Barony
- Raphoe South
- Electoral division
- Lettermore, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Lettermore electoral division: 368 people in 127 households; 89% of households own their home; 39% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Aughkeely, Cloghroe, Lettermore, Liskeran, Meenagrauv, Meenalaban, Meenanilta
- Placenames
- Magheravall or Midcut 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.