# Maghernalaght, Co. Donegal: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Clondavaddog, barony of Kilmacrenan, Co. Donegal; in Irish Machaire Leacht. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 400,690 m² (40.07 ha, 99.01 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 1,805 m² - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Clondavaddog, https://everytownland.com/donegal/parish/clondavaddog.md - Barony: Kilmacrenan - Electoral division: Fanad North, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 540 people lived in 209 households in the Fanad North electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 26% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 42% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Donegal, https://everytownland.com/donegal.md - Gaeltacht: in an Irish-speaking area - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/15798 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 51866 - Centre: latitude 55.224978, longitude -7.700045 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Maghernalaght, from 152 m² to 179,793 m² (17.98 ha, 44.43 acres); 8 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 5089689: 179,793 m² (17.98 ha, 44.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5089689.md - Parcel 1395805: 163,553 m² (16.36 ha, 40.41 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1395805.md - Parcel 4949255: 12,240 m² (1.22 ha, 3.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4949255.md - Parcel 1357347: 9,768 m² (0.98 ha, 2.41 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1357347.md - Parcel 1394279: 6,564 m² (0.66 ha, 1.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1394279.md - Parcel 1369618: 3,710 m² (0.37 ha, 0.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1369618.md - Parcel 3661484: 3,411 m² (0.34 ha, 0.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3661484.md - Parcel 4949265: 3,023 m² (0.3 ha, 0.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4949265.md - Parcel 1372290: 2,863 m² (0.29 ha, 0.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1372290.md - Parcel 3892107: 2,736 m² (0.27 ha, 0.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3892107.md - Parcel 3661483: 2,134 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3661483.md - Parcel 3661485: 1,805 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3661485.md - Parcel 5621893: 1,542 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5621893.md - Parcel 5621895: 1,248 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5621895.md - Parcel 6172264: 1,088 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6172264.md - Parcel 6172266: 630 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6172266.md - Parcel 3766820: 530 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3766820.md - Parcel 3661486: 475 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3661486.md - Parcel 3661489: 296 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3661489.md - Parcel 6172269: 217 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6172269.md - Parcel 6172254: 209 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6172254.md - Parcel 3661487: 207 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3661487.md - Parcel 3661488: 152 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3661488.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Maghernalaght 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) 2 applications, newest first. - 16 Oct 2019, Donegal County Council 1951558: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH AN ON-SITE WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1951558/0 - 14 Aug 2017, Donegal County Council 1751263: Conditional. Permission. (1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DISUSED 160 SQ.M. CHILL STORE (2) ERECTION OF A PROPOSED CLEANER FISH HATCHERY BUILDING ON THE SITE OF THE FORMER CHILL. THE PROPOSED HATCHERY WILL CONSIST OF A 520 SQ.M. PORTAL FRAMED BUILDING WITH A RIDGE HEIGHT OF APPROXIMATELY 4.90M ABOVE THE EXISTING PAVED YARD. THE BUILDING WILL BE FINISHED WITH PROFILED SHEETING, COLOURED GREEN. (3) CONNECTION TO THE EXISTING SEA WATER INTAKE SYSTEM AND UNDERGROUND ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLY (4) INSTALLATION OF A FILTER AND 100 CU.M. SEA WATER HEADER TANK WITH UNDERGROUND GRAVITY PIPEWORK CONNECTION TO NEW HATCHERY (5) INSTALLATION OF WASTE WATER COLLECTION SYSTEM AND PUMPED RISING MAIN WITH FILTRATION UNIT TO THE EXISTING SEA WATER OUTFALL PIPE AT THE NEARBY KINDRUM SMOLT FARM (6) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE SERVICES. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1751263/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: Mulroy Bay SAC, site code 002159, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/002159 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Maghernalaght. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Maghernalaght. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Maghernalaght, about 1 in 10 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: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Maghernalaght. - 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/maghernalaght.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/donegal/maghernalaght.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/donegal/maghernalaght.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Maghernalaght 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) - Carrowkeel Glebe: https://everytownland.com/donegal/carrowkeel-glebe.md - Croaghan: https://everytownland.com/donegal/croaghan-50795.md - Kindrum: https://everytownland.com/donegal/kindrum.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/maghernalaght - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/donegal/maghernalaght