Magherycallaghan

7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Magherycallaghan, from 41 m² to 2,309 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 6 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Magherycallaghan 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.

• 8 Dec 2023Conditional

  INSTALLATION OF NEW EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED POLISHING FACILITY TO SERVE EXISTING DWELLING INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2351893

• 31 Aug 2022Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE AND STORE, SEPTIC TANK / SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2251464

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: River Finn SAC 002301

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Magherycallaghan.

Architectural heritage

• Magherycallaghan House, country house, 1780–1800 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey-over basement country house with attic level, built c.1782, having central full-height shallow projecting stair return to the rear (south-west), and with various single-storey additions to the rear. Pitched natural slate roof with smooth rendered eaves course to the front elevation (north-east), projecting rendered eaves course to the rear elevation (south-west) and return, cast-iron rainwater goods, and with four smooth rendered chimneystacks (one to either gable end and two central chimneystacks) having terracotta pots. Roughcast rendered walls with smooth rendered walls at basement level, and with smooth rendered block-and-start quoins to the corners of the front elevation. Square-headed window openings to front elevation having smooth rendered surrounds, painted stone sills, and with six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows; central Venetian window to front elevation at first floor level having smooth rendered surround with keystone detail, central round-headed window having timber sliding sash window with intersecting timber tracery to head, and with flanking square-headed window openings with four-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed window openings to side and rear elevations with mainly timber sliding sash and with some replacement window openings. Replacement windows to basement and at attic level. Central square-headed doorway to the front elevation (north-east) having timber panelled door, doorcase comprising Doric pilasters (on square-plan) supporting pediment over, and with square-headed sidelights having smooth rendered surrounds, painted stone sills, and four-over-four pane timber sliding sash windows. Cut granite threshold and flight of cut granite steps over basement to entrance. Single-storey addition to the rear at the south-east corner having mono-pitched slate roof, roughcast rendered walls, square-headed window openings with smooth rendered surrounds and timber fittings, and square-headed doorway with smooth rendered pilasters supporting pediment over, and modern glazed timber door. Set well back from road in extensive mature landscaped grounds to the south-east of Castlefinn, close to the border with County Tyrone to the east. Garden to the north-east having mature trees and a sunken lawn. Wrought-iron gates to site. Detached four-bay single-storey house to the south, possibly a former worker’s house, having pitched corrugated-metal roof with cast-iron rainwater goods, whitewashed rubble stone walls, square-headed window openings with timber windows, and square-headed doorway with timber door. Main entrance gateway to the north east comprising a pair of smooth rendered ruled-and-lined gate piers (on square-plan) with pineapple finials over, and with a pair of wrought-iron gates. Gateway flanked to either side by sections of smooth rendered ruled-and-lined walls (on quadrant\curved plan), and terminated to each side by smooth rendered ruled-and-lined gate pier (on square-plan) with pineapple finial over.

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).

Radon

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility 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 Magherycallaghan.

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.

No address of the register names Magherycallaghan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Magherycallaghan · Machaire Uí Cheallacháin

Area

579,649 m² (57.96 ha, 143.23 acres)

Civil parish

Urney, and its townlands

Barony

Raphoe South

Electoral division

Urney West, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Urney West electoral division: 640 people in 217 households; 86% of households own their home; 39% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrakeel, Cormakilly, Dunnaloob, Foyfin, Magherareagh, Millfarm, Roganspark

Placenames

Magherycallaghan 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.