Masiness

156 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Masiness, from 12 m² to 160,450 m² (16.05 ha, 39.65 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 23 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 Masiness 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.

• 24 Jun 2026Conditional

  DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DERELICT DWELLING HOUSE AND ERECTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING HOUSE AND NEW DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2661165

• 20 Mar 2024Conditional

  ERECTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE WITH CONNECTION TO PUBLIC SEWER AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2460358

• 15 Dec 2023Conditional

  (A) CHANGE OF USE OF EXISTING UNUSED HEALTH CENTRE TO A DWELLING HOUSE, (B) ERECTION OF AN EXTENSION, (C) REFURBISHMENT OF EXISTING BUILDING WITH CONNECTION TO PUBLIC SEWER, AND (D) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2351925

• 4 Oct 2023Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF PART ONE, PART TWO STOREY EXTENSION TO THE EXISTING DWELLING, DECOMMISSIONING OF EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND INSTALLATION OF NEW WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM ALONG WITH ALL ASSOCIATED FACILITIES AND SITE WORKS. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) ACCOMMPANIES THIS APPLICATION

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2351492

• 6 Sept 2023Conditional

  ERECTION OF EXTENSIONS TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2351338

• 19 Jul 2023Conditional

  ERECTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL SHED WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2351061

• 6 Jul 2023N/a

  ERECTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL SHED WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2350980

• 28 Jun 2023N/a

  ERECTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL SHED WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2350932

• 6 Oct 2021Conditional

  ALTERATIONS TO FACADE OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2151981

• 17 Jun 2020Unconditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DOMESTIC GARAGE

  Extension of duration · Donegal County Council, 2050776

• 20 Mar 2020Conditional

  WORKS TO FRONT OF DWELLING HOUSE AND PERMISSION FOR ERECTION OF A PORCH TO THE FRONT OF DWELLING HOUSE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2050393

• 20 Feb 2020N/a

  ERECTION OF A PORCH TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2050198

• 5 Feb 2020N/a

  ERECTION OF A PORCH TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2050115

• 28 Mar 2019Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DETACHED SINGLE STOREY CLASSROOM AND LINK CANOPY AT THE SOUTH BOUNDARY OF THE SCHOOL AND CONSTRUCTION OF AN ATTACHED ACCESSIBLE TOILET/SHOWER ROOM AND STORE ROOM AT THE SOUTHEAST OF THE EXISTING BUILDING AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1950428

• 20 Jun 2018Conditional

  (1) RETENTION OF AN EXISTING ACCESS ROAD AND (2) ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK

  Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1850973

• 13 Jun 2018Conditional

  ERECTION OF A SINGLE STOREY SUNROOM EXTENSION WITH BALCONY TO THE SOUTH-WEST ELEVATION AND A STOREY AND A HALF EXTENSION FOR ONE ADDITIONAL BEDROOM ON THE SOUTH-EAST ELEVATION TO EXISTING STOREY AND A HALF DWELLING

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1850926

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: Sheephaven SAC 001190
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Sheephaven 001190

Recorded monuments

• DG026-028 Megalithic tomb - unclassified
  Description

  This feature was first shown on the 1847-9 edition of the OS 6-inch map. There is no trace of it now. In the middle of the 19th century two stones, one upright and the other prostrate, marked the site and were thought to be the last remains of a 'sepulchral monument' known locally as 'Dermot and Grania's Bed' (Fagan 1845-8; OS Revision Name Book, 1847-9). The upright stone was c. 4 feet (c. 1.2m) high, 31/2 feet (c. 1.05m) broad and 6 inches (c. 0.15m) thick. The prostrate stone was 7 feet (c. 2.15m) long, 3 feet (c. 0.9m) broad and 7 inches (c. 0.17m) thick. According to Fagan (1845-8), the upright stone marked the W end of a grave that had measured 71/2 feet (c. 2.3m) long and 4-5 feet (c. 1.2-1.5m) wide, and it was locally believed that the prostrate stone had stood upright at the E end of the grave. All trace of the site had been removed by 1902 (OS 1:2, 500 Name Book, 1902-3). This may have been a megalithic tomb but cannot be relied on as such on the basis of the available evidence. Fagan (1845-8), book 2, 15; OS Revision Name Book, sheet 26 (1847-9), 22; OS 1:2,500 Name Book, sheet 26 (1902-3), 44; Ó Nualláin 1983a, 46, no. 134; SMR 1987, 26:28; RMP 1995, 26:28. The above description was published in the 'Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume VI, County Donegal.' Compiled by: Eamon Cody (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). Date of upload: 22 September 2008

• DG026-029 Burial ground
  Description

  The burial ground shown on the 2nd edition of the OS 6-inch map could not be found in an area of dense bushes and grass. The site is a rocky ridge in light soiled land suitable for grazing. 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

• DG026-046 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  Marked 'Turras Columbkille' on 1905 ed. of OS 6-inch map. Its location is derived from the fieldwork map for the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal' (1983). Described by Ó Muirgheasa in 1936 as 'There is a Turus Colmcille at Colmcille's Holy Well about a mile from Massinass School. Stations are still made there' (Ó Muirgheasa 1936, 153) (Ó Muirgheasa No. 58) Compiled by Caimin O'Brien Date of upload/revision: 04 November 2011

Architectural heritage

• Bridge, 1890–1910 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch former railway accommodation bridge, built c. 1903, carrying the former Letterkenny to Burtonport section of the Derry (Middle Quay) to Burtonport railway line over small private laneway. Railway lines now out of use with tracks removed (c. 1947). Segmental-headed arch having squared mildly rock-faced voussoirs with drafted margins; squared and coursed rubble stone construction to arch barrel. Squared, snecked and coursed mildly rock-faced rubble stone construction to spandrels; rock-faced quoins to base of arch having drafted margins. Squared, snecked and coursed rubble limestone masonry to parapets with rendered coping over. Squared, snecked and coursed mildly-rock-faced rubble stone retaining walls\abutments with rendered coping over to either side of arch (north-west and south-east). Grass deck. Located in the rural country side a short distance to the north-west of the centre of Creeslough with Faymore Viaduct (see 40813002) adjacent to the north-west.

• House, 1830–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Attached pair of two- and three-bay two-storey houses, built c. 1840, having two-storey addition, c. 1860, attached to the north-west, and with taller two-bay two-story house (three-bay two-storey elevation to the south-east), added c. 1870, attached to the south-east having projecting single-storey single-bay entrance porch attached to the north-east elevation. Possibly incorporating earlier building to site, c. 1820, Formerly probably in use as a hotel\bar and or retail outlet. Single-storey extension to the west side of house to the south-east end. Pitched natural slate roof to houses to the north-west having rendered chimney with flat coping to the centre with terracotta pots over, projecting eaves course, and with cast-iron rainwater goods. Hipped slate roof to taller house to south-east having central rendered chimneystack with flat coping and terracotta pots over, and with cast-iron rainwater goods. Hipped natural slate roof to entrance porch. Hipped slate roof to rear extension with timber eaves course, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls with raised smooth rendered plinth course to two two-storey houses to the north-west. Rubble stone walls to rear extension to the north-west. Square-headed window openings with smooth rendered reveals, some surviving stone sills, and with six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows to block to the south-east and replacement timber casement windows elsewhere. Square-headed doorway to the north-west face of porch having replacement glazed timber door. Square-headed doorway to the centre of three-bay two-storey house to the north-west end having smooth rendered reveals, and with battened timber door. Set slightly back from road in the rural countryside to the north-west of Creeslough with raised flagstone plinth to the front (north-east). Garden to the south having section of rubble stone boundary wall to the road-frontage to the east and north-east; wrought-iron gate to garden from the north-east corner. Yard to the north-west entered through gateway adjacent to road having a pair of smooth rendered gate piers with wrought-iron flat bar gates; section of rendered rubble stone boundary wall to the north-west side of pair to the north. Detached seven-bay two-storey outbuilding, built c. 1860, to the north side of yard to the north-west having pitched purple natural slate roof with exposed rafter ends and cast-iron rooflights, partially roughcast rendered rubble stone walls, square-headed window openings (some with red brick surrounds) with remains of timber fittings, segmental-headed carriage-arch, and square-headed doorways and loading bays some with remains of timber fittings.

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 5 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 Masiness.

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 Masiness with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Masiness · Más an Easa

Area

1,162,805 m² (116.28 ha, 287.34 acres)

Civil parish

Clondahorky, and its townlands

Barony

Kilmacrenan

Electoral division

Creeslough, the unit of the census

Census 2022

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.

Neighbouring townlands

Clonbeg Glebe, Creeslough, Faymore, Kilmackilloo, Magheraroarty

Placenames

Masiness 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.