Massreagh

91 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Massreagh, from 43 m² to 150,695 m² (15.07 ha, 37.24 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 16 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 Massreagh 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.

• 20 Aug 2026N/a

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH CONNECTION TO PUBLIC SEWER INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2661547

• 8 Jul 2026N/a

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2661263

• 6 Jul 2026N/a

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2661246

• 22 May 2026Conditional

  CONTINUED USE OF PREFABRICATED PORTACABIN TO PROVIDE 2 NO. ADDITIONAL SPECIAL EDUCATIONAL NEEDS CLASSROOMS FOR SCOIL CHOLMCILLE

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2660934

• 12 Sept 2025Unconditional

  DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DERELICT DWELLING AND DOMESTIC SHED AND ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH CONNECTION TO PUBLIC SEWER AND DEVELOPMENT OF ACCESS ROAD WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS

  Extension of duration, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2550122

• 23 Jul 2025N/a

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2561256

• 26 May 2025Refused

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH CONNECTION TO PUBLIC SEWER INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2560838

• 11 Apr 2025Conditional

  RETENTION AND COMPLETION OF DWELLING HOUSE UNDER CONSTRUCTION, INCLUDING ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2560551

• 24 Mar 2025Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2560422

• 10 Jan 2025N/a

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2560012

• 11 Dec 2024N/a

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2462045

• 23 Oct 2024Conditional

  DWELLING HOUSE INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2461694

• 15 Oct 2024Conditional

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

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2461625

• 1 Oct 2024Conditional

  RETENTION AND COMPLETION OF DWELLING HOUSE UNDER CONSTRUCTION WITH CONNECTION TO THE MAIN SEWER

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2461542

• 24 Sept 2024N/a

  RETENTION AND COMPLETION OF DWELLING HOUSE UNDER CONSTRUCTION AND CONNECTION TO THE MAIN SEWER

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2461508

• 24 Sept 2024N/a

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

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2461507

• 4 Sept 2024N/a

  RETENTION AND COMPLETION OF DWELLING HOUSE UNDER CONSTRUCTION WITH CONNECTION TO THE MAIN SEWER

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2461365

• 14 Aug 2024N/a

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

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2461246

• 17 Jul 2024Conditional

  ERECTION OF EXTENSION TO THE SIDE OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2461097

• 24 Jun 2024Conditional

  RETENTION AND COMPLETION OF DWELLING HOUSE UNDER CONSTRUCTION AND CONNECTED TO MAIN SEWER

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2460946

• 20 May 2024Conditional

  (1) ALTERATIONS AND RELOCATION OF DWELLING HOUSE PREVIOUSLY APPROVED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 22/51293, (2) ALTERATIONS AND RELOCATION OF DOMESTIC GARAGE PREVIOUSLY APPROVED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 22/51293, (3) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS INCLUDING ACCESS ROAD SERVING THE EXISTING DWELLING

  Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2460733

• 1 May 2024N/a

  RETENTION AND COMPLETION OF DWELLING HOUSE CURRENTLY UNDER CONSTRUCTION

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2460629

• 21 Jun 2023Conditional

  (1) CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO THE REAR OF THE FORMER VILLAGE COURT CONSISTING OF 8 NO. NEW BEDROOMS OVER TWO FLOORS, (2) DEMOLITION OF 4 NO. PARTLY BUILT DWELLING HOUSES AND (3) ALL OTHER SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS ASSOCIATED WITH THE DEVELOPMENT

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2350887

• 3 May 2023Refused

  DEMOLITION OF EXISTING UNINHABITABLE FORMER PAROCHIAL HOUSE AND EXISTING STORAGE SHED

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2350603

• 23 Mar 2023Conditional

  SINGLE-STOREY EXTENSION TO THE REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND THE RELOCATION OF THE SITE ENTRANCE

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2350377

The 25 most recent of 54 applications.

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: Leannan River SAC 002176
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Leannan Valley Woods 001155

Recorded monuments

• DG045-009001 Bullaun stone
  Description

  Two basin-stones (DG045-009001/002-) are lying along the main street of Kilmacrenan. (1) (DG045-009001-) A boulder 1.22m x .6m has a depression .29m in diameter and 0.17m deep at one end. A second depression .05m in diameter and at least .04m in depth is cut at the other end of the stone. (2) (DG045-009002-) On the E side of the road a roughly square block of stone .31m has a depression .14m in diameter and 0.06m in depth. No information regarding the provenance of either stone was available. 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

Architectural heritage

• St. Columba's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1900–1910 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding Catholic church, dated 1903, having six-bay double-height hall with polygonal apse to the south-west, three-bay single-storey sacristy attached to the south-west corner of south-east elevation of nave, and with central single-bay single-storey gable-fronted porch to the centre of the entrance gable (north-east), added 1943-4. Pitched natural slate roof to main body of building having corbelled (ashlar?) eaves course, profiled cast-iron profiled rainwater goods, and with timber cross finials to gable apexes (north-east and south-west); hipped natural slate roof to apse having corbelled eaves course with profiled rainwater goods; pitched natural slate roof to sacristy having corbelled eaves course with profiled rainwater goods, and with rendered chimneystack to the south-east gable end; pitched natural slate roof to porch having corbelled eaves course with profiled rainwater foods, raised rendered verge to the north-east gable end having Celtic cross finial to gable apex, and with moulded cut stone kneeler stones at eaves level. Smooth rendered ruled-and-lined rendered walls over projecting smooth rendered eaves course; projecting ashlar granite block and start quoins to corners of main body of building, sacristy and to porch. Foundation stone (on rectangular-plan) to the south-east side of entrance porch having chamfered cut stone(?) surround and incised text reading ‘LAPIS HUJUS SANCTI COLUMBAE ECCLESIAS PRIMARIUS DIE 17 MARTU 1903 SOLEMNITER EST POSITUS’. Round-headed window openings to side elevations of nave and to apse having painted stone sills and leaded coloured or stained glass windows; pictorial stained glass windows to apse and to south-west elevation of main body of church. Round-headed recessed panel over porch to front elevation (north-east) having three graded round-headed windows with leaded stained glass windows, smooth rendered block-and-start surround, and with smooth rendered archivolt\hoodmoulding over; round-headed window openings to front elevation (flanking central porch) and to the front face of porch (north-east) having leaded diamond-pane windows with coloured glass, smooth rendered block-and-start surrounds, and with stucco archivolt\hoodmouldings over. Square-headed window openings to sacristy having one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows to the front elevation (north-east) with margin glazing bars and with multi-pane timber sliding sash windows to the rear (south-west). Square-headed doorway to the north-east face of sacristy having battened timber door. Exposed arch-braced timber trusses to interior resting on corbels, and with timber sheeted ceiling; timber pews, marble altar goods, and having decorative encaustic tiled floor to porch with timber panelled half-glazed double doors. Set back from road in own grounds to the west of the centre of Kilmacrenan. Freestanding belfry to the north having smooth rendered uprights supporting bell metal bell with cast-iron supports. Enclosure to the south-east side of nave containing three Celtic cross type memorials to former parish priests; grave enclosure surrounded by low rendered plinth wall with rendered coping and wrought-iron railings over with cast-iron finials. Wrought-iron flat bar gate to the north end of front elevation. Gravel forecourt to the north-east bounded to the north-west by smooth rendered boundary wall. Detached three-bay two-storey presbytery\parochial house adjacent to the south-west having pitched natural roof with a central pair of smooth rendered chimneystacks, , smooth rendered walls, square-headed window openings with replacement fittings, and central segmental-headed doorway with timber panelled door, sidelights over timber panels, corbelled brackets supporting timber lintel, and with spoked fanlight over. Garden to front of parochial house (north-east) bounded on road-frontage by rendered boundary wall.

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 Massreagh.

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.

• Massreagh, Kilmacrennan17 sales

Name

Massreagh

Area

1,075,395 m² (107.54 ha, 265.74 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmacrenan, and its townlands

Barony

Kilmacrenan

Electoral division

Kilmacrenan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kilmacrenan electoral division: 1,525 people in 538 households; 64% of households own their home; 47% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Clonkilly Beg, Cottian, Kilconnell or Glebe, Kilmacrenan, Legnahoory, Procklis

Placenames

Massreagh 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.