Monclink

40 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Monclink, from 24 m² to 141,178 m² (14.12 ha, 34.89 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 14 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Monclink 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 Feb 2026Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH CONNECTION TO PROPOSED SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA ALONG WITH ALL ANCILLARY WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2660270

• 19 Dec 2025Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH CONNECTION TO SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2562302

• 11 Dec 2025Conditional

  DETACHED GARAGE / STORAGE SHED AND CAR PORT STRUCTURE AND PERMISSION FOR (1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE CONSTRUCTED WITH DEFECTIVE CONCRETE BLOCKWORK AND CONSTRUCTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING HOUSE AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS AND (2) PLACEMENT OF A MOBILE HOME STRUCTURE WITHIN THE SITE TO BE USED AS TEMPORARY ACCOMMODATION FOR THE DURATION OF CONSTRUCTION WORKS RELATING TO THE REPLACEMENT DWELLING HOUSE SOUGHT HEREIN

  Retention, 2 homes · Donegal County Council, 2562204

• 28 Jun 2025Refused

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH CONNECTION TO PROPOSED SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA ALONG WITH ALL ANCILLARY WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2561092

• 27 May 2025N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH CONNECTION TO PROPOSED SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA ALONG WITH ALL ANCILLARY WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2560865

• 2 May 2024Conditional

  (1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING DUE TO THE PRESENCE OF DEFECTIVE PRECAST CONCRETE BLOCKS, (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A NEWLY DESIGNED REPLACEMENT TWO STOREY STYLE DWELLING CONNECTED TO THE EXISTING SITE SERVICES TO INCLUDE ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2460633

• 1 Dec 2022Conditional

  (1) RENOVATIONS AND EXTENSION TO PART OF EXISTING BUILDING USED AS EXISTING MECHANICAL WORKSHOP (2) REVISED ELEVATIONAL TREATMENT TO PART OF EXISTING BUILDING (3) ERECTION OF (A) A LORRY/VEHICLE WASHING STATION AND (B) A NEW VECHICULAR ENTRANCE AND BOUNDARY TREATMENTS AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2251926

• 4 Aug 2020Refused

  CHANGE OF USE OF COMMERCIAL PREMISES TO A CREMATORIUM, FUNERAL HOME, ANCILLARY ACCOMMODATION, ELEVATIONAL TREATMENT, MEMORIAL GARDEN, PARKING, CONNECTION TO EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2051053

• 22 Jul 2019Conditional

  PROPOSED RENOVATIONS AND EXTENSIONS TO EXISTING DWELLING ALONG WITH CONNECTION TO A PROPOSED SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA AS REPLACEMENT FOR EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1951117

• 6 Apr 2018Conditional

  (1) EXTENSION AND ALTERATIONS TO DWELLING AND (2) DOMESTIC GARAGE/STORE INCLUDING ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 1850512

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

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Monclink.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Monclink.

Architectural heritage

• House, 1880–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1890, having advanced gable-fronted bay to the north-west end of the front elevation (north-east), central flat-roofed single-bay single-storey entrance porch to the front elevation, and with gablet to the south-east end of the front elevation. Now also in use as offices. Pitched natural slate roofs with terracotta ridge tiles, cast-iron rainwater goods, and with red brick chimneystacks to the gable ends of main body of building. Smooth rendered walls over projecting smooth rendered plinth course, with smooth rendered block-and-start quoins to the corners of the front elevation (north-east). Roughcast rendered walls to the side and rear elevations. Square-headed window openings, paired to the outer bays to the front elevation at first floor level and tripartite to the outer bays at ground floor level, having smooth rendered block-and-start surrounds, smooth rendered lintels with chamfered reveals, and with one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed doorway to the south-east side of porch having timber panelled door and overlight. Set slightly back from road in the rural countryside to the east of Manorcunningham and a short distance to the south-east of the site of the former Sallybrook Railway Station.

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

At the centre of the townland of Monclink, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as 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 Monclink.

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Monclink with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Monclink · Móin Chlaonta

Area

958,689 m² (95.87 ha, 236.9 acres)

Civil parish

Raymoghy, and its townlands

Barony

Raphoe North

Electoral division

Kincraigy, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,036 people lived in 337 households in the Kincraigy electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 37% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Drumoghill, Dunduffsfort, Galdonagh, Grawky, Sallybrook, Tullybogly

Placenames

Monclink 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.