Muckros

59 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Muckros, from 149 m² to 92,238 m² (9.22 ha, 22.79 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 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 Muckros 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.

• 23 Sept 2025Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DRY SHED WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2561649

• 27 May 2025Conditional

  DEMOLITION OF THE EXISTING HOUSE AND CONSTRUCTION OF A REPLACEMENT HOUSE, INSTALLATION OF A NEW SEWERAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM, PERCOLATION AREA AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORK. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) ACCOMPANIES THIS APPLICATION

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2560854

• 17 Oct 2024Refused

  ERECTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING HOUSE, SEWERAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM, PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2461648

• 13 Sept 2023Conditional

  DEMOLITION OF AN EXISTING SHED AND ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEWERAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) ACCOMPANIES THIS APPLICATION

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2351369

• 16 Sept 2020N/a

  ERECTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING HOUSE, SEWERAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM, PERCOLATION AREA & ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2051300

• 20 Sept 2017Conditional

  RELOCATION OF A SLATTED CATTLE SHED PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REFERENCE 15/51140 WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS WITHIN EXISTING FARMYARD COMPLEX

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1751442

• 25 Aug 2017N/a

  RELOCATION OF SLATTED CATTLE SHED PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF 15/51140 WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS WITHIN THE EXISTING FARMYARD COMPLEX

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1751304

• 5 Jul 2017N/a

  RELOCATION OF SLATTED CATTLE SHED PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF 15/51140 WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS WITHIN EXISTING FARMYARD COMPLEX

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1751063

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

Designated sites

• Special Protection Area: West Donegal Coast SPA 004150

Recorded monuments

• DG096-026 Burial ground
  Description

  A field known as Kilbane burial ground. There is now no surface indication of its nature. Bones and gravemarkers are said to have been found here in the past (DRS); located on grassland with rougher land nearby. This possible burial ground or field known locally as 'Kilbane' appears to have consisted of a square-shaped area (dims. 19m x 18.5m) defined by a poorly preserved earthen bank. On the first edition of the Ordnance Survey 6-inch map this square-shaped area does not exist and this field along with the adjoining field to the E is shown as a D-shaped area which may have been the enclosing element of the graveyard known locally as 'Kilbane'. 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. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload/revision: : 01 July 2010

• DG096-027001 Promontory fort - coastal
  Description

  A triangular promontory from 46.5m wide at its E or landward side to 7m wide at its promontory end is cut off from the land side by a ruined stone wall consisting of an inner and outer facing with a central small stone core. The wall varies from 2.75m to 3m in width. At its N end the wall turns W along the cliff edge which is not too steep at this point. Elsewhere the cliff edge is sheer and in places overhanging. The wall survives up to 1m in height along the N section but elsewhere is almost flush with the interior. Modern steps and a wall have been constructed on the original wall. The interior is level. The site is located in an area of fairly good grazing. A local tradition claims that a lintelled entrance originally passed through the wall, at that time much higher. 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 This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 75/1939).

• DG096-027002 Midden
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• DG096-042 Mass-rock
  Description

  Situated just off the top of high ground built into the W face of a field boundary are the remains of what appears to be a low altar formed from several small slabs some which have since collapsed. According to local landowner this is the site of a mass-rock.

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Muckros.

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 Muckros, 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 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 Muckros.

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

Name

Muckros · Mucros

Area

913,239 m² (91.32 ha, 225.67 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcar, and its townlands

Barony

Banagh

Electoral division

Largymore, the unit of the census

Census 2022

523 people lived in 216 households in the Largymore electoral division. 84% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 23% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Lergadaghtan, Roelough, Tawny

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Muckros 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.