Murlough

39 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Murlough, from 388 m² to 200,372 m² (20.04 ha, 49.51 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 21 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 Murlough 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.

• 26 Aug 2025Conditional

  LIVING ROOM, UTILITY ROOM, STORE ROOM, TOILET EXTENSION AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2561472

• 19 Jul 2022Conditional

  EXISTING GARAGE / SHED

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2251227

• 27 Oct 2021Conditional

  PERMISSION GRANTED FOR - BUILDING CONTAINING AN EXERCISE ROOM & SAUNA PERMISSION REFUSED FOR - GARAGE / SHED

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2152121

• 7 Aug 2020Refused

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Outline permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2051086

• 15 Jul 2019Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF DISABLED ACCESS TOILET / ASSISTED SHOWER ROOM AND ALL ASSOCIATED ANCILLARY WORKS INCLUDING CONNECTION TO EXISTING SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1951065

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 Murlough.

Recorded monuments

• DG070-048 Standing stone
  Description

  There is no trace of the 'Standing Stone' marked on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map. Situated on the side of a hill, on good land falling away to N and W. 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

• DG070-049 Standing stone
  Description

  There is no trace of the 'Standing Stone' marked on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map. Situated on the side of a hill, on good land falling away to N and W. 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

• DG070-050 Standing stone
  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.

Architectural heritage

• Ballindrait Presbyterian Manse, manse, 1820–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey Presbyterian manse, built c. 1830 and altered or rebuilt c. 1880, having single-bay single-storey porch to the centre of the front elevation (north), added c. 1880, and with single-storey extension to the rear (south). Now in use as a house or manse. Pitched natural slate roof with stone ridge tiles, overhanging bracketed eaves with exposed rafter ends, cast-iron rainwater goods, timber bargeboards to the gable ends, and with four red brick chimneystacks having cornice copings and clay-ware pots over. Flat felt roof to entrance porch with smooth rendered eaves course. Roughcast rendered walls over projecting smooth rendered plinth course, and with raised smooth rendered block-and-start quoins to corners of main body of building. Square-headed window openings with stone sills, moulded smooth rendered architraved surrounds, and with replacement six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed window openings to sides of porch having smooth rendered surrounds and four-over-four pane timber sliding sash windows. Round-headed door opening to front face of porch (north) having timber panelled door, sidelights and plain overlight, and with smooth rendered surround comprising fluted pilasters with capitals, and architraved head with keystone motif. Set back from road in own grounds in the rural countryside to the south-east of Ballindrait and to the north-west of Lifford. Mature garden to front of site (north). Associated Presbyterian church (see 40834013) located at Ballindrait. Detached three-bay two-storey outbuilding with two-bay two-storey attached extension located to east having pitched purple slate roof, smooth rendered eaves course, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Outbuilding now converted for use as a doctor’s surgery (since 1997). Rubble stone walls with segmental-headed and square-headed openings with red brick headers and reveals with concrete sills, and having replacement windows and doors throughout. Roughcast rendered boundary wall to north. Gateway to the north-west corner of site comprising a pair of red brick gate piers (on square-plan) having roughcast rendered central panels and with stepped red brick coping, and with a pair of decorative wrought-iron gates.

• Ballindrait Windmill, mill (wind), 1870–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding six-stage former windmill (on circular-plan), dated 1874(?), having walls tapering from base. Now ruinous (unused since 1932). Ashlar coping over tower having remains of timber rotating sail mechanism over. Rubble stone walls with remnants of lime render over. Cut stone date plaque (on diamond-plan) to second stage having Masonic square and divider motif to head and text reading ‘Erected 1874(?) Charles Robinson(?)’. Projecting timber trusses\supports around tower at third stage level, formerly supporting timber walkway\gantry. Square-headed window openings, doors or loading bays to north having concrete sills red brick surrounds and voussoirs; window fittings now gone. Opening at ground floor level now infilled with brick. Millstones survive to interior at second stage level. Located in farm complex to south of Ballindrait on elevated ground close to summit of Croghan\Croghan Hill. Set in concrete paved yard and surrounded by modern house (to west) and modern or heavily altered outbuildings. Approached via laneway from road to the south.

• Outbuilding, 1900–1920 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached eight-bay two-storey outbuilding, built c. 1910, having external flight of stone steps to the south gable end giving access to doorway at first floor level. Pitched natural slate roof with terracotta tiles, raised rendered coping to gables, projecting eaves course, and with cast-iron rainwater goods. Random rubble stone walls with flushed roughly squared quoi ns to the corners, and with remains of rendered finish to south gable end. Square-headed window, door, and loading bay openings having flush red brick block-and-start reveals and voussoirs, concrete sills and with battened timber and\or metal shutters\doors over. Some openings at ground floor level now blocked. Series of ocular windows with red brick surrounds at ground floor level to the south end of the west elevation. Square-headed doorway opening to south gable having metal track with sliding metal door. Set perpendicular to roadway to the south. Located in the rural countryside to the south-east of Ballindrait and to the north-west of Lifford. Forms the east range of a complex of single- and two-storey outbuildings arranged around a central courtyard. Detached three-bay two-storey outbuilding to the south end of courtyard, built c. 1910, having flight of rubble stone stairs to the south elevation giving access to doorway at first floor level. Pitched natural slate roof, clay and terracotta ridge tiles, rendered copings to gable ends and cast-iron rainwater goods. Rubble stone walls with flush roughly squared stone quoins to the corners. Square-headed openings with concrete sills and flush red brick reveals and voussoirs and battened timber fittings. Detached two-storey outbuilding to the east side of complex having pitched natural slate roof, rubble stone walls (rendered to south), and square-headed openings with red brick surrounds. Single-storey outbuilding to the north end of courtyard (adjoining main building at north end) having pitched roof , rendered walls, and square-headed openings. Wrought-iron flat bar gates to site.

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 high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1928 (ZIP).

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

Name

Murlough

Area

640,976 m² (64.1 ha, 158.39 acres)

Civil parish

Clonleigh, and its townlands

Barony

Raphoe North

Electoral division

Clonleigh South, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Clonleigh South electoral division: 2,156 people in 853 households; 64% of households own their home; 32% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynabreen, Cavanacor, Lifford Common, Rossgeir, Tyleford

Placenames

Murlough 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.