Race End
Townland in the civil parish of Conwal, barony of Kilmacrenan, Co. Donegal
- Area
- 40.2 ha
- 99 acres
- Land parcels
- 90
- registered freehold, median 1,773 m²
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
90 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Race End, from 6 m² to 47,340 m² (4.73 ha, 11.7 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Race End 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
20 Mar 2025Conditional
(1) ERECTION OF DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND DOMESTIC GARAGE AND (2) INSTALLATION OF A TEMPORARY MOBILE HOME FOR THE CONSTRUCTION PERIOD OF THE DWELLING HOUSE AND (3) ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 2 homes · Donegal County Council, 2560408
29 Feb 2024Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DOMESTIC CAR GARAGE AND ANCILLARY SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2460245
18 Aug 2021Conditional
(1) DEMOLITION OF 2 NO STANDALONE SHEDS, 2 NO SHEDS ATTACHED TO EXISTING DWELLING INCLUDING A PORTION OF THE DWELLING (2) CONVERSION OF THE REMAINING PORTION OF DWELLING INTO A DOMESTIC GARAGE AND STORAGE AREA (3) CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW REPLACEMENT DWELLING WITH INTEGRATED GARAGE, CONNECTION TO NEW SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2151650
24 Aug 2018Conditional
EXISTING DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Retention · Donegal County Council, 1851306
13 Aug 2018N/a
AN EXISTING DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Retention · Donegal County Council, 1851236
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Race End.
Recorded monuments
- DG045-026 Standing stone
Description
A standing stone 1.45m high × 1.25m maximum width × 0.45m thick; NNE-SSW. Located in a roadside fence on level, good land. 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
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Race End.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility 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 Race End.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Race End with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Race End
- Area
- 402,148 m² (40.21 ha, 99.37 acres)
- Civil parish
- Conwal, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kilmacrenan
- Electoral division
- Gortnavern, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Gortnavern electoral division: 1,303 people in 443 households; 82% of households own their home; 42% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Coolboy Big, Ellistrin Big, Gortnavern, Woodtown
- Placenames
- Race End 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.