Raneany West

94 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Raneany West, from 31 m² to 80,711 m² (8.07 ha, 19.94 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 26 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 Raneany West 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.

• 19 Jan 2026Conditional

  ERECTION OF 5 NO. DWELLING HOUSES WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING PUBLIC SEWERAGE SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 5 homes · Donegal County Council, 2660045

• 29 Nov 2025Conditional

  DWELLING AS CONSTRUCTED INCORPORATING ADDITIONAL DEMOLITION WORKS OF GABLE WALLS IN A DEVIATION FROM PERMISSION PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 24/60067

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2562101

• 14 Oct 2025N/a

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH CONNECTION TO PUBLIC SEWERAGE SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2561794

• 14 Oct 2025N/a

  ERECTION OF DWELLING HOUSE WITH CONNECTION TO PUBLIC SEWERAGE SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2561795

• 14 Oct 2025N/a

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH CONNECTION TO PUBLIC SEWERAGE SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2561793

• 14 Oct 2025N/a

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH CONNECTION TO PUBLIC SEWERAGE SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2561791

• 14 Oct 2025N/a

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH CONNECTION TO PUBLIC SEWERAGE SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2561792

• 1 Feb 2024Conditional

  (1) DEMOLITION OF AN EXISTING EXTENSION TO THE REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING, (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A REPLACEMENT EXTENSION INCORPORATING A NEW ROOF STRUCTURE TO THE ORIGINAL DWELLING, (3) DECOMMISSIONING OF AN EXISTING SEPTIC TANK, AND (4) INSTALLATION OF A NEW TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH POLISHING FILTER AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2460067

• 12 Dec 2023Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2351908

• 15 Aug 2023Conditional

  ERECTION OF 3 NO. DWELLING HOUSES AND CONNECTION TO EXISTING PUBLIC SEWER AND STORM SYSTEM

  Permission, 3 homes · Donegal County Council, 2351204

• 14 Apr 2023N/a

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND CONNECTION TO EXISTING PUBLIC SEWER AND STORM WATER SYSTEM

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2350502

• 9 May 2022Conditional

  ATTIC CONVERSION AT FIRST FLOOR LEVEL OF EXISTING DWELLING AND DOMESTIC GARAGE AND PERMISSION FOR DECOMMISSIONING OF AN EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND INSTALLATION OF A TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH POLISHING FILTER

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2250798

• 10 Jan 2022N/a

  (1) ERECTION OF AN EXTENSION & ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING CHURCH HALL (2) DEVELOPMENT OF (A) AN ALL-WEATHER PITCH (B) A COMBINED TENNIS & BASKETBALL COURT (C) A COMMUNITY WELL-BEING AND SENSORY GARDEN (D) A RIVERSIDE WALKWAY AND THE ADDITION OF A FOOTPATH TO THE ENTRANCE OF THE RIVERSIDE WALKWAY (E) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2250009

• 24 Apr 2019Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE, PROPRIETARY WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1950597

• 23 Mar 2018Conditional

  (1) REFURBISHMENT OF THE FORMER RECTORY BUILDING, (2) PROVISION OF A SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO THE FORMER RECTORY BUILDING TO PROVIDE FOR ADDITIONAL LIVING ACCOMMODATION, (3) THE EXTENSION AND REFURBISHMENT OF THE EXISTING REAR OUTBUILDINGS TO PROVIDE ADDITIONAL HABITABLE ACCOMMODATION ANCILLARY TO THE MAIN HOUSE, (4) DECOMMISSIONING OF THE EXISTING SEPTIC TANK ON SITE AND PROVISION OF NEW EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND POLISHING FILTER, (5) WIDENING OF FRONT ENTRANCE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. THE SUBJECT BUILDING IS A PROTECTED STRUCTURE REF NO. 40848001

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1850439

• 16 Nov 2017Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF 6 NO. SEMI-DETACHED DWELLING HOUSES, CONNECTION TO EXISTING CO. COUNCIL SEWER AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE-WORKS

  Outline permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1751739

• 16 Mar 2017Conditional

  DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1750398

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 Raneany West.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Raneany West.

Architectural heritage

• Rectory/glebe/vicarage/curate's house, 1830–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey former Church of Ireland rectory, built c. 1840, having single-bay enclosed entrance porch to the centre of the front elevation (west), and with two-bay two-storey return and single-storey extension to the rear (east). Now in use as a private dwelling. Pitched artificial slate roofs with projecting eaves to front elevation, and with two stepped rendered chimneystacks to the rear wall (east) of main body of building (aligned along with back wall). Pitched roof to return, shallow hipped roof to porch and mono-pitched roof to extension. Timber drop finials to gable apexes and at eaves level to side elevations (north and south). Ruled-and-lined smooth rendered walls to main elevation; roughcast rendered to side elevations. Square-headed window openings with painted sills and having six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows at ground floor level and six-over-three pane timber sash windows at first floor level. Round-headed doorway to the front face of porch having battened timber door with plain overlight, and having ashlar plinth blocks to base and flagstone to threshold. Set back from road in extensive mature grounds to the north of Laghy. Complex of single-storey outbuildings to the rear having pitched slate roofs, rubble stone walls, square-headed window and door openings with timber fittings, and segmental-headed carriage-arch with roughly dressed voussoirs to arch and having timber double doors. Main entrance to the east of house comprising a pair of roughcast rendered gate piers (on square-plan) having stepped coping and modern gates. Gateway flanked to either side by quadrant sections of roughcast rendered boundary walls and terminated in roughcast rendered gate piers (on square-plan) having pyramidal capstones.

• Raneany Presbyterian Church, church/chapel, 1790–1810 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey Presbyterian church or meeting house, built 1801, having single-bay single-storey porch addition to west. Pitched natural slate roof with projecting eaves course, raised rendered gable copings and cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls with smooth rendered strips to the margins and with smooth rendered plinth. Square-headed window openings with rendered reveals, six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows and tooled stone sills; two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows to porch extension to west, round-headed window opening to east gable end having replacement fixed-light window. Square-headed doorway to the west side of entrance porch having smooth rendered reveals, plinth blocks, and replacement timber battened door with overlight. Interior with timber pews, panelled timber pulpit, stone flags to central aisle, plain plastered walls and reveals. Set back from Road in own grounds to the north of Laghy. Detached single-bay single-storey outbuilding to the south-west corner of site having pitched artificial slate roof, roughcast rendered wall, and square-headed doorway with battened timber door. Graveyard to site with mainly twentieth-century gravemarkers. Coursed rubble stone boundary walls to road-frontage to the west having rubble stone coping over. Gateway to the south end of boundary wall comprising a pair of coursed and squared stone gate piers (on square-plan) having rendered coping over, and with a modern pair of metal gates.

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 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility high, 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 Raneany West.

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

Name

Raneany West

Area

754,962 m² (75.5 ha, 186.56 acres)

Civil parish

Drumhome, and its townlands

Barony

Tirhugh

Electoral division

Laghy, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Laghy electoral division: 799 people in 290 households; 81% of households own their home; 32% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 15% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Laghy, Raneany East, Tullygallan, Tullyleague or Tullybrook, Tullywee

Placenames

Raneany West 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.