Ranny
Townland in the civil parish of Lettermacaward, barony of Boylagh, Co. Donegal; in Irish Raithnigh
- Area
- 236.3 ha
- 584 acres
- Land parcels
- 192
- registered freehold, median 4,359 m² (0.44 ha, 1.08 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 13
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
192 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ranny, from 16 m² to 110,006 m² (11 ha, 27.18 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 41 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 Ranny 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
17 Aug 2026N/a
CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSIONS, ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING FENESTRATION, UPGRADING EXISTING WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2661525
27 Feb 2026Conditional
(1) RETENTION OF A PLANT/MACHINERY STORAGE SHED AND LEAN-TO CARPORT TO THE EXISTING GARAGE AND (2) CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO THE PLANT/MACHINERY STORAGE SHED AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2660300
10 Oct 2024Unconditional
CONNECTION TO ON-SITE TREATMENT SYSTEM, COMPLETION OF DWELLING HOUSE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Extension of duration, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2450221
27 Apr 2023Conditional
DWELLING HOUSE AS CONSTRUCTED AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS, PLAN. REG. REF. NO 03/3125 REFERS
Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2350556
2 Dec 2022Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEWERAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2251932
12 Oct 2021Conditional
(1) DEMOLITION OF AN EXISTING MICA AFFECTED DWELLING HOUSE (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING HOUSE AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2152028
12 Oct 2021Conditional
(A) CHANGE OF HOUSE TYPE AND RELOCATION OF HOUSE POSITION FROM THAT PREVIOUSLY APPROVED UNDER PLANNING PERMISSION REFERENCE 15/50064 (B) SHED AND OPEN STORAGE AREA (C) OPEN HOT TUB AREA INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND PERMISSION FOR INSTALLATION OF PROPRIETARY WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AS APPROVED UNDER PLANNING REF NO.15/50064 INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2152027
2 Sept 2020Conditional
DETACHED PRIVATE DOMESTIC GARAGE TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2051233
20 Dec 2019Conditional
1 NO. CABIN TYPE GLAMPING UNIT AND 1 NO. SMALL SHIPPING CONTAINER USED AS ANCILLARY LIVING SPACE WITH TIMBER DECKING; (2) RETENTION AND COMPLETION OF 1 NO. PARTIALLY CONVERTED SHIPPING CONTAINER WITH TIMBER DECKING FOR USE AS 'GLAMPING' ACCOMMODATION AND (3) CONSTRUCTION OF A POD TYPE GLAMPING UNIT AND DECOMMISSIONING OF SEPTIC TANKS INSTALLED AT GLAMPING UNITS DESCRIBED IN (1) & (2) ABOVE AND INSTALLATION OF A PROPRIETARY WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM TO SERVE THE THREE NO. GLAMPING UNITS AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Retention · Donegal County Council, 1952007
27 Jun 2019Conditional
RETENTION OF (1) CHANGE OF HOUSE TYPE AND RELOCATION OF HOUSE POSITION FROM THAT PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER PLANNING PERMISSION REFERENCE NO.16/50233, (2) CHANGES TO ACCESS ARRANGEMENTS INTO SITE FROM L-6423-2 COUNTY ROAD, (3) CONNNECTION TO ON-SITE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND (4) COMPLETION OF DWELLING HOUSE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1950994
14 Jun 2019N/a
(1) RELOCATION OF DWELLING HOUSE CONSTRUCTED TO A DIFFERENT DESIGN TO THAT PREVIOUSLY GRANTED PERMISSION UNDER PLANNING REFERENCE NO.16/50233 (2) PERMISSION FOR COMPLETION OF DWELLING HOUSE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1950917
27 May 2019Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT AND INTERMITTENT SAND FILTER
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1950768
24 Oct 2018Refused
TEACH CONAITHE LE DABHACH SEARACHAIS AGUS CORAS EISILTE SUITEAIN A THOGAIL AGUS CLOCHA A BHRISEADH AMACH LE BEALACH UIR A DHEANAMH FOSTA NA CLOCHA A USAID LE BEALACH ATA ANN A CHOINNEAL COIRAIGH
Extension of duration, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1851625
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 Ranny.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ranny.
Architectural heritage
- Bramble Cottage, house, 1880–1900 · Regional interest
Description
Detached single-storey vernacular house, built c.1890, having two-bay rear elevation with slightly lower one-bay addition to southwest end and lower one-bay extension to northwest end, and multiple-bay extension to full length of front elevation. Pitched straw-thatched roof to older parts of house, with wire mesh, cast-iron pegs to eaves and gables, and rendered chimneystacks; pitched artificial slate roofs with replacement rainwater goods to more recent parts. Roughcast-rendered walls with square-headed openings to older parts and to southwest gable of long extension with replacement two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows; double to gable of addition, with concrete sills.
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 5 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; parts are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ranny.
- 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 Ranny with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Ranny · Raithnigh
- Area
- 2,363,388 m² (236.34 ha, 584.01 acres)
- Civil parish
- Lettermacaward, and its townlands
- Barony
- Boylagh
- Electoral division
- Lettermacaward, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Lettermacaward electoral division: 727 people in 301 households; 83% of households own their home; 36% of homes were built since 2001; 17% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 27% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Boyoughter, Dooey, Farragans, Toome
- Gaeltacht
- In an Irish-speaking area
- Placenames
- Ranny 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.