Raws Lower
Townland in the civil parish of Donaghmore, barony of Raphoe South, Co. Donegal
- Area
- 95.2 ha
- 235 acres
- Land parcels
- 39
- registered freehold, median 3,472 m² (0.35 ha, 0.86 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
39 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Raws Lower, from 399 m² to 202,572 m² (20.26 ha, 50.06 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 14 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 Raws Lower 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
13 Oct 2025Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE, INSTALLATION OF SEPTIC TANK / SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2561781
11 Oct 2025Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH CONNECTION TO ALL EXISTING SERVICES AS PER GRANT OF PLANNING REF. NO. 24/61327
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2561776
31 Aug 2024Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH CONNECTION TO SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2461327
8 Apr 2024Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DETACHED MACHINERY STORAGE SHED AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2460467
18 Mar 2021Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK/SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2150469
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 Raws Lower.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Raws Lower.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Raws Lower.
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 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 Raws Lower.
- 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 Raws Lower with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Raws Lower
- Area
- 952,488 m² (95.25 ha, 235.36 acres)
- Civil parish
- Donaghmore, and its townlands
- Barony
- Raphoe South
- Electoral division
- Cloghard, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Cloghard electoral division: 621 people in 234 households; 90% of households own their home; 30% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Alt Upper, Ballybun, Gortnamuck, Raws Upper, Tievebrack
- Placenames
- Raws Lower 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.