# Raws Lower, Co. Donegal: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Donaghmore, barony of Raphoe South, Co. Donegal. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 952,488 m² (95.25 ha, 235.36 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 39 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 3,472 m² (0.35 ha, 0.86 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 5 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Donaghmore, https://everytownland.com/donegal/parish/donaghmore.md - Barony: Raphoe South - Electoral division: Cloghard, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Donegal, https://everytownland.com/donegal.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/16199 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 52263 - Centre: latitude 54.762111, longitude -7.613483 (WGS 84) ## 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); 14 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1335826: 202,572 m² (20.26 ha, 50.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1335826.md - Parcel 1369154: 126,202 m² (12.62 ha, 31.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1369154.md - Parcel 1325226: 123,525 m² (12.35 ha, 30.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1325226.md - Parcel 1427926: 89,003 m² (8.9 ha, 21.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1427926.md - Parcel 1335827: 63,705 m² (6.37 ha, 15.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1335827.md - Parcel 1335828: 48,423 m² (4.84 ha, 11.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1335828.md - Parcel 1325229: 43,623 m² (4.36 ha, 10.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1325229.md - Parcel 1428873: 38,765 m² (3.88 ha, 9.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1428873.md - Parcel 1335823: 34,846 m² (3.48 ha, 8.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1335823.md - Parcel 1362050: 31,251 m² (3.13 ha, 7.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1362050.md - Parcel 1325227: 22,469 m² (2.25 ha, 5.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1325227.md - Parcel 1335829: 22,433 m² (2.24 ha, 5.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1335829.md - Parcel 1391166: 16,428 m² (1.64 ha, 4.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1391166.md - Parcel 1335822: 11,621 m² (1.16 ha, 2.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1335822.md - Parcel 1335830: 10,288 m² (1.03 ha, 2.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1335830.md - Parcel 5986062: 10,128 m² (1.01 ha, 2.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5986062.md - Parcel 1325230: 6,577 m² (0.66 ha, 1.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1325230.md - Parcel 3953738: 4,214 m² (0.42 ha, 1.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3953738.md - Parcel 5400517: 3,558 m² (0.36 ha, 0.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5400517.md - Parcel 4036040: 3,472 m² (0.35 ha, 0.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4036040.md - Parcel 1376492: 3,361 m² (0.34 ha, 0.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1376492.md - Parcel 1305322: 2,809 m² (0.28 ha, 0.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1305322.md - Parcel 3660830: 2,617 m² (0.26 ha, 0.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3660830.md - Parcel 1400077: 2,528 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1400077.md - Parcel 1407679: 2,289 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1407679.md - Parcel 1378502: 2,250 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1378502.md - Parcel 1408835: 2,148 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1408835.md - Parcel 1400076: 2,136 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1400076.md - Parcel 1414882: 2,075 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1414882.md - Parcel 3953733: 2,062 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3953733.md - Parcel 3660831: 1,996 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3660831.md - Parcel 1372892: 1,970 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1372892.md - Parcel 1325225: 1,927 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1325225.md - Parcel 1325228: 1,721 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1325228.md - Parcel 3953736: 1,550 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3953736.md - Parcel 1382482: 1,507 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1382482.md - Parcel 1309710: 1,477 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1309710.md - Parcel 1423935: 803 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1423935.md - Parcel 3953735: 399 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3953735.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 5 applications, newest first. - 13 Oct 2025, Donegal County Council 2561781: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE, INSTALLATION OF SEPTIC TANK / SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2561781/0 - 11 Oct 2025, Donegal County Council 2561776: Conditional. Permission. CONSTRUCTION OF A DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH CONNECTION TO ALL EXISTING SERVICES AS PER GRANT OF PLANNING REF. NO. 24/61327. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2561776/0 - 31 Aug 2024, Donegal County Council 2461327: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. CONSTRUCTION OF DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH CONNECTION TO SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2461327/0 - 8 Apr 2024, Donegal County Council 2460467: Conditional. Permission. CONSTRUCTION OF A DETACHED MACHINERY STORAGE SHED AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460467/0 - 18 Mar 2021, Donegal County Council 2150469: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK/SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2150469/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Raws Lower. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Raws Lower. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Raws Lower. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/donegal/raws-lower.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/donegal/raws-lower.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/donegal/raws-lower.kml ## Homes sold (Residential 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: https://everytownland.com/donegal.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Alt Upper: https://everytownland.com/donegal/alt-upper.md - Ballybun: https://everytownland.com/donegal/ballybun.md - Gortnamuck: https://everytownland.com/donegal/gortnamuck.md - Raws Upper: https://everytownland.com/donegal/raws-upper.md - Tievebrack: https://everytownland.com/donegal/tievebrack-52497.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/donegal/raws-lower - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/donegal/raws-lower