Raws Upper

26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Raws Upper, from 3,069 m² (0.31 ha, 0.76 acres) to 370,481 m² (37.05 ha, 91.55 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 12 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Raws Upper 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Raws Upper in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 Raws Upper.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Raws Upper.

Architectural heritage

• House, 1810–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c. 1820, having single-storey outbuildings attached to either gable end (north-west and south-east), and with bed outshot to the rear (south-west) at the north-west end of dwelling. Currently unoccupied. Pitched corrugated-metal roof with smooth rendered chimneystacks, and raised smooth rendered verges to gable ends (north-west and south-east). Rendered painted rubble stone walls with raised smooth rendered block-and-start quoins to north-west end of the front elevation (north-east). Square headed window openings with smooth rendered reveals, painted stone sills, and one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows with vertical margin glazing bars. Central square-headed door opening to front elevation (north-east) having battened timber half-door. Fireplace visible in interior with wooden mantel. Single-storey outbuilding to the north-west gable end having pitched corrugated-metal roof, rubble stone walls, and square-headed doorways with battened timber doors. Set back from road in own grounds to the south of Castlefinn. Site accessed by laneway from road to the east. Located a short distance to the north of the border with County Tyrone\Northern Ireland.

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

At the centre of the townland of Raws Upper, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Raws Upper.

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Raws Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Raws Upper

Area

1,853,961 m² (185.4 ha, 458.12 acres)

Civil parish

Donaghmore, and its townlands

Barony

Raphoe South

Electoral division

Cloghard, the unit of the census

Census 2022

621 people lived in 234 households in the Cloghard electoral division. 90% of households owned 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, Egglybane, Raws Lower, Tievebrack

Placenames

Raws Upper 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.