Stralongford
Townland in the civil parish of Convoy, barony of Raphoe South, Co. Donegal
- Area
- 306.7 ha
- 758 acres
- Land parcels
- 104
- registered freehold, median 9,247 m² (0.92 ha, 2.28 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 31
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
104 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Stralongford, from 18 m² to 242,417 m² (24.24 ha, 59.9 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 23 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 Stralongford 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 Feb 2026Conditional
DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DERELICT HOUSE AND ERECTION OF A NEW REPLACEMENT DWELLING HOUSE INCLUDING REPLACEMENT OF EXISTING SEPTIC TANK WITH A NEW SYSTEM AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2660221
18 Dec 2025Conditional
ERECTION OF A FAMILY GAMES ROOM ANCILLARY TO GRANTED DWELLING (PLANNING REF. NO. 23/50381 REFERS), CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2562280
12 Nov 2025Refused
CHANGE OF USE OF FIRST FLOOR OF DOMESTIC GARAGE FROM DOMESTIC STORAGE TO SELF-CONTAINED APARTMENT TOGETHER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2561976
20 Sept 2025N/a
CHANGE OF USE OF THE FIRST FLOOR OF THE EXISTING DOMESTIC GARAGE FROM DOMESTIC STORAGE TO A SELF-CONTAINED APARTMENT TOGETHER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2561630
13 Jun 2025Conditional
CHANGE OF HOUSE TYPE FROM PREVIOUSLY APPROVED DWELLING (PLANNING REF. NO. 25/60035 REFERS) AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS AND SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2560996
6 May 2025N/a
CHANGE OF HOUSE TYPE FROM PREVIOUSLY APPROVED DWELLING (PLANNING REF. NO. 25/60035 REFERS) AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS AND SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2560714
16 Jan 2025Conditional
(1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING MICA DEFECTIVE BLOCK DWELLING GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 07/60323 AND CONSTRUCTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING WITH STORM AND FOUL DRAINAGE TO BE CONNECTED TO EXISTING STORM AND FOUL SYSTEM PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 07/60323 WITH ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS AND SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2560035
4 Nov 2024Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND DOMESTIC GARAGE ALONG WITH ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2461766
5 Aug 2024Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2461199
22 Apr 2024Conditional
(1) EXISTING SEPTIC TANK, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND CAR PORTS AND PERMISSION FOR (2) DEMOLITION AND CHANGE OF ORIENTATION OF DWELLING HOUSE DUE TO DEFECTIVE MICA BLOCKWORK PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REFERENCE NO. 01/8303, (3) CONSTRUCTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING HOUSE AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2460562
15 Apr 2024N/a
(1) EXISTING SEPTIC TANK, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND CAR PORTS AND PERMISSION FOR (2) DEMOLITION AND CHANGE OF ORIENTATION OF DWELLING HOUSE DUE TO DEFECTIVE MICA BLOCKWORK PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REFERENCE NO. 01/8303, (3) CONSTRUCTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING HOUSE AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2460519
21 Jun 2023Conditional
ERECTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL TYPE DRY STORAGE SHED WITH PART DOMESTIC USE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2350882
15 Jun 2023Conditional
(A) ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING SHOP AND DINER TO PROVIDE INCREASED DINING AREA, NEW SERVICE AREAS, NEW KITCHEN, PREPARATION & STORAGE AREAS AND NEW TOLIET FACILITIES, (B) NEW DRIVE THROUGH FACILITY, (C) ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING SHOP ELEVATIONS, (D) CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW BUILDING CONSISITING OF 2 NO. COMMERCIAL UNITS AND 3 NO. RETAIL UNITS, AND (E) INSTALLATION OF A NEW SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM & DECOMMISSIONING OF EXISTING SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2350856
24 Mar 2023Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING WITH WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA, CONNECTION TO EXISTING PUBLIC SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2350381
16 Nov 2022Refused
ERECTION OF A DWELLING WITH WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA, CONNECTION TO EXISTING PUBLIC SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2251861
26 Sept 2022Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A PART SINGLE STOREY, PART SINGLE STOREY WITH ATTIC ACCOMMODATION DWELLING, DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH PROVISION OF A WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. THE DEVELOPMENT WILL BE ACCESSED VIA AN EXISTING AGRICULTURAL ENTRANCE
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2251598
5 Aug 2022Conditional
CHANGE OF HOUSE DESIGN FROM THAT PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER PLANNING PERMISSION REF NO. 21/50519
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2251334
20 Apr 2021Conditional
EXISTING BOUNDARY WALL ALONG THE NORTH EAST BOUNDARY OF THE SITE
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2150709
24 Mar 2021Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH DOMESTIC GARAGE & ON SITE SEWAGE TREATEMENT SYSTEM
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2150519
22 Dec 2020Conditional
(1) DEMOLITION OF THE EXISTING DERELICT BYRE, THE RENOVATION AND EXTENSION OF THE EXISTING DERELICT DWELLING (2) A NEW SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA (3) DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE (4) DEVELOPMENT OF A NEW RESIDENTIAL VEHICULAR ENTRANCE TOGETHER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2052022
7 Feb 2020Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK / SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2050144
27 Nov 2019Conditional
SUNROOM EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING, A DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE, A DETACHED SHED AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Retention · Donegal County Council, 1951839
7 Aug 2019Conditional
(A) AN EXTENDED PAVED YARD TO THE REAR OF THE EXISTING CAR SALES BUILDING FOR USE AS EMPLOYEE PARKING AND LOADING/ UNLOADING/ CIRCULATION OF CAR TRANSPORTER LORRY AND (B) A CAR VALETING BUILDING & ASSOCIATED STORAGE CONTAINER
Retention · Donegal County Council, 1951201
25 Jun 2019Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE SOTREY DWELLING HOUSE, SEPTIC TANK AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1950949
12 Apr 2019Unconditional
ALTERATIONS AND EXTENSION TO EXISTING CAR SHOW ROOM/WORKSHOP
Extension of duration · Donegal County Council, 1950517
The 25 most recent of 31 applications.
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 Stralongford.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Stralongford.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Stralongford.
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 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 Stralongford.
- 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
- Stralongford, Drumkeen6 sales
The townland
- Name
- Stralongford
- Area
- 3,066,803 m² (306.68 ha, 757.82 acres)
- Civil parish
- Convoy, and its townlands
- Barony
- Raphoe South
- Electoral division
- Convoy, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Convoy electoral division: 2,559 people in 926 households; 72% of households own their home; 38% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Breen, Corravaddy, Dooballagh, Farragans, Glentillid, Listack, Treantaboy
- Placenames
- Stralongford 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.