Stranacorcragh
Townland in the civil parish of Tullaghobegly, barony of Kilmacrenan, Co. Donegal; in Irish Srath na Corcrach
- Area
- 135.3 ha
- 334 acres
- Land parcels
- 236
- registered freehold, median 2,229 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
236 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Stranacorcragh, from 47 m² to 144,506 m² (14.45 ha, 35.71 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 46 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 Stranacorcragh 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
3 Dec 2025Conditional
(1) REFURBISHMENT OF EXISTING DERELICT DWELLING HOUSE, INCLUDING ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING ELEVATIONS AND CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSION TO SIDE AND REAR, (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DOMESTIC GARAGE, (3) DECOMMISSIONING OF EXISTING SEPTIC TANK ON SITE AND INSTALLATION OF NEW WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM, (4) FORMATION OF A NEW SITE ENTRANCE AND (5) ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2562131
22 Nov 2024Conditional
(1) BEDROOM EXTENSION BUILT TO THE GABLE SIDE, (2) KITCHEN EXTENSION BUILT TO THE REAR, (3) BAY WINDOW BUILT TO THE FRONT ELEVATION, (4) LOCATION OF THE EXISTING SEPTIC TANK SERVING THE DWELLING HOUSE AND (5) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2461911
23 Oct 2024Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, SEPTIC TANK / SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2461686
3 Jul 2024Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2461012
19 Jun 2024N/a
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2460922
30 Jun 2021Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2151292
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Gweedore Bay and Islands SAC 001141
- Special Protection Area: West Donegal Coast SPA 004150
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Gweedore Bay And Islands 001141
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Stranacorcragh.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Stranacorcragh.
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 20 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
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1257 (ZIP).
- 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 Stranacorcragh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Stranacorcragh · Srath na Corcrach
- Area
- 1,352,769 m² (135.28 ha, 334.28 acres)
- Civil parish
- Tullaghobegly, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kilmacrenan
- Electoral division
- Magheraclogher, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Magheraclogher electoral division: 2,841 people in 1,130 households; 78% of households own their home; 31% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 24% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Derrybeg, Lunniagh, Meenanillar, Sheskinbeg, Stramackilmartin
- Gaeltacht
- In an Irish-speaking area
- Placenames
- Stranacorcragh 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.