Tirharon

13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Tirharon, from 1,318 m² to 242,843 m² (24.28 ha, 60.01 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 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 Tirharon 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.

• 17 Jan 2017Refused

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1750036

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 Tirharon.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Tirharon.

Architectural heritage

• House, 1860–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Semi-detached three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1880, having two attached single-storey dwellings to the south-east. Pitched natural slate roof with projecting eaves course, surviving sections of cast-iron rainwater goods, and with rendered chimneystacks to the gable ends. Roughcast rendered walls over smooth rendered plinth course. Square-headed window openings with smooth rendered reveals, painted sills and with one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows having margin glazing bars. Central square-headed doorway to the front elevation (north-east) having smooth rendered reveals, and with replacement glazed timber door. Located adjacent to road in the rural countryside to the north\north-east of Manorcunningham. Three-bay single-storey house attached to the south-east (now disused) having pitched natural slate roof, cast-iron rainwater goods, roughcast rendered walls, square-headed window openings with smooth rendered reveals and six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows, and with central square-headed doorway with timber door. Attached three-bay single-storey house (now disused) to the extreme south-east of group of buildings having central projecting windbreak porch, pitched artificial slate roof with raised rendered verge to the north-west end and with three rendered chimneystacks, smooth rendered eaves course, roughcast rendered walls with raised smooth rendered block-and-start quoins to the corners, square-headed window openings with painted sills, smooth rendered reveals and with two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows, and with square-headed doorway to the front face of porch having timber panelled door with bolection mouldings, and with plain overlight. Detached five-bay single-storey outbuilding to the south-east of site having external flight of rubble stone stairs to the front elevation (north-east) having access to doorway at first floor level. Pitched natural slate roof with projecting eaves course and cast-iron rainwater goods. Limewashed rubble stone walls. Square-headed window openings with remains of timber fittings, and square-headed doorways and loading bays with battened timber doors. Range of single-storey outbuildings across the road to the north-east of two-storey outbuilding having pitched corrugated-metal and natural slate roofs, rubble stone walls, and square-headed openings with remains of timber windows, and with battened timber doors and double-doors. Detached single-storey outbuilding to the north of two-storey house having pitched corrugated-metal roof with raised rendered verges to gable ends, rubble stone walls, and with square-headed doorways with battened timber doors and metal double-doors. Detached two-bay two-storey outbuilding to the north-west of two-storey house having external flight of rubble stone stairs to the north-east gable end giving access to doorway at first floor level. Pitched corrugated-metal roof with raised rendered verges to gable ends, rubble stone walls, and square-headed doorways with battened timber doors.

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 Tirharon, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The Geological Survey did not answer.

Terrain model

The Geological Survey did not answer.

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 Tirharon with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Tirharon

Area

730,241 m² (73.02 ha, 180.45 acres)

Civil parish

Raymoghy, and its townlands

Barony

Raphoe North

Electoral division

Manorcunningham, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,314 people lived in 475 households in the Manorcunningham electoral division. 66% of households owned their home. 57% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardnaditian, Balleeghan, Ballylawn, Ballylevin, Sharon Glebe, Veagh

Placenames

Tirharon 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.