Tirmacroragh

156 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Tirmacroragh, from 42 m² to 179,662 m² (17.97 ha, 44.4 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 13 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 Tirmacroragh 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.

• 7 Dec 2021Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING WITH ON SITE WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM, DOMESTIC GARAGE, ACCESS VIA EXISTING ROAD AND ENTRANCE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2152442

• 15 Jul 2019Conditional

  (1) ONE FRONT LIVING ROOM FULL DEPTH WINDOW NORTH WEST FACING. (2) TWO SETS OF GABLE END SOUND WEST FACING FRENCH DOORS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 1951083

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: North Inishowen Coast SAC 002012
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: North Inishowen Coast 002012

Recorded monuments

• DG005-022 Standing stone
  Description

  A standing stone 1.26m high × 0.32m square. Situated on cultivated land. The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated. Date of upload: 22 September 2008

• DG005-023 Standing stone
  Description

  A standing stone .96m high × 0.32m wide at base × 0.2m NNW-SSE. The immediate area is overgrown with young trees and whins. The landowner indicated that a shortcut between Culdaff and Bootog ran through the same field so the stone may be a route marker. The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated. Date of upload: 22 September 2008

• DG005-024 Standing stone
  Description

  A standing stone .8m high × 0.58m wide at base; NE-SW. There are several small stones and outcrops of rock about the base. The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated. Date of upload: 22 September 2008

• DG005-025 Children's burial ground
  Description

  A small area, 5.5m N-S and 3m E-W, at the base of a rock called Craigashanney, is known as a 'children's burial ground'. There is a low upright stone at the S end. The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated. Date of upload: 22 September 2008

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Tirmacroragh.

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 Tirmacroragh, about 1 in 5 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Tirmacroragh · Tír Mhic Ruairí

Area

2,758,060 m² (275.81 ha, 681.53 acres)

Civil parish

Culdaff, and its townlands

Barony

Inishowen East

Electoral division

Turmone, the unit of the census

Census 2022

316 people lived in 120 households in the Turmone electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 19% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballycharry, Redford Glebe

Placenames

Tirmacroragh 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.