# Toragh, Co. Donegal: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Mevagh, barony of Kilmacrenan, Co. Donegal. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 868,406 m² (86.84 ha, 214.59 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 52 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 1,354 m² - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 13 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Mevagh, https://everytownland.com/donegal/parish/mevagh.md - Barony: Kilmacrenan - Electoral division: Glen, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Glen electoral division: 262 people in 108 households; 83% of households own their home; 31% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 48% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Donegal, https://everytownland.com/donegal.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/15848 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 52548 - Centre: latitude 55.110805, longitude -7.802848 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 52 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Toragh, from 5 m² to 332,061 m² (33.21 ha, 82.05 acres); 22 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1331984: 332,061 m² (33.21 ha, 82.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1331984.md - Parcel 1402888: 238,896 m² (23.89 ha, 59.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1402888.md - Parcel 1426956: 67,113 m² (6.71 ha, 16.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1426956.md - Parcel 1339647: 28,416 m² (2.84 ha, 7.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1339647.md - Parcel 1357437: 28,337 m² (2.83 ha, 7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1357437.md - Parcel 1372238: 24,023 m² (2.4 ha, 5.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1372238.md - Parcel 1349721: 21,415 m² (2.14 ha, 5.29 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1349721.md - Parcel 1394167: 21,301 m² (2.13 ha, 5.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1394167.md - Parcel 1310084: 14,061 m² (1.41 ha, 3.47 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1310084.md - Parcel 1361573: 13,621 m² (1.36 ha, 3.37 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1361573.md - Parcel 5069269: 13,592 m² (1.36 ha, 3.36 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5069269.md - Parcel 1315408: 10,399 m² (1.04 ha, 2.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1315408.md - Parcel 4867088: 5,958 m² (0.6 ha, 1.47 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4867088.md - Parcel 5764412: 5,590 m² (0.56 ha, 1.38 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5764412.md - Parcel 1395114: 5,144 m² (0.51 ha, 1.27 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1395114.md - Parcel 1339305: 3,764 m² (0.38 ha, 0.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1339305.md - Parcel 1338831: 3,458 m² (0.35 ha, 0.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1338831.md - Parcel 5941922: 3,084 m² (0.31 ha, 0.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5941922.md - Parcel 1349308: 2,995 m² (0.3 ha, 0.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1349308.md - Parcel 1409146: 2,677 m² (0.27 ha, 0.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1409146.md - Parcel 1348706: 2,358 m² (0.24 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1348706.md - Parcel 1398365: 2,164 m² (0.22 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1398365.md - Parcel 3662088: 2,058 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3662088.md - Parcel 5941933: 1,726 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5941933.md - Parcel 1323591: 1,567 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1323591.md - Parcel 1337025: 1,381 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1337025.md - Parcel 1422084: 1,326 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1422084.md - Parcel 1415189: 1,310 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1415189.md - Parcel 1417349: 1,185 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1417349.md - Parcel 1339237: 1,003 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1339237.md - Parcel 1406901: 779 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1406901.md - Parcel 5942258: 698 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5942258.md - Parcel 1347835: 695 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1347835.md - Parcel 1392271: 662 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1392271.md - Parcel 5977617: 651 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5977617.md - Parcel 1348267: 611 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1348267.md - Parcel 1322340: 516 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1322340.md - Parcel 5715478: 456 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5715478.md - Parcel 5764430: 432 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5764430.md - Parcel 1393404: 408 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1393404.md - Parcel 6119290: 383 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6119290.md - Parcel 1343544: 354 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1343544.md - Parcel 6119333: 353 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6119333.md - Parcel 5764425: 227 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5764425.md - Parcel 5942223: 207 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5942223.md - Parcel 5540407: 61 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5540407.md - Parcel 5942253: 45 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5942253.md - Parcel 5764405: 44 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5764405.md - Parcel 5540396: 30 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5540396.md - Parcel 5540393: 18 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5540393.md - Parcel 5942231: 17 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5942231.md - Parcel 5540391: 5 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5540391.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Toragh in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 13 applications, newest first. - 23 Sept 2025, Donegal County Council 2550132: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH ON-SITE SEWERAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2550132/0 - 1 Jun 2025, Donegal County Council 2560902: Conditional. Permission. (1) REFURBISHMENT OF EXISTING DERELICT DWELLING HOUSE, TO INCLUDE ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING ELEVATIONS AND AN INCREASE TO THE OVERALL RIDGE HEIGHT, (2) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING ATTACHED SHEDS TO THE NORTH AND SOUTH GABLE WALLS OF THE EXISTING DWELLING, AND DEMOLITION OF AN EXISTING STAND-ALONE AGRICULTURAL SHED TO THE SOUTH-WEST OF THE DWELLING, (3) CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO ABOVE MENTIONED EXISTING DWELLING, (4) INSTALLATION OF A NEW SEPTIC TANK SYSTEM TO SERVICE THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT, (5) UPGRADE AND WIDENING OF EXISTING ENTRANCE ACCESSING THE SITE AND (6) ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560902/0 - 16 Sept 2024, Donegal County Council 2461450: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. CONSTRUCTION OF A PART SINGLE STOREY, PART TWO-STOREY DWELLING HOUSE WITH INTEGRATED DOMESTIC GARAGE, WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM, NEW VEHICULAR ENTRANCE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2461450/0 - 12 Apr 2023, Donegal County Council 2350491: Conditional. Permission. (1) RAISING THE MAIN ROOF TO PROVIDE ATTIC ACCOMMODATION INCLUDING THE ADDITION OF DORMERS, (2) DEMOLITION OF THE FRONT OUTSHOT AND ERECTION OF A NEW ONE, (3) ALTERATIONS TO THE REAR PORCH TO PROVIDE STAIRS TO THE NEW ATTIC SPACE, (4) ALTERATIONS TO THE FRONT WINDOWS AND (5) UPGRADING EXISTING SEPTIC TANK WITH ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2350491/0 - 23 Dec 2021, Donegal County Council 2152619: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK INCLUDING ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2152619/0 - 29 Oct 2021, Donegal County Council 2152152: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. CHANGE OF HOUSE TYPE PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER REF: 17/50429. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2152152/0 - 25 Nov 2020, Donegal County Council 2051794: Unconditional. Extension of duration, 1 home. CONSTRUCTION OF NEW DWELLING HOUSE AND INSTALLATION OF A WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2051794/0 - 5 Aug 2020, Donegal County Council 2051066: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2051066/0 - 6 Aug 2019, Donegal County Council 1951193: Conditional. Retention, 1 home. CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO SIDE AND REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND RETENTION PERMISSION FOR PART OF ACCESS ROAD AND CONNECTION ONTO THE L-1192 ROAD. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1951193/0 - 22 May 2019, Donegal County Council 1950753: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC SHED AND INSTALLATION OF A WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1950753/0 - 20 Mar 2019, Donegal County Council 1950381: N/a. Permission, 1 home. CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC SHED AND INSTALLATION OF A WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1950381/0 - 22 Mar 2017, Donegal County Council 1750429: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. CONSTRUCTION OF NEW DWELLING HOUSE WITH WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1750429/0 - 18 Jan 2017, Donegal County Council 1750049: N/a. Permission consequent, 1 home. PERMISSION CONSEQUENT TO GRANT OF OUTLINE PLANNING PERMISSION (13/50060) FOR CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE AND INSTALLATION OF A WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1750049/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Toragh. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Toragh. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Toragh. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Toragh. - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/donegal/toragh.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/donegal/toragh.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/donegal/toragh.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Toragh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal: https://everytownland.com/donegal.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Glenieraragh: https://everytownland.com/donegal/glenieraragh.md - Glenineeny: https://everytownland.com/donegal/glenineeny.md - Glenmenagh: https://everytownland.com/donegal/glenmenagh.md - Meenformal: https://everytownland.com/donegal/meenformal.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/donegal/toragh - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/donegal/toragh