Toragh
Townland in the civil parish of Mevagh, barony of Kilmacrenan, Co. Donegal
Parcel 5540407
- Area
- 61 m²
- Buildings
- No building touches it.
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Toragh
Planning applications on this parcel
20 Mar 2019N/a
CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC SHED AND INSTALLATION OF A WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1950381
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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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
- About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility low, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.
- 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.
Download this parcel: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program; GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map; KML, for Google Earth.
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. 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.
- Area
- 86.8 ha
- 215 acres
- Land parcels
- 52
- registered freehold, median 1,354 m²
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 13
- applications since 2010
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). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 22 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 Toragh 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
23 Sept 2025Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH ON-SITE SEWERAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2550132
1 Jun 2025Conditional
(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
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2560902
16 Sept 2024Conditional
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
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2461450
12 Apr 2023Conditional
(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
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2350491
23 Dec 2021Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK INCLUDING ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2152619
29 Oct 2021Conditional
CHANGE OF HOUSE TYPE PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER REF: 17/50429
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2152152
25 Nov 2020Unconditional
CONSTRUCTION OF NEW DWELLING HOUSE AND INSTALLATION OF A WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM
Extension of duration, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2051794
5 Aug 2020Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2051066
6 Aug 2019Conditional
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
Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1951193
22 May 2019Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC SHED AND INSTALLATION OF A WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1950753
20 Mar 2019N/a
CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC SHED AND INSTALLATION OF A WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1950381
22 Mar 2017Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF NEW DWELLING HOUSE WITH WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1750429
18 Jan 2017N/a
PERMISSION CONSEQUENT TO GRANT OF OUTLINE PLANNING PERMISSION (13/50060) FOR CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE AND INSTALLATION OF A WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM
Permission consequent, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1750049
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 Toragh.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Toragh.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Toragh.
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; 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: 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 Toragh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Toragh
- Area
- 868,406 m² (86.84 ha, 214.59 acres)
- Civil parish
- Mevagh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kilmacrenan
- Electoral division
- Glen, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 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.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Glenieraragh, Glenineeny, Glenmenagh, Meenformal
- Placenames
- Toragh 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.