Kincraigy
Kincraigy is a townland in the civil parish of Raymoghy, barony of Raphoe North, Co. Donegal. Its name in Irish is Cionn Chreige.
Parcel 1306101
- Area
- 64,390 m² (6.44 ha, 15.91 acres)
- 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
- Kincraigy
Planning applications on this parcel
11 Oct 2025Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DRY AGRICULTURAL SHED WITHIN FARMYARD WITH CONNECTION TO ALL EXISTING SERVICES
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2561775
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
- At the centre of this parcel, about 1 in 10 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 low.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.
- 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.
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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
- 107.5 ha
- 266 acres
- Land parcels
- 44
- registered freehold, median 3,569 m² (0.36 ha, 0.88 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 7
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
44 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kincraigy, from 135 m² to 183,465 m² (18.35 ha, 45.34 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 20 neighbouring parcels touch it.
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Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Kincraigy 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
19 Sept 2026N/a
CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC SHED AND INSTALLATION OF WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2661743
11 Oct 2025Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DRY AGRICULTURAL SHED WITHIN FARMYARD WITH CONNECTION TO ALL EXISTING SERVICES
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2561775
11 Jun 2025Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH ONSITE WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM, A DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2560968
3 May 2022Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH CONNECTION TO PROPOSED SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2250770
29 Jun 2021N/a
A SINGLE STOREY GARAGE
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2151288
8 Jun 2021Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC SHED AND INSTALLATION OF A SEPTIC TANK
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2151122
18 Dec 2020Unconditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW ELECTRICITY OVERHEAD POWER LINE WITH ASSOCIATED POLES, MASTS, UNDERGROUND CABLING, SITE WORKS AND ALL ANCILLARY DEVELOPMENT, FOR A 38KV GRID CONNECTION TO LINK THE CONSENTED LETTERGULL WIND FARM, MOMEEN AND LETTERGULL TOWNLANDS, RAPHOE WITH THE EXISTING LETTERKENNY 110KV SUBSTATION IN LISTILLION TOWNLAND, LETTERKENNY. THE POWER LINE WILL BE APPROXIMATELY 10.16 KILOMETRES LONG. ALL STRUCTURES RANGE IN HEIGHT FROM 12 METRES TO 19 METRES. THE MAJORITY OF THE OVERHEAD LINE STRUCTURES ARE WOODEN POLE SETS; INCLUDING 5 STEEL MAST STRUCTURES. THE ELECTRICITY POWER LINE WILL BE OVERHEAD EXCEPT FOR SHORT SECTIONS ALONG THE FOLLOWING ROAD SECTIONS; N13-8 LISTILLION TOWNLAND (TD.), L-5794-1 LISTILLION TD., L-5634-2 KINCRAIGY TD., L-5644-1 ROOSKEY TD. AND L-5664-1 ROOSKEY TD. WHERE IT IS TO BE LAID UNDERGROUND. THE PROPOSED POWER CABLE WILL TRAVERSE THE FOLLOWING TOWNLANDS (FROM SUBSTATION TO CONSENTED WIND FARM SITE); LISTILLION TD, LURGY TD, KNOCKBRACK TD, AGHLEHARD TD, TREANAVINNY TD, GLENMAQUIN LOWER TD (PART UNDERGROUND) KINCRAIGY TD (PART UNDERGROUND), ROOSKEY TD (PART UNDERGROUND), LISCLAMERTY TD, CARRICKNAMART TD, MONDOOEY UPPER TD, MONDOOEY MIDDLE TD, BALLYHOLEY FAR TD, DRUMATOLAND TD, SHESKINAPOLL TD, CARRICKADAWSON TD, WOODLAND TD AND MOMEEN TD (PART UNDERGROUND)
Extension of duration · Donegal County Council, 2051961
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 Kincraigy.
Recorded monuments
- DG062-010 Castle - unclassified
Description
The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
Architectural heritage
- Bridge, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
Description
Single-arched bridge carrying road over small unnamed stream, built c. 1820. Segmental-headed arch with roughly dressed stone voussoirs; squared rubble stone construction to arch barrel. Rubble stone construction to spandrels and abutments. Rubble stone construction to parapets rendered coping over. Tarmacadam deck with grass verges. Located in the rural countryside to the south of Manorcunningham.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Kincraigy, about 1 in 10 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 Kincraigy.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Kincraigy with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Kincraigy · Cionn Chreige
- Area
- 1,074,706 m² (107.47 ha, 265.57 acres)
- Civil parish
- Raymoghy, and its townlands
- Barony
- Raphoe North
- Electoral division
- Kincraigy, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,036 people lived in 337 households in the Kincraigy electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 37% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Aghlehard, Corkey, Glenmaquin Lower, Lisclamerty, Roosky, Treanavinny, Tully
- Placenames
- Kincraigy 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.