Magherahaan

51 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Magherahaan, from 66 m² to 282,529 m² (28.25 ha, 69.81 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 14 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 Magherahaan 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.

• 1 Sept 2026N/a

  (1) DEMOLITION OF BYRE AND OUTBUILDING ATTACHED TO THE SIDES OF EXISTING DERELICT DWELLING HOUSE AND (2) CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSIONS, UPGRADING AND ALTERATION WORKS TO DWELLING HOUSE REFERENCED HEREIN INCLUDING THE INSTALLATION OF A SEPTIC TANK / SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2661615

• 21 Aug 2026Conditional

  SEPTIC TANK / SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM, ASSOCIATED DRAINAGE AND SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2661558

• 8 Aug 2023Refused

  CONSTRUCTION OF TWO POULTRY SHEDS INCLUDING ALL ANCILLARY WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2351175

• 22 May 2023Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, PUMPED CONNECTION INTO FOUL WATER MAINS AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2350710

• 3 Nov 2021Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A SHEEP FATTENING SHED INCORPORATING SLURRY TANKS, HANDLING AREA, STORE AREA AND ASSOCIATED YARD AND LANEWAY

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2152173

• 1 Mar 2021Conditional

  DEMOLITION OF EXISTING AGRICULTURAL STORAGE SHED AND CONSTRUCTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL SLATTED SHED AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2150339

• 1 Oct 2019Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO THE REAR OF AN EXISTING COTTAGE, ALL EXTERNAL ELEVATIONAL AMENDMENTS AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 1951474

• 18 Sept 2019N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO THE REAR OF AN EXISTING COTTAGE, ALL EXTERNAL ELEVATIONAL AMENDMENTS AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 1951412

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 Magherahaan.

Recorded monuments

• DG070-011 Standing stone
  Description

  There is no trace of the 'Stone' marked on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map. Situated in good land on a level shoulder of a N facing slope. 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

• Store/warehouse, 1840–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached eight-bay two-storey former flax store\barn, built c. 1860, external flight of stone stairs to the south elevation having access to doorway at first floor level. Now in use as an agricultural outbuilding. Hipped natural slate roof with blue clay ridge tiles, projecting ashlar sandstone eaves having course, and projecting metal pegs supporting replacement rainwater gutters. Squared and randomly coursed rubble stone walls with flush tooled ashlar block-and-start quoins to the corners. Square-headed window, door, and loading bays to the west elevation having red brick block-and-start surrounds to openings, some stone sills to windows, and with battened timber fittings. Three square-headed openings to the east elevation at first floor level. Segmental-headed carriage-arch to the north end of the west elevation having red brick block-and-start surrounds, and remains of battened timber double-doors. Square-headed doorway to the south elevation at first floor level having battened timber door. Wrought-iron railings to threshold of flight of steps. Detached three-bay single-storey outbuilding on L-shaped plan to the south having hipped natural slate roof, rubble stone walls, and square-headed openings with timber fittings. Modernised single-storey with dormer attic level house to the west; derelict single-storey house with attached single-storey outbuildings to the south-east. Set back from road in own grounds in the rural countryside to the south-east of Raphoe.

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 Magherahaan, 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 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 Magherahaan.

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

Name

Magherahaan

Area

1,141,531 m² (114.15 ha, 282.08 acres)

Civil parish

Raphoe, and its townlands

Barony

Raphoe North

Electoral division

Raphoe, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,521 people lived in 591 households in the Raphoe electoral division. 59% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cooladerry, Gort Glebe (Cooladerry), Gortaquigley, Lismontigley, Raphoe Demesne, Raphoe Townparks, Shannagh, Tops

Placenames

Magherahaan 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.