Magheracorran

72 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Magheracorran, from 36 m² to 264,193 m² (26.42 ha, 65.28 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 29 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 Magheracorran 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.

• 29 Aug 2024Conditional

  REMOVAL OF EXISTING REAR LEAN TO EXTENSION AND ADD A CONNECTION CORRIDOR/STORAGE AREA TO THE SIDE OF DWELLING AND TO CHANGE THE USE OF THE ADJACENT STRUCTURE FROM GOSPEL HALL TO DOMESTIC USAGE AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2461316

• 4 Feb 2020Unconditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK/SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Extension of duration, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2050092

• 29 Nov 2017Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK/SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1751791

• 23 May 2017Conditional

  CHANGE OF DESIGN OF EXTENSIONS TO REAR AND SIDE PREVIOUSLY PERMITTED UNDER PLANNING REF'S 12/60088 & 16/51435, INCLUDING ADDITIONAL ROOF LIGHTS TO APPROVED COTTAGE RENOVATIONS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1750778

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 Magheracorran.

Recorded monuments

• DG069-025 Children's burial ground
  Description

  Marked as a 'Caldragh' or 'Burying Ground for Children' on the 2nd edition of the OS 6-inch map. There are now no surface features. It was situated in rolling pasture 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

• DG069-029 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Internal diam. 13m. A subcircular level space raised c. 1m above the surrounding field and enclosed by an earthen bank .75m high. There are several gaps but no obvious entrance. It is situated on the E cliff edge of a plateau of excellent 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

Architectural heritage

• Barn, 1800–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached six-bay two-storey outbuilding, built c. 1830, having external flight of cut stone steps to the north gable end giving access to doorway at first floor level. Land slopes to the west with single-storey elevation to the rear (west). Associated with altered two-storey house (not in survey) adjacent to the north-east. Pitched natural slate roof with ridge tiles, smooth rendered verges to the gable ends, and with cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls rubble stone walls. Square-headed doorways and loading bays having battened timber doors; wrought-iron flat-bar inner gates to ground floor door openings. Set slightly back from road to the west of Convoy.

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 Magheracorran, 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 low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1751 (ZIP).

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.

• Magheracorran, Convoy5 sales

Name

Magheracorran

Area

2,224,504 m² (222.45 ha, 549.69 acres)

Civil parish

Convoy, and its townlands

Barony

Raphoe South

Electoral division

Convoy, the unit of the census

Census 2022

2,559 people lived in 926 households in the Convoy electoral division. 72% of households owned their home. 38% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aughagault Big, Callan, Callanacor, Gobnascale, Killynure or Wilson's Fort, Knockagarran, Lisnaree, Lisnaree, Magheranappan, Meenavoy, Teangue, Teevickmoy

Placenames

Magheracorran 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.