Mullaghdoo Scotch

281 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Mullaghdoo Scotch, from 10 m² to 86,222 m² (8.62 ha, 21.31 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 40 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 Mullaghdoo Scotch 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.

• 11 Mar 2026N/a

  (1) RENOVATION AND EXTENSION OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE FROM SINGLE STOREY TO TWO STOREY, (2) DECOMMISSIONING OF EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND INSTALLATION OF A NEW SEPTIC TANK WITH POLISHING FILTER AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2660391

• 24 Jul 2025N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW VEHICULAR ACCESS FROM THE R266 REGIONAL ROAD TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2561274

• 24 Jul 2025Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH PROPRIETARY WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2561273

• 8 Nov 2024Conditional

  (1) RENOVATION AND EXTENSION OF DWELLING AND (2) INSTALLATION OF A WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH ALL ASSOCIATED DRAINAGE AND SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2450239

• 13 Jun 2024Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF (1) AN EXTENSION AND ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING DWELLING AND (2) DOMESTIC GARAGE INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2460894

• 30 May 2024Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO THE SOUTH GABLE END OF DWELLING HOUSE CONSISTING OF TWO BEDROOMS AND A LOUNGE AREA INCLUDING A SEPARATE DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH ALL ASSOCIATED DRAINAGE AND SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2450147

• 15 May 2024N/a

  A TOURISM RELATED DEVELOPMENT WHICH WILL CONSIST OF (1) THE ERECTION OF 3 NO. SELF-CONTAINED UNITS TO BE USED AS SHORT TERM LETS, (2) A PACKAGE WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT, (3) ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS TO INCLUDE A PROVISION FOR CAR PARKING

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2460711

• 22 Apr 2024N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO THE NORTH GABLE END OF EXISTING DWELLING CONSISTING OF TWO BEDROOMS AND A LOUNGE AREA INCLUDING A SEPARATE DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH ALL ASSOCIATED DRAINAGE AND SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2450112

• 26 Feb 2024N/a

  RENOVATION AND EXTENSION TO DWELLING HOUSE AND INSTALLATION OF A WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH ALL ASSOCIATED DRAINAGE AND SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2450062

• 21 Jul 2022Conditional

  ERECTION OF AN EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING WITH MINOR ELEVATIONAL ALTERATIONS AND FIRST FLOOR ATTIC CONVERSION

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2251252

• 3 Aug 2021Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE AND TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH SOIL POLISHING FILTER

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2151556

• 21 Sept 2020Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT WITH INTERMITTENT SAND FILTER AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2051325

• 8 Aug 2018N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT WITH INTERMITTENT SAND FILTER AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1851231

• 13 Jun 2018N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND WASTEWATER TREATMENT FILTER AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1850942

• 9 May 2017Refused

  CHANGE OF OPERATING TIMES FROM THAT GRANTED UNDER CONDITION NO. 3 OF PLANNING PERMISSION REF. NO. 16/50769 TO 0800 HOURS TO 2000 HOURS MONDAY TO FRIDAY AND 0800 TO 1600 ON SATURDAYS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1750697

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Gweedore Bay and Islands SAC 001141
• Special Protection Area: West Donegal Coast SPA 004150
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Gweedore Bay And Islands 001141

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Mullaghdoo Scotch.

Architectural heritage

• Ballymanus Mine Disaster Monument, monument, 1960–1980 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding carved limestone Celtic cross memorial, erected c.1970, commemorating Ballymanus Sea Mine Disaster. Open-ringed cross atop shaft, both with interlace ornament. Inscribed plinth and base with names of victims. Located on road side and enclosed by sandstone walls with field-stone coping.

• Water pump, 1880–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding cast-iron water hydrant, erected c.1890, having fluted shaft on moulded base with moulded neck, handle, and fluted domed cap with acorn finial. Now overgrown. Located at side of hedgerow, next to former schoolhouse and adjacent to roadside.

• House, 1840–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c.1850, having single-bay single-storey addition to north end. Pitched straw-thatched roof with mesh over, secured to stone pegs at eaves. Pitched slate roof to addition with rendered copings. Smooth-rendered chimneystacks with flat copings. Lime-rendered rubble stone walls. Square-headed window openings with painted stone sills, replacement timber windows and timber battened door. Set at angle to, and backing onto, road, with yard to front elevation and single-bay single-storey outbuilding to south having pitched corrugated-metal roof, rendered copings and limewashed rubble stone walls.

• House, 1840–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c.1850, having single-bay single-storey outbuilding attached to northwest end, and single-storey porch to rear. Pitched straw-thatched roofs to house and outbuilding, with mesh over, secured to stone pegs at eaves, with exposed copings, and having low rendered chimneystacks to house with moulded copings. Roughcast lime-rendered rubble stone walls. Square-headed window openings, lacking sills, with replacement timber casement windows, and timber battened doors. Set back from road and approached by private laneway, with lawn surrounding, hedgerow to front, and yard to rear.

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 Mullaghdoo Scotch, about 1 in 5 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. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Mullaghdoo Scotch.

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

Name

Mullaghdoo Scotch · Mullach Dubh Theas

Area

1,227,927 m² (122.79 ha, 303.43 acres)

Civil parish

Templecrone, and its townlands

Barony

Boylagh

Electoral division

Annagary, the unit of the census

Census 2022

2,274 people lived in 902 households in the Annagary electoral division. 83% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 24% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Braade, Drumnacart Mountain Pasture, Meenderryowan, Mullaghderg, Mullaghderg Mountain Pasture, Mullaghdoo Irish

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Mullaghdoo Scotch 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.