Rarooey

24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rarooey, from 86 m² to 104,956 m² (10.5 ha, 25.94 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 13 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 Rarooey 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 Jul 2026Conditional

  CHANGE OF USE FROM A DWELLING HOUSE TO SHORT TERM HOLIDAY LET

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2661211

• 20 Sept 2023Conditional

  (A) RETENTION AND COMPLETION OF SPORTS FIELD AND FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF PEDESTRIAN WALKWAY AND PERIMETER FENCING, (B) CONSTRUCTION OF 6 NO. FLOODLIGHTS TO EXISTING SPORTS FIELD, AND (C) ALL ANCILLARY SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2351397

• 26 Jul 2023N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF 6 NO. FLOODLIGHTS TO EXISTING FOOTBALL FIELD AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2351094

• 1 Feb 2022Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO THE SIDE & REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND ELEVATIONAL CHANGES TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2250109

• 9 Nov 2021Unconditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF 58 NO. DWELLING HOUSES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND CONNECTION TO EXISTING FOUL SEWER. PREVIOUSLY APPROVED UNDER PLANNING REF 06/21430

  Extension of duration, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2152212

• 9 Nov 2018Unconditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF 58 NO. DWELLING HOUSES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND CONNECTION TO EXISTING FOUL SEWER. PREVIOUSLY APPROVED UNDER PLANNING REF 06/21430

  Extension of duration, 58 homes · Donegal County Council, 1851724

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 Rarooey.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Rarooey.

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Rarooey.

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

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.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1435 (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.

No address of the register names Rarooey with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Rarooey

Area

323,364 m² (32.34 ha, 79.9 acres)

Civil parish

Donegal, and its townlands

Barony

Tirhugh

Electoral division

Donegal, the unit of the census

Census 2022

4,179 people lived in 1,617 households in the Donegal electoral division. 71% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardchicken, Brookfield, Lurganboy, Raforker, Tawnalary

Placenames

Rarooey 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.