Magheestown

39 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Magheestown, from 162 m² to 174,896 m² (17.49 ha, 43.22 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 12 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 Magheestown 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.

• 5 Mar 2025Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH DOMESTIC GARAGE AND WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM INCLUDING ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2560308

• 13 Dec 2021Conditional

  4 NO. SILOS FOR STORAGE OF ANIMAL FEEDS AND PERMISSION FOR CONSTRUCTION OF (1) AN EXTENSION TO EXISTING RETAIL WAREHOUSE UNIT INCORPORATING A VETERINARY CLINIC FOR SMALL ANIMALS (2) A WORKSHOP FOR STORAGE AND ASSEMBLY OF AGRICULTURAL PARTS & MACHINERY AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2152480

• 17 Nov 2017Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL SHED WITH UNDERGROUND TANKS AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1751745

• 3 Mar 2017Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW FIXED SHEEP HANDLING UNIT WITH FOOTPATH AND DIPPING TANK TOGETHER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1750292

• 24 Feb 2017N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW FIXED SHEEP HANDLING UNIT WITH FOOTPATH AND DIPPING TANK TOGETHER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1750265

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 Magheestown.

Recorded monuments

• DG062-035 Rock art
  Description

  Approximately 15m W of an unclassified megalithic tomb possible (DG062-036----) and towards the NW corner of the field the surface of a large slab of rock bears rock art motifs (SMR file; pers. comm. E. Cody 1998). Situated on a SSW-facing hillside in wet, rough pasture. At the location indicated is a large, naturally-occurring flat outcrop outcrop (L 3.95m NW-SE; 2.3m NE-SW) with many crevices of varying sizes and indentations, some of which at first looked to be artificial but on closer inspection turned out to be naturally-occurring. On the exposed surface of this stone are 12 simple cups, 4 cup and circles, 3 cups within twin concentic circles and a single cup within twin concentric circles which is divided into four approximately equal portions by linear vertical and horizontal indentations. To the NE of this stone is a second, much smaller stone (c.1m NW-SE; 0.7m NE-SW), which is part of the outcrop. On its upper surface is 2 simple cups, 1 cup and circle and 1 cup within twin concentric circles. At N is a smaller irregularly-shaped stone which is not part of the outcrop (0.55m NW-SE; 0.6m NE-SW; H 0.4m). On its upper surface is 1 simple cup and twin cups within an oval setting. Immediately SSE of the large stone is a large, almost rectangular, undecorated slab which appears to be part of the outcrop. (E. Cody, Donegal Annual no. 50 (1998), pp 109-112). Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 12 August 2010

• DG062-036 Megalithic tomb - unclassified
  Description

  According to Thomas Fagan (1845-8), 'the ruins of a Giant's Grave' 14 feet (c. 4.25m) long and 8 feet (c. 2.4m) wide, orientated E-W, had stood in this townland, but only a 'few' stones, 1-2 feet (c. 0.3-0.6m) high, remained when he visited the area in 1846. Fagan described the location of the monument as 3/4 of a mile (c. 1.2km) W of the road leading from Raphoe to Newtowncunningham and on the holding of William Tease. It was not shown on OS 6-inch maps: according to a note written alongside Fagan's account, the reviser who was sent to check the site for inclusion on the map after Fagan had brought it to notice found that neither Tease nor 'the oldest inhabitant in the townland' knew of it, nor was there any apparent trace of it. Today, in a field c. 1.2km from the Raphoe-Newtowncunningham road and on land occupied by William Tays in 1857 (Griffith 1848-64) there is a small upright stone at a position 33.6cm from the left-hand side and 17.6cm from the bottom of OS 6-inch sheet 62 (NGR C 261 053). It measures 0.45m by 0.45m by 0.6m high. Its origin and purpose are now unclear, but perhaps it is one of the stones noted by Fagan. Approximately 15m W of this stone and toward the NW corner of the field the surface of a large slab of rock bears rock art motifs (DG062-035) (Cody 1998). Whether the few stones noted by Fagan were the remains of a megalithic tomb is uncertain. Fagan 1845-8, book 8, 26. The above description was published in the 'Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume VI, County Donegal.' Compiled by: Eamon Cody (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). Date of update / revision : 12 August 2010

Architectural heritage

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

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 Magheestown, 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 Magheestown.

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

Name

Magheestown

Area

946,263 m² (94.63 ha, 233.83 acres)

Civil parish

Raphoe, and its townlands

Barony

Raphoe North

Electoral division

Figart, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,131 people lived in 384 households in the Figart electoral division. 79% of households owned their home. 49% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyholey Far, Ballyholey Near, Common, Dromore Big, Magherasollus, Mongorry, Mountainpark, Slievebuck

Placenames

Magheestown 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.