Cloghfin

54 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cloghfin, from 73 m² to 100,402 m² (10.04 ha, 24.81 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 21 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 Cloghfin 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.

• 24 Oct 2025Conditional

  EXISTING FRONT PORCH AND PERMISSION FOR (1) EXTENSION TO THE REAR AND REFURBISHMENT OF EXISTING PROPERTY AND RAISING THE ROOF RIDGE HEIGHT TO INCORPORATE BEDROOMS WITHIN THE ROOFSPACE (2) ERECTION OF A GARAGE/STORE FOR DOMESTIC PURPOSES

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2561858

• 20 Dec 2024Conditional

  DOMESTIC GARAGE AND STABLE AND PERMISSION FOR (1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING MICA DEFECTIVE DWELLING HOUSE AND (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW REPLACEMENT DWELLING HOUSE WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2462170

• 6 Sept 2024Conditional

  (1) ERECTION OF A SINGLE STOREY BUNGALOW TYPE DWELLING, (2) DOMESTIC GARAGE/STORE, (3) DOMESTIC WASTE WATER SEPTIC TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA AND (4) ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2461376

• 6 Jun 2024Conditional

  EXISTING TWO STOREY DOMESTIC DWELLING, SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA, SITE ENTRANCE AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2460845

• 21 Mar 2024N/a

  RELOCATION OF EXISTING TWO STOREY DOMESTIC DWELLING, SEPTIC TANK TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA, SITE ENTRANCE AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2460370

• 27 Nov 2023Conditional

  (1) ERECTION OF A SINGLE TWO STOREY DETACHED DOMESTIC DWELLING & DETACHED GARAGE/STORE AND (2) INSTALLATION OF A WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM, PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2351814

• 21 Apr 2022Conditional

  ERECTION OF A SINGLE STOREY DETACHED DOMESTIC BUNGALOW TYPE DWELLING, DETACHED GARAGE/STORE, WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM & PERCOLATION AREA & ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2250697

• 4 Apr 2022Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF DOMESTIC GARAGE ATTACHED TO DWELLING HOUSE AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2250571

• 17 Nov 2021Conditional

  BOUNDARY WALLS TO THE PERIMETER OF DWELLING HOUSE AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2152276

• 28 Jun 2021Conditional

  ERECTION OF DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND DOMESTIC GARAGE

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2151277

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 Cloghfin.

Recorded monuments

• DG070-043 Megalithic tomb - unclassified
  Description

  This feature was first shown on the 1845-7 edition of the OS 6-inch map. The only information about it is contained in an OS 1:2,500 Name Book (1903), where it is described as a 'supposed Giant's Grave' marked by a spread of boulders. There is now no trace of any boulders at the site nor any visible remains of a monument of any kind. OS 1:2,500 Name Book, sheet 70 (1905), 50; Ó Nualláin 1983a, 47, no. 149; SMR 1987, 70:43; RMP 1995, 70:43. 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 upload: 22 September 2008

Architectural heritage

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

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 Cloghfin, 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1866 (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 Cloghfin with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Cloghfin · An Chloch Fhionn

Area

654,828 m² (65.48 ha, 161.81 acres)

Civil parish

Clonleigh, and its townlands

Barony

Raphoe North

Electoral division

Clonleigh North, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,429 people lived in 520 households in the Clonleigh North electoral division. 84% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardnasool, Ballymonaster, Bogagh, Kilmonaster Lower, Lurganshannagh, Shannon Middle

Placenames

Cloghfin 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.