Craigs

26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Craigs, from 308 m² to 206,768 m² (20.68 ha, 51.09 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 23 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 Craigs 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.

• 27 Nov 2025Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH CONNECTION TO PROPOSED SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2562081

• 30 May 2022Conditional

  (1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING CONCRETE STRUCTURE (2) QUARRYING OF 5.37 HECTARES WHICH WILL BE SUBJECT TO EXTRACTION AND PROCESSING OF ROCK THROUGH DRILLING, BLASTING, CRUSHING AND SCREENING (3) CONSTRUCTION OF (A) SETTLEMENT PONDS AND WETLAND (B) A SHED FOR THE PURPOSES OF STORAGE FOR THE FACILITY INCLUDING ON-SITE MACHINERY MAINTENANCE (C) SITE OFFICE WITH CANTEEN, TOILET & DRYING FACILITIES (4) INSTALLATION OF A WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM & PERCOLATION AREA (5) PROVISION OF A WHEEL WASH AND WEIGHBRIDGE (6) LANDSCAPING OF THE QUARRY DURING THE OPERATIONAL PHASE AND RESTORATION OF THE QUARRY ON COMPLETION OF EXTRACTION (7) ALL ASSOCIATED ANCILLARY FACILITIES / WORKS OVER A 25 YEAR PERIOD. AN ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT REPORT (EIAR) & NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) ACCOMPANIES THIS APPLICATION

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2250933

• 13 May 2022N/a

  (1) QUARRYING OF 5.37 HECTARES WHICH WILL BE SUBJECT TO EXTRACTION AND PROCESSING OF ROCK THROUGH DRILLING, BLASTING, CRUSHING AND SCREENING (2) CONSTRUCTION OF (A) SETTLEMENT PONDS AND CONSTRUCTED WETLAND (B) A SHED FOR THE PURPOSES OF STORAGE FOR THE FACILITY INCLUDING THE ON-SITE MACHINERY MAINTENANCE (C) SITE OFFICE WITH CANTEEN, TOILET & DRYING FACILITIES (3) INSTALLATION OF A WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM & PERCOLATION AREA (4) PROVISION OF A WHEEL WASH AND WEIGHBRIDGE (5) LANDSCAPING OF THE QUARRY DURING THE OPERATIONAL PHASE AND RESTORATION OF THE QUARRY ON COMPLETION OF EXTRACTION (5) ALL ASSOCIATED ANCILLARY FACILITIES / WORKS OVER A 25 YEAR PERIOD. AN ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT REPORT (EIAR) & NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) ACCOMPANIES THIS APPLICATION

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2250836

• 27 Jan 2022Conditional

  EXISTING TELECOMMUNICATIONS SUPPORT STRUCTURE (PREVIOUSLY GRANTED PERMISSION UNDER PL. REF. 12/60069) TOGETHER WITH ANTENNAS, DISHES, CABINETS, FENCING AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2250087

• 20 Dec 2019Conditional

  (1) QUARRYING OF 4.81 HECTARES WHICH WILL BE SUBJECT TO EXTRACTION AND PROCESSING OF ROCK BY DRILLING, BLASTING, CRUSHING AND SCREENING (2) LANDSCAPING OF THE QUARRY DURING THE OPERATIONAL PHASE AND RESTORATION OF THE QUARRY ON COMPLETION OF EXTRACTION (3) ERECTION OF SITE OFFICE WITH CANTEEN FACILITIES (4) INSTALLATION OF WASTEWATER TREATMENT UNIT & PERCOLATION AREA (5) ALL ASSOCIATED ANCILLARY FACILITIES / WORKS OVER A 25 YEAR PERIOD

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1952015

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 Craigs.

Recorded monuments

• DG062-030 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  A modernised 'holy well' no longer venerated. 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

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

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 Craigs, 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 Craigs.

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

Name

Craigs

Area

682,860 m² (68.29 ha, 168.74 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

Common, Magherasollus, Mountainpark, Raphoe Townparks

Placenames

Craigs 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.