Croaghan

52 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Croaghan, from 17 m² to 308,662 m² (30.87 ha, 76.27 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 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 Croaghan 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.

• 21 Dec 2023Conditional

  ERECTION OF DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND DOMESTIC GARAGE

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2352002

• 20 Mar 2023N/a

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND DOMESTIC GARAGE

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2350352

• 27 Feb 2023N/a

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND DOMESTIC GARAGE

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2350230

• 26 Oct 2021Conditional

  TWO STOREY PITCHED ROOF PORCH ON THE FRONT ELEVATION AND PERMISSION FOR CONVERSION OF THIS TWO-STOREY PITCHED ROOF PORCH TO A SINGLE STOREY PITCHED ROOF PORCH

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2152099

• 20 Oct 2021N/a

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK & DOMESTIC GARAGE

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2152083

• 1 Oct 2021N/a

  CONVERSION OF A TWO STOREY PITCHED ROOF PORCH ON THE FRONT ELEVATION TO A SINGLE STOREY PITCHED ROOF PORCH

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2151959

• 2 Mar 2020Conditional

  RETENTION AND COMPLETION OF DWELLING HOUSE, INSTALLATION OF WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2050255

• 20 Aug 2018Unconditional

  RETENTION AND COMPLETION OF DWELLING (206.03M2) , AND INSTALLATION OF WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND CONSTRUCTION OF A DOMESTIC GARAGE

  Extension of duration, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1851271

• 10 Aug 2018Refused

  PORCH EXTENSION TO THE FRONT OF EXISTING BUILDING

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 1851224

• 13 Feb 2018Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, GARAGE AND WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH PERCOLATION AREA

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1850204

• 31 Oct 2017N/a

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, GARAGE AND WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH PERCOLATION AREA ON SITE

  Outline permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1751646

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: Mulroy Bay SAC 002159

Recorded monuments

• DG017-006 Cairn - unclassified
  Description

  A small cairn of loose stones, subcircular in plan measuring c. 7m N-S by c. 5m E-W and up to 1m in height. It is inconspicuously sited in a narrow valley between, to the W a steep faced ridge of rock and to the E, a steep hill-face. To the S the valley rises gently. To the N, it widens and lowers giving an excellent view over Mulroy Bay. 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

• DG017-008 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Internal diam. c. 18m. A circular area is enclosed by an earthen bank .36m high and an outer fosse c. 3.5m wide and 0.4m deep. There is a causeway c. 4m wide across the fosse on the NE. The interior slopes gently downwards from W to E. The site is on a slight rise on a low ridge running N-S, in low-lying wettish grassland about 450m E of the shore of Mulroy Bay. 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

• St. Columba’s Roman Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1770–1790 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding double-height Catholic church, built c. 1780-5, comprising five-bay hall with slightly projecting breakfront to the centre of the south elevation having bellcote over, and with projecting single-bay single-storey gable-fronted entrance porch to the east side of breakfront to south elevation. Altered c. 1980 with single-storey additions including sacristy attached to the north-east corner. Pitched natural slate roof having raised smooth rendered parapets to gable ends (east and west) with smooth rounded rendered copings over and with smooth rendered kneeler stones at eaves level, projecting eaves course, and having painted cast-iron rainwater goods. Pitched slate roof to bellcote with rendered kneeler stone detail to eaves; round-headed opening with bellcote with bell metal bell. Roughcast rendered walls over smooth rendered plinth course (to north and south elevations), and with rendered cornice stringcourse to bellcote. Quatrefoil motif with smooth rendered surround to the east gable end having date ‘1780’. Pointed arched window openings having multi-pane timber sliding sash windows with timber Y-tracery, diamond pane windows over ‘Y’ of Y-tracery, stone sills and smooth rendered surrounds. Pointed-arched window opening to the west gable having ashlar granite hoodmoulding. Pointed-arched doorway to porch having replacement battened timber double-doors with battened timber panel over, and with smooth rendered reveal. Pointed-arched door opening to the east gable end having replacement battened timber doors. Interior re-ordered c. 1980 having gallery to east supported on fluted columns and with timber parapet having inset trefoil-headed recesses, altar to west, timber pews and open timber king post roof with timber panelled ceiling finish. Located on elevated site on shores of Lagmore Bay to the north of Tamney, and to the south-west end of the Fanad Peninsula. Graveyard to set having collection of nineteenth and twentieth-century gravemarkers of mainly upstanding type; recumbent gravemarkers to the south end of graveyard. Roughcast rendered and modern rubble stone-clad boundary walls to graveyard. Wrought-iron and modern metal pedestrian gates\turnstiles to site.

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 Croaghan, 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 high, 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 Croaghan.

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

Name

Croaghan

Area

1,405,448 m² (140.54 ha, 347.29 acres)

Civil parish

Clondavaddog, and its townlands

Barony

Kilmacrenan

Electoral division

Rosnakill, the unit of the census

Census 2022

264 people lived in 99 households in the Rosnakill electoral division. 81% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 13% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrowkeel Glebe, Maghernalaght, Tawny

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Croaghan 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.