Dooish

47 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Dooish, from 268 m² to 466,126 m² (46.61 ha, 115.18 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 28 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 Dooish 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.

• 19 Dec 2022Conditional

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

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2252044

• 11 Feb 2022Conditional

  EXISTING MOBILE HOME AND PERMISSION FOR (1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING MICA DEFECTED DWELLING HOUSE (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING WITH CONNECTION TO ALL EXISTING SERVICES ALONG WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention, 2 homes · Donegal County Council, 2250218

• 31 Jan 2022N/a

  MOBILE HOME AND PERMISSION FOR (1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING MICA DEFECTED DWELLING HOUSE (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING WITH CONNECTION TO ALL EXISTING SERVICES ALONG WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2250099

• 15 Jul 2019Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF DWELLING HOUSE AND DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1951088

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 Dooish.

Recorded monuments

• DG054-018 Enclosure
  Description

  An aerial photograph (St. Joseph, AJS 23) indicates a circular cropmark, possibly with internal features, c. 40m-50m in diameter here. There is a slight indication of an entrance to the N and possibly associated field boundaries to the S and E. The site which is located in good farmland was not inspected. 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

• DG054-023 Megalithic tomb - unclassified
  Description

  This monument, named 'Standing Stones' on the various editions of the OS 6-inch map, appears as 'Remains of Druid's Altar' on the pre-publication map of 1846-8. It stands on a ridge in pasture c. 5.5km E of the inner end of Lough Swilly, across which there is an extensive outlook. Just outside the western edge of the monument the ground falls sharply, and to the E, beyond a gentle decline, there is a rise to the summit of the Dooish Mountain range, 1.5km distant. The monument, of which only a single orthostat survives in its original position, has been incorporated in a grass-grown field bank. The extant orthostat is gabled in outline and aligned NW-SE. It is 1m high. To the E, along the wide grassy field bank, is a considerable scatter of small field stones, as well as four larger, displaced stones, which are shown on the plan. Three of these are partly embedded in the ground. The largest, 2.5m E of the surviving orthostat, measures 1.5m by 1.3m and is 0.6m thick, and the smallest, a loose boulder next to the orthostat, is 0.7m by 0.5m by 0.25m. According to Thomas Fagan (1845-8), who visited the site in 1846, two upright stones 7 feet (c. 2.15m) apart then survived, the remains, he suggested, of 'a pagan altar or sepulture'. Apparently the second stone was still standing at the beginning of the 20th century, as the site is named 'Standing Stones' on the 1905 edition of the OS 6-inch map. The nature of the depiction of the site on the original OS 6-inch map (1834-5) and on the revision of 1846-8 indicates that there was a considerable cairn at this spot in those years. On both maps a shaded space, approximating to a long oval in outline and representing an area c. 40m long (NE-SW) by 15m in maximum width, is shown here and seems intended to represent a cairn or mound. Cairn remains cannot now reliably be identified but may have been incorporated in the field bank crossing the site. The surviving orthostat is set transversely to the long axis of the supposed cairn. This circumstance, and the fact that the stone is gabled in outline, strongly indicates that it is the backstone of a gallery. It stands near what was the NE end of the cairn. The monument must remain unclassified, but the presence of a possible gabled backstone and the likelihood that there was a long cairn here suggest that this was probably a court tomb or, less likely, a portal tomb. Fagan 1845-8, book 8, 10; Lacy 1983, 80, no. 396; SMR 1987, 54:23; Ó Nualláin 1989, 142; RMP 1995, 54:23. 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 See linked document with details from Eamon Cody, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume VI. County Donegal. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002)

• DG054-046 Souterrain
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• DG054-047 Souterrain
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

Architectural heritage

• Bridge, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch road-over-river bridge, built c. 1820. Segmental-headed arch with rubble voussoirs, random rubble soffit to vault. Random uncoursed rubble limestone piers, spandrels and parapets, rough stone coping on edge to parapets. Single lane carriageway over running north to south with vegetation growth to verges and to east and west parapets, all spanning a small river.

• Bridge, 1875–1885 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch rail bridge, c. 1883, carrying road over the former Burt Junction to Letterkenny narrow gauge railway line. Railway out of use and tracks removed (since 1953). Segmental-headed arch with brick voussoirs and with brick construction to arch barrel; coursed and squared mildly rock-faced rubble stone construction to piers and to arch below springing point. Squared rubble stone construction to spandrels and to parapets. Rubble stone coping to parapets. Tarmacadam deck with grass verges. Squared and coursed rubble stone retaining walls to either side having cut stone coping over. Located in the rural countryside to the east of Manorcunningham.

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 Dooish, 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1894 (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 Dooish with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Dooish · An Dubhais

Area

4,049,681 m² (404.97 ha, 1,000.7 acres)

Civil parish

Raymoghy, and its townlands

Barony

Raphoe North

Electoral division

Treantaghmucklagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

860 people lived in 282 households in the Treantaghmucklagh electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 44% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardagh, Bready, Castleblaugh, Drumlougher, Gortree, Lismoghry, Listicall Upper, Moneymore, Ryelands, Tober, Tullyannan, Tullyannan Glebe

Placenames

Dooish 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.