Maghera Beg
Maghera Beg is a townland in the civil parish of Raymoghy, barony of Raphoe North, Co. Donegal.
Parcel 1364447
- Area
- 81,490 m² (8.15 ha, 20.14 acres)
- Buildings
- No building touches it.
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Maghera Beg
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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).
Ground and risks
- Radon
- At the centre of this parcel, 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 this parcel.
- 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.
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Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.
- Area
- 110.1 ha
- 272 acres
- Land parcels
- 73
- registered freehold, median 2,425 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 10
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
73 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Maghera Beg, from 75 m² to 162,899 m² (16.29 ha, 40.25 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 15 neighbouring parcels touch it.
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Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Maghera Beg 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
25 Mar 2026Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY DOMESTIC GARAGE ATTACHED TO REAR OF DWELLING PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 22/52014
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2660501
19 Dec 2025Refused
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING WITH CONNECTION TO PROPOSED TREATMENT PLANT AND POLISHING FILTER, ALONG WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2562303
13 Mar 2023N/a
ERECTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE, INSTALLATION OF AN ON-SITE WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS
Outline permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2350307
19 Dec 2022Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF (1) A NEW FULLY SERVICED TWO STOREY DWELLING HOUSE (2) NEW PEDESTRIAN AND VEHICULAR ENTRANCE (3) PROPOSED BORED WELL (4) PROPOSED SEPTIC TANK, PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2252014
27 Apr 2022Conditional
CHANGE OF HOUSE TYPE FROM THAT PREVIOUSLY APPROVED UNDER PLANNING REFERENCE 19/51237
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2250751
12 Apr 2022N/a
CONSTRUCTION OF (1) A NEW FULLY SERVICED BUNGALOW DWELLING HOUSE (2) AN ADJACENT DOMESTIC GARAGE, NEW PEDESTRIAN AND VEHICULAR ENTRANCE, BORED WELL, SEPTIC TANK, PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2250633
9 Nov 2021Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW CAR PARKING AREA TO SERVICE THE EXISTING SCHOOL AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2152211
22 Dec 2020Unconditional
CHANGE OF HOUSE TYPE AND RELOCATION OF GARAGE FROM THAT PREVIOUSLY APPROVED UNDER PLANNING REFERENCE 15/51068.
Extension of duration, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2052023
3 Nov 2020Unconditional
DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND CONSTRUCTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Extension of duration, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2051639
12 Aug 2019Conditional
CHANGE OF HOUSE TYPE AND RELOCATION OF GARAGE FROM THAT PREVIOUSLY APPROVED UNDER PLANNING REFERENCE 15/51068.
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1951237
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
- Special Area of Conservation: Lough Swilly SAC 002287
- Special Protection Area: Lough Swilly SPA 004075
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Swilly Including Big Isle, Blanket Nook & Inch Lake 000166
Recorded monuments
- DG054-019 Enclosure
Description
An aerial photograph (St. Joseph, ATB 99) indicates a circular cropmark, c. 40m in diameter here. The site which is located in good farmland just above the W shore of Lough Swilly 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
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Maghera Beg.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Maghera Beg, 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
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Maghera Beg.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Maghera Beg with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Maghera Beg
- Area
- 1,100,697 m² (110.07 ha, 271.99 acres)
- Civil parish
- Raymoghy, and its townlands
- Barony
- Raphoe North
- Electoral division
- Manorcunningham, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,314 people lived in 475 households in the Manorcunningham electoral division. 66% of households owned their home. 57% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Drean, Highbank, Manorcunningham
- Placenames
- Maghera Beg 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.