Cranny Lower

149 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cranny Lower, from 4 m² to 71,183 m² (7.12 ha, 17.59 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 18 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 Cranny Lower 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.

• 10 Aug 2026Conditional

  (1) CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE, AND (2) INSTALLATION OF A SEPTIC TANK / SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2661491

• 23 Mar 2026Conditional

  (1) ALTERATION WORKS AND REORIENTATION OF DWELLING HOUSE PREVIOUSLY APPROVED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 04/921 AND (2) DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2660478

• 20 Mar 2026N/a

  (1) ALTERATION WORKS AND REORIENTATION OF DWELLING HOUSE PREVIOUSLY APPROVED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 04/921 AND (2) DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2660459

• 5 Oct 2022Conditional

  (1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW REPLACEMENT SINGLE STOREY DWELLING HOUSE AND (3) DECOMMISSIONING OF EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND PROVISION OF A NEW EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2251663

• 19 Jan 2022Conditional

  (1) DECOMMISSIONING OF EXISTING SEPTIC TANK (2) INSTALLATION OF A NEW WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH POLISHING FILTER AND CONSTRUCTION ACCESS ROAD AND (3) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2250041

• 21 May 2021Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DOMESTIC EXTENSION TO THE FRONT OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE WITH ALTERATIONS TO THE SIDE FACADE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2150989

• 24 Mar 2020Conditional

  ERECTION OF A GARAGE SHED FOR STORAGE OF MACHINERY AND VEHICLES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2050404

• 11 Nov 2019Refused

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DORMER DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND FOUL SEWER TREATMENT PLANT

  Outline permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1951730

• 1 Jul 2019Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A TWO STOREY DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE AN FOUL SEWER TREATMENT PLANT

  Outline permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1951003

• 1 Jul 2019N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A TWO STOREY DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND FOUL SEWER TREATMENT PLANT

  Outline permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1951013

• 6 Jul 2018Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO THE REAR OF SCHOOL BUILDING COMPRISING OF 1 NO. RESOURCE ROOM WITH LOBBY AND ALTTERATIONS TO ACCOMMODATE SAME

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1851039

• 10 May 2017Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO THE REAR OF EXISTING TWO STOREY DWELLING HOUSE INCLUDING FOR CHANGES TO THE ELEVATIONS OF THE EXISTING DWELLING AND FOR ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1750706

• 28 Apr 2017N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO THE REAR OF EXISTING TWO STOREY DWELLING HOUSE INCLUDING FOR CHANGES TO THE ELEVATIONS OF THE EXISTING DWELLING AND FOR ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1750641

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 Cranny Lower.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Cranny Lower.

Architectural heritage

• Inver Church of Ireland Church, church/chapel, 1800–1865 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding double-height Church of Ireland church, built 1807 and altered in 1861 and 1917, comprising three-bay nave to the south (built 1807 and altered 1861), single-bay chancel to the north (added 1917) and with three-stage tower (on square-plan) to the south having pyramidal ashlar corner pinnacles and ashlar spire over (on octagonal-plan) with wrought-iron finial over. Single-bay single bay vestibules to either side of tower having pedestals to the outer corners. Pitched natural slate roof to main body of building with projecting ashlar eaves course, and with chimneystack to the north gable end/chancel gable having chimneypot over; pitched natural slate roof to chancel. Mono-pitched artificial slate roofs to side vestibules. Some surviving sections of cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls over smooth rendered plinth to nave; snecked squared rubble stone masonry to chancel with dressed flush quoins to the corners; coursed squared rubble stone walls to the tower having slightly raised ashlar block-and-start surrounds to the corners and projecting leaded cut stone stringcourses differentiating the stages; coursed squared rubble sandstone walls to side vestibules. Circular clockface to west elevation of tower above openings at third stage/belfry level. Pointed-arch window openings to the side elevations of nave (east and west) having smooth rendered reveals, cut stone Decorated Gothic tracery, dressed ashlar sills, and leaded diamond-pane windows. Tripartite pointed-arch window opening to the chancel gable (north) having chamfered ashlar surround and sill, cut stone Perpendicular Gothic tracery, cut stone hoodmoulding over, and with stained glass windows. Pointed-arched window openings to the side elevations of vestibules having ogee-headed cut stone surrounds, ashlar sills, and leaded diamond-pane windows. Round window openings to the tower at second stage level having plain raised ashlar surrounds and with timber spoked windows; pointed-arch window openings over at belfry level having raised ashlar surrounds and timber louvered fittings. Pointed arched doorway to the front face of tower (south) having plain raised ashlar surround, timber double-doors, and with fanlight over having intersecting glazing bars. Flat timber boarded ceiling and timber wainscoted walls to interior; timber pews and pulpit with cut stone chancel arch. Set back from road to the west of Mountcharles. Graveyard to site having collection of mainly nineteenth-century gravemarkers (upstanding, recumbent and table monuments), some with cast- and/or wrought-iron railed enclosures. Site surrounded by rubble stone boundary walls. Main gateway to the north comprising a pair of ashlar gate piers (on square-plan) having a pair of wrought-iron gates with cast-iron fittings.

• Bridge, 1890–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch former railway bridge, built c. 1893, carrying former Donegal Town to Killybegs narrow gauge railway line over small country road. Railway lines now out of use with tracks removed (c. 1960). Squared rock-faced stone construction to spandrels and to parapets with rock-faced coping over parapets; rock-faced buttresses to north and south elevations flanking arch. Segmental-headed arch with mildly rock-faced voussoirs to arch and squared coursed masonry to arch barrel. Squared rock-faced retaining walls to either side of arch and railway embankment having rock-faced coping over. Deck/former railway line now covered in vegetation. Located a short distance to the east/south-east of Inver Station (see 40909218) and to the north-west of Mountcharles.

• House, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1820, having two-bay single-storey extension attached to the west gable end and with single-bay single-storey flat-roofed addition attached to the east gable end. Pitched natural slate roof having projecting eaves course, and with rendered chimneystacks to the gable ends (east and west). Pitched corrugated-metal roof to single-storey extension to the west having raised rendered verge and rendered chimneystack to the west gable end. Smooth rendered ruled-and-lined walls. Square-headed window openings with stone sills and six-over-six pane horned timber sliding sash windows. Replacement timber casement windows to rear (south). Square-headed door opening, offset slightly to the west side of centre, having battened timber door, plinth blocks to base, and with small overlight. Set slightly back from road in own grounds to the east of Inver and to the west/north-west of Mountcharles. Single-storey gable-fronted outbuilding adjacent to the east of house. Small yard to the north of house with yard and garden to the rear (south). Bounded on road-frontage to the north by rendered boundary wall. Pedestrian gateway serving doorway comprising a pair of rendered gate piers (on square-plan) having metal gate.

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 Cranny Lower, about 1 in 20 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 low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Cranny Lower.

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

Name

Cranny Lower · An Chrannaigh Íochtarach

Area

1,129,963 m² (113 ha, 279.22 acres)

Civil parish

Inver, and its townlands

Barony

Banagh

Electoral division

Bonnyglen, the unit of the census

Census 2022

387 people lived in 142 households in the Bonnyglen electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 32% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 17% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bonnyglen, Cloverhill or Drumbeg, Drumatumpher, Drumduff, Drummacacullen, Keeloges, Mullanboys

Placenames

Cranny Lower 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.