Errity

19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Errity, from 1,133 m² to 284,845 m² (28.48 ha, 70.39 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 17 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 Errity 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 Feb 2025Conditional

  AS BUILT DWELLING WHICH DIFFERS FROM THE DWELLING PREVIOUSLY APPROVED UNDER PLANNING PERMISSION REF. NO. 01/6220 AND PERMISSION FOR (1) DEMOLITION OF THE EXISTING DWELLING CONSTRUCTED FROM DEFECTIVE CONCRETE BLOCKS AND CONSTRUCTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING INCLUDING CONNECTION TO THE EXISTING APPROVED ONSITE SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS AND (2) PROVISION OF A MOBILE HOME ON SITE TO BE USED AS A TEMPORARY DWELLING FOR THE DURATION OF THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE REPLACEMENT DWELLING

  Retention, 2 homes · Donegal County Council, 2550013

• 21 Jul 2023Conditional

  (1) ALTERATIONS & EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING, (2) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING GARAGE & CONSTRUCTION OF A REPLACEMENT DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2351076

• 8 Jun 2022Conditional

  INSTALLATION OF AN ON-SITE SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM TOGETHER WITH PERCOLATION AREA TO SERVICE THE EXISTING MULTI PURPOSE HALL PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF 18/51938

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2250981

• 20 Dec 2018Conditional

  (1) RETENTION OF EXCAVATION, LEVELLING AND SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS CARRIED OUT TO DATE AND (2) THE CONSTRUCTION OF A MULTI-PURPOSE HALL, DEVELOPENT OF ANCILLARY CAR PARKING AND CONNECTION TO PUBLIC SEWER TOGETHER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1851938

• 10 Apr 2018N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A MULTI-PURPOSE HALL, AN ANCILLARY CAR PARKING AREA AND CONNECTION TO PUBLIC SEWER TOGETHER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1850524

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 Errity.

Recorded monuments

• DG054-033 Megalithic tomb - unclassified
  Description

  This feature is named 'Giant's Grave' on the 1846-8 edition of the OS 6-inch map. It stood on rolling pasture 2.2km S of the inner reaches of Lough Swilly. Thomas Fagan (1845-8) described it as 'the remains of a pagan sepulture commonly called the giant's grave'. According to him, it occupied a space c. 13 yards (c. 11.9m) square, which was elevated 'some feet' above adjoining ground. On top, lying E-W, was 'an enclosure 20 feet [c. 6.1m] long, 7 to 9 feet [c. 2.15-2.75m] wide…divided into different graves'. This enclosure, then 'much deranged', was built of 'large blocks of stone', several of which were then still in place. Many other stones were missing or lay prostrate at the site. Kinahan (1885-6, 427) remarked that 'this structure had been broken up and removed' just before his visit to the area. There is now no trace of it, unless a slab, c. lm in maximum dimension, in a fence adjacent to the site of the monument was part of it. Fagan's account may describe a megalithic tomb, but without corroboration it cannot be accepted as a definite one. Fagan 1845-8, book 8, 12; Kinahan 1885-6, 427; Borlase 1897, 235, Raphoe North no. 2; Ó Nualláin 1983a, 45, no. 126; SMR 1987, 54:33; RMP 1995, 54:33. 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

Architectural heritage

• Second Ray Presbyterian Church, church/chapel, 1820–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding Presbyterian Church, built c. 1830 and altered c. 1880, comprising four-bay double-height hall with three-bay two-storey entrance porch to the north-west gable end, and with single-storey over basement vestry attached to the south-east gable end. Renovated c. 1995. Half-hipped artificial slate roof to main body of building having terracotta ridge tiles with terracotta finials to gable apexes, and with overhanging eaves. Mono-pitched half-hipped artificial slate roof to entrance porch having terracotta ridge tiles and overhanging eaves; pitched artificial slate roof to vestry. Roughcast rendered walls over projecting smooth rendered plinth course, and with raised smooth rendered block-and-start quoins to corners of main body of building and to porch. Pointed-arched window openings to the side elevations of hall having smooth rendered reveals and surrounds, painted stone sills, timber or painted cut stone intersecting tracery, and with leaded coloured glass windows. Square-headed window openings to porch having smooth rendered reveals and surrounds, painted stone(?) sills, and replacement timber casement windows. Central square-headed doorway to north-west elevation of porch having smooth rendered surround forming pointed-arched smooth rendered panel over with roundel motif, and with a pair of replacement timber double-doors. Set back from road in elevated site to the south-east of the centre of Manorcunningham. Graveyard to site with collection of nineteenth- and twentieth-century gravemarkers of mainly upstanding type. Bounded on road-frontage to the north by roughcast rendered boundary wall with ashlar copings, and with wrought-iron railings over having cast-iron finials over; terminating ashlar(?) piers (on square-plan) to either end of road-frontage having moulded capstones. Gateway to the north comprising a pair of ashlar(?) piers (on square-plan) having moulded capstones over, and with a pair of wrought-iron gates with cast-iron finials. Single-storey former school located to the north-east boundary of site, now altered and out of use.

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 Errity, 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 Errity.

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

Name

Errity

Area

1,180,781 m² (118.08 ha, 291.78 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

Carrickballydooey, Carrickballydooey Glebe, Errity Churchland, Grawky, Highbank, Manorcunningham, Raymoghy

Placenames

Errity 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.