Unshinagh Lower

22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Unshinagh Lower, from 109 m² to 166,190 m² (16.62 ha, 41.07 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 6 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 Unshinagh 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Unshinagh Lower 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

• Special Area of Conservation: River Finn SAC 002301

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Unshinagh Lower.

Architectural heritage

• Inchenagh House, house, 1860–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house on complex plan, built c. 1880, having projecting single-bay two-storey bay to the south-west end of the front elevation (south-east) having shallow projecting single-storey box bay window at ground floor level, two gable-fronted dormer openings to the north-east end of the front elevation, wide projection to the south-west elevation with gable-fronted dormer adjacent to the north-west, two-storey return to the rear (north-west), and with single-storey open decorative cast-iron veranda running across the front elevation (south-east) and the south-west elevation. Modern additions to rear. Pitched slate roofs with overhanging eaves, decorative pierced timber bargeboards to gables and to half-dormer openings, wrought-iron finial to apex of dormer opening to the north-east end of the front elevation, and with coursed rubble sandstone chimneystacks having flush ashlar quoins to corners, and with chamfered rendered coping and polygonal clayware pots over. Mono-pitched glazed roof to veranda supported on decorative cast-iron open panels/columns with decorative opening cast-iron spandrels. Snecked and coursed rubble sandstone walls over chamfered ashlar sandstone plinth course, and with tooled ashlar sandstone quoins to corners. Ashlar construction to box bay window. Square-headed window openings, some paired and tripartite, having chamfered ashlar block-and-start surrounds, chamfered ashlar sandstone sills, ashlar lintels, and with one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Shouldered window opening to central bay at first floor level having chamfered ashlar block-and-start surround, chamfered ashlar sandstone sill, moulded ashlar lintel, and with one-over-one pane timber sliding sash window. Modern window opening to the south-west elevation at ground floor level. Central doorway to the front elevation having chamfered ashlar block-and-start surround and lintel with roll moulding, plinth blocks to base, timber panelled door with bolection moulding, and with plan overlight. Set back from road in extensive grounds in the rural countryside to the south-west of Lifford. Two detached single-storey gable-fronted garages to north, built c. 1930 and c. 1950, having pitched natural slate roofs with overhanging eaves, cast-iron rainwater goods, and with decorative pierced timber bargeboards to garage to the north, red brick walls with decorative timber boarding to pediments of gables to front (south-east), and with segmental-headed carriage-arch openings with red brick voussoirs, and with battened timber doors inset. Terracotta finial to gable apex of garage to north. Mature trees to boundary and laneway to south-east.

• Inchenagh, house, 1880–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey irregular-plan house, built c.1890, having projecting gabled bay to southwest end of front elevation, gabled side elevations, that to southwest projecting, single-bay addition to rear of southwest end of house, and two-storey and single-storey extensions to rear. Veranda to ground floor of front and southwest elevations and to part of northeast elevation. Pitched slate roof with overhanging eaves, half-dormers to front (with bronze finial to one) and additional bay, decoratively pierced timber bargeboards to gables, replacement rainwater goods, and coursed rubble sandstone chimneystacks with ashlar quoins, chamfered rendered copings and polygonal clay pots. Lean-to glazed roof to veranda, supported on decorative cast-iron frame and columns. Snecked and coursed rubble sandstone walls with plinth course and tooled ashlar quoins. Square-headed openings with one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows, openings to end bays of front elevation being double to first floor front and triple to ground floor, and paired to side elevations, with chamfered stone block-and-start surrounds; shoulder-arch opening to first floor of entrance bay with moulded surround, and windows generally paired elsewhere, all with integral sills. Timber panelled double-leaf door with overlight. Detached two-bay single-storey garage to rear with double-pitched slate roof on overhanging eaves with timber bargeboards similar to house, cast-iron rainwater goods, red brick walls with decorative panelling to pediments of gables, and segmental-arch vehicular entrances with timber battened doors.

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 Unshinagh Lower, 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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1929 (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 Unshinagh Lower with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Unshinagh Lower · Uinseannach Íochtarach

Area

378,581 m² (37.86 ha, 93.55 acres)

Civil parish

Clonleigh, and its townlands

Barony

Raphoe North

Electoral division

Clonleigh South, the unit of the census

Census 2022

2,156 people lived in 853 households in the Clonleigh South electoral division. 64% of households owned their home. 32% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Churchtown, Glensmoil, Haw, Unshinagh Upper

Placenames

Unshinagh 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.