Rossnowlagh Upper or Crockahany

250 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rossnowlagh Upper or Crockahany, from 10 m² to 136,482 m² (13.65 ha, 33.73 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 44 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 Rossnowlagh Upper or Crockahany 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.

• 4 Sept 2026N/a

  (1) PLACEMENT OF A CARAVAN FOR TEMPORARY ACCOMMODATION UNTIL THE WORKS TO THE EXISTING DWELLING HAVE BEEN COMPLETED, (2) INSTALLATION OF A SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT AND PERCOLATION AREA TO SERVICE EXISTING DWELLING (PLANNING REF. NO. 25/61166 REFERS) AND (3) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2661649

• 23 Jul 2026Conditional

  (1) DEMOLITION OF AN EXISTING 18 SQ.M SINGLE-STOREY SUNROOM EXTENSION AND CHIMNEY TO FACILITATE, (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW 30 SQ.M SINGLE-STOREY PITCHED ROOF RESIDENTIAL EXTENSION TO THE SIDE/ WEST, (3) CONVERSION OF THE EXISTING GARAGE TO PROVIDE A GYM, SAUNA AND STORAGE AREAS, (4) PROVISION OF AN EXTERNAL WALL INSULATION SYSTEM, SUBJECT TO FINAL SPECIFICATION, (5) ALTERATIONS TO ALL ELEVATIONS, (6) CONNECTION OF THE DWELLING TO THE EXISTING PUBLIC FOUL SEWER AND (7) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS, ANCILLARY ENGINEERING WORKS AND LANDSCAPING NECESSARY TO FACILITATE THE DEVELOPMENT

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2661376

• 13 May 2026Refused

  CONSTRUCTION OF 2 NO. HOUSING UNITS AND A DOMESTIC STORAGE BUILDING, CONNECTION INTO EXISTING SEWER NETWORK, NEW VEHICULAR ACCESS ROAD AND FOOTPATH AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED WORKS

  Permission, 2 homes · Donegal County Council, 2660855

• 2 Apr 2026Conditional

  (1) CONSTRUCTION OF A FIRST-FLOOR EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING AND SUBDIVISION OF SAME TO PROVIDE 2NO. SELF-CONTAINED RESIDENTIAL UNITS (DWELLINGS), EACH WITH INDEPENDENT ACCESS, (2) ADDITION OF GLAZING TO THE WEST, EAST AND SOUTH ELEVATION AND (3) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS AND CONNECTION TO ALL EXISTING SERVICES

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2660555

• 5 Feb 2026Conditional

  (1) REPLACEMENT OF A FLAT ROOF WITH A PITCHED ROOF TO FORM FIRST FLOOR ACCOMMODATION ON EXISTING SINGLE STOREY DWELLING, (2) ADDITION OF GLAZING TO THE WEST, EAST AND SOUTH ELEVATIONS AND (3) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND CONNECTIONS TO ALL EXISTING SERVICES

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2660145

• 13 Jan 2026Conditional

  ERECTION OF A STOREY AND A HALF DWELLING HOUSE, CONNECTION TO PUBLIC EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM, ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORK AND CONNECTION TO ALL EXISTING SERVICES. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) ACCOMPANIES THIS APPLICATION

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2660024

• 18 Dec 2025N/a

  (1) REPLACEMENT OF A FLAT ROOF WITH A PITCHED ROOF TO FORM FIRST FLOOR ACCOMMODATION ON EXISTING SINGLE STOREY DWELLING, (2) ADDITION OF GLAZING TO THE WEST, EAST AND SOUTH ELEVATIONS AND (3) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND CONNECTIONS TO ALL EXISTING SERVICES

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2562269

• 21 Nov 2025Conditional

  (1) CONSTRUCTION OF A PROPOSED STOREY AND A HALF DWELLING WITH CONNECTED DOMESTIC GARAGE (OUTLINE PLANNING REF. NO. 24/61284 REFERS), (2) CONSTRUCTION OF STONE BOUNDARY WALL TO THE SOUTH OF THE SITE BOUNDARY, (3) CONNECTION TO PUBLIC WATER AND SEWER AND (4) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND CONNECTION TO ALL EXISTING SERVICES

  Permission consequent, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2562037

• 8 Jul 2025Conditional

  RENOVATION AND EXTENSION OF AN EXISTING DERELICT DWELLING HOUSE, CONNECTION TO PUBLIC WATER MAINS AND SEWER, ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND CONNECTION TO ALL EXISTING SERVICES

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2561166

• 30 Jun 2025Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DETACHED DOMESTIC STORAGE SHED, CONNECTION INTO MAINS SERVICES AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2561103

• 19 May 2025Conditional

  (1) RESTORATION / CONVERSION AND REPURPOSING OF HISTORIC FARM STEADS AND YARD TO 1 NO. DWELLING HOUSE AND OUTBUILDINGS, UTILISING AN EXISTING ACCESS AND LANEWAY AND (2) INSTALLATION OF AN ASSOCIATED PACKAGE TREATMENT PLANT WITH PLANTING RETENTION AND ADDITIONAL NATIVE PLANTING

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2550071

• 16 May 2025Refused

  CONSTRUCTION OF 4 NO. HABITABLE HOUSING UNITS AND ANCILLARY SERVICE BUILDING, CONNECTION INTO EXISTING SEWER NETWORK, NEW VEHICULAR ACCESS ROAD AND FOOTPATH AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED WORKS

  Permission, 4 homes · Donegal County Council, 2560793

• 15 May 2025Conditional

  RAISING THE RIDGE LEVEL OF AN EXISTING DWELLING TO PROVIDE NEW FIRST FLOOR DOMESTIC ACCOMMODATION & ALL ASSOCIATED ELEVATIONAL CHANGES

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2560785

• 7 May 2025N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF 4 NO. HABITABLE HOUSING UNITS AND ANCILLARY SERVICE BUILDING, CONNECTION INTO EXISTING SEWER NETWORK, NEW VEHICULAR ACCESS ROAD AND FOOTPATH AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2560719

• 28 Apr 2025N/a

  (1) RESTORATION / CONVERSION AND REPURPOSING OF HISTORIC FARM STEADS AND YARD TO 1 NO. DWELLING HOUSE AND OUTBUILDINGS, UTILISING AN EXISTING ACCESS AND LANEWAY AND (2) INSTALLATION OF AN ASSOCIATED PACKAGE TREATMENT PLANT WITH PLANTING RETENTION AND ADDITIONAL NATIVE PLANTING

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2550057

• 12 Feb 2025N/a

  RETENTION / RESTORATION / CONVERSION AND REPURPOSING OF HISTORIC FARM STEADS AND YARD TO 1 NO. DWELLING HOUSE AND OUTBUILDINGS, UTILISING AN EXISTING ACCESS AND LANEWAY WITH ASSOCIATED PLANTING RETENTION AND ADDITIONAL NATIVE PLANTING

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2550007

• 9 Nov 2024Refused

  RAISING THE RIDGE LEVEL OF EXISTING DWELLING TO PROVIDE NEW FIRST FLOOR DOMESTIC ACCOMMODATION AND ALL ASSOCIATED ELEVATIONAL CHANGES

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2461798

• 29 Oct 2024Conditional

  A RETAINING BOUNDARY WALL WITH GLASS BALUSTRADE ATOP ALONG NORTHERN AND NORTH-EASTERN SITE BOUNDARY, ALONG WITH ASSOCIATED INFILLING AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS ALL TO THE REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2461725

• 11 Oct 2024Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DETACHED DOMESTIC STORAGE SHED, CONNECTION INTO MAINS SERVICES AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2461609

• 16 Sept 2024N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DETACHED DOMESTIC STORAGE SHED, CONNECTION INTO MAINS SERVICES AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2461454

• 23 Aug 2024Conditional

  ONE AND A HALF STOREY DWELLING HOUSE WITH CONNECTION TO THE PUBLIC FOUL SEWER AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Outline permission · Donegal County Council, 2461284

• 28 May 2024N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DETACHED DOMESTIC STORAGE SHED, CONNECTION INTO MAINS SERVICES AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2460787

• 8 Apr 2024Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE AND STORAGE SHED INCORPORATING OPEN PLAN GAMES ROOM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2460472

• 4 Apr 2024N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE AND STORAGE SHED INCORPORATING AN OPEN PLAN GAMES ROOM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2460458

• 31 Jan 2024Conditional

  (1) CONSTRUCTION OF (A) A NEW CAMPER VAN PARK CONSISTING OF 29 NO. CAMPER VAN PITCHES / PLOTS, (B) 3 NO. 3 BEDROOM CABINS WITH PARKING BAYS, (C) A SINGLE STOREY FACILITIES BUILDING (CONTAINING A RECEPTION OFFICE; MALE, FEMALE AND ACCESSIBLE WCS AND SHOWERS; AND SLUICE ROOM) AND (D) 7 NO. PARKING BAYS (2) INSTALLATION OF A PRE-TREATMENT WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT AND (3) ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS AND CONNECTION TO EXISTING FOUL DRAINAGE SYSTEM AND EXISTING SERVICES. A NATURA IMPACT STATMENT ACCOMPANIES THIS APPLICATION.

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2460065

The 25 most recent of 96 applications.

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: Durnesh Lough SAC 000138
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Durnesh Lough 000138

Recorded monuments

• DG103-020 Enclosure
  Description

  Marked as a semicircular feature on the 3rd edition of the OS 6-inch map, there is now no trace of the site. It was located on rough ground overlooking Rossnowlagh Beach. 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

• House, 1910–1930 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey house/holiday home, built c. 1925, having central projecting gable-fronted porch with open veranda to the front elevation (north). One of a group of three with the buildings to the east (not in survey). Single-storey extension to the rear (south). Pitched corrugated-metal roof with gable-fronted dormer-type projections at roof level to the outer bays to the main elevation. Decorative pierced timber bargeboards to projecting porch and to dormer-type projections; timber spear finials over gabled projections, that to porch now missing. Smooth rendered chimneystack to the rear pitch. Corrugated-metal clad walls; timber boarded cladding to recessed porch wall. Timber boarded construction to gable-fronted porch supported on timber post with chamfered edges. Timber lattice/trellised balustrade to front of porch and timber lattice/trellised panel at base of gable-fronted hood to porch. Square-headed window openings with three pane timber casement windows; paired three pane timber casement windows to outer bays to main elevation. Central recessed square-headed doorway to porch having timber panelled double-doubles with glazed upper panels. Cement base/platform to porch; doorway accessed by flight of concrete steps. Set back from road and located in an elevated site overlooking Belalt Strand, Rossnowlagh, to the north and north-west. Garden to front (north). Sited to the north-west of Ballyshannon and to the south-west of Ballintra.

• Hill House, house, 1790–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached multiple-bay two-storey house on complex-plan, built c. 1800 and extended c. 1860 and 1900, comprising central two-bay two-storey section, adjoining three-bay two-storey section to the east having gable-fronted entrance porch to the front elevation (south) at first floor level reached by an external flight of stairs, and three-bay two-storey section to the west on L-shaped plan having doorway at first floor level reached by external staircase to the front (south). Formerly probably in use as a hotel or guest house. Single-storey extensions with mono-pitched roofs to the south of the block to the east and to the south-east of block to the west. Pitched natural slate roofs to main body of building having rendered chimneystacks; hipped roof to block to the south-west corner having terracotta ridge tiles. Roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with range of six-over-six, four-over-two, and one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows, some having exposed sash boxes. Painted stone sills. Square-headed door openings at first floor level to projections in east and the west having replacement doors. Set slightly back from road in own grounds to the east of Belalt Strand, Rossnowlagh. Garden to front (south) and to the north. Metal pump to yard to the south of original central block. Bounded on road-frontage to the south by rubble stone boundary walls having rubble stone coping over. Sited to the north-west of Ballyshannon and to the south-west of Ballintra. Metal vent pipe adjacent to the west.

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 Rossnowlagh Upper or Crockahany, 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 Rossnowlagh Upper or Crockahany.

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 Rossnowlagh Upper or Crockahany with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Rossnowlagh Upper or Crockahany

Area

1,588,737 m² (158.87 ha, 392.59 acres)

Civil parish

Drumhome, and its townlands

Barony

Tirhugh

Electoral division

Ballintra, the unit of the census

Census 2022

755 people lived in 290 households in the Ballintra electoral division. 81% of households owned their home. 25% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 41% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardeelan Lower, Ardeelan Upper, Durnesh, Killinangel Beg, Rathfragan, Rosscat, Rossnowlagh Lower

Placenames

Rossnowlagh Upper or Crockahany 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.