Creaghadoos

79 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Creaghadoos, from 63 m² to 424,014 m² (42.4 ha, 104.78 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 22 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 Creaghadoos 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.

• 14 Apr 2026Unconditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK / SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS RELATED TO OUTLINE PLANNING PERMISSION REF. NO. 17/51946

  Extension of duration, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2650056

• 13 Apr 2026Conditional

  (1) RETENTION OF VEHICULAR ENTRANCE, (2) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND GARAGE CONSTRUCTED WITH DEFECTIVE CONCRETE BLOCKWORK AND CONSTRUCTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING HOUSE AND GARAGE AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS AND (3) PLACEMENT OF A MOBILE HOME STRUCTURE ON SITE TO BE USED AS TEMPORARY ACCOMMODATION FOR THE DURATION OF CONSTRUCTION WORKS RELATING TO THE REPLACEMENT DWELLING HOUSE SOUGHT HEREIN

  Permission, 2 homes · Donegal County Council, 2660618

• 19 Jan 2026N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE, INSTALLATION OF SEPTIC TANK / SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2660046

• 15 Dec 2025N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE, INSTALLATION OF SEPTIC TANK / SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORK

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2562226

• 8 Apr 2024Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE AND STORAGE SHED AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2460468

• 20 Nov 2023Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH CONNECTION TO PROPOSED TREATMENT SYSTEM AND POLISHING FILTER ON SITE

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2351762

• 17 Nov 2021Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK/SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Outline permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2152279

• 6 Sept 2021Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE AND SEPTIC TANK SYSTEM WITH PERCOLATION AREA

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2151769

• 15 Apr 2021Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH CONNECTION TO PROPOSED TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2150677

• 26 Feb 2021N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH CONNECTION TO PROPOSED TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2150326

• 1 Feb 2021Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK / SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS RELATED TO OUTLINE PLANNING PERMISSION REF 17/51949

  Permission consequent, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2150113

• 1 Feb 2021Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK / SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS RELATED TO OUTLINE PLANNING PERMISSION REF 17/51946

  Permission consequent, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2150112

• 20 Dec 2017Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK/SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Outline permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1751946

• 20 Dec 2017Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK/SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Outline permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1751949

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 Creaghadoos.

Recorded monuments

• DG062-026 Souterrain
  Description

  Three capstones of a closed-up souterrain are visible running N-S. It is situated in good land sloping to the S. 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

• St. Columba Church of Ireland Chapel of Ease, church/chapel, 1860–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached barn-type former Church of Ireland chapel of rest, built c. 1869, comprising four-bay hall with apsidal chancel to the north-east end, projecting single-bay single-storey gable-fronted porch to the south-west end of the south-east elevation having gable-fronted bellcote over gable apex, single-bay single-storey sacristy attached to the north-east end of the north-west elevation having single-bay single-storey addition attached to the north-west gable end, and with three-bay single-storey sexton’s house attached to the south-west end of the main body of church. Now in use as a Church of Ireland chapel of ease (since c. 1970). Pitched natural slate roof to main body of church having hipped natural slate roof over apse with leaded ridge hips, raised ashlar verge to the south-west end with ashlar kneeler stones at eaves level and with rendered chimneystack over, moulded clay ridge tiles, cast-iron rainwater goods, and with five-pronged wrought-iron finial over apse. Pitched natural slate roofs to vestry having raised ashlar verge with cut stone kneeler stones to the eaves and with rendered chimneystack to apex with clay/terracotta pot over to the north-west gable end. Pitched slate roof to addition to vestry having rendered verge to the north-west gable end. Pitched natural slate roof to porch having raised ashlar verge to the south-east gable with kneeler stones at eaves, and with chamfered ashlar gable-fronted bellcote over having pointed-arch bell openings with bell metal bell with inscription reading ‘TO CRAIGADOOISH CHURCH, THE GIFT OF T. G. WILSON. ADVENT 1966’, and with cut stone coping with wrought-iron finial over gable apex. Roughcast rendered walls with smooth rendered plinth to main body of church and to porch. Cusped window openings to main body of church and to the south-west side of vestry having chamfered ashlar sandstone block-and-start surrounds, chamfered sills, and with cast-iron quarry glazed windows with coloured panes to margins. Pointed-arched doorway to porch having chamfered ashlar sandstone surround, cut stone plinth blocks, and battened timber door with decorative wrought-iron hinges. Pointed-arched doorway to the north-east face of vestry having battened timber door. Timber scissors truss roof and carved stone pulpit. Attached three-bay single-storey former sexton’s house adjoining to the south-west having central projecting flat-roofed entrance porch, pitched natural slate roof with red brick chimneystack to the south-west gable end, square-headed window openings with replacement timber casement windows, and with square-headed doorway to door with timber door. Set back from road in an elevated site in own grounds to the south/south-west of Saint Johnston and to the west of the border with Northern Ireland. Lawned area and gravel car park to the south-east. Altered single-storey former school to the north of church. Site bounded by roughcast rendered walls. Gateway to the south-west having a pair of roughcast rendered gate piers (on square-plan) having hooped wrought-iron gates.

• Swilly Bridge, bridge, 1850–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arched bridge carrying road the Swilly Burn, built c. 1870 and possibly containing earlier fabric. Segmental-headed arch having brick voussoirs to arch; cement rendered brick construction to arch barrel. Randomly coursed rubble stone construction to abutments and parapets. Cement rendered coping over parapets. deck with grass verges. Located in the rural countryside to the north of Lifford. Similar in style and date to bridge (see 40906315) located a short distance to the east.

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 Creaghadoos, 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 Creaghadoos.

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

Name

Creaghadoos · Creacha Dubha

Area

2,291,429 m² (229.14 ha, 566.22 acres)

Civil parish

Taughboyne, and its townlands

Barony

Raphoe North

Electoral division

Feddyglass, the unit of the census

Census 2022

456 people lived in 164 households in the Feddyglass electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyboe, Binnion, Boyagh, Cavanacaw, Creatland, Drumleene, Listannagh, Swilly, Tironeill

Placenames

Creaghadoos 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.