Knockagarran

44 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockagarran, from 138 m² to 249,966 m² (25 ha, 61.77 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 36 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Knockagarran 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.

• 19 Jul 2023Unconditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DETACHED DOMESTIC STORAGE SHED AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Extension of duration · Donegal County Council, 2351059

• 31 Aug 2021Conditional

  (1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING AND ADJOINING BARNS, (2) ERECTION OF REPLACEMENT DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS IN LIEU OF PREVIOULSY APPROVED PERMISSION PLAN. REF. NO. 19/51104

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2151742

• 2 Mar 2020Conditional

  DEVELOPMENT OF A VEHICULAR ENTRANCE INTO AGRICULTURAL LANDS AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2050249

• 17 Jul 2019Conditional

  ERECTION OF DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND DOMESTIC GARAGE

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1951104

• 2 Jun 2017Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DETACHED DOMESTIC STORAGE SHED AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1750855

• 26 May 2017N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DETACHED DOMESTIC STORAGE SHED AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1750819

• 3 May 2017N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DETACHED DOMESTIC STORAGE SHED AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1750673

• 2 Mar 2017Conditional

  ENLARGEMENT AND EXTENSION TO EXISTING CONSERVATORY AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1750291

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 Knockagarran.

Recorded monuments

• DG069-030 Megalithic tomb - unclassified
  Description

  This monument stands in an open space just below the summit of a conifer-planted hillside c. 4.5km SW of Convoy village and commands an extensive outlook northward across the basin of the Deele River. The monument is very ruined and difficult to interpret. A narrow gallery-like feature overlain by a displaced roofstone stands toward the S end of a grass-grown mound of oval outline measuring 6m NW-SE by 4.5m NE-SW and 1m in maximum height. Three large prostrate slabs, 0.2-0.35m thick, lie on the mound close to the structure. Other, smaller stones, not on plan, also lie at the site. A single stone marks the SE end of the gallery-like feature, and four others, two to the N and two to the S, run north-westward from either end of it. The space enclosed by the set stones has been dug to a depth of 0.4m. The two stones to the S are relatively tall and support the displaced roofstone in a sloping position above the structure. The roofstone, 2.15m by 2.05m by 0.3m thick, oversails the other three set stones and rests on the ground at the N. The western one of the two orthostats at the S rises 0.8m above the surface of the mound and 1.2m above that of the lowered interior. The eastern is set slightly outside the line of the western and is approximately the same height. It leans against and rises 0.5m above the flat top of the single stone at the SE. The top of this stone is flush with the surface of the mound, and its inner face has been exposed to a depth of 0.35m. The eastern one of the two orthostats at the N rises 0.1m above the top of the last. It leans northward and is exposed to a depth of 0.5m at its inner face. The western stone here has been exposed to a depth of 0.6m at its southern face. This leans to the S and, although it is firmly set, it is not certain that it has not been displaced. The remains could be taken to represent a narrow gallery at least 2m long, but an alternative interpretation would be to regard the two tall stones at the S as representing the side of a gallery that has otherwise been destroyed or remains concealed. The two stones opposite these could be taken as representing an outer wall, and the stone at the SE a buttress stone. Further investigation would be required to establish which, if either, of these interpretations is correct. In its present condition the tomb must remain unclassified. Ó Nualláin 1983a, 42, no. 108; SMR 1987, 69:30; Ó Nualláin 1989, 142; RMP 1995, 69:30. 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 See linked document with details from Eamon Cody, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume VI. County Donegal. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002)

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Knockagarran.

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

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Knockagarran with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Knockagarran

Area

1,358,378 m² (135.84 ha, 335.66 acres)

Civil parish

Convoy, and its townlands

Barony

Raphoe South

Electoral division

Convoy, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Convoy electoral division: 2,559 people in 926 households; 72% of households own their home; 38% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Corcashy, Killynure or Wilson's Fort, Lisnaree, Lisnaree, Magheracorran, Meenavally, Mullaghagarry

Placenames

Knockagarran 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.