Roughpark
Townland in the civil parish of Aghanunshin, barony of Kilmacrenan, Co. Donegal
Parcel 4677098
- Area
- 285 m²
- Buildings
- No building touches it.
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Roughpark
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel 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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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).
Ground and risks
- Radon
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility low, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.
- 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.
Download this parcel: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program; GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map; KML, for Google Earth.
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.
- Area
- 69.6 ha
- 172 acres
- Land parcels
- 89
- registered freehold, median 2,032 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 31
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
89 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Roughpark, from 6 m² to 29,326 m² (2.93 ha, 7.25 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 29 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Roughpark 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
18 May 2026Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A TWO STOREY STYLE DWELLING AND DETACHED DOMESTIC OUTBUILDING TO INCLUDE GARAGE / STORAGE / HOME OFFICE, INSTALLATION OF ON-SITE SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM, NEW SITE ENTRANCE ONTO EXISTING ACCESS ROAD AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2660887
12 Feb 2026Refused
CONSTRUCTION OF A TWO STOREY STYLE DWELLING AND DETACHED DOMESTIC OUTBUILDING TO INCLUDE GARAGE / STORAGE / HOME OFFICE, INSTALLATION OF ON-SITE SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM, NEW SITE ENTRANCE ONTO EXISTING ACCESS ROAD AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2660182
4 Feb 2026Conditional
REMOVAL OF EXISTING SUBFLOOR BASE AND ERECTION OF NEW DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND DOMESTIC GARAGE INCLUDING ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2660133
18 Sept 2025Refused
CONSTRUCTION OF A TWO STOREY STYLE DWELLING, DETACHED DOMESTIC OUT BUILDING TO INCLUDE GARAGE / STORAGE / HOME OFFICE, ON-SITE SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM, NEW SITE ENTRANCE ONTO EXISTING ACCESS ROAD AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2561618
21 Aug 2025Refused
CONSTRUCTION OF SINGLE STOREY DWELLING, SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ANCILLARY SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2561448
7 Jul 2025N/a
CONSTRUCTION OF SINGLE STOREY DWELLING, SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ANCILLARY SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2561158
30 Oct 2024Conditional
ERECTION OF DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK INCLUDING ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2461738
18 Jun 2024Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A MODULAR CABIN DWELLING WITH EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ANCILLARY SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2460917
7 Sept 2023Conditional
(A) ERECTION OF A DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE AND (B) CONVERSION OF EXISTING DOMESTIC GARAGE TO A GRANNY FLAT WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2351340
2 May 2023Conditional
OIBREACHA PÁIRTEACHA TÓGÁLA A CHOINNEÁIL CHUN AN GARÁISTE INTÍRE ATÁ ANN A THIONTÚ INA CHÓIRÍOCHT 'ÁRAS NA SEANMHÁTHAIR' AGUS CEAD LE OIBREACHA TÓGÁLA AGUS ATHCHÓIRIÚ Ó GHARÁISTE INTÍRE I GCÓIRÍOCHT 'MHAMÓ' A CHRÍOCHNÚ, CHUIG UMAR SEIPTEACH LÁITHREACH AGUS NA HOIBREACHA SUÍMH GO LÉIR A BHAINEANN LEIS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2350580
31 Mar 2023N/a
OIBREACHA PÁIRTEACHA TÓGÁLA CHUN AN GARÁISTE INTÍRE ATÁ ANN A THIONTÚ INA CHÓIRÍOCHT "ÁRAS NA SEANMHÁTHAIR" AGUS CEAD PLEANÁLA CHUN OIBREACHA TÓGÁLA AGUS ATHCÓIRIÚ Ó GHARÁISTE INTÍRE I GCÓIRÍOCHT "MHAMÓ" A CHRÍOCHNÚ CHUIG UMAR SEIPTEACH LÁITHREACH AGUS NA HOIBREACHA SUÍMH GO LÉIR
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2350426
9 Sept 2022Refused
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2251512
18 Aug 2021Conditional
ERECTION OF DWELLING WITH WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM & ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2151652
28 Jul 2021Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH DOMESTIC GARAGE, WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2151504
23 Jun 2021N/a
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2151245
12 May 2021Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2150901
10 May 2021Conditional
COMPLETION OF PART SINGLE STOREY, PART ONE AND A HALF STOREY DWELLING HOUSE FROM EXISTING SUBFLOOR LEVEL TO INCLUDE PROVISION OF A SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS WITHIN THE EXISTING HOUSING DEVELOPMENT KNOWN AS OAKPARK DRIVE
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2150865
4 Nov 2020Conditional
ERECTION OF AN EXTENSION TO THE SIDE AND REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2051665
30 Oct 2020Conditional
(1) CHANGE OF USE AND REFURBISHMENT OF DILAPIDATED OUTBUILDING TO REAR OF OAK PARK HOUSE WHICH IS A PROTECTED STRUCTURE (OAK PARK REGISTRATON NO 40905334) TO PROVIDE ANCILLARY ACCOMMODATION FOR DEPENDANT RELATIVES (2) UPGRADING OF EXISTING SEPTIC TANK WITH NEW SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT AND PERCOLATION AREA
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2051625
24 Mar 2020Conditional
DEMOLITION OF AN EXISTING REAR RETURN TO A PROTECTED STRUCTURE AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW GLAZED CONSERVATORY
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2050401
12 Mar 2020N/a
DEMOLITION OF AN EXISTING REAR RETURN TO A PROTECTED STRUCTURE AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW GLAZED CONSERVATORY
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2050308
17 Jan 2020N/a
ALTERATIONS AND EXTENSION TO PARTIALLY COMPLETED DWELLING TO INCLUDE AN INCREASE IN THE RIDGE LEVELS AND AMENDMENTS TO ELEVATIONS TO THAT PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF NO. 11/40233
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2050036
13 Dec 2019Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF DWELLING, DOMESTIC GARAGE, WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1951955
2 Dec 2019N/a
ALTERATIONS AND AN EXTENSION TO PARTIALLY COMPLETED DWELLING TO INCLUDE AN INCREASE IN THE RIDGE LEVELS AND AMENDMENTS TO ELEVATIONS TO THAT PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF NO. 11/40233
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1951875
26 Aug 2019Conditional
DETACHED GARAGE
Retention · Donegal County Council, 1951304
The 25 most recent of 31 applications.
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Roughpark.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Roughpark.
Architectural heritage
- Oak Park, house, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
Description
Detached five-bay two-storey house, built c. 1800 and altered c. 1870, having two-storey canted projection to the centre of the front elevation (south), single-storey open veranda to the front, added c. 1870, now enclosed to the eastern half with modern windows and doors, three-bay two-storey return to the rear (north) at the west corner, and with two-storey return with lean-to roof attached to the east end of the rear elevation. Now in use as a house. Pitched slate roofs, hipped to canted breakfront, with rendered chimneystacks to gable ends (east and west), and with surviving sections of cast-iron rainwater goods. Mono-pitched roof to veranda, behind raised parapet, supported on metal columns. Smooth rendered walls to front elevation (south), smooth rendered ruled-and-lined walls to side elevations (east and west), and roughcast rendered to rear of return (north). Square-headed window openings with painted stone sills, and six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows to front at ground floor level and centre of projection, four-over-four pane timber sliding sash windows to either side of breakfront and two-over-two timber sliding sash window to first floor of breakfront. Replacement windows to front elevation first floor and modern windows to conservatory to east side of canted projection. Square-headed window openings to other elevations with limestone sills and a variety of timber sliding sash windows. Round-headed doorway to the west and east sides of canted projection having timber panelled door and fanlight over; square-headed doorway to conservatory with glazed timber door. Doorways accessed by flight of stone steps flanked by dwarf walls with cut stone coping over. Terminating piers on (on circular-plan) to the south of walls to either end of veranda to entrance front (south); square-headed window openings to walls to either end of veranda with multi-paned window surviving to the wall to the east. Set back from road in extensive mature landscaped grounds in the rural countryside to the north-east of Letterkenny. Detached multiple bay two-storey outbuilding to the rear (north) having flight of steps to the centre of the south elevation giving access to doorway at first floor level, pitched natural slate roof with cast-iron rainwater goods and red brick chimneystacks, roughcast rendered walls, square-headed window and door openings with remains of battened timber doors with multi-paned overlights and timber multi-paned windows (openings now mostly blocked), and with square- and segmental-headed carriage-arches, some retained battened timber doors. Main entrance to the south comprising a pair of roughcast rendered gate piers (on circular-plan) having wrought-iron gates and flanking sections of curved quadrant rubble stone walling. Remains of walled garden (on sub rectangular-plan) to the west having rubble stone boundary walls; wall removed to south boundary.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are made ground.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Roughpark.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Roughpark with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Roughpark
- Area
- 695,620 m² (69.56 ha, 171.89 acres)
- Civil parish
- Aghanunshin, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kilmacrenan
- Electoral division
- Castlewray, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Castlewray electoral division: 3,681 people in 1,340 households; 83% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballymaleel, Bogay, Camblestown, Cornagill, Deenystown, Lanehead, Loughnagin
- Placenames
- Roughpark 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.