Oakfield Demesne

46 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Oakfield Demesne, from 8 m² to 93,720 m² (9.37 ha, 23.16 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 19 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 Oakfield Demesne 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.

• 1 Oct 2025Conditional

  (1) CONVERSION OF AN EXISTING BARN TO A DWELLING HOUSE AND CONSTRUCTION OF AN ASSOCIATED EXTENSION WITH SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM, (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A DOMESTIC GARAGE AND (3) CONSTRUCTION OF A STABLE BLOCK AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2561705

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 Oakfield Demesne.

Recorded monuments

• DG070-002 Standing stone
  Description

  It was only possible to inspect this standing stone from a distance, due to cultivation. It is c. 2-2.5m high × 0.5m wide; NE-SW. Situated on rolling arable land. 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

• DG070-006 Standing stone
  Description

  It was only possible to inspect this standing stone from a distance, due to cultivation. It is c. 1.5m high × 0.5m wide; NE-SW. Situated on level, arable land. 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

• Oakfield House, rectory/glebe/vicarage/curate's house, 1730–1750 · National interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay two-storey over basement former Church of Ireland deanery with dormer attic, built c. 1739, having courtyard of outbuildings to the north with curved screen walls to the north-west and north-east of the house. Hipped replacement natural slate roof with overhanging eaves with projecting ashlar sandstone eaves course, three gable-fronted dormer openings to each of the south-west, south-east and north-east elevations having clipped gables with hipped natural slate roof and leaded sides, smooth rendered chimneystacks having cornice coping and decorative clayware pots over, and with cast-iron rainwater goods. Raised parapet to flanking screen wall to the north-west having rendered coping with urn finials. Smooth lime rendered walls with projecting plinth course at basement level, and with raised sandstone stringcourse below eaves level. Raised sandstone stringcourses to flanking quadrant screen walls. Square-headed window openings with cut stone sills and replacement six-over-six pane hornless timber sliding sash windows at ground and first floor levels, and with six-over-three pane timber sliding sash windows at basement level and to dormer openings. Blind square-headed window openings at basement level to front elevation (south-west). Central square-headed doorway to the front elevation (south-west) having timber panelled double-doors, plain overlight, and with cut stone Tuscan doorcase comprising engaged Tuscan pilasters (on tapering square-plan) supporting entablature and pediment over. Doorway approached by flight of cut stone steps flanked by wrought-iron handrail. Set back from road in extensive mature landscaped grounds in an elevated site in the rural countryside to the north-east of Raphoe. Complex of adjacent outbuildings (40906214) to the north-west screened from house behind quadrant walls, walled garden (see 40906218) to north-east, gravelled forecourt to the south-west.

• Oakfield House, outbuilding, 1740–1800 · Regional interest
  Description

  Complex of single-storey and two-storey outbuildings forming courtyard to them north-west of Oakfield House (see 40906201), built c. 1740 and renovated c. 2000, comprising single-storey outbuildings to the north-west and south-west sides of courtyard, two-storey outbuilding to the north-east side of courtyard, single-bay two-storey pediment block to the centre of the south-west range having cupola over and integral round-headed carriage-arch, and having curved sections of quadrant screen walling to the south-east, screening view of outbuildings from approach to house. Pitched replacement natural slate roofs to single-storey ranges having red brick chimneystacks and timber louvered vents to the range to the north-west. Pitched natural slate roof to two-storey section with carriage-arch with raised cut stone coping over forming open brick pediment; cupola over with wrought-iron weathervane. Flat ashlar coping over screen walls to south-west with urn finials over. Lime rendered walls to ranges to the south-west and north-west, and to screen walls to the south. Limes rendered walls to carriage-arch with ashlar plinth course and ashlar stringcourse at arch springing point. Coursed rubble stone walls to two-storey to north-east with red brick margins. Square-headed windows openings throughout with replacement timber sliding sash windows and stone sills. Round-headed relief arch to south elevation of north outbuilding with red brick headers and springing course. Series of galvanised steel columns to internal elevation of north-west elevation. Located to north-west of Oakfield House and set within extensive mature parkland to the north-east of Raphoe. Modern cobbled yard to interior of courtyard; some modern additions to the north-east side of two-storey range to the north-east.

• Oakfield House, walled garden, 1735–1760 · Regional interest
  Description

  Walled garden (on sub rectangular-plan) associated with Oakfield House (see 40906218), erected c. 1740. Extensively altered and extended to north-east c. 2000. Rubble stone boundary walls lined internally with brick; cut stone coping, brick and field stone coping over in places. Possible former dovecote (on square-plan) to the south, now altered, having sprocketed metal or leaded roof over, and lime rendered walls. Modern follies and structures enclosed within including greenhouse and summerhouse. Pergola located to north consisting of Tuscan columns with sandstone base on rubble stone plinth (on a semi-circular plan) supporting series of timber trusses with brick piers to outer radii. Pair of banded brick piers to south-west corner having a pair of decorative red brick piers with hipped sandstone capping, and with metal gates. Contains modern greenhouse and cast-iron water hydrant with fluted shaft and capping. Modern kitchen garden attached to the north. Located adjacent to the north-east of main house, and to the north-east of Raphoe. Located in extensive mature landscape grounds with modern ornamental shrubbery to the south-east.

• Oakfield House, icehouse, 1740–1760 · Regional interest
  Description

  Icehouse (on circular-plan) associated with Oakfield House (see 40906201), erected c. 1750. Now out of use. Rubble stone dry stone walls with brick lining to hemispherical interior. Set into sloping site and covered with earth. Square-headed entrance having wrought-iron metal gate. Mature trees to site. Located in extensive mature grounds to the south-east of Oakfield House (see 40906201), and to the north-east of Raphoe.

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 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 Oakfield Demesne.

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

Name

Oakfield Demesne

Area

1,049,524 m² (104.95 ha, 259.34 acres)

Civil parish

Raphoe, and its townlands

Barony

Raphoe North

Electoral division

Raphoe, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Raphoe electoral division: 1,521 people in 591 households; 59% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Coolaghy, Coolaghy Glebe, Difflin, Dromore Big, Dromore Little, Magheraboy, Magherasollus

Placenames

Oakfield Demesne 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.