Craigtown

18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Craigtown, from 225 m² to 350,282 m² (35.03 ha, 86.56 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 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 Craigtown 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.

• 2 Sept 2026N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSION TO AN EXISTING SILAGE PIT, WITH NEW CONCRETE APRON AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2661635

• 30 Sept 2025Conditional

  ERECTION OF A SLATTED AGRICULTURAL SHED WITH UNDERGROUND STORAGE TANK TO ABUT EXISTING SLATTED AGRICULTURAL SHED WITH UNDERGROUND STORAGE TANK AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS WITHIN EXISTING FARM YARD

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2561692

• 18 Sept 2025Conditional

  ERECTION OF DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK INCLUDING ALL OTHER SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2561613

• 5 Oct 2023Conditional

  CHANGE OF HOUSE TYPE FROM GRANT OF PERMISSION REF. NO. 22/52070

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2351500

• 22 Dec 2022Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH CONNECTION TO PROPOSED SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2252070

• 28 Jun 2021Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A SLATTED AGRICULTURAL SHED TO ABUT EXISTING SHED IN LIEU OF AGRICULTURAL SHED GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF 20/50456 AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2151285

• 24 May 2020Conditional

  ERECTION OF 2 NO. ROOFED SILAGE PITS AND 1 NO. SLATTED AGRICULTURAL SHED EACH ABUTTING AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2050456

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 Craigtown.

Recorded monuments

• DG038-010 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  No trace is visible of the single-ringed 'Fort' marked on the 1st and 2nd editions of the OS 6-inch maps. It was situated in good 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

• DG038-014 Standing stone
  Description

  The 1st and 2nd editions of the OS 6-inch map note a 'Standing Stone' here. The 3rd edition marks it as 'Standing Stone (site of)'. It is said to have been 'about 4-5 ft long'. Situated on marshy gorse-grown 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

• DG038-058 Burnt mound
  Description

  On a gently SW-facing slope. This monument is located in the SE corner of a field which has recently been re-seeded. It comprises a large, irregularly-shaped area (dims. c.16m NE-SW; c.15m NW-SE) of dark soil with a small number of reddish, heat-shattered stones visible. The remainder of the soil in the field is generally light brown in colour. At the NE side of this area is a newly-dug narrow, shallow drain (Wth. 0.45m; D 0.2m) with an adjacent newly-constructed access laneway. On the floor of the drain the soil is much darker and there are at least six concentrations of heat-shattered stones. Immediately beyond the laneway is a field boundary aligned NW-SE. In its SW face is a length of darker soil interspersed with numerous heat-shattered stones (L c.8.5m; H c.0.5m). This is not visible in the NE face. No other features or artifacts were identified. The landowner, Mr. Ferguson, told me that the extent of the monument, the remains in the drain and the section in the field boundary were much clearer when the field was wet following rainfall. Mr. Ferguson said that this monument had been known about by his family for generations. He also told me of a local tradition that this is the location of a battle between inhabitants of Scalp Mountain and Mouldy Hill, both of which are located a short distance from the monument. This is almost certainly the remains of a burnt mound or fulacht fia. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 04 October 2013

Architectural heritage

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

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 Craigtown, 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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1984 (ZIP).

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

Name

Craigtown · Baile na Creige Thoir

Area

801,450 m² (80.15 ha, 198.04 acres)

Civil parish

Upper Fahan, and its townlands

Barony

Inishowen West

Electoral division

Fahan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,634 people lived in 546 households in the Fahan electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 42% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 20% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynahone, Carrontlieve, Letter

Placenames

Craigtown 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.