Maghernalaght
Maghernalaght is a townland in the civil parish of Clondavaddog, barony of Kilmacrenan, Co. Donegal. Its name in Irish is Machaire Leacht.
Parcel 4949255
- Area
- 12,240 m² (1.22 ha, 3.02 acres)
- 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
- Maghernalaght
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Mulroy Bay SAC 002159
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
- The EPA radon map gives no estimate at the centre of this parcel.
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.
- 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.
Download this parcel as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program. GeoJSON, in WGS 84, suits a map, and KML opens in 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
- 40.1 ha
- 99 acres
- Land parcels
- 23
- registered freehold, median 1,805 m²
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Maghernalaght, from 152 m² to 179,793 m² (17.98 ha, 44.43 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 8 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Maghernalaght 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
16 Oct 2019Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH AN ON-SITE WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1951558
14 Aug 2017Conditional
(1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DISUSED 160 SQ.M. CHILL STORE (2) ERECTION OF A PROPOSED CLEANER FISH HATCHERY BUILDING ON THE SITE OF THE FORMER CHILL. THE PROPOSED HATCHERY WILL CONSIST OF A 520 SQ.M. PORTAL FRAMED BUILDING WITH A RIDGE HEIGHT OF APPROXIMATELY 4.90M ABOVE THE EXISTING PAVED YARD. THE BUILDING WILL BE FINISHED WITH PROFILED SHEETING, COLOURED GREEN. (3) CONNECTION TO THE EXISTING SEA WATER INTAKE SYSTEM AND UNDERGROUND ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLY (4) INSTALLATION OF A FILTER AND 100 CU.M. SEA WATER HEADER TANK WITH UNDERGROUND GRAVITY PIPEWORK CONNECTION TO NEW HATCHERY (5) INSTALLATION OF WASTE WATER COLLECTION SYSTEM AND PUMPED RISING MAIN WITH FILTRATION UNIT TO THE EXISTING SEA WATER OUTFALL PIPE AT THE NEARBY KINDRUM SMOLT FARM (6) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE SERVICES
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1751263
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Mulroy Bay SAC 002159
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Maghernalaght.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Maghernalaght.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Maghernalaght, 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 Maghernalaght.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Maghernalaght with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Maghernalaght · Machaire Leacht
- Area
- 400,690 m² (40.07 ha, 99.01 acres)
- Civil parish
- Clondavaddog, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kilmacrenan
- Electoral division
- Fanad North, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 540 people lived in 209 households in the Fanad North electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 26% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 42% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Carrowkeel Glebe, Croaghan, Kindrum
- Gaeltacht
- In an Irish-speaking area
- Placenames
- Maghernalaght 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.