Grawky

28 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Grawky, from 402 m² to 195,945 m² (19.59 ha, 48.42 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 20 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 Grawky 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.

• 15 Oct 2025Conditional

  RENOVATION AND CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSION TO EXISTING DERELICT DWELLING HOUSE TOGETHER WITH INSTALLATION OF AN ON-SITE SEWAGE SYSTEM, AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2561808

• 25 Apr 2025Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DRY BED AGRICULTURAL SHED FOR THE PURPOSES OF STORING FARMYARD MANURE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2560650

• 10 Apr 2019Conditional

  CHANGE OF HOUSE DESIGN FROM THAT PREVIOUSLY APPROVED UNDER PLANNING PERMISSION REF: 15/51700

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1950501

• 12 Mar 2019N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, SEPTIC TANK/SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1950321

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 Grawky.

Recorded monuments

• DG054-034 Standing stone
  Description

  Marked as 'Standing Stone' on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map and shown untitled on the 2nd edition. There are no visible remains. Situated on N-S running ridge 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

• Kiln, 1840–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding two-bay lime kiln, erected c. 1860. Now out of use or in use as outbuilding with modern addition to the front (west). Constructed of roughly coursed rubble stone masonry with roughly square-quoins to the corners. Segmental-headed openings to front (south) having red brick voussoirs and lining to former oven apertures intrados. Slightly raised rubble stone parapet to front. Built into sloping ground with former quarries adjacent to the east (now flooded). Earthen embankment to rear and south, formerly giving access to loading chambers to top. Set back from road in rural location to the east of Manorcunningham. Single-storey lean-to shed to west with corrugated-metal roof and blockwork walls.

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 Grawky, 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

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

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

Name

Grawky

Area

1,341,761 m² (134.18 ha, 331.56 acres)

Civil parish

Raymoghy, and its townlands

Barony

Raphoe North

Electoral division

Manorcunningham, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,314 people lived in 475 households in the Manorcunningham electoral division. 66% of households owned their home. 57% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrickballydooey Glebe, Drumbarnet Upper, Errity, Grawky Glebe, Highbank, Monclink, Sallybrook, Tullybogly, Veagh

Placenames

Grawky 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.