Cloghfin

80 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cloghfin, from 29 m² to 247,791 m² (24.78 ha, 61.23 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 18 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 Cloghfin 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.

• 25 Jun 2025Conditional

  (1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING STORM DAMAGED AGRICULTURAL SHED AND REPLACEMENT WITH NEW DRY BED AGRICULTURAL SHED AND (2) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING AGRICULTURAL SHED AND CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW AGRICULTURAL SHED WITH UNDERGROUND EFFLUENT STORAGE TANK ABUTTING EXISTING SHEDS AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2561075

• 18 Jun 2025N/a

  (1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING STORM DAMAGED AGRICULTURAL SHED AND REPLACEMENT WITH NEW DRY BED AGRICULTURAL SHED AND (2) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING AGRICULTURAL AND CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW AGRICULTURAL SHED WITH UNGROUND EFFLUENT STORAGE TANK ABUTTING EXISTING SHEDS AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2561029

• 31 Aug 2024Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF ANCILLARY ACCOMMODATION WITH CONNECTION TO ALL EXISTING SERVICES

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2461326

• 15 Aug 2024Conditional

  CHANGE OF HOUSE DESIGN AND GARAGE DESIGN, TO INCLUDE REPOSITIONING ON THE SITE WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS FROM THAT PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 22/51600

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2461253

• 26 Sept 2022Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH CONNECTION TO THE EXISTING MAIN PUBLIC SEWER

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2251600

• 28 Mar 2022Refused

  CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO PROVIDE SELF CONTAINED FAMILY ACCOMMODATION TO THE SIDE OF EXISTING DWELLING AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2250527

• 4 Mar 2021Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL SLATTED UNIT BUILDING CONTAINING UNDERGROUND EFFLUENT COLLECTION TANK AND DRY BED AREAS AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2150386

• 17 Feb 2021N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL SLATTED UNIT BUILDING CONTAINING UNDERGROUND EFFLUENT COLLECTION TANK AND DRY BED ACCESS AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2150259

• 22 Jul 2020Conditional

  WORKS AT CARRIGANS WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT AS FOLLOWS: (1) PUMPING STATION AT THE EXISTING CARRIGANS WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT SITE (2) CONVERSION OF THE EXISTING PRIMARY SETTLEMENT TANK (SEPTIC TANK) INTO A STORMWATER HOLDING TANK (3) NEW SITE FENCING (4) A RISING MAIN (PUMPED MAIN) FROM CARRIGANS TO ST JOHNSTON WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT (5) CHEMICAL DOSING FACILITIES TO PREVENT SEPTICITY IN THE RISING MAIN. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) ACCOMPANIES THIS APPLICATION

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2050981

• 22 Jun 2020N/a

  (1) CONSTRUCTION OF A PUMPING STATION AT THE EXISTING CARRIGANS WASTEWASTER TREATMENT PLANT SITE (2) CONVERSION OF THE EXISTING PRIMARY SETTLEMENT TANK (SEPTIC TANK) INTO A STORMWATER HOLDING TANK (3) NEW SITE FENCING (4) A RISING MAIN (PUMPED MAIN) FROM CARRIGANS TO ST. JOHNSTON WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT (5) CHEMICAL DOSING FACILITIES TO PREVENT SEPTICITY IN THE RISING MAIN. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT WILL ACCOMPANY THIS APPLICATION

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2050810

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: River Finn SAC 002301
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: River Foyle, Mongavlin To Carrigans 002067

Recorded monuments

• DG055-021 Standing stone
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• DG055-023001 Standing stone
  Description

  Two standing stones are noted here on the OS 6-inch maps but only one is now standing. It is .94m high × 0.8m wide × 0.8m thick; NNE-SSW. The other stone, 2.94m long × 0.84m wide × 0.48m thick is now lying beside it but part of it is unweathered indicating that it was once standing. Situated in a low-lying position on good level 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

• DG055-023002 Standing stone
  Description

  Two standing stones are noted here on the OS 6-inch maps but only one is now standing. It is .94m high × 0.8m wide × 0.8m thick; NNE-SSW. The other stone, 2.94m long × 0.84m wide × 0.48m thick is now lying beside it but part of it is unweathered indicating that it was once standing. Situated in a low-lying position on good level 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

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

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 Cloghfin, 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Cloghfin

Area

1,746,785 m² (174.68 ha, 431.64 acres)

Civil parish

Taughboyne, and its townlands

Barony

Raphoe North

Electoral division

Killea, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,802 people lived in 681 households in the Killea electoral division. 80% of households owned their home. 49% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrigans, Dernacally, Dundee, Dunmore, Gortnamoney, Tonagh, Whitehouse

Placenames

Cloghfin 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.