Magheraboy

80 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Magheraboy, from 18 m² to 143,342 m² (14.33 ha, 35.42 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 24 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Magheraboy 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.

• 13 Mar 2025Conditional

  DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE CONSTRUCTED WITH DEFECTIVE CONCRETE BLOCKWORK AND CONSTRUCTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING HOUSE AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2560362

• 14 Mar 2024Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF 2 NO. SINGLE STOREY EXTENSIONS TO THE FRONT AND SIDE OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2460339

• 26 Feb 2024N/a

  2 NUMBER SINGLE STOREY EXTENSIONS TO THE FRONT AND SIDE OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2460212

• 8 Dec 2021Conditional

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

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2152447

• 13 Mar 2018Conditional

  EXTENSION OF EXISTING AGRICULTURAL SHEDS FOR SORTING AND STORAGE OF TREES, CONSTRUCTION OF WC & STAFF ACCOMMODATION AND THE INSTALLATION OF ASSOCIATED WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEMS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1850368

• 22 Feb 2018N/a

  EXTENSION TO EXISTING AGRICULTURAL SHEDS FOR SORTING AND STORAGE OF TREES. THE DEVELOPMENT WILL ALSO CONSIST OF THE CONSTRUCTION OF WC & STAFF ACCOMMODATION AND THE INSTALLATION OF ASSOCIATED WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEMS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1850255

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 Magheraboy.

Recorded monuments

• DG078-021 Megalithic tomb - court tomb
  Description

  This monument is 3km NE of Killygordon village in a forest nursery and stands on a gentle S-facing slope 700m N of the River Finn. The site commands an extensive outlook to the S across the river valley, but the view to the N is restricted somewhat by rising ground. In 1982, when the plan was made, a 3m-wide band of evergreen trees, planted in the 1960s, enclosed the monument and encroached on it at the front and back. At the date of survey a dense growth of briars and other vegetation enveloped the monument. After considerable clearance it was possible to discern that the remains of a court at the E precede a long narrow mound along almost the entire perimeter, of which there is a line, doubled for a short stretch, of leaning slabs, apparently corbels. These are shown stippled on the plan. Others have been dislodged and lie closeby. Approximately 3m from its western end is a hole in the mound in which a stone is exposed. The hole is 2m long and 0.9m wide. Only the upper part of the exposed stone is visible, but it seems that it may be set on edge. It measures at least 1.5m long and 0.25m thick and is exposed to a depth of 0.6m. Although its status is now unclear, it may be the remains of a 'grave...enclosed by flat stones at sides and covered by a flag 41/2 feet [c. 1.4m] square, 1 foot [c. 0.3m] thick' noted by Thomas Fagan (1845-8) at the centre of the site. The 'grave' measured 6 feet (c. 1.8m) long, 2 feet (c. 0.6m) wide and 2 feet (c. 0.6m) high in visible extent but was, Fagan believed, originally larger. A straight line of kerbstones is exposed 4m S of the mound, and there is a curved line c. 5m beyond its western end. A considerable number of displaced stones lie scattered around the site, many almost hidden in the grass, particularly at the E end of the structure. Only the larger ones are shown on the plan. Three stones of the inner end of the court survive, two to the N and one to the S. The outer one at the N is 1m high. The inner one leans inward and would stand 1.4m high if upright. The single courtstone at the S side of the court is lm high. Beside the inner end of this a stone, apparently displaced and at least 1m in maximum dimension, protrudes from the fill of the mound. There are four other large displaced stones in the court area. Three are partly buried, and the fourth, which is prostrate, measures 1.5m in maximum dimension. The slab-lined mound is c. 12m long, narrows from c. 5m wide at the front to 3.5m at the back, or W end, and is c. 1m high. Sixteen corbels can be recognised along the N side of the mound, where they survive generally as a single tier, although two tiers are present for c. 2.5m close to mid-length. The bases of many of these stones are partly buried, so precise measurements of their sloping heights cannot readily be ascertained. They measure up to c. 1.2m high, vary from 0.5m to 1m wide and are up to 0.35m thick. A break in one is indicated by a pecked line on the plan. At around midway along the top of the mound is a stone, at least 0.6m in maximum dimension, that seems to have been detached from the corbel to the N of it. There are six displaced slabs just N of the mound. Two of these are partly buried, and the largest of the others measures 1.15m in maximum dimension. There are also two displaced slabs at the W end of the mound. Seven corbels are recognised along the S side of the mound. The bases of all are concealed, but they appear to be up to lm in sloping height and range from 0.75m to 1.4m wide. Just outside the gap between the third and fourth corbel are two slabs, one behind the other, which were clearly employed as corbels. These now lean away from the mound and rest on a displaced slab. To the E of these there are four other displaced slabs, and toward the W end of the mound is another. The largest of the displaced slabs at this side measures 2m in maximum dimension. The line of exposed kerbstones at the southern side of the monument extends, including two short gaps, over a distance of 9.2m. These stones rise no more than 0.25m above the ground level outside them. The ground level inside the kerbstones is 0.2m higher than that outside. The largest of these kerbstones, the second from the W of the six contiguous ones, is a conspicuous quartz block. Approximately 2.5m W of the kerbstones and outside and at right angles to the line described by them there are two large stones laid on edge, but they do not seem to be set in the ground. The larger one measures 1m in maximum dimension. Neither seems to be an original feature. The kerbstones at the W form a gently curving line c. 6m long. They are roughly the same height as their counterparts at the S. Approximately 0.9m E of the southern end of this line of kerbstones is a displaced slab, 0.75m in maximum dimension. Approximately 4.5m beyond the N side of the gallery are four small stones protruding just above ground level at intervals over a distance of 7.5m. The largest, the westernmost, measures 0.45m in maximum dimension. These may be kerbstones but cannot reliably be accepted as such and are not hatched on the plan. The kerbing at this site, though quite incomplete, indicates an original cairn length of at least 20m. It is clear that the cairn narrowed from a broad E end to a rounded W end. Fagan 1845-8, book 13, 14; Ó Nualláin 1983a, 26, no. 36; SMR 1987, 78:21; Ó Nualláin 1989, 117; RMP 1995, 78:21. The above description was published in the 'Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume VI, County Donegal.' Compiled by: Eamon Cody (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). Date of upload: 22 September 2008 See linked document with details from Eamon Cody, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume VI. County Donegal. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002)

Architectural heritage

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

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 Magheraboy, 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 low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Magheraboy · An Machaire Buí

Area

1,309,583 m² (130.96 ha, 323.61 acres)

Civil parish

Donaghmore, and its townlands

Barony

Raphoe South

Electoral division

Killygordon, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,146 people lived in 451 households in the Killygordon electoral division. 70% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Blairstown, Calhame, Carricknashane, Kiltown, Leaght, Liscooly, Mullingar

Placenames

Magheraboy 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.