Donegal

23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Donegal, from 380 m² to 407,717 m² (40.77 ha, 100.75 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 22 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Donegal 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.

• 8 May 2024Conditional

  extension of Dwelling along with all associated site works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2460350

• 11 Dec 2019Conditional

  construction of a dwelling house, effluent treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 19601383

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 Donegal.

Recorded monuments

• TS076-013 Moated site
  Description

  On crest of broad, flat-topped hill, above 400ft contour. Land falling gently W of monument, in pastureland. Hedgerow running N-S 4m E of moated site and field boundary running E-W 5m S of it. Though not in a typical moated site location, it consists of a rectangular area (diam. 30.3m N--S; 34.5m E-W) defined by low, broad bank along N side (Wth 1.5m crest, 2.4m base; H above int. 0.41m; H above ext. 0.41m), reduced to scarp on S side (Wth 3.1m crest, 4.5m base; H above int. 0.32m; H above fosse 1.05m), with flat-bottomed ext. fosse evident on S side (Wth 2.2m) with counterscarp (D 0.56m). Bank on E side is quite pronounced (Wth 2.2m crest, 4.8m base; H above int. 0.7m; H above ext. 1.17m). SE quadrant has been dug into resulting in a large depression (dims. 8m N-S; 10.5m E-W; D 1.27m). E end of S side has been flattened and SE angle (Wth 3.3m) has suffered from cattle erosion. Small shallow depression in interior in SE sector. Ring-feeder in interior in NW quadrant. Trees growing outer face of bank on S side. Lot of stone evident along crest of bank on S side. Apart from denuded bank in SE angle and on N side there is no clearly defined entrance. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Architectural heritage

• Westgrove House, house, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1800, with three-bay side elevations and rear elevation having full-height lean-to outbuilding attached to east end, hipped slate roof entrance porch, and hipped slate canted-bay window to east elevation with moulded cornice. U-plan hipped slate roof to house with lead ridge capping, eaves course, rendered chimneystacks with moulded copings, those to front roof being central, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Hipped slate roof to canted-bay window. Painted roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed window openings set in square-headed recesses, having timber sliding sash six-over-six pane windows and painted stone sills. Replacement timber casement windows to porch. Diamond leaded timber casement window to rear elevation. Square-headed door opening to porch with double-leaf timber panelled doors. Outbuildings around yard to rear having pitched and hipped slate roofs, roughcast rendered walls and timber battened doors. Walled garden to west, having castellated coping to east side and entered via roughcast rendered gate piers having wrought-iron gates. Rendered boundary walls with ashlar limestone gate piers to road with limestone wheel guards.

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

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Donegal with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.

Name

Donegal · Dún na nGall

Area

1,875,142 m² (187.51 ha, 463.36 acres)

Civil parish

Mortlestown, and its townlands

Barony

Middlethird

Electoral division

Knockgraffon, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Knockgraffon electoral division: 778 people in 276 households; 87% of households own their home; 26% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballingeary East, Clonmore, Decoy, Glennagat, Graigue, Knocknaquill, Knockskagh, Shanballyard, Springfield

Placenames

Donegal 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.