# Blairstown, Co. Donegal: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Donaghmore, barony of Raphoe South, Co. Donegal. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,173,387 m² (117.34 ha, 289.95 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 27 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 4,783 m² (0.48 ha, 1.18 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 10 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Donaghmore, https://everytownland.com/donegal/parish/donaghmore.md - Barony: Raphoe South - Electoral division: Killygordon, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Killygordon electoral division: 1,146 people in 451 households; 70% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Donegal, https://everytownland.com/donegal.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/16425 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 50348 - Centre: latitude 54.808484, longitude -7.630756 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 27 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Blairstown, from 1,092 m² to 191,798 m² (19.18 ha, 47.39 acres); 21 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1395005: 191,798 m² (19.18 ha, 47.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1395005.md - Parcel 1395216: 180,535 m² (18.05 ha, 44.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1395216.md - Parcel 1378600: 172,055 m² (17.21 ha, 42.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1378600.md - Parcel 1305276: 156,544 m² (15.65 ha, 38.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1305276.md - Parcel 1346960: 120,427 m² (12.04 ha, 29.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1346960.md - Parcel 1330308: 67,224 m² (6.72 ha, 16.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1330308.md - Parcel 1321350: 58,018 m² (5.8 ha, 14.34 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1321350.md - Parcel 1362044: 42,587 m² (4.26 ha, 10.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1362044.md - Parcel 5319227: 41,995 m² (4.2 ha, 10.38 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5319227.md - Parcel 1388792: 37,586 m² (3.76 ha, 9.29 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1388792.md - Parcel 1392021: 29,686 m² (2.97 ha, 7.34 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1392021.md - Parcel 5319239: 25,887 m² (2.59 ha, 6.4 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5319239.md - Parcel 1336433: 11,309 m² (1.13 ha, 2.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1336433.md - Parcel 1334752: 4,783 m² (0.48 ha, 1.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1334752.md - Parcel 1405558: 4,200 m² (0.42 ha, 1.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1405558.md - Parcel 1338435: 3,186 m² (0.32 ha, 0.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1338435.md - Parcel 4442304: 3,029 m² (0.3 ha, 0.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4442304.md - Parcel 1324015: 3,011 m² (0.3 ha, 0.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1324015.md - Parcel 1406634: 2,752 m² (0.28 ha, 0.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1406634.md - Parcel 1319656: 2,480 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1319656.md - Parcel 5993314: 2,479 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5993314.md - Parcel 1426585: 2,375 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1426585.md - Parcel 1386754: 2,240 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1386754.md - Parcel 4754923: 1,638 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4754923.md - Parcel 1329663: 1,562 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1329663.md - Parcel 1402521: 1,125 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1402521.md - Parcel 1320270: 1,092 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1320270.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Blairstown in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 10 applications, newest first. - 24 Mar 2026, Donegal County Council 2660485: Conditional. Retention. (1) ATTIC CONVERSION WORKS INCLUDING ROOFLIGHTS TO PITCHED ROOF AND (2) DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE / STORAGE SHED AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660485/0 - 20 Feb 2025, Donegal County Council 2560216: Conditional. Permission. (1) REFURBISHMENT AND CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSION TO EXISTING DERELICT COTTAGE DWELLING, (2) UPGRADE OF EXISTING SITE ENTRANCE AND (3) REPLACEMENT OF EXISTING SEPTIC TANK WITH WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT WHICH WAS PREVIOUSLY APPROVED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 10/60069. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560216/0 - 6 Mar 2024, Donegal County Council 2460279: Conditional. Permission. CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING TO INCLUDE RENOVATION WORKS & MINOR ELEVATIONAL CHANGES TO SAME AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460279/0 - 12 Dec 2023, Donegal County Council 2351909: Conditional. Permission. (1) CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING TO INCLUDE RENOVATION WORKS AND MINOR ELEVATIONAL CHANGES, (2) INSTALLATION OF A NEW SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM, (3) PROVISION OF A NEW VEHICULAR ENTRANCE AND (4) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2351909/0 - 30 Jan 2023, Donegal County Council 2350088: Conditional. Retention. DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE AND PERMISSION FOR (1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING ATTACHED STORAGE SHED AND (2) CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSIONS TO THE FRONT AND SIDES OF DWELLING HOUSE INCLUDING AMENDMENTS TO EXISTING WINDOW OPENINGS AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2350088/0 - 3 Jan 2023, Donegal County Council 2350001: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. CONSTRUCTION OF A TWO STOREY DETACHED DWELLING HOUSE, DETACHED GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2350001/0 - 14 Apr 2021, Donegal County Council 2150664: Conditional. Permission. CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSION TO THE FRONT, SIDE AND REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND ASSOCAITED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2150664/0 - 25 May 2020, Donegal County Council 2050664: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. ERECTION OF A 2 STOREY DWELLING, DETACHED GARAGE, INSTALLATION OF WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM & PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2050664/0 - 29 Jun 2017, Donegal County Council 1751016: Conditional. Retention. EXISTING REED BED FILTRATION SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS FOR TREATMENT OF STORM/SURFACE WATER RUN-OFF FROM FARMYARD. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1751016/0 - 31 May 2017, Donegal County Council 1750835: N/a. Retention. EXISTING REED BED FILTRATION SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS FOR TREATMENT OF STORM/SURFACE WATER RUNOFF FROM FARMYARD. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1750835/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Blairstown. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Blairstown. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Blairstown. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, 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 Blairstown. - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/donegal/blairstown.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/donegal/blairstown.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/donegal/blairstown.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Blairstown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal: https://everytownland.com/donegal.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Carrick: https://everytownland.com/donegal/carrick-50469.md - Carricknashane: https://everytownland.com/donegal/carricknashane.md - Leaght: https://everytownland.com/donegal/leaght.md - Magheraboy: https://everytownland.com/donegal/magheraboy-51832.md - Meenahoney: https://everytownland.com/donegal/meenahoney.md - Scotland: https://everytownland.com/donegal/scotland.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. 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; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/donegal/blairstown - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/donegal/blairstown