Camblestown
Townland in the civil parish of Aghanunshin, barony of Kilmacrenan, Co. Donegal
- Area
- 19.5 ha
- 48 acres
- Land parcels
- 45
- registered freehold, median 2,260 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 21
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
45 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Camblestown, from 17 m² to 40,227 m² (4.02 ha, 9.94 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 17 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Camblestown 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
21 Aug 2026N/a
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2661563
24 Jul 2025Conditional
(1) DEMOLITION OF THE FRONT GABLE, (2) CONSTRUCTION OF NEW RAISED ROOF TO PART OF DWELLING, (3) INCORPORATION OF 2 NO. BOX DORMERS AND ROOF CANOPY TO FRONT OF DWELLING AND (4) ALTERATIONS AND ADDITIONS TO ELEVATIONS INCLUDING REPLACEMENT OF ALL EXISTING DOORS AND WINDOWS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2561264
9 Apr 2025Conditional
(1) DECOMMISSIONING OF SEPTIC TANK SERVING EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND INSTALLATION OF A NEW TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH POLISHING FILTER AT NEW LOCATION AND (2) CONSTRUCTION OF NEW DWELLING HOUSE, DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE AND TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2560529
5 Sept 2024Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK / SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2461368
30 Aug 2024N/a
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK/ SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2461322
5 Apr 2023Refused
CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE WITH AN ON-SITE SEWAGE TREAMENT SYSTEM
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2350455
9 Sept 2022Refused
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2251512
18 Aug 2021Conditional
ERECTION OF DWELLING WITH WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM & ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2151652
23 Jun 2021N/a
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2151245
3 Mar 2021N/a
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND SEPTIC TANK WITH ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2150372
15 Sept 2020Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO THE SIDE ELEVATION OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2051290
30 Sept 2019Refused
ERECTION OF A TWO STOREY DWELLING HOUSE WITH WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1951473
20 Sept 2019Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1951439
27 Jun 2019N/a
ERECTION OF A TWO STOREY DWELLING HOUSE WITH WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1951000
21 Dec 2018Conditional
ERECTION OF A TWO STOREY DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK, AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1851979
26 Sept 2018Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF PART TWO STOREY , PART ONE AND HALF STOREY DWELLING HOUSE, DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE, WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1851484
25 Jul 2018N/a
(1) CHANGE OF HOUSE TYPE AND ALTERED POSITION TO REPLACE THAT GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF: 09/40085 & 14/50123. THE NEW HOUSE TYPE WILL CONSIST OF PART TWO STOREY, PART ONE AND A HALF STOREY, (2) ALTERED POSITION OF PERMITTED DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF: 09/40085 & 14/50123 AND (3) CONSTRUCTION OF NEW SITE ENTRANCE
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1851146
6 Jun 2018Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1850900
12 Jan 2018Refused
ERECTION OF DWELLING, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1850026
28 Aug 2017Conditional
CHANGE OF HOUSE TYPE PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF NO. 14/50877
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1751325
28 Jun 2017Refused
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1751023
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Camblestown.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Camblestown.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Camblestown.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- 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 Camblestown.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Camblestown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Camblestown
- Area
- 195,079 m² (19.51 ha, 48.21 acres)
- Civil parish
- Aghanunshin, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kilmacrenan
- Electoral division
- Castlewray, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Castlewray electoral division: 3,681 people in 1,340 households; 83% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Castlewray, Deenystown, Lanehead, Roughpark
- Placenames
- Camblestown 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.