Camlin

28 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Camlin, from 15 m² to 90,607 m² (9.06 ha, 22.39 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 13 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 Camlin 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.

• 30 Nov 2022Conditional

  EXISTING DOMESTIC STORE TO THE REAR OF DWELLING AND PERMISSION FOR CONSTRUCTION OF A GARDEN/HOBBY ROOM

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2251921

• 2 Feb 2021Conditional

  (1) ALTERATIONS TO FLOOR PLANS AND ELEVATIONS OF DWELLING HOUSE (2) RELOCATION OF SEPTIC TANK (AS DIFFERS FROM THAT PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER REF.NO. 578/81) AND (3) 4 NO. STABLES FOR PRIVATE USE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2150132

• 21 Jan 2021N/a

  DWELLING HOUSE (PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER REF. NO. 587/81) AND 4 NO. STABLES FOR PRIVATE USE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2150066

• 8 Dec 2017Conditional

  DOMESTIC GARAGE

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 1751852

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 Camlin.

Recorded monuments

• DG107-071 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Internal diam. 35m. A subcircular area enclosed by a substantial earthen bank, a deep fosse and a small outer bank. There is a gap in the inner bank on the E side which may have been an entrance but could be modern. A small rectangular depression on the N side and a larger rectangular depression on the E side could be modern interference. It is situated on the crest of a low hill overlooking the River Erne in good land. (DG107-072) 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

• DG107-072 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Internal diam. 35ft. No trace of this monument survives. Previous surveys indicate that it consisted of a level circular area surrounded by an earthen bank 3ft high with a fosse 8ft wide and 1ft deep interrupted by a 6ft wide causeway which led to an entrance gap in the bank on the E side. It was situated on top of a drumlin called Bregina and may have formed part of a three-earthwork complex along with (DG107-071) and (DG107-070). 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

• Camlin Castle, gates/railings/walls, gate lodge, 1830–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding castellated gateway, gate lodge and screen wall formerly serving the main entrance to Camlin Castle (now ruinous/largely demolished), built c. 1838, having integral Tudor-arched carriage-arch gateway, and with single-storey single-bay former gate lodge to the north-east of gateway (now ruinous) having attached double-height flag tower/tower (on circular-plan) to the south face. Now out of use and derelict. Raised castellated cut stone parapets to tower, gateway and to screen wall having cut stone coping over; Irish-style crenellations to tower and gateway. Machicolated parapet to tower having moulded stone corbels. Blind loop hole-type openings to battlements to tower and gateway; blind loop hole-type openings to tower having circular gun openings motifs to base and to head. Snecked and dressed ashlar construction with slight base batter to tower and gateway. Raised blank cut stone shield/plaque over gateway; diagonally-set stepped dressed ashlar clasping buttress to the east side of gateway. Square-headed window openings to tower and to screen walls having chamfered dressed stone surrounds and with wrought-iron bars to some openings. Round-headed window opening to south elevation of former lode to west, now infilled, having staged chamfered cut stone reveals and with hoodmoulding over. Tudor-arched integral carriage-arch opening to gateway having chamfered dressed stone reveals, ashlar panel over with inset blind triangular motifs to spandrels, hoodmoulding over, and with Saxon-style replacement metal gates. Gateway flanked to the east side (east and west) by castellated section of snecked dressed ashlar screen wall (on quadrant-plan). Set slightly back from road to the east of Ballyshannon and to the south-west of the remains of Camlin Castle (see 40910776). Located at start of long approach avenue to house.

• Fort William, house, country house, 1780–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey over basement house with attic level, built or heavily modified c. 1890, with projecting gable-fronted full-height box-bay window to the east end of the main elevation (north), shallow central projecting porch to the front elevation, projecting single-bay full-height canted-bay window to the west end of the front elevation (north), and having earlier three-storey over basement house to the rear (south) on L-shaped plan, built c. 1790, having three-storey over basement return to the rear at the west corner. Pitched natural slate roofs to front block having projecting eaves course, metal rooflights, rendered red brick chimneystacks to gable ends (east and west) with stepped coping over, surviving sections of profiled cast-iron rainwater goods, and with raised rendered verges to the gable ends; hipped natural slate roof with lead flashing to canted-bay window projection. Pitched (north) and hipped (north) natural slate roofs to earlier return to rear having surviving sections of cast-iron rainwater goods, two rendered red brick chimneystacks (one to the south gable end of return and one to the centre of the return) having terracotta pots over, and with raised verge to the south gable end. Smooth rendered walls to front block having projecting plinth to projecting bays, blank roundel opening beneath gable apex to box-bay window having rendered architraved surround, and with continuous moulded cornice over ground floor openings. Rendered walls to earlier block and return to rear; render failing in places to the south elevation of return exposing red brick construction (Flemish bond). Square-headed window openings to central bay and to canted bay to front elevation having architraved surrounds, painted sills, and one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows; paired square-headed window openings to box-bay window at ground floor level with paired round-headed window openings over at first floor level having continuous painted sills, architraved surrounds, and with one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed window openings to rear return having stone sills and replacement window fittings. Central square-headed door opening to the shallow projecting porch having timber panelled door with bolection mouldings, sidelights, and having flanking rendered pilasters to either side (east and west) having moulded cornice detail over. Doorway reached up flight of cut stone steps flanked to either side by rendered walls with triangular coping over. Set well-back from road in extensive mature landscaped grounds to the east/south-east of Ballyshannon and to the west of Belleek. Complex of outbuildings (see 40910775) to the west. Remains of probable walled garden to the east. Main gateway to the north-east of site having a central pair of cut stone gate piers (on square-plan) having pyramidal coping over, and with flanking curved sections of rendered boundary wall to either side (north and south) with coping over and having terminating cut stone gate piers (on square-plan).

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 Camlin, about 1 in 5 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Camlin

Area

669,400 m² (66.94 ha, 165.41 acres)

Civil parish

Kilbarron, and its townlands

Barony

Tirhugh

Electoral division

Carrickboy, the unit of the census

Census 2022

389 people lived in 156 households in the Carrickboy electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 21% of homes were built since 2001. 18% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cherrymount, Killeen, Knader, Lissacholly, Mullans, Templenew

Placenames

Camlin 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.