Camp
Townland in the civil parish of Kilbarron, barony of Tirhugh, Co. Donegal
- Area
- 22.6 ha
- 56 acres
- Land parcels
- 22
- registered freehold, median 3,668 m² (0.37 ha, 0.91 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Camp, from 191 m² to 70,925 m² (7.09 ha, 17.53 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 33 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 Camp 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
2 Jul 2025Conditional
(1) CONSTRUCTION OF 35 NO. DWELLING UNITS CONSISTING OF 16 NO. 2 BEDROOM APARTMENTS, 14 NO. 3 BEDROOM HOUSES - 2 STOREY, SEMI-DETACHED, 1 NO. 3 BEDROOM HOUSE - 2 STOREY, DETACHED AND 4 NO. 4 BEDROOM HOUSES - 3 STOREY, SEMI-DETACHED, (2) NEW SITE ENTRANCES, ACCESSED FROM EXISTING ROAD OFF CAMP LANE AND EXISTING ROAD UPGRADED BY WIDENING TO 6.0M WITH FOOTPATH, (3) OPEN SPACE AMENITY AND CHILDREN’S PLAYGROUND LOCATED CENTRALLY WITHIN THE PROPOSED SCHEME, (4) NEW CONNECTION INTO EXISTING PUBLIC FOUL SEWER SYSTEM, (5) REALIGNMENT OF EXISTING PUBLIC SEWER WITHIN THE SITE, (6) NEW CONNECTION INTO EXISTING PUBLIC STORM WATER SYSTEM, (7) NEW CONNECTION TO PUBLIC WATERMAIN AND (8) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 31 homes · Donegal County Council, 2561123
27 Nov 2023Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO THE SIDE OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2351810
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 Camp.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Camp.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Camp.
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 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; parts are made ground and water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Camp.
- 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 Camp with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Camp
- Area
- 225,550 m² (22.56 ha, 55.73 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilbarron, and its townlands
- Barony
- Tirhugh
- Electoral division
- Ballyshannon Rural, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Ballyshannon Rural electoral division: 1,738 people in 624 households; 80% of households own their home; 37% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 16% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Coolcholly, Knader, Townparks
- Placenames
- Camp 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.