Cashel

117 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cashel, from 48 m² to 74,667 m² (7.47 ha, 18.45 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 27 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 Cashel 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.

• 5 Apr 2024Conditional

  (1) ERECTION OF A PRIVATE WEAVING STUDIO BESIDE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, (2) CONNECTION TO EXISTING SEPTIC TANK, AND (3) ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2460462

• 20 Dec 2023Conditional

  MEADÚ A CHUIR LEIS AN TEACH CÓNAITHE

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2351956

• 16 Aug 2023Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2351213

• 12 Dec 2022Conditional

  (A) CONVERSION OF EXISTING STOREY AND A HALF TYPE HOUSE TO FULL TWO STOREY HOUSE, INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL ALTERATIONS (B) SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO EAST AND SOUTH ELEVATIONS (C) RECONFIGURATION OF EXISTING DRIVEWAY (D) ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS AND SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2251979

• 4 Apr 2022Conditional

  FIRST FLOOR LIVING ACCOMMODATION TO DWELLING INCLUDING GABLE END WINDOWS AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2250564

• 21 Mar 2018Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1850453

• 21 Mar 2018Conditional

  A 20FT. SHIPPING CONTAINER HOUSING A SMALL BLACKSMITH FORGE

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 1850401

• 14 Nov 2017N/a

  DEVELOPMENT CONSISTING OF A 20FT. SHIPPING CONTAINER TO HOUSE A SMALL BLACKSMITH FORGE

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1751715

• 5 Oct 2017N/a

  A 20FT SHIPPING CONTAINER TO HOUSE A SMALL BLACKSMITH FORGE

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1751517

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 Cashel.

Recorded monuments

• DG024-016 Souterrain
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• DG024-017001 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  Two cashels (DG024-017002-), both now destroyed, stood here (10m apart) within living memory. Two flat-topped plat-forms now mark their locations. The S platform is c. 25m N-S × c. 30m E-W and is 1m above ground level on the N, E and S and 2m to 3m on the W. The N platform c. 16m N-S and c. 19m E-W is raised above ground level in the same way as the S site. They were located on a slight ridge overlooking a fertile valley to the W. 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

• DG024-017002 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  Two cashels (DG024-017001-), both now destroyed, stood here (10m apart) within living memory. Two flat-topped plat-forms now mark their locations. The S platform is c. 25m N-S × c. 30m E-W and is 1m above ground level on the N, E and S and 2m to 3m on the W. The N platform c. 16m N-S and c. 19m E-W is raised above ground level in the same way as the S site. They were located on a slight ridge overlooking a fertile valley to the W. 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

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Cashel.

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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility high, 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 Cashel.

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

Name

Cashel · An Caiseal

Area

1,365,406 m² (136.54 ha, 337.4 acres)

Civil parish

Tullaghobegly, and its townlands

Barony

Kilmacrenan

Electoral division

Dunlewy, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Dunlewy electoral division: 689 people in 273 households; 88% of households own their home; 28% of homes were built since 2001; 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 23% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynacraig, Beltany Lower, Gortahork, Keeldrum Lower, Sruhanreagh

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Cashel 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.