Cashel

174 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cashel, from 41 m² to 223,156 m² (22.32 ha, 55.14 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 46 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.

• 10 Dec 2025Conditional

  (1) EXTENSION AND MINOR ELEVATIONAL CHANGES TO EXISTING DWELLING (PLANNING REF. NO. 99/2930 REFERS), (2) ATTIC CONVERSION, (3) SHED AND COVERED AREA AND (4) ENTRANCE, CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2562190

• 27 Nov 2025Conditional

  (1) MINOR ELEVATIONAL CHANGES TO EXISTING DWELLING UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 02/5217, (2) LOCATION OF DWELLING AND SHED AND (3) SHED AND PERMISSION FOR DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING DUE TO DEFECTIVE BLOCKS (PLANNING REF. NO. 02/5217 REFERS) AND ERECTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING WITH CHANGE OF HOUSE TYPE, CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS

  Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2562085

• 8 Oct 2025Conditional

  (1) CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSION AND ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING DWELLING AND (2) INSTALLATION OF A WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM, CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2561757

• 20 Aug 2025N/a

  CHANGES TO DWELLING PREVIOUSLY APPROVED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 00/4468 INCLUDING CONVERSION OF ATTIC SPACE INTO HABITABLE LIVING SPACE (4 NO. BEDROOMS AND BATHROOM) AND PERMISSION FOR DEMOLITION OF THE AFOREMENTIONED 1 ½ STOREY DWELLING DUE TO DEFECTIVE CONCRETE BLOCKWORK AND CONSTRUCTION OF NEW REPLACEMENT TWO STOREY DWELLING WITH ELEVATIONAL CHANGES, ADDITIONAL FLOOR AREA AND RAISED RIDGE HEIGHT, ALONG WITH ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS AND CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES

  Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2561438

• 21 May 2024Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, ENTRANCE, INSTALLATION OF WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2460734

• 9 Oct 2023Conditional

  (1) DEMOLITION OF THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE DUE TO DEFECTIVE CONCRETE BLOCKWORK GRANTED UNDER PLANNING PERMISSION REF: 97/1418 AND (2) ERECTION OF REPLACEMENT DWELLING TO BE CONNECTED TO THE EXISTING PREVIOUSLY APPROVED EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM, TOGETHER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2351514

• 22 Sept 2023Conditional

  (A) ATTIC CONVERSION TO DWELLING HOUSE BUILT UNDER PLANNING PERMISSION REF. NO. 11/70020 AND PERMISSION FOR CONSTRUCTION OF A DETACHED GARAGE TO REAR OF DWELLING HOUSE, TOGETHER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS AND CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2351415

• 26 Aug 2021Conditional

  DEMOLITION OF EXISTING MICA DWELLING AND CONSTRUCTION OF NEW REPLACEMENT DWELLING

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2151709

• 26 Apr 2021Conditional

  (1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING MICA DEFECTIVE BLOCK TWO STOREY DWELLING HOUSE, GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF: 00/4698 (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A REPLACEMENT BUNGALOW DWELLING HOUSE WITH ALL ASSOCIATED REPLACEMENT DWELLING FOUL DRAINAGE TO BE CONNECTED TO EXISTING PREVIOUSLY APPROVED FOUL SYSTEM AS GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF: 00/4698

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2150741

• 4 Aug 2020Conditional

  DEMOLITION OF EXISTING TWO STOREY FOUR BEDROOM DWELLING HOUSE PREVIOULSY GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF: 01/4412. (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A REPLACEMENT TWO STOREY, FOUR BEDROOM DWELLING HOUSE WITH FOUL DRAINAGE TO BE CONNECTED TO EXISTING PREVIOULSY APPROVED FOUL TREATMENT SYSTEM GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF: 04/4412

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2051079

• 24 Aug 2017Conditional

  ALTERATIONS AND EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1751311

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

• DG011-022 Standing stone
  Description

  There is no trace of the 'Standing Stone' marked on the 2nd and 3rd editions of the OS 6-inch map. Situated on level open land, reclaimed to meadow, with bog land to N. 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

• DG011-023 Bullaun stone
  Description

  A boulder c. 0.4m in diameter into which a depression c. 0.15m in diameter has been made. It was known as 'the hollow knee stone' (M. R. Colhoun). It is built into a field boundary in generally rocky land. 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

• DG011-024 Standing stone
  Description

  A broken standing stone, 31/2ft × 31/2ft × l1/2ft, was removed from this vicinity in 1944 (M. R. Calhoun).

• DG011-025 Field boundary
  Description

  According to the SMR for County Donegal (1987), there is a possible megalithic tomb at this location. The RMP for County Donegal (1995) identifies it as a court tomb. A search failed to reveal any trace of a megalithic tomb. Some large stones at this spot seem to form part of an old fence. SMR 1987, 11:25; RMP 1995, 11:25. The above description was published in the 'Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume VI, County Donegal.' Compiled by: Eamon Cody (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). Date of upload: 22 September 2008

• DG011-026 Burial ground
  Description

  Stone-lined graves with human bones are reputed to have been found here. The site is believed locally to have been a 'Monastery'. It is situated in rough, boggy land on the lower slopes of Crockaughrim Mountain. 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

• DG011-027 Children's burial ground
  Description

  There are no specific features to indicate the 'Caldragh' recorded here (M.R. Colhoun). It was located on a level area between stony ground to the N and cultivated land to the S. 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

• DG011-045 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  Internal diam. 26m E-W. An oval enclosure delimited by a collapsed stone wall, clearly defined on the S (where natural rock occurs) through to the W and only partly on the N side, where it appears to have fallen down the natural incline. The wall at the E end consists of a very collapsed arc of stones with the external ground at a lower level. There is a pile of large roughly cut stones in the interior at the E end. These are probably connected with the lime kiln marked on the 1st edi-tion of the OS 6-inch map. The interior is fairly level, lower than the external ground to the S but higher else-where. The wall is a maximum of 1m high on the interior at the N end, but only .3m at the E end. It is situated on a natural rocky ridge, orientated E-W overlooking the surrounding rough pasture land. 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

• DG011-046 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Internal diam. 18.5m. A D-shaped raised area partially enclosed by a low earthen bank containing some stone. The N side, where there is no bank, is defined by a precipitous drop. The bank does not survive on the S side. A definite break on the E side where it adjoins the N edge may be an entrance. Two depressions in the interior seem to be modern. The site is known as Fergal's Grave and it is situated on a piece of flat ground on the N slope of Clockaughrim. 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

• House, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c. 1800, with pedimented windbreak porch to front and two-bay two-storey extension to south with attached single-bay outbuilding. Rounded thatched roof with netting restraint and timber and metal rope stays to eaves, smooth rendered gable coping and smooth rendered chimneystack to north gable. Smooth rendered walls with smooth rendered articulated block-and-start quoins to north end of front elevation. Square-headed window openings with two-over-two horned timber sash windows and stone sills. Square-headed door opening with replacement timber panelled door and overlight. Two-storey extension, now in use as outbuilding, comprising of pitched slate roof with grey clayware ridge tiles, yellow-brick on stretcher bond chimneystacks; roughcast and smooth rendered walls; square-headed window openings, and stone sills. Outbuilding with mono-pitched corrugated-metal roof. Set within own grounds with complex of farm buildings and working farmyard.

• House, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c. 1800, with windbreak porch to front and two-bay two-storey extension to south and three-bay two-storey outbuilding to north. Rounded thatched roof with netting restraint and timber and metal rope stays to eaves. Roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with one-over-one horned timber sash windows and painted stone sills. Square-headed door opening with replacement timber door. Extensions comprising of pitched slate roofs with terracotta ridge tiles, yellow-brick on stretcher bond chimneystacks with cogging stringcourses and cast-iron rainwater-goods; whitewashed roughcast rendered walls; square-headed window openings with stone sills; one-over-one horned timber sash and timber casement windows. Wrought-iron gate mounted on roughcast rendered piers with pyramidal coping at side of house. Three-bay single-storey thatched house to south-west comprising of overgrown rounded pitched thatch roof with smooth rendered chimneystacks; roughcast rendered random rubble walls; square-headed window openings with one-over-one horned timber sash windows and painted stone sills; square-headed door opening with battened timber door; single-bay single-storey extension to east having pitched natural slate roof. Complex of single-storey outbuildings comprising of pitched corrugated-metal and corrugated-cement roofs, and random rubble walls to west. Detached single-cell outbuilding, comprising overgrown rounded thatched roof and random rubble walls to east.

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

Area

3,098,612 m² (309.86 ha, 765.68 acres)

Civil parish

Culdaff, and its townlands

Barony

Inishowen East

Electoral division

Gleneely, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Gleneely electoral division: 859 people in 293 households; 84% of households own their home; 43% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 12% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrickafodan, Carrowmore, Clonca, Drumaville, Tullanree

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.