Cashel

132 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cashel, from 35 m² to 2,874,395 m² (287.44 ha, 710.28 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 61 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.

• 4 Apr 2025Conditional

  ERECTION OF UNDERGROUND SLURRY STORAGE WITHIN EXISTING FARMYARD COMPLEX AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2560500

• 1 Oct 2024Conditional

  ADDITIONAL DORMER WINDOW TO THE FRONT OF HOUSE

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2461544

• 17 Jul 2024Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2461085

• 8 Jul 2024N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2461038

• 20 Mar 2023Conditional

  ERECTION OF A SINGLE STOREY DWELLING, DOMESTIC GARAGE, TREATMENT PLANT AND ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2350347

• 6 Mar 2023Conditional

  DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DOMESTIC GARAGE AND CONSTRUCTION OF A REPLACEMENT MACHINERY STORAGE SHED AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2350268

• 11 Nov 2022Conditional

  ERECTION OF AN EXTENSION TO AN AGRICULTURAL SHED WITHIN AN EXISTING FARMYARD COMPLEX AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2251843

• 7 Mar 2022Conditional

  ERECTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL SHED CONTAINING A MILKING PARLOUR AND DAIRY WITHIN EXISTING FARMYARD COMPLEX INCLUDING DEMOLITION OF EXISTING SHEDS AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2250388

• 25 Jan 2021Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW SHEEP SHED & ASSOCIATED WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2150078

• 15 Jan 2021N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW SHEEP SHED & ASSOCIATED WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2150029

• 23 Jul 2018N/a

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, TREATMENT PLANT AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1851137

• 20 Apr 2017Conditional

  ERECTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL SHED AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1750606

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Natural Heritage Area: Slieve Snaght Bogs NHA 002322

Recorded monuments

• DG011-053 Standing stone
  Description

  A standing stone 2.18m high × 1m wide at base. Situated on 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

• DG011-054 Standing stone
  Description

  A standing stone 1.62m high × 1.55m wide at base; N-S. Situated on good 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

• DG011-055 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Internal diam. c. 20m-30m. A low, curving earthen bank seems to be the N half of the enclosure shown on the 2nd and 3rd editions of the OS 6-inch map. It is situated on slightly W-sloping, cultivated 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

• DG020-001001 Megalithic tomb - unclassified
  Description

  There is a standing stone at this location (Lacy 1983). In 1944 Colhoun (1995) was told by the landowner that it was the remnant of a cairn removed during his lifetime. He claimed that the cairn was long and that there were 'cross-stones' visible. Colhoun was of the view that he may have been describing a chambered grave with at least some roof stones in place. Colhoun 1949, 116; Killanin and Duignan 1962, 127; Killanin and Duignan 1967, 140; Bonner 1972, 16; Lacy 1983, 79, no. 378; SMR 1987, 20:1; Colhoun 1995, 59; RMP 1995, 20:1. A standing stone 1.35m high × 0.74m wide; NE-SW. It is said locally that c. 60 years ago other associated stones were removed and some 'large bones' uncovered. Situated on pasture land falling away to the E and overlooking the Glentogher river. 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

• DG020-001002 Burial
  Description

  A standing stone 1.35m high × 0.74m wide; NE-SW. It is said locally that c. 60 years ago other associated stones were removed and some 'large bones' uncovered. Situated on pasture land falling away to the E and overlooking the Glentogher river. 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

• DG020-002 Field system
  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.

Architectural heritage

• House, 1840–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay single-storey vernacular partially-thatched house, built c. 1860, with projecting entrance porch to central-bay of front elevation. Pitched corrugated-cement roof to south section and rounded pitched thatched roof to north, pitched corrugated-metal roof to porch; smooth rendered chimneystacks gables. White-washed rubble walls. Square-headed window openings with two-over-one and two-over-two horned timber sash windows and painted stone sills. Square-headed door opening with battened timber door. Single-storey thatched outbuildings attached to north gable comprising of pitched dilapidated rounded thatched roof, whitewashed rubble walls, and square-headed door openings with battened timber doors. Open-fronted outbuilding to south gable comprising mono-pitched corrugated-metal roof and whitewashed rubble walls. Ruined single-storey outbuilding to north-east comprising pitched corrugated-metal roof and random-rubble walls. Set within own grounds, back from main road, south of Carndonagh and to east of Glentogher River.

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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2130 (ZIP).

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

5,861,940 m² (586.19 ha, 1,448.52 acres)

Civil parish

Donagh, and its townlands

Barony

Inishowen East

Electoral division

Glentogher, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Glentogher electoral division: 1,240 people in 445 households; 54% of households own their home; 43% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballylosky, Carrowblagh, Carrowmore or Glentogher, Carrowreagh, Churchland Quarters(Carrowtemple Moneyshandoney and Carrick), Meendacalliagh, Owenboy

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.