Cashelcarn

143 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cashelcarn, from 11 m² to 173,478 m² (17.35 ha, 42.87 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 47 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Cashelcarn 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.

• 1 Oct 2025Refused

  RESIDENTIAL UNIT AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2561709

• 26 Sept 2025N/a

  RESIDENTIAL UNIT AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2561667

• 31 May 2025Refused

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE WITH CONNECTION TO THE EXISTING ON SITE SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2560900

• 30 Apr 2025Conditional

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

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2560675

• 31 Jul 2020Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE, PROPRIETARY WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM, PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2051033

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 Cashelcarn.

Recorded monuments

• DG096-003 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  Internal diam. c. 20.7m. Only faint traces on the SW half of an enclosure survive here. Slight remains of a grassed-over wall are visible in this area c. 1.65m wide. The interior is flat. The site is located in fair pasture on the E flank of the valley of the Ballaghdoo 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

• DG096-004001 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  Internal Diam c. 15m. Cashelbane: A subcircular area enclosed by two closely-spaced, collapsed stone walls both partially removed and elsewhere grassed over. A modern wall is built on the line of the inner enclosure to the S. The ground between the walls is level and grassed. It is c. 5m wide. The outer wall is only poorly represented. The overall external diameters of the site are 31.5m NNW-SSE × 28.8m NE-SW. The interior of the cashel is undulating with some rock outcrop. A trigonometrical station has been constructed in the interior. There are two roughly circular depressions in the SW quadrant of the interior possibly the remains of structures (DG096-004002-). The site is located in an undulating area of fair pasture, rock outcrop and rougher land, overlooking Kilcar town to the WSW. 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

• DG096-004002 Building
  Description

  Cashelbane: A subcircular area (DG096-004001-) enclosed by two closely-spaced, collapsed stone walls both partially removed and elsewhere grassed over. A modern wall is built on the line of the inner enclosure to the S. The ground between the walls is level and grassed. It is c. 5m wide. The outer wall is only poorly represented. The overall external diameters of the site are 31.5m NNW-SSE × 28.8m NE-SW. The interior of the cashel is undulating with some rock outcrop. A trigonometrical station has been constructed in the interior. There are two roughly circular depressions in the SW quadrant of the interior possibly the remains of structures. The site is located in an undulating area of fair pasture, rock outcrop and rougher land, overlooking Kilcar town to the WSW. 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

• DG096-031 Barrow - pond barrow
  Description

  Situated in a wet hollow area of marshy land in upland region with higher ground to E. Large circular area (approx. diam. 35m) enclosed by a heather covered drystone wall (H 0.7m; T 0.7m) with low roughly rectangular shaped flat-topped drystone cairn (DG096-031001-) or leacht type feature located in the centre of the waterlogged interior. Local tradition asserts that this was the burial site of warriors killed in an ancient battle (pers. comm. S O'Beirne). The interior of this enclosure is very unusual in that it is very wet and marshy. The presence of so much sphagnum, which sinks down quite considerably as one walks over the surface, suggest that the original surface of the interior was much lower than the present level. It is possible that the interior of this site was slighly hollow or concave and that the field drains taking water from the mountain slope directly behind the monument have since blocked up causing the interior of this monument to become waterlogged in more recent times. There is evidence of an inner bank of earth and stone visible in the E quadrant of the interior, this feature does not fully enclose the interior. From higher ground the presence of the low cairn or leacht in the centre, the waterlogged interior, the hollow amphitheatre like location and the double enclosing feature and the possibility that the interior was once hollow or slightly concave gives the monument the appearance of a burial monument such as a possible pond barrow or some other form of unknown ritual type monument. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload/revision: : 19 July 2010

• DG096-031001 Leacht
  Description

  Situated in a wet hollow area of marshy land in upland region with higher ground to E. Large circular possible pond barrow (DG096-031) enclosed by a heather covered drystone wall with low roughly rectangular shaped flat-topped drystone cairn (H 0.5m; dims. 3.5m x 2m) or leacht type feature located in the centre of the interior. Local tradition asserts that this was the burial site of warriors killed in an ancient battle and that the low carn may be a monument to this local tradition (pers. comm. S O'Beirne). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload/revision: : 19 July 2010

Architectural heritage

• Droichead Caiseal Charna, bridge, 1800–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Triple-arched road bridge over the Ballaghdoo River, built c. 1825, having V-profile ashlar cutwaters to piers. Round-headed arches having dressed voussoirs to arch; rubble stone construction to arch barrels. Uncoursed rubble stone masonry to spandrels and parapets; cut stone coping over parapets. Parapet damaged to the south-east corner and partially rebuilt in modern blockwork. Tarmacadam deck with grass verge. Located to the south-east of An Charraig/Carrick and to the north of Cill Chartha/Kilcar.

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 Cashelcarn, about 1 in 20 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Cashelcarn · Caiseal Charna

Area

1,009,427 m² (100.94 ha, 249.43 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcar, and its townlands

Barony

Banagh

Electoral division

Kilcar, the unit of the census

Census 2022

669 people lived in 260 households in the Kilcar electoral division. 83% of households owned their home. 32% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 28% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Drumreagh, Keenaghan, Kilcasey, Umuskan

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Cashelcarn 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.