Casheleenan

50 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Casheleenan, from 22 m² to 651,956 m² (65.2 ha, 161.1 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 32 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 Casheleenan 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.

• 12 Aug 2025Conditional

  (1) DOMESTIC GARAGE AND PERMISSION FOR (2) DEMOLITION OF MICA DEFECTIVE DWELLING HOUSE AND ERECTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING HOUSE WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2561385

• 20 Aug 2024Conditional

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

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2461269

• 14 Aug 2024N/a

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2461249

• 5 Jun 2024Conditional

  (1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING (DEFECTIVE/MICA) DWELLING HOUSE, (2) RECONSTRUCTION OF A NEW REPLACEMENT DWELLING HOUSE AND CONNECTION TO EXISTING SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT ON SITE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2460830

• 22 Nov 2023Conditional

  (1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING OUTHOUSES, (2) CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSION AND REFURBISHMENT OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND (3) INSTALLATION OF A NEW SEPTIC TANK SYSTEM WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2351778

• 1 Mar 2023Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2350245

• 29 Jun 2022Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND A DOMESTIC GARAGE INCLUDING ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2251123

• 24 May 2021Conditional

  ERECTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY STORAGE SHED WITH ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2151004

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 Casheleenan.

Recorded monuments

• DG036-025 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  Internal diam. c. 20m. A circular space enclosed by a ruined stone wall up to 2.8m in width. There is a 1.6m gap to the NNE but a second 3m gap to the NE is the likely entrance. A slight internal rise on the S side is probably the remains of a trigonometrical station. The site is located on a commanding knoll in rough pasture. 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 Casheleenan.

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 5 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; parts are water.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Casheleenan

Area

3,760,602 m² (376.06 ha, 929.26 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmacrenan, and its townlands

Barony

Kilmacrenan

Electoral division

Loughkeel, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Loughkeel electoral division: 331 people in 106 households; 88% of households own their home; 42% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Barnes Lower, Carrownasaul, Goldrum, Gortnaskeagh, Letterfad, Meenlaragh, Meenreagh, Skerry

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Casheleenan 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.