Cashelfean
Townland in the civil parish of Killaghtee, barony of Banagh, Co. Donegal; in Irish Caiseal Fiann
- Area
- 113.2 ha
- 280 acres
- Land parcels
- 29
- registered freehold, median 7,029 m² (0.7 ha, 1.74 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 9
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
29 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cashelfean, from 108 m² to 157,012 m² (15.7 ha, 38.8 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 35 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Cashelfean 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
20 Apr 2026Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING PUBLIC SEWAGE SYSTEM, TOGETHER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2660679
27 Sept 2022Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE, PROPRIETARY WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2251617
23 Aug 2022N/a
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, PROPRIERARY WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2251407
29 Oct 2021Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO THE FRONT & SIDE OF DWELLING
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2152153
1 Nov 2018Conditional
(1) RETENTION OF A SUNROOM TO THE NORTH WEST GABLE OF EXISTING COTTAGE WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS INCLUDING CONNECTION TO ON-SITE SERVICE, (2) DEMOLITION OF AN EXISTING SHED AND (3) ERECTION OF A DOMESTIC GARAGE
Retention · Donegal County Council, 1851668
25 Sept 2018N/a
SUNROOM TO THE NORTH WEST GABLE OF EXISTING COTTAGE WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS INCLUDING CONNECTION TO ON-SITE SERVICES AND PERMISSION FOR ERECTION OF A DOMESTIC GARAGE
Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1851485
31 Jan 2018Conditional
ERECTION OF A SINGLE STORIED TYPE DWELLING HOUSE WITH PREPARATORY WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1850109
25 Sept 2017N/a
ERECTION OF A SINGLE STORIED TYPE DWELLING HOUSE WITH PREPARATORY WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1751457
21 Apr 2017N/a
ERECTION OF A SINGLE STORIED TYPE DWELLING HOUSE WITH PREPARATORY WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1750604
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Cashelfean.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Cashelfean.
Architectural heritage
- Gates/railings/walls, 1860–1920 · Regional interest
Description
Field gate, erected c. 1890, comprising a pair of rock-faced ashlar sandstone gate piers (on square-plan) having dressed margins and with rock-faced sandstone capstones over, and having wrought-iron flat bar gate. Located at entrance to field to the north of Dunkineely. rubble stone boundary walls to either side (north-west and south-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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- The EPA radon map did not answer.
- Landslides
- Susceptibility 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 Cashelfean.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Cashelfean with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Cashelfean · Caiseal Fiann
- Area
- 1,132,417 m² (113.24 ha, 279.83 acres)
- Civil parish
- Killaghtee, and its townlands
- Barony
- Banagh
- Electoral division
- Dunkineely, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Dunkineely electoral division: 904 people in 351 households; 73% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 20% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballymagowan, Beaugreen Glebe, Bogside, Casheltown, Darney, Druminiscal, Dunkineely, Rafoarty
- Placenames
- Cashelfean 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.