Cashelnavean
Townland in the civil parish of Stranorlar, barony of Raphoe South, Co. Donegal
- Area
- 743.5 ha
- 1,837 acres
- Land parcels
- 40
- registered freehold, median 23,570 m² (2.36 ha, 5.82 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
40 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cashelnavean, from 84 m² to 1,139,644 m² (113.96 ha, 281.61 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 18 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 Cashelnavean 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
19 Jul 2017Refused
CONSTRUCTION OF A SHEEP HANDLING UNIT WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1751144
12 Apr 2017Refused
A 10 YEAR PLANNING PERMISSION FOR DEVELOPMENT CONSISTING OF (1) A 110KV ELECTRICITY SUBSTATION WHICH INCLUDES 2 NO. CONTROL BUILDINGS, ASSOCIATED ELECTRICAL PLANT AND EQUIPMENT, UNDERGROUND ELECTRICITY CABLING, FENCING AND ANCILLARY WORKS IN THE TOWNLAND OF CARK TO REPLACE TWO SUBSTATIONS PREVIOUSLY PERMITTED AS PART OF THE DRUMNAHOUGH WIND FARM (PL.REF.08/50687 AND EXTENDED UNDER PL. REF.13/51609) AND THE LENALEA WIND FARM (PL.REF.09/50116); (2) 33KV UNDERGROUND ELECTRICITY CABLING AND ANCILLARY WORKS FROM THE PERMITTED LENALEA WIND FARM TO THE PROPOSED SUBSTATION IN THE TOWNLAND OF CARK; (3) 110KV UNDERGROUND ELECTRICITY CABLING AND ANCILLARY WORKS FROM THE PROPOSED SUBSTATION AT CARK THROUGH THE TOWNLANDS OF CULLIAGH, MEENBOG (ED CLOGHAN), LETTERSHANBO, CORLACKY, KINNADERRY, WELCHTOWN, AGHAVEAGH, MEENAGRAUV, ALTNAPASTE, BALLYKERGAN, CARRICKMAHON, MAGHERACLOIGH, LOUGHSALLAGH, CASHELNAVEAN, CROAGHONAGH, TAWNAWULLY MOUNTAINS, KEADEW UPPER, FRIARBUSH, ARDINAWARK, KEADEW LOWER, TO THE EXISTING CLOGHER SUBSTATION IN THE TOWNLAND OF CULLIONBOY, CO. DONEGAL; (4) THE DEMOLITION OF AN EXISTING SHED AND ITS REPLACEMENT WITH A NEW SHED, BOTH IN THE TOWNLAND OF CULLIONBOY, RELOCATED TO FACILITATE THE PROPOSED UNDERGROUND CABLING WORKS. THE PLANNING APPLICATION IS ACCOMPANIED BY AN ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT (EIS) AND NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS)
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1750543
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Croaghonagh Bog SAC 000129
- Natural Heritage Area: Cashelnavean Bog NHA 000122
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Croaghonagh Bog 000129
Recorded monuments
- DG086-001 Hilltop enclosure
Description
Internal diam. 95m. A large circular area enclosed by a collapsed stone wall, many of the stones of which have been used to build sheep folds against the wall. There is a large amount of rock outcrop inside the enclosure including some on each side of a gap in the wall to the NW which may have been the entrance. It is situated on a slightly higher and drier ridge on a wet boggy hillside above Lough Mourne and the ancient route-way through the Barnesmore Gap to the SW which it commands. Named 'Cashelnabean' on the 1906 OS 6-inch map. 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 revised upload: 7 December 2017
Architectural heritage
- Old Barracks, barracks, 1700–1760
Description
Remains of single-storey former army barracks guarding Barnesmore Gap, built c. 1730. Now out of use and a roofless ruin. Roof now gone, formerly pitched natural slate. Rubble stone walls with small loop hole openings to gable ends (north-east and south-west). Remains of square-headed window and door openings. Located on a hilltop to the north-west end of Barnesmore Gap, and to the south-west of Ballybofey. Overlooks main Donegal Town to Letterkenny Road to the 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
- About 1 in 20 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 Cashelnavean.
- 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 Cashelnavean with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Cashelnavean
- Area
- 7,435,407 m² (743.54 ha, 1,837.33 acres)
- Civil parish
- Stranorlar, and its townlands
- Barony
- Raphoe South
- Electoral division
- Dooish, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Dooish electoral division: 1,170 people in 425 households; 79% of households own their home; 43% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cloghervaddy, Corraine, Croaghonagh, Loughsallagh, Meencrumlin, Tawnawully Mountains
- Placenames
- Cashelnavean 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.