Cashelshanaghan

126 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cashelshanaghan, from 61 m² to 370,742 m² (37.07 ha, 91.61 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 39 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 Cashelshanaghan 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.

• 30 Jun 2026N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE, INSTALLATION OF ON-SITE SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2661207

• 30 Jun 2026N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE, INSTALLATION OF ON-SITE SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM, AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2661206

• 17 May 2026Conditional

  CHANGE OF HOUSE DESIGN AND REPOSITIONING OF GARAGE FROM THAT PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 23/51229

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2660884

• 4 Mar 2026Conditional

  ERECTION OF DWELLING HOUSE AND GARAGE AND INSTALLATION OF WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2650037

• 9 Dec 2024Conditional

  (1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING 1.5 STOREY, DETACHED DWELLING HOUSE DAMAGED DUE TO DEFECTIVE (MICA) PRECAST CONCRETE BLOCKS AND (2) RECONSTRUCTION OF A REPLACEMENT TWO STOREY, DETACHED DWELLING HOUSE WITH ALTERATIONS FROM THAT OF THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND THE RELEVANT ASSOCIATED REPLACEMENT WORKS TO BE CONNECTED TO ALL OTHER EXISTING SITE SERVICES

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2462027

• 22 Oct 2024Conditional

  DEMOLITION OF A DETACHED 1 ½ STOREY DWELLING (DEFECTIVE CONCRETE BLOCKWORK) AND CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DETACHED 2 STOREY REPLACEMENT DWELLING ALONG WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2461678

• 30 Sept 2024Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A TWO STOREY DWELLING WITH SINGLE STOREY DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE/STORE, INCLUDING SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2461537

• 27 Sept 2024N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A TWO STOREY DWELLING WITH SINGLE STOREY DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE/STORE, TO INCLUDE SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2461525

• 10 Jul 2024Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH DETACHED GARAGE, CONNECTED TO A NEW SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT AND PERCOLATION AREA, AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS AND SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2461046

• 29 May 2024Conditional

  CHANGE OF HOUSE TYPE OF THE PREVIOUSLY GRANTED PLANNING PERMISSION UNDER REF. NO. 22/52084 INCLUDING ALL OTHER SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2460796

• 24 May 2024N/a

  CHANGE OF HOUSE TYPE OF THE PREVIOUS GRANTED PLANNING UNDER REFERENCE 22/52084 INCLUDING ALL OTHER SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2460761

• 17 May 2024Conditional

  (1) A SINGLE-STOREY SINGLE POD-BUILDING UNIT CONSISTING OF TWO NO. DAYCARE ROOMS WITH ANCILLARY SLEEP ROOMS AND SHARED TOILET/WASH/CHANGING FACILITIES, (2) SHELTERED LINK CORRIDOR CONNECTING THE PROPOSED CHILDCARE ROOMS TO THE EXISTING CHILDCARE BUILDING, (3) CONNECTION TO THE EXISTING WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND STORM SEWER SERVING THE EXISTING CHILDCARE BUILDING AND (4) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2460726

• 9 May 2024Conditional

  (1) CHANGE OF HOUSE TYPE FROM THAT PREVIOUSLY APPROVED UNDER PLANNING APPLICATION REF. NO. 14/50588 AND EXTENDED UNDER PLANNING APPLICATION REF. NO. 19/50144, (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A DETACHED GARAGE AND (3) ALL WITH CONNECTION TO THE APPROVED SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS AND SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2460683

• 11 Apr 2024N/a

  ERECTION OF DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND CONVERSION OF EXISTING ON SITE BARNS INTO A DOMESTIC GARAGE INCLUDING ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2460500

• 4 Apr 2024Conditional

  (1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE CONSTRUCTED WITH DEFECTIVE CONCRETE BLOCKWORK, (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING HOUSE, (3) CONSTRUCTION OF A DOMESTIC GARAGE INCORPORATING A GYM AREA AND STORAGE SPACE WHICH SHALL BE UTILISED AS TEMPORARY RESIDENTIAL ACCOMMODATION FOR THE DURATION OF THE WORKS, AND (3) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2460453

• 3 Apr 2024N/a

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND CONVERSION OF EXISTING ON-SITE BARNS INTO A DOMESTIC GARAGE INCLUDING ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2460446

• 17 Aug 2023Conditional

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

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2351228

• 17 Aug 2023Conditional

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

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2351229

• 10 Aug 2023Conditional

  ON-SITE ALTERATIONS TO THAT WHICH WAS PREVIOUSLY GRANTED PERMISSION UNDER PLANNING REFERENCE NO. 03/7018 INCLUDING (1) CHANGE OF POSITION OF HOUSE ON THE SITE, (2) RELOCATION OF SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA, (3) ELEVATIONAL CHANGES AND INCREASE OF FLOOR AREA TO DWELLING AND (4) DOMESTIC GARAGE INCLUDING FIRST FLOOR ACCOMMODATION

  Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2351186

• 4 Aug 2023Conditional

  DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, DETACHED GARAGE AND ASSOCIATED BOUNDARY WALLS ALL OF WHICH ARE DAMAGED DUE TO DEFECTIVE PRECAST CONCRETE BLOCKS AND RECONSTRUCTION OF A NEW REPLACEMENT DWELLING HOUSE, DETACHED GARAGE, BOUNDARY WALLS PER ORIGINAL BUILDINGS AND STRUCTURES, CONNECTION TO EXISTING SITE SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2351162

• 27 Jul 2023N/a

  DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, DETACHED GARAGE AND ASSOCIATED BOUNDARY WALLS ALL OF WHICH ARE DAMAGED DUE TO DEFECTIVE PRECAST CONCRETE BLOCKS AND RECONSTRUCTION OF A NEW REPLACEMENT DWELLING HOUSE, DETACHED GARAGE, BOUNDARY WALLS PER ORIGINAL BUILDINGS AND STRUCTURES, CONNECTION TO EXISTING SITE SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2351115

• 19 Jun 2023N/a

  ERECTION OF TWO NUMBER DWELLING HOUSES WITH SEPTIC TANKS AND DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 2 homes · Donegal County Council, 2350865

• 7 Jun 2023Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF AGRICULTURAL SHED

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2350809

• 1 Mar 2023Conditional

  CHANGE OF HOUSE TYPE, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT TO THAT GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO: 21/51998

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2350243

• 20 Jan 2023Conditional

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

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2350051

The 25 most recent of 47 applications.

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Lough Swilly SAC 002287
• Special Protection Area: Lough Swilly SPA 004075
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Swilly Including Big Isle, Blanket Nook & Inch Lake 000166

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Cashelshanaghan.

Architectural heritage

• Castle Shanaghan, outbuilding, 1790–1810 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached complex of two-storey outbuildings, built c. 1800 and altered c. 1880, comprising five-bay two-storey outbuilding to the west with attached three-bay two-storey outbuilding to the east. Originally associated with Castle Shanaghan (demolished and replaced with modern dwelling). Pitched purple slate roof to main outbuilding to the west having with overhanging eaves with cut stone eaves course, clay ridge tiles, and with raised rendered verge and brick chimneystack to the west gable end. Pitched corrugated-metal roof to adjoining building to east with ashlar verge and rendered rubble stone chimneystack to the east gable end. Random rubble stone walls with flush ashlar and roughly dressed block-and-start quoins to corners. Square-headed window openings at ground floor level having roughly squared rubble stone voussoirs over and with remains of timber windows. Ocular window openings to first floor with red brick surrounds, now blocked. Square-headed doorways and loading bays (first floor level) with roughly dressed voussoirs and battened timber doors. External stone sets to north-west to first floor segment-headed door opening. Square-headed carriage-arches with roughly squared voussoirs, and with corrugated-metal and battened timber doors. Set perpendicular to laneway with rubble stone wall to south-west and set adjacent to the north of two-storey dwelling. Located in the rural countryside to the north-east of Letterkenny, and to the south of Ramelton.

• Castle Shanaghan, outbuilding, 1790–1810 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached multiple-bay two-storey rubble stone outbuilding, built c.1800, having slightly lower two or three-bay two-storey building attached to southeast end. Pitched purple slate roof with overhanging slab eaves, clay ridge tiles and cut-stone copings, brick chimneystack to northwest gable, and lacking rainwater goods. Lower-pitch corrugated-iron roof to addition with cut-stone copings to southeast gable and rubble stone chimneystack. Random rubble stone walls with dressed quoins. Front elevation has fairly regular placement of openings, square-headed to ground floor with rubble voussoirs and timber battened doors, and oculus openings to first floor with red brick surrounds and timber closures. External stone steps to northwest gable, giving access to camber-arch doorway in first floor with rubble voussoirs. Openings to rear elevation more irregular, and include pitching door to first floor, and are square-headed with timber lintels or rubble voussoirs.

• House, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c. 1820. Pitched corrugated-metal roof with three rendered chimneystacks. Rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows; enlarged window opening to the north end of the front elevation (east) having timber casement window. Square-headed doorway (offset to the south side of centre) having battened timber door and plain overlight. Set back from road in own grounds to the south of Ramelton having garden to front (east) and complex of single-storey outbuildings to the rear (west). Located a short distance to the west of Lough Swilly.

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

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

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.

• Cashelshanaghan, Letterkenny6 sales

Name

Cashelshanaghan

Area

3,203,870 m² (320.39 ha, 791.69 acres)

Civil parish

Aughnish, and its townlands

Barony

Kilmacrenan

Electoral division

Castlewray, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Castlewray electoral division: 3,681 people in 1,340 households; 83% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghangaddy Glebe, Ardrumman, Breaghy, Drumnaskea, Eighterross, Glenleary, Newtownfore

Placenames

Cashelshanaghan 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.