Castlebane

7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Castlebane, from 2,219 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres) to 100,924 m² (10.09 ha, 24.94 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 15 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 Castlebane 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.

• 4 Feb 2026N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF 3 NO. THREE-STOREY APARTMENT BLOCKS, EACH CONTAINING 6 NO. OWN-DOOR, TWO-BED APARTMENTS, TOTALLING 18 NO. APARTMENT UNITS, AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. THE DEVELOPMENT WILL BE ACCESSED VIA MEADOW HILL THROUGH THE EXISTING CNOC MÓINÉIR HOUSING ESTATE

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2660132

• 25 Jan 2026N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF 3 NO. THREE-STOREY APARTMENT BLOCKS, EACH CONTAINING 6 NO. OWN-DOOR, TWO-BED APARTMENTS, TOTALLING 18 NO. APARTMENT UNITS. THE DEVELOPMENT WILL BE ACCESSED VIA MEADOW HILL THROUGH THE EXISTING CNOC MÓINÉIR HOUSING ESTATE, AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2660081

• 1 Oct 2025Conditional

  WORKS TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE INCLUDING: (1) DEMOLITION OF FLAT ROOF PROJECTIONS ON THE EAST AND WEST ELEVATIONS, (2) DEMOLITION AND REPLACEMENT OF FRONT WALL (WEST ELEVATION), (3) CONSTRUCTION OF NEW EXTENSIONS TO THE EAST, WEST & NORTH ELEVATIONS, (4) REMOVAL OF EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND INSTALLATION OF A NEW SEPTIC TANK SYSTEM AND (5) INTERNAL ALTERATIONS INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2561710

• 28 Feb 2024Conditional

  COMPLETION OF AN UNFINISHED ESTATE CONSISTING OF THE CONSTRUCTION OF 38 NO. DWELLINGS CONSISTING OF 20 NO. SINGLE DWELLINGS AND 18 NO. SEMI DETACHED DWELLINGS (AS PREVIOUSLY GRANTED) WITH CONNECTION TO ALL EXISTING SERVICES ALREADY ON SITE INCLUDING SEWER PIPE NETWORK, SURFACE WATER PIPE NETWORK, WATERMAIN, FOOTPATHS, KERBING AND ROADWAYS

  Permission, 14 homes · Donegal County Council, 2460240

• 24 Feb 2024N/a

  COMPLETION OF AN UNFINISHED ESTATE CONSISTING OF PLANNING FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF 38 DWELLINGS CONSISTING OF 20 SINGLE DWELLINGS AND 18 SEMI DETACHED DWELLINGS (AS PREVIOUSLY GRANTED) WITH CONNECTION TO ALL EXISTING SERVICES ALREADY ON SITE INCLUDING SEWER PIPE NETWORK, SURFACE WATER PIPE NETWORK, WATERMAIN, FOOTPATHS, KERBING AND ROADWAYS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2460207

• 20 Dec 2021Conditional

  ERECTION OF A 30M HIGH MONOPOLE TELECOMMUNICATIONS SUPPORT STRUCTURE TOGETHER WITH ANTENNAS, DISHES AND ASSOCIATED TELECOMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT ALL ENCLOSED IN SECURITY FENCING AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2152554

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

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: River Swilly Valley Woods 002011

Recorded monuments

• DG053-015 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  Internal diam. c. 19m. A subcircular area enclosed by a much overgrown and partially destroyed stone wall. Small sections of the internal and external facing of the wall can be traced demonstrating its thickness to have been between 2m and 3m. Field boundaries abut onto and cross the site. On the N side a boulder which forms part of the wall is decorated with 7 cupmarks (DG053-015001-). Kinahan (1885-86, 427) referred to a chamber and door-way in the N wall but no trace of either was found on this occasion. The interior is level. The site is located S of the crest of a low hill in good farmland but with a lot of scrub and woods. 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/revision: 09 September 2010

• DG053-015001 Rock art
  Description

  A subcircular area (DG053-015-) enclosed by a much overgrown and partially destroyed stone wall. On the N side a boulder which forms part of the wall is decorated with 7 cupmarks. The above description was published in 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). Date of upload/revision: 09 September 2010

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Castlebane.

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 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 Castlebane.

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

Name

Castlebane

Area

297,215 m² (29.72 ha, 73.44 acres)

Civil parish

Aghanunshin, 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

Ardarawer, Kiltoy, Lisnenan, Woodland

Placenames

Castlebane 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.