Castlebane

7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Castlebane, from 487 m² to 221,147 m² (22.11 ha, 54.65 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 7 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.

• 16 Jan 2026Unconditional

  (1) RETENTION OF SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS AND (2) ERECTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK, DOMESTIC SHED AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Extension of duration, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2650005

• 28 Apr 2021Conditional

  SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS AND PLANNING PERMISSION TO ERECTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK, DOMESTIC SHED AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2150771

• 5 Aug 2020N/a

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS INCLUDING THE REALIGNMENT OF EXISTING JUNCTION

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2051064

• 10 Jun 2020Conditional

  (1) CHANGE OF USE OF KILN HOUSE HOSTEL ACCOMMODATION TO 2 NO. APARTMENTS (2) 2 NO. SHEPHARDS HUTS AND (3) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2050748

• 24 May 2020Refused

  SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS AND PERMISSION FOR ERECTION OF A BURIAL TOMB AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2050466

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: Horn Head and Rinclevan SAC 000147
• Special Protection Area: Horn Head to Fanad Head SPA 004194
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Horn Head And Rinclevan 000147

Recorded monuments

• DG015-023 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  Dimensions 28m NE-SW, 37m NW-SE. A subrectangular area enclosed on all but its NE side by a grass-grown, collapsed stone wall up to 7m in width and 0.5m in height. A light scatter of stones and a modern field wall to the NE may be the remains of the enclosing element here. There are a number of gaps in the wall but it is not clear which if any of them might have been the entrance. It is located at the top edge of a steep NE facing slope. 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

• The Carriage Hostel, mill (water), 1780–1790 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay three-storey former corn mill, built c. 1789, having remains of metal waterwheel attached to the west gable end, and with single-storey block to the rear (south) at the west corner, possibly a former corn kiln. Single-storey elevation addressing road to the south. Now out of use and derelict. Pitched corrugated-cement sheeted roof having projecting cut stone eaves course; roof now partially collapsing. Coursed and roughly squared rubble sandstone walls with flush roughly dressed block-and-start quoins to the corners; roughcast rendered walls to the east and south elevations. Square-headed window openings having stone sills, roughly squared rubble stone voussoirs, and remains of eight-over-eight pane timber sliding sash windows; some window openings to the north elevation now blocked with rubble stone masonry and window openings to the south elevation now boarded. Square-headed doorways with battened timber doors. Set back from road in own grounds in the rural country side to the south-west of Dunfanaghy, overlooking New Lake to the north. Rubble stone walls surrounding waterwheel pit to the west elevation; rubble stone retaining walls to the north and south of site. Attached single-storey outbuilding to the south-west having no roof, rubble stone walls, and square-headed openings with timber lintels and rubble stone voussoirs. Former millrace to the west running south-to-north. Single-storey outbuilding to the south having mono-pitched corrugated metal roof with raised rendered verges to gable ends (north and south, rubble stone walls. Series of structures to south-west including modern and conserved buildings. Former railway platform with mono-pitched roof supported on cast-iron columns; restored railway carriage, now in use as a hostel, to former railway platform. Large modern guest house building etc. to the south-west.

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 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

241,755 m² (24.18 ha, 59.74 acres)

Civil parish

Clondahorky, and its townlands

Barony

Kilmacrenan

Electoral division

Dunfanaghy, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Dunfanaghy electoral division: 1,015 people in 376 households; 78% of households own their home; 36% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 50% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Corcreggan, Murroe

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.