# Castlebane, Co. Donegal: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Clondahorky, barony of Kilmacrenan, Co. Donegal. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 241,755 m² (24.18 ha, 59.74 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,538 m² (0.25 ha, 0.63 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 5 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Clondahorky, https://everytownland.com/donegal/parish/clondahorky.md - Barony: Kilmacrenan - Electoral division: Dunfanaghy, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Donegal, https://everytownland.com/donegal.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/14395 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 50572 - Centre: latitude 55.168295, longitude -8.002105 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Castlebane, from 487 m² to 221,147 m² (22.11 ha, 54.65 acres); 7 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1395729: 221,147 m² (22.11 ha, 54.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1395729.md - Parcel 1376929: 6,925 m² (0.69 ha, 1.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1376929.md - Parcel 5650132: 2,798 m² (0.28 ha, 0.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5650132.md - Parcel 5650128: 2,538 m² (0.25 ha, 0.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5650128.md - Parcel 5650117: 1,201 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5650117.md - Parcel 3659493: 1,131 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3659493.md - Parcel 3659492: 487 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3659492.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 5 applications, newest first. - 16 Jan 2026, Donegal County Council 2650005: Unconditional. Extension of duration, 1 home. (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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2650005/0 - 28 Apr 2021, Donegal County Council 2150771: Conditional. Retention, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2150771/0 - 5 Aug 2020, Donegal County Council 2051064: N/a. Permission, 1 home. ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS INCLUDING THE REALIGNMENT OF EXISTING JUNCTION. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2051064/0 - 10 Jun 2020, Donegal County Council 2050748: Conditional. Permission. (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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2050748/0 - 24 May 2020, Donegal County Council 2050466: Refused. Retention. SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS AND PERMISSION FOR ERECTION OF A BURIAL TOMB AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2050466/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: Horn Head and Rinclevan SAC, site code 000147, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/000147 - Special Protection Area: Horn Head to Fanad Head SPA, site code 004194, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/spa/004194 - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Horn Head And Rinclevan, site code 000147 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - DG015-023: Ringfort - cashel, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDG015-023----. 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 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - The Carriage Hostel, mill (water), 1780–1790, Regional interest, registry number 40901523, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=DG®no=40901523. 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. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/donegal/castlebane-50572.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/donegal/castlebane-50572.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/donegal/castlebane-50572.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Castlebane with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal: https://everytownland.com/donegal.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Corcreggan: https://everytownland.com/donegal/corcreggan.md - Murroe: https://everytownland.com/donegal/murroe.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/donegal/castlebane-50572 - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/donegal/castlebane-50572