Castleblaugh
Castleblaugh is a townland in the civil parish of Raymoghy, barony of Raphoe North, Co. Donegal. Its name in Irish is Caisleán Bláthach.
- Area
- 106.6 ha
- 263 acres
- Land parcels
- 33
- registered freehold, median 3,994 m² (0.4 ha, 0.99 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 14
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
33 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Castleblaugh, from 899 m² to 138,182 m² (13.82 ha, 34.15 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Castleblaugh 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
26 Jan 2026Unconditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH ON-SITE SEWERAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Extension of duration, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2650007
26 Jan 2026Unconditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH ON-SITE SEWERAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Extension of duration, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2650006
19 May 2025Conditional
CHANGE OF HOUSE TYPE FROM GRANTED PERMISSION (REF. NO. 23/51607 REFERS) TO NEW PROPOSED HOUSE TYPE DESIGN ALONG WITH ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2560799
4 Apr 2024Conditional
RELOCATION OF EXISTING TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA ALONG WITH ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2460460
11 Mar 2024N/a
RELOCATION OF EXISTING TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA ALONG WITH ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2460306
23 Oct 2023Conditional
(1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING (MICA) DEFECTED CONCRETE BLOCKWORK DWELLING HOUSE, (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW REPLACEMENT DWELLING WITH CONNECTION TO ALL EXISTING SERVICES AND (3) CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO EXISTING GARAGE CONSISTING OF LIVING ACCOMMODATION WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES ALONG WITH ALL ANCILLARY WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2351607
12 Sept 2023Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND A DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH CONNECTION TO PROPOSED SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2351364
9 Jun 2022Conditional
GARÁISTE A CEADAÍODH ROIMHE FAOI UIMHIR THAGHARTHA PLEANÁL 21/51690 A ATHLONNÚ GO TEORAINN THOIR AN SUÍOMH LE GACH SAOTHAR FORBARTHA LÁITHREÁIN GAOLMHAR EILE
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2251004
31 Jan 2022Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH CONNECTION TO PROPOSED SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2250098
13 Dec 2021Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH ON-SITE SEWERAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2152468
13 Dec 2021Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH ON-SITE SEWERAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2152470
25 Aug 2021Conditional
DO TEACH CONAITHE AGUS DABHACH SHEARACHAIS COMH MAITH LE GACH SAOTHAR FORBARTHA LAITHREAIN GAOLMHAR EILE
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2151690
4 Jul 2019Conditional
DECOMMISSIONING EXISTING VEHICULAR ENTRANCE AND CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW VEHICULAR ENTRANCE TO SERVICE DWELLING HOUSE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1951028
20 Dec 2017Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH CONNECTION TO A NEW SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA, A DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS AND SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1751977
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Castleblaugh.
Recorded monuments
- DG054-020 Standing stone
Description
There is no trace of the 'Standing Stone' marked on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map. Situated in a low-lying marshy area between two ridges of land to NW and SE. 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
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Castleblaugh.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Castleblaugh, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1894 (ZIP).
- Flooding
- The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Castleblaugh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Castleblaugh · Caisleán Bláthach
- Area
- 1,066,125 m² (106.61 ha, 263.45 acres)
- Civil parish
- Raymoghy, and its townlands
- Barony
- Raphoe North
- Electoral division
- Newtown Cunningham, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,028 people lived in 372 households in the Newtown Cunningham electoral division. 66% of households owned their home. 49% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Dooish, Drumbarnet Upper, Dunduffsfort, Hungersmother, Moneymore, Ryelands
- Placenames
- Castleblaugh 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.