Castlecooly

52 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Castlecooly, from 20 m² to 319,866 m² (31.99 ha, 79.04 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 31 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Castlecooly 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.

• 13 Oct 2025Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A REAR EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING, TOGETHER WITH RENOVATION WORKS, MINOR ELEVATIONAL ALTERATIONS, AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2561779

• 20 May 2024Conditional

  RELOCATION OF AN EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA AND CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING WITH CONNECTION TO PROPOSED TREATMENT PLANT AND POLISHING FILTERS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2460732

• 6 Aug 2019N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A TWO-STOREY DWELLING HOUSE WITH CONNECTION TO A NEW SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM & PERCOLATION AREA, A DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS AND SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1951196

• 13 Dec 2017Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH DETACHED GARAGE ON SITE, WITH WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT AND CONNECTION TO ALL PUBLIC SERVICES

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1751875

• 2 Jun 2017Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND MAKE CONNECTION TO ALL PUBLIC SERVICES

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1750849

• 9 May 2017N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND MAKE CONNECTION TO ALL PUBLIC SERVICES

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1750686

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

Designated sites

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

Recorded monuments

• DG047-003 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  No trace of the single-ringed 'Fort' marked on all editions of the OS 6-inch maps is visible. It was situated on good, flat land sloping slightly N to Lough Swilly. 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

• DG047-008 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  There is no sign of the single-ringed 'Fort' marked on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map. It was situated on a low hillock in well cultivated land. 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

• Castlecooly Church of Ireland Church, church/chapel, 1730–1770 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding church, built c. 1750, with bellcote to west elevation, now in ruins. Roughcast rendered rubble stone walls, heavily overgrown. Round-arch headed window openings with red brick embrasures. Square-headed door opening to south-west elevation, with door surrounds removed. Several gravemarkers on the interior and to all sides. Set on the northern half of a small site enclosed by a substantial rubble stone wall with render and coping in parts, cast-iron gate forming the entrance to the south-west.

• Castlecooly, house, 1860–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay two-storey house, built c. 1880, with two-storey canted entrance bay to centre of front façade and two-storey bowed bay to south. Hipped slate roof with paired yellow brick chimneystacks with coping to centre of roof, and replacement rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls with deep smooth rendered eaves course, articulated block-and-start quoins and plinth course. Square-headed window openings to canted bay, bow window and ground floor, with two-over-two horned timber sashes with moulded stone sills with stone and replacement timber cyma recta cornice over console brackets. Segmental arch-headed window openings to first floor with two-over-two horned timber sashes and moulded stone sill course. Round-headed door opening with replacement timber panel door and glazed overlight. Outbuildings, built c. 1850, to rear with hipped slate roofs, rubble stone walls with red brick block-and-start quoins; square-headed window openings with red brick block-and-start surrounds; square and round-headed door openings with red brick block-and-start surrounds and voussoirs and battened timber doors. Set within own grounds.

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

At the centre of the townland of Castlecooly, 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

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

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.

No address of the register names Castlecooly with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Castlecooly · Caiseal Cúile

Area

1,483,415 m² (148.34 ha, 366.56 acres)

Civil parish

Burt, and its townlands

Barony

Inishowen West

Electoral division

Burt, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,333 people lived in 494 households in the Burt electoral division. 78% of households owned their home. 40% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bohullion Upper, Inch Level, Moness, Mulleny, Toulett

Placenames

Castlecooly 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.