# Castlecooly, Co. Donegal: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Burt, barony of Inishowen West, Co. Donegal; in Irish Caiseal Cúile.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,483,415 m² (148.34 ha, 366.56 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 52 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,562 m² (0.26 ha, 0.63 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 6 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Burt, https://everytownland.com/donegal/parish/burt.md
- Barony: Inishowen West
- Electoral division: Burt, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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.
- County: Co. Donegal, https://everytownland.com/donegal.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/15093
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 50575
- Centre: latitude 55.024542, longitude -7.468088 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

52 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Castlecooly, from 20 m² to 319,866 m² (31.99 ha, 79.04 acres); 31 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 4779909: 319,866 m² (31.99 ha, 79.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4779909.md
- Parcel 5358537: 230,734 m² (23.07 ha, 57.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5358537.md
- Parcel 1318743: 203,779 m² (20.38 ha, 50.35 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1318743.md
- Parcel 1325566: 202,855 m² (20.29 ha, 50.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1325566.md
- Parcel 5543322: 172,116 m² (17.21 ha, 42.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5543322.md
- Parcel 1339773: 129,982 m² (13 ha, 32.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1339773.md
- Parcel 1398996: 56,788 m² (5.68 ha, 14.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1398996.md
- Parcel 1317318: 28,357 m² (2.84 ha, 7.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1317318.md
- Parcel 1375113: 22,662 m² (2.27 ha, 5.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1375113.md
- Parcel 1406749: 18,439 m² (1.84 ha, 4.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1406749.md
- Parcel 1331483: 12,620 m² (1.26 ha, 3.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1331483.md
- Parcel 1315323: 6,653 m² (0.67 ha, 1.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1315323.md
- Parcel 5004447: 5,459 m² (0.55 ha, 1.35 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5004447.md
- Parcel 4625794: 4,511 m² (0.45 ha, 1.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4625794.md
- Parcel 4626733: 4,328 m² (0.43 ha, 1.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4626733.md
- Parcel 1347407: 3,706 m² (0.37 ha, 0.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1347407.md
- Parcel 4626967: 3,533 m² (0.35 ha, 0.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4626967.md
- Parcel 1400153: 2,892 m² (0.29 ha, 0.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1400153.md
- Parcel 1421960: 2,811 m² (0.28 ha, 0.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1421960.md
- Parcel 4626813: 2,810 m² (0.28 ha, 0.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4626813.md
- Parcel 4626945: 2,783 m² (0.28 ha, 0.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4626945.md
- Parcel 4626936: 2,721 m² (0.27 ha, 0.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4626936.md
- Parcel 3664834: 2,712 m² (0.27 ha, 0.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3664834.md
- Parcel 1391468: 2,630 m² (0.26 ha, 0.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1391468.md
- Parcel 1309995: 2,628 m² (0.26 ha, 0.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1309995.md
- Parcel 1341814: 2,611 m² (0.26 ha, 0.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1341814.md
- Parcel 1321065: 2,513 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1321065.md
- Parcel 4691904: 2,442 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4691904.md
- Parcel 5399829: 2,431 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5399829.md
- Parcel 1314259: 2,334 m² (0.23 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1314259.md
- Parcel 1331918: 2,241 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1331918.md
- Parcel 4737518: 2,177 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4737518.md
- Parcel 4626829: 2,030 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4626829.md
- Parcel 1378768: 1,893 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1378768.md
- Parcel 1320392: 1,711 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1320392.md
- Parcel 1402787: 1,572 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1402787.md
- Parcel 1372133: 1,320 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1372133.md
- Parcel 1393965: 1,281 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1393965.md
- Parcel 1393245: 1,153 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1393245.md
- Parcel 1337660: 1,070 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1337660.md
- Parcel 1351891: 901 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1351891.md
- Parcel 1361775: 882 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1361775.md
- Parcel 1357556: 858 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1357556.md
- Parcel 1348308: 664 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1348308.md
- Parcel 1317730: 410 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1317730.md
- Parcel 1324134: 409 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1324134.md
- Parcel 1407877: 320 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1407877.md
- Parcel 1417217: 153 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1417217.md
- Parcel 4625792: 145 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4625792.md
- Parcel 5638745: 61 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5638745.md
- Parcel 5638746: 55 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5638746.md
- Parcel 4737516: 20 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4737516.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

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.

## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)

6 applications, newest first.

- 13 Oct 2025, Donegal County Council 2561779: Conditional. Permission. CONSTRUCTION OF A REAR EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING, TOGETHER WITH RENOVATION WORKS, MINOR ELEVATIONAL ALTERATIONS, AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2561779/0
- 20 May 2024, Donegal County Council 2460732: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. RELOCATION OF AN EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA AND CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING WITH CONNECTION TO PROPOSED TREATMENT PLANT AND POLISHING FILTERS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460732/0
- 6 Aug 2019, Donegal County Council 1951196: N/a. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1951196/0
- 13 Dec 2017, Donegal County Council 1751875: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH DETACHED GARAGE ON SITE, WITH WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT AND CONNECTION TO ALL PUBLIC SERVICES. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1751875/0
- 2 Jun 2017, Donegal County Council 1750849: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND MAKE CONNECTION TO ALL PUBLIC SERVICES. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1750849/0
- 9 May 2017, Donegal County Council 1750686: N/a. Permission, 1 home. CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND MAKE CONNECTION TO ALL PUBLIC SERVICES. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1750686/0

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## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

- Special Protection Area: Lough Swilly SPA, site code 004075, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/spa/004075
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Swilly Including Big Isle, Blanket Nook & Inch Lake, site code 000166

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- DG047-003: Ringfort - unclassified, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDG047-003----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDG047-008----. 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

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)

- Castlecooly Church of Ireland Church, church/chapel, 1730–1770, Regional interest, registry number 40904715, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=DG&regno=40904715. 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, registry number 40904718, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=DG&regno=40904718. 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.

## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland)

- 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: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887
- 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 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/castlecooly.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/donegal/castlecooly.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/donegal/castlecooly.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Castlecooly 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)

- Bohullion Upper: https://everytownland.com/donegal/bohullion-upper.md
- Inch Level: https://everytownland.com/donegal/inch-level-51488.md
- Moness: https://everytownland.com/donegal/moness-52063.md
- Mulleny: https://everytownland.com/donegal/mulleny.md
- Toulett: https://everytownland.com/donegal/toulett.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.

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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.

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