Castledowey

53 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Castledowey, from 69 m² to 241,775 m² (24.18 ha, 59.74 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 27 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 Castledowey 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.

• 20 Nov 2025Conditional

  CORNER WINDOW TO FRONT OF EXISTING DWELLING

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2562024

• 21 Sept 2025Conditional

  ERECTION OF AN AGRICULTURE DRY SHED INCLUDING ALL ANCILLARY WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2561633

• 26 Aug 2025N/a

  CORNER WINDOW TO FRONT OF EXISTING DWELLING

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2561464

• 4 Jun 2025Conditional

  (1) ERECTION OF A 1 ½ STOREY BUILDING TO ACCOMMODATE A VISITOR’S CENTRE CONTAINING CAFE, GIFT SHOP, CLASSROOM AND STORAGE AS PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 12/60142, (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A HAY BARN WITH ADJOINING PADDOCKS AND FENCING AND (3) CONSTRUCTION OF STORAGE SHED AND PADDOCK WITH FENCING, CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AT EXISTING PREMISES KNOWN AS DONEGAL DONKEY SANCTUARY

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2560916

• 30 Aug 2022Conditional

  AGRICULTURAL SHED AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2251453

• 20 Jul 2022N/a

  AGRICULTURAL SHED AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2251242

• 13 Dec 2021Conditional

  (1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING MICA DEFECTIVE DWELLING (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES & ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2152483

• 13 Mar 2020Conditional

  ERECTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL SLATTED SHED WITH ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2050314

• 29 May 2018Conditional

  EXISTING SUBSTRUCTURE WORKS AND COMPLETION OF NEW DOMESTIC GARAGE TOGETHER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 1850856

• 27 Mar 2018N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DOMESTIC GARAGE TOGETHER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1850445

• 5 Sept 2017Unconditional

  ERECTION OF (A) SINGLE STOREY BUILDING CONTAINING TOILETS AND 5 NO. STABLES (B) SINGLE STOREY PORTAL-FRAME SHED CONTAINING MUSEUM, DEMONSTRATION AND EXHIBITION AREA AND STORAGE (C) STOREY AND A HALF TYPE BUILDING CONTAINING COFFEE SHOP AT GROUND FLOOR LEVEL AND OFFICES AT FIRST FLOOR LEVEL AND (D) NEW SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Extension of duration · Donegal County Council, 1751350

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

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Castledowey.

Recorded monuments

• DG062-013 Souterrain
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Castledowey.

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 Castledowey, 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 Castledowey.

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 Castledowey with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Castledowey

Area

2,152,755 m² (215.28 ha, 531.96 acres)

Civil parish

Raymoghy, and its townlands

Barony

Raphoe North

Electoral division

Treantaghmucklagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

860 people lived in 282 households in the Treantaghmucklagh electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 44% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardagh, Ballyholey Far, Doorabble, Drumatoland, Galdonagh Glebe, Lismoghry

Placenames

Castledowey 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.