Castlethird

36 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Castlethird, from 383 m² to 169,997 m² (17 ha, 42.01 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 18 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 Castlethird 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.

• 30 May 2025Conditional

  EXTENSION TO DWELLING HOUSE, SHED / OFFICE AND LOCATION OF ENTRANCE FROM THAT PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 06/70107

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2560899

• 16 Dec 2024Conditional

  (1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING MICA DEFECTIVE DWELLING HOUSE, (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW REPLACEMENT DWELLING HOUSE WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES AND (3) TEMPORARY PLACEMENT OF MOBILE HOME ON SITE TO BE REMOVED UPON COMPLETION OF THE DWELLING AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2462076

• 9 Apr 2021Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL SHED/WORKSHOP AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2150623

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 Castlethird.

Recorded monuments

• DG055-018 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  Internal diam. 19m. A subcircular area enclosed by a collapsed stone wall, rebuilt along the S and W sides, and heavily over-grown. The collapse scatter extends as much as 5.5m on the SW side. Lanes run along the E and N sides of the monument. It is situated in good land on the SE slope of Dooish mountain. 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 Castlethird.

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 Castlethird, 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 low.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Castlethird

Area

887,288 m² (88.73 ha, 219.25 acres)

Civil parish

Taughboyne, and its townlands

Barony

Raphoe North

Electoral division

Killea, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,802 people lived in 681 households in the Killea electoral division. 80% of households owned their home. 49% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Clashygowan, Cross, Dernacally, Derrymore, Haw, Kilgort

Placenames

Castlethird 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.