# Castlethird, Co. Donegal: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Taughboyne, barony of Raphoe North, Co. Donegal. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 887,288 m² (88.73 ha, 219.25 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 36 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,194 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 3 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Taughboyne, https://everytownland.com/donegal/parish/taughboyne.md - Barony: Raphoe North - Electoral division: Killea, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Donegal, https://everytownland.com/donegal.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/15289 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 50582 - Centre: latitude 54.952535, longitude -7.478594 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 36 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Castlethird, from 383 m² to 169,997 m² (17 ha, 42.01 acres); 18 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1340734: 169,997 m² (17 ha, 42.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1340734.md - Parcel 1340736: 102,982 m² (10.3 ha, 25.45 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1340736.md - Parcel 1427786: 97,012 m² (9.7 ha, 23.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1427786.md - Parcel 1427789: 94,655 m² (9.47 ha, 23.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1427789.md - Parcel 1340828: 89,431 m² (8.94 ha, 22.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1340828.md - Parcel 1320659: 89,232 m² (8.92 ha, 22.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1320659.md - Parcel 4377952: 82,001 m² (8.2 ha, 20.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4377952.md - Parcel 1320743: 74,452 m² (7.45 ha, 18.4 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1320743.md - Parcel 1340735: 21,912 m² (2.19 ha, 5.41 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1340735.md - Parcel 1412926: 13,858 m² (1.39 ha, 3.42 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1412926.md - Parcel 5801363: 12,240 m² (1.22 ha, 3.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5801363.md - Parcel 4702347: 3,109 m² (0.31 ha, 0.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4702347.md - Parcel 1405639: 2,862 m² (0.29 ha, 0.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1405639.md - Parcel 1391318: 2,817 m² (0.28 ha, 0.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1391318.md - Parcel 1321513: 2,793 m² (0.28 ha, 0.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1321513.md - Parcel 1361825: 2,371 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1361825.md - Parcel 3658142: 2,319 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3658142.md - Parcel 1414976: 2,303 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1414976.md - Parcel 1309945: 2,084 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1309945.md - Parcel 1346834: 2,039 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1346834.md - Parcel 1357701: 1,966 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1357701.md - Parcel 1330459: 1,775 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1330459.md - Parcel 3658143: 1,692 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3658143.md - Parcel 6209694: 1,449 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6209694.md - Parcel 1382572: 1,448 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1382572.md - Parcel 1408935: 1,260 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1408935.md - Parcel 1421897: 1,071 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1421897.md - Parcel 4702343: 904 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4702343.md - Parcel 1410736: 901 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1410736.md - Parcel 1369246: 895 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1369246.md - Parcel 1374031: 847 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1374031.md - Parcel 2389638: 737 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2389638.md - Parcel 1395356: 734 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1395356.md - Parcel 3658139: 634 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3658139.md - Parcel 3658141: 437 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3658141.md - Parcel 3658140: 383 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3658140.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 3 applications, newest first. - 30 May 2025, Donegal County Council 2560899: Conditional. Retention. EXTENSION TO DWELLING HOUSE, SHED / OFFICE AND LOCATION OF ENTRANCE FROM THAT PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 06/70107. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560899/0 - 16 Dec 2024, Donegal County Council 2462076: Conditional. Permission. (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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2462076/0 - 9 Apr 2021, Donegal County Council 2150623: Conditional. Permission. CONSTRUCTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL SHED/WORKSHOP AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2150623/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Castlethird. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - DG055-018: Ringfort - cashel, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDG055-018----. 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 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) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Castlethird. ## 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 Castlethird, 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 low. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Castlethird. - 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/castlethird.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/donegal/castlethird.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/donegal/castlethird.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Castlethird 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) - Clashygowan: https://everytownland.com/donegal/clashygowan.md - Cross: https://everytownland.com/donegal/cross-50834.md - Dernacally: https://everytownland.com/donegal/dernacally.md - Derrymore: https://everytownland.com/donegal/derrymore.md - Haw: https://everytownland.com/donegal/haw-51478.md - Kilgort: https://everytownland.com/donegal/kilgort.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. --- 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. - Page: https://everytownland.com/donegal/castlethird - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/donegal/castlethird