Castletorrison
Townland in the civil parish of Convoy, barony of Raphoe South, Co. Donegal
- Area
- 130.9 ha
- 323 acres
- Land parcels
- 13
- registered freehold, median 55,114 m² (5.51 ha, 13.62 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Castletorrison, from 391 m² to 411,213 m² (41.12 ha, 101.61 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 19 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Castletorrison 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
26 Aug 2021Unconditional
(1) THE EXISTING SILAGE PIT WITH ASSOCIATED CONCRETE APRONS (2) AN EXISTING UNDERGROUND RECEPTION TANK (3) AN EXISTING CUBICLE AND FEEDING SHED (4) AN EXISTING FARM WETLAND WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PLANNING PERMISSION FOR DEVELOPMENT OF THE FOLLOWING (1) CONSTRUCTRUCTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL SLATTED UNIT BUILDING AND (2) REDEVELOPMENT OF THE EXISTING CUBICLE AND FEEDING AREA (MENTIONED IN THE RETENTION) INTO A MACHINERY STORAGE AREA AND (3) CARRYING OUT ADJUSTMENT WORK TO THE EXISTING FARM WETLAND WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM (MENTIONED IN THE RETENTION) AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Extension of duration · Donegal County Council, 2151695
13 Nov 2017Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING, DOMESTIC GARAGE, WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1751728
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Castletorrison.
Recorded monuments
- DG061-019 Ritual site - holy well
Description
An isolated modernised 'holy well' on level ground at the base of a rocky slope. 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 Castletorrison.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Castletorrison.
- Flooding
- The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Castletorrison with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Castletorrison
- Area
- 1,308,662 m² (130.87 ha, 323.38 acres)
- Civil parish
- Convoy, and its townlands
- Barony
- Raphoe South
- Electoral division
- Convoy, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Convoy electoral division: 2,559 people in 926 households; 72% of households own their home; 38% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cornagillagh, Dooballagh, Glenkeeran, Mullaghfin, Starritstown, Tommyscroft or Craigs, Treanboy
- Placenames
- Castletorrison 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.