# Castletown, Co. Donegal: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Taughboyne, barony of Raphoe North, Co. Donegal. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,554,684 m² (155.47 ha, 384.17 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 28 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,170 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: St. Johnstown, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 1,396 people lived in 537 households in the St. Johnstown electoral division. 69% of households owned their home. 40% 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/16510 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 50584 - Centre: latitude 54.923395, longitude -7.491381 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 28 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Castletown, from 138 m² to 373,700 m² (37.37 ha, 92.34 acres); 20 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1357738: 373,700 m² (37.37 ha, 92.34 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1357738.md - Parcel 1309892: 339,264 m² (33.93 ha, 83.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1309892.md - Parcel 1343330: 311,303 m² (31.13 ha, 76.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1343330.md - Parcel 1321561: 206,142 m² (20.61 ha, 50.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1321561.md - Parcel 1335027: 137,312 m² (13.73 ha, 33.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1335027.md - Parcel 1334092: 71,011 m² (7.1 ha, 17.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1334092.md - Parcel 1383453: 52,344 m² (5.23 ha, 12.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1383453.md - Parcel 1326806: 22,221 m² (2.22 ha, 5.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1326806.md - Parcel 1376617: 8,537 m² (0.85 ha, 2.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1376617.md - Parcel 5879502: 2,924 m² (0.29 ha, 0.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5879502.md - Parcel 1301503: 2,852 m² (0.29 ha, 0.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1301503.md - Parcel 4723458: 2,657 m² (0.27 ha, 0.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4723458.md - Parcel 1421818: 2,342 m² (0.23 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1421818.md - Parcel 4723423: 2,182 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4723423.md - Parcel 4721644: 2,158 m² (0.22 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4721644.md - Parcel 1327625: 2,118 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1327625.md - Parcel 1428222: 2,086 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1428222.md - Parcel 2739155: 2,086 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2739155.md - Parcel 1365150: 2,024 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1365150.md - Parcel 1392075: 1,898 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1392075.md - Parcel 4723382: 1,894 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4723382.md - Parcel 1327925: 1,821 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1327925.md - Parcel 1380597: 1,199 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1380597.md - Parcel 4721657: 1,047 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4721657.md - Parcel 4739749: 874 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4739749.md - Parcel 1406696: 712 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1406696.md - Parcel 1412841: 635 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1412841.md - Parcel 4723389: 138 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4723389.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Castletown 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. - 15 May 2025, Donegal County Council 2560781: Conditional. Retention, 1 home. (1) DOMESTIC SHED AND PERMISSION FOR (2) (A) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING DUE TO DEFECTIVE BLOCKS; PLANNING REF: 07/40143, (B) ERECTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING WITH CHANGE OF HOUSE TYPE, (C) CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560781/0 - 29 Jun 2023, Donegal County Council 2350935: Conditional. Retention. (A) GAS TANK AND ASSOCIATED FENCING AND (B) RELOCATION OF TREATMENT SYSTEM AND POLISHING FILTER AND PERMISSION FOR EXTENSION TO THE PLAYGROUND TO COMPRISE OF A BALL COURT AND ERECTION OF PERIMETER FENCING TO SCHOOL BOUNDARY AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2350935/0 - 7 Aug 2020, Donegal County Council 2051084: Conditional. Permission. CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO EXISTING SCHOOL PREMISES. THE EXTENSION WILL COMPRISE OF AN ADDITIONAL CLASSROOM, SET ROOM AND NEW ENTRANCE WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2051084/0 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 Castletown. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Castletown. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Castletown Old, farm house, 1740–1780, Regional interest, registry number 40906305, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=DG®no=40906305. Detached four-bay single-storey vernacular house with attic level, built c. 1760, having single-bay single-storey flat-roofed entrance porch to the north elevation, and with single-bay single-storey extension to the west gable end. Formerly a four-bay structure (bay to east end demolished in recent years). Now disused. Pitched flax thatched roof with raised rendered coping to gable ends (east and west) and with three cement rendered red brick chimneystacks (one to either gable end and one to centre). Mono-pitched artificial slate roof to addition to west gable end and mono-pitched corrugated-sheeted roof to porch to north. Roughcast rendered rubble stone walls; smooth rendered plinth course; cement rendered walls to the west gable end. Square-headed window openings having smooth rendered reveals, some stone sills, and with two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows to front elevation (north) and six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows to rear (south). Square-headed window openings to porch having timber casement window. Square-headed doorway to the west side of porch having battened timber door. Interior has tongue and groove boarded ceilings and cast-iron Art Nouveau fireplace, c. 1900. Set back from road in mature grounds in an elevated site in the rural countryside to the south-west of Saint Johnstown. Mature trees to site. Flagstones to front of house and gravel forecourt to the north. Garden to north-east of house bounded to the east by rubble stone boundary wall. Pedestrian gateway to the north-east of site comprising a pair of rendered gate piers (on square-plan) having wrought-iron flat bar gate. Site is approached along a short lane to the west lined with mature trees .Multiple-bay terrace of single-storey outbuildings to the north-west, c. 1820, having pitched natural slate and corrugated-metal roofs with cast-iron rainwater goods, roof vents to central block, roughcast rendered rubble stone walls, round window openings to block to the south with cast-iron swiveling windows, square-headed doorways with battened timber fittings, and with square-headed carriage-arch having sliding metal door. ## 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 Castletown, 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 Castletown. - 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/castletown.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/donegal/castletown.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/donegal/castletown.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) - Castletown, Dunkineely: 5 sales, https://everytownland.com/donegal/castletown-dunkineely.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Altaskin: https://everytownland.com/donegal/altaskin.md - Drumenan: https://everytownland.com/donegal/drumenan-51043.md - Kinnacally: https://everytownland.com/donegal/kinnacally.md - Legnatraw: https://everytownland.com/donegal/legnatraw.md - Moness: https://everytownland.com/donegal/moness-52064.md - Rockfield: https://everytownland.com/donegal/rockfield.md - Saintjohnstown: https://everytownland.com/donegal/saintjohnstown.md - Treansallagh: https://everytownland.com/donegal/treansallagh.md - Treantagh: https://everytownland.com/donegal/treantagh.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/castletown - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/donegal/castletown