Castruse

28 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Castruse, from 217 m² to 341,130 m² (34.11 ha, 84.3 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 23 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Castruse 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.

• 4 Apr 2026Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING WITH CONNECTION TO PROPOSED SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ANCILLARY WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2660569

• 25 Mar 2024Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DOMESTIC STORAGE SHED AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2460382

• 30 Mar 2022Conditional

  ERECTION OF 1 NO. 2 STOREY DWELLING HOUSE, PERCOLATION AREA, SEPTIC TANK WITH POLISHING FILTER AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2250549

• 22 Nov 2021Refused

  ERECTION OF 1 NO. 2 STOREY DWELLING HOUSE, PERCOLATION AREA, SEPTIC TANK WITH POLISHING FILTER & ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2152327

• 9 Nov 2021N/a

  ERECTION OF 1 NO. 2 STOREY DWELLING HOUSE, PERCOLATION AREA, SEPTIC TANK WITH POLISHING FILTER AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2152206

• 25 Jun 2020Unconditional

  REMOVAL OF EXISTING RUIN AND CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC OUTBUILDING TOGETHER WITH AN ON-SITE SEWERAGE SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Extension of duration, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2050830

• 28 Feb 2020Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL SLATTED SHED AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2050281

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 Castruse.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Castruse.

Architectural heritage

• Castruse House, house, 1780–1800 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay two-storey house, built c. 1790, with single-storey return. Pitched slate roof, catslide to return, yellow brick corniced chimneystacks with clay pots to gables and centre left, cast-iron rainwater goods. Painted smooth rendered walls. Square-headed window openings over painted cut stone sills, timber framed tripartite windows with central six-over-six hornless sash windows and fixed frame sidelights to front retaining original glass and frames, also six-over-six hornless sash windows and a fixed frame quartered window with nine lights to a quarter and a one top hung outward opening quarter. Segmental-arch headed door opening, with cornice lintel and fanlight over fluted consoles, panelled pilasters and sandstone step, painted panelled door, working bell pull. Iron ceiling roses to interior; hatch in kitchen ceiling to former maid’s quarters above; stone flagged kitchen floor; original wooden staircase and floorboards. Set within own grounds with garden to front entered through wrought-iron double gate with painted rendered capped piers with projecting plinths and painted rendered wall. Multiple-bay two-storey outbuilding to north with pitched slate roof, cast-iron rainwater goods, rubble stone walls with remnant limewash, external stone steps with iron railings to first floor. Square-headed window openings with flat red brick arches with cast-iron framed casement windows. Square-headed door openings with flat red brick arches, and round-headed carriageway opening with red brick arch over, timber matchboard doors.

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

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 Castruse.

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.

No address of the register names Castruse with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Castruse

Area

1,751,332 m² (175.13 ha, 432.76 acres)

Civil parish

Allsaints, and its townlands

Barony

Raphoe North

Electoral division

Killea, the unit of the census

Census 2022

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

Neighbouring townlands

Altaghaderry, Ballyboe, Bogay Glebe, Bunnamayne, Drumbarnet, Garshooey, Gortinlieve, Leitrim

Placenames

Castruse 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.