Colehill

152 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Colehill, from 56 m² to 180,648 m² (18.06 ha, 44.64 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 28 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 Colehill 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.

• 12 Aug 2026Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A FIRST FLOOR EXTENSION INCLUDING DORMERS TO THE REAR, WITH INTERNAL ALTERATIONS INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2661505

• 10 Aug 2026N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF FIRST FLOOR EXTENSION INCLUDING DORMERS TO THE REAR, WITH INTERNAL ALTERATIONS INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2661487

• 14 Jul 2026Conditional

  MODIFICATIONS TO THE DESIGN OF A LIGHT INDUSTRIAL BUILDING PREVIOUSLY APPROVED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 24/60032 COMPRISING OF AN INCREASE IN FLOOR AREA FROM 536SQM TO 634SQM, ELEVATIONAL CHANGES AND A CHANGE TO THE ROOF PROFILE

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2661305

• 14 Jan 2026N/a

  MODIFICATION OF THE DESIGN OF A LIGHT INDUSTRIAL BUILDING PREVIOUSLY APPROVED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 24/60032 WITH MODIFICATIONS TO COMPRISE OF AN INCREASE IN FLOOR AREA FROM 536SQM TO 634SQM, ELEVATIONAL CHANGES AND A CHANGE TO THE ROOF PROFILE

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2660031

• 3 Dec 2025Conditional

  ROCHTAIN REATHA AR CHÚL TEACH CÓNAITHE AGUS CEAD PLEANÁLA LE HAGHAIDH (1) SUBH-URLÁR COINCRÉITE REATHA AGUS BALLAÍ COINCRÉITE GAOLMHARA A CHOINNEÁIL AGUS AN STÁIL A CHRÍOCHNÚ AGUS (2) SÍNEADH TOSAIGH AGUS CÚIL MOLTA DON TEACH CÓNAITHE AGUS NA HOIBREACHA GAOLMHARA GO LÉIR

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2562127

• 15 Nov 2025Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A SMALL SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO SIDE OF DWELLING WITH CONNECTION TO ALL EXISTING SERVICES

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2561993

• 10 Nov 2025Conditional

  (1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING SHED, (2) CHANGE OF USE OF FORMER COMMERCIAL WHOLESALE POTATO STORE TO SHED FOR STORAGE OF ELECTRICAL SWITCHGEAR WITH ASSOCIATED HANDLING EQUIPMENT, (3) EXTERNAL LORRY AND TRAILER STORAGE IN EXISTING YARD WITH ACCESS ROAD FROM MAIN STREET TO EXISTING YARD PERMITTED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 21/52353 AND (4) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2561952

• 21 Oct 2025Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Outline permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2561828

• 17 Sept 2025N/a

  (A) CHANGE OF USE OF FORMER COMMERCIAL WHOLESALE POTATO STORE TO SHED FOR STORAGE OF ELECTRICAL SWITCHGEAR WITH ASSOCIATED HANDLING EQUIPMENT, (B) EXTERNAL LORRY AND TRAILER STORAGE TO EXISTING YARD WITH ACCESS ROAD FROM MAIN STREET TO EXISTING YARD PERMITTED UNDER PLANNING REFERENCE 21/52353 AND (C) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2561597

• 9 May 2024Conditional

  DEMOLITION OF EXISTING MICA DEFECTIVE DWELLING HOUSE AND CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW REPLACEMENT DWELLING HOUSE WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2460685

• 13 Feb 2024Refused

  GARÁISTE SCOITE TÍ A THÓGÁIL AGUS NA HOIBREACHA SUÍMH AR FAD A BHAINEANN LEIS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2460138

• 23 Jan 2024Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A LIGHT INDUSTRIAL BUILDING WITH VEHICULAR/PEDESTRIAN ENTRANCE, CARPARKING, SIGNAGE AND ASSOCIATED WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2460032

• 21 Jul 2023Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A WAREHOUSE STORAGE UNIT ASSOCIATED WITH THE EXISTING BUSINESS AND ALL SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2351069

• 19 Apr 2023Conditional

  DÍON A CHUR THAR AN PAITIÓ ATÁ ANN FAOI LÁTHAIR AR AN TAOBH THIAR DEN TEACH ATÁ ANN ROIMHE SEO AGUS GACH OBAIR FORBARTHA A BHAINEANN LEIS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2350524

• 13 Jun 2022Refused

  ERECTION OF A MEETING HALL WITH SEPTIC TANK AND PURAFLO SECONDARY WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND SOIL POLISHING FILTER ALONG WITH ASSOCIATED CAR PARKING AND ALL INFRASTRUCTURE AND SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2251022

• 24 Nov 2021Conditional

  (1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DERELICT DWELLING AND DETACHED GARAGE (2) ERECTION OF 2NO. DETACHED TWO STOREY DWELLINGS WITH CONNECTION TO MAINS FOUL SEWER AND ALL EXISTING PUBLIC SERVICES (3) ACCESS ROAD FROM MAIN STREET TO EXISTING FARM YARD AND BUILDINGS TO REAR OF PROPOSED SITE INCLUDING ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 2 homes · Donegal County Council, 2152353

• 25 Aug 2021Conditional

  LE SINEADH AR AN TAOBH THIAR DE MO TEACH ATA AGAM CHEANNA COMH MAITH LE GACH SAOTHAR FORBATHA LAITHREAIN GAOLMHAR EILE

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2151691

• 24 May 2020Conditional

  ERECTION OF AN EXTENSION TO THE SIDE OF DWELLING CONSISTING OF A DOWNSTAIRS BEDROOM ALONG WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2050502

• 27 Nov 2018Conditional

  GHARÁISTE BAILE SCOITE

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 1851801

• 19 Jul 2018Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS WITH CONNECTION TO PUBLIC SERVICES

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1851103

• 20 Apr 2018Conditional

  ERECTION OF TWO SEPARATE ADVERTISING SIGNS AND AN EXTERNAL RAMP FOR UNLOADING OF DELIVERY LORRIES ON PROPERTY

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1850613

• 25 May 2017Conditional

  FIRST FLOOR OFFICE ACCOMMODATION, CHIMNEY TO FRONT FACADE AND FIRE DOOR IN LIEU OF WINDOW TO SOUTHEASTERN ELEVATION PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF 637/78.

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 1750804

• 26 Apr 2017N/a

  FIRST FLOOR OFFICE ACCOMMODATION , CHIMNEY TO FRONT FACADE AND FIRE DOOR IN LIEU OF WINDOW TO SOUTHEASTERN ELEVATION

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 1750624

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Protection Area: Lough Swilly SPA 004075
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Swilly Including Big Isle, Blanket Nook & Inch Lake 000166

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Colehill.

Architectural heritage

• Rectory/glebe/vicarage/curate's house, 1820–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey former Church of Ireland rectory, built c. 1825. Now in use as a private house (since c. 1926) having two-bay two-storey gable-fronted extension attached to the north-west end of the main elevation (north-east), and two-storey flat-roofed extension to rear (south-west). Hipped natural slate roof to main body of building having projecting eaves course, red clayware ridge tiles, smooth rendered chimneystack with circular clay pots over. Replacement rainwater goods. Pitched natural slate roof to extension to the north-west having yellow brick chimney with red clay pot over to the north-east gable end. roughcast rendered walls over smooth rendered plinth course. Square-headed window openings with smooth rendered reveals, painted sills with replacement windows. Central square-headed door opening to main block having smooth rendered reveal, replacement door, and modern stone-clad steps. Set back from road in own grounds to the north\north-east of Newtowncunningham and to the north of associated Church of Ireland church (see 40824003). Long gravelled approach avenue to site from the south\south-east. Detached single and two-storey outbuilding to the north-west having pitched natural slate (south-west section) and corrugated-metal roofs (north-east section), random rubble stone walls, surviving sections of cast-iron rainwater goods including decorative hoppers, square-headed window opening with fixed-pan window, and sqaure0headed doorways with metal and battened timber doors.

• All Saints Church of Ireland Church, church/chapel, 1720–1810 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding Church of Ireland church, built 1722 altered internally in 1846, and extended in 1808 and in 1896 or 1910, having four-bay nave with four-stage tower (on square-plan) to the west (added 1808) having corner pilasters rising to cut stone finials over, single-bay single-storey vestry (possibly added in 1846) to the north-east corner of nave, and with polygonal chancel attached to the east (added c. 1896 or 1910). Pitched natural slate roof to nave with projecting ashlar eaves course, replacement rainwater goods; hipped natural slate roof to chancel with leadwork to ridges. Roughcast rendered walls to nave with three stepped clasping buttresses to south elevation and one to the north elevation (diagonally-set to ends of nave) topped by feathered dressed stone copings. Coursed rubble stone construction to tower with projecting stone stringcourses delineating stages, three inscribed plaques at first stage\ground floor level, clockface (on circular-plan) to the west elevation of tower at third stage level, blind oculus\roundel motifs having cut stone surrounds to the tower at second stage level. Rubble stone construction to apsidal chancel having flush sandstone block-and-start quoins to the corners; continuous sill course to chancel. Pointed-arched window openings to side elevations of nave having smooth rendered reveals, stone sills, cast-iron quarry-glazed windows, and with timber Y-tracery. Pointed-arched window openings to nave having chamfered ashlar sandstone block-and-start surrounds and sills, leaded stained\coloured glass windows, and with cut stone hoodmouldings over; curvilinear\flowing cut stone tracery to window opening to centre of chancel. Pointed-arch openings to tower at fourth-stage\belfry level having timber Y-tracery and timber louvers. Pointed-arched doorway to the north face of tower having chamfered staged cut stone surround, battened timber door, and with leaded overlight with painted and coloured glass panels. Pointed-arched door opening to vestry having battened timber door. Marble wall memorials to interior, including one dated 1770; timber hammer beams supported on stone corbels and plain plaster ceiling to roof, timber pews and wainscoting, pointed chancel arch having ashlar surround with engaged columns to base, carved stone baptismal font, marble pulpit (on octagonal-plan) having carved marble panels in relief to faces, encaustic tiled floor. Set back from road in own grounds to the east end of Newtowncunningham. Graveyard to site with mainly upstanding gravemarkers of nineteenth century date. Fence and hedging to site boundaries. Gateway to the west of site having timber lychgate, erected 1920, having pitched natural slate roof over.

• All Saints Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1995–2005 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding double-height Catholic church, consecrated 1999, on a ship-based plan with courtyard area to the east created by section of freestanding stone-clad walling with central integral round-headed pedestrian archway with circular perforation over with bell metal bell, and surmounted by metal cross finial. Roof of varied steep pitches in Spanish slate, central rooflight stretching to apex at differing pitches on roof, clayware ridge tiles, lead guttering hidden behind smooth rendered band to eaves. Uncoursed squared Donegal sandstone (Mountcharles) walls with breakfront door surround to south. Oculus window openings to north and south elevations having squared stone-clad voussoirs and surrounds, leaded lights with scenes depicted in coloured glass; angled glass block elevation to west (prow) with sandstone sills. Segmental-headed door opening to the east elevation having recessed vertically sheeted double-doors with glazed sidelights, and with overlight having etched glazing over; shallow single-bay breakfronts to the south and north elevations having square-headed door openings with timber double-doors. Steeply-pitched ceiling to interior with tall tapering rooflight, rows of curved pews, carpeted floors and raised area to west end. Set back from road in own grounds to the centre of Newtowncunningham. Graveyard to site with collection of mainly twentieth-century gravemarkers and some nineteenth-century memorials. Site bounded to the south by roughcast rendered rubble stone boundary wall, hedging and fencing to other boundaries. Site of earlier church to the south-west, built 1861 and demolished c. 2000.

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 Colehill, 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1922 (ZIP).

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.

• Colehill, Newtowncunningham17 sales

Name

Colehill · Cnoc na Cúile

Area

809,469 m² (80.95 ha, 200.02 acres)

Civil parish

Allsaints, and its townlands

Barony

Raphoe North

Electoral division

Castleforward, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,345 people lived in 444 households in the Castleforward electoral division. 77% of households owned their home. 47% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyhasky, Blanket Nook, Castleforward Demesne, Newtowncunningham

Placenames

Colehill 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.