Coxtown

25 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Coxtown, from 205 m² to 96,576 m² (9.66 ha, 23.86 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 14 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 Coxtown 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.

• 17 Jul 2024Conditional

  (1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING STORAGE SHEDS, (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW TWO-STOREY BUILDING LOCATED BESIDE EXISTING CHANGING FACILITIES, WHICH SHALL INCORPORATE A GYM, TOILETS AND CHANGING ROOMS AT GROUND FLOOR LEVEL AND A MEETING ROOM AT FIRST FLOOR LEVEL AND (3) ALTERATIONS TO THE EXISTING CAR PARK AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS INCLUDING CONNECTIONS TO EXISTING EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND RELEVANT SERVICES

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2461086

• 26 Jul 2023Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A PEDESTRIAN WALKWAY WITH LOW-LEVEL LIGHTING TO THE PERIMETER OF EXISTING FOOTBALL FIELDS AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2351095

• 9 Jun 2023Conditional

  DEMOLITION OF EXISTING STOREY AND A HALF DWELLING HOUSE AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW REPLACEMENT STOREY AND HALF DWELLING HOUSE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2350823

• 21 Feb 2023Conditional

  SINGLE-STOREY DOMESTIC GARAGE TO THE REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2350195

• 29 Jul 2022Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO EXISTING SINGLE STOREY DWELLING HOUSE INCLUDING ALL ANCILLARY SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2251297

• 3 Nov 2020Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF DOMESTIC GARAGE AND STORE

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2051644

• 29 Aug 2019Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION LINKING TWO EXISTING DWELLINGS & ALL ANCILLARY SITEWORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1951331

• 26 Aug 2019Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A VEHICULAR ENTRANCE FROM THE PUBLIC ROAD L-6995-1 TO GAIN VEHICULAR ACCESS TO AN EXISTING FORESTRY FOR THE PURPOSE OF THINNING OF THE EXISTING TREES AND GENERAL MAINTENANCE OF THE FOREST

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1951300

• 21 Aug 2019N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A VEHICULAR ENTRANCE FROM THE PUBLIC ROAD L-6995-1 TO GAIN VEHICULAR ACCESS TO AN EXISITNG FORESTRY FOR THE PURPOSE OF THINNING OF THE EXISTING TREES AND GENERAL MAINTENANCE OF THE FOREST

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1951274

• 15 Aug 2019N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION LINKING TWO EXISTING DWELLINGS AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS NECESSARY

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1951249

• 27 Oct 2017N/a

  DEVELOPMENT CONSISTING OF THE CONSTRUCTION OF A TEMPORARY FOREST ENTRANCE FROM THE PUBLIC ROAD L-7015-1 TO GAIN VEHICULAR ACCESS TO AN EXISTING FORESTRY FOR THE PURPOSE OF FIRST THINNING OF THE EXISTING TREES

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1751628

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 Coxtown.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Coxtown.

Architectural heritage

• Coxtown House, country house, 1800–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay two-storey country house, built c. 1840 - 45, having central advanced pedimented breakfront to the centre of the main elevation (south-east). Earlier two-storey house and two-storey return to rear (north-west), built c. 1780. Hipped natural slate roof to main entrance block having projecting ashlar eaves course/cornice with paired ashlar brackets, and having a central smooth rendered chimneystacks to the rear pitch (north-west) aligned along with roof ridge. Ashlar coping/cornice over pedimented breakfront with paired ashlar brackets to base. Profiled cast-iron rainwater goods. Pitched natural slate roof to earlier house with hipped natural slate roof to return to the north-west having smooth rendered chimneystacks with terracotta pots over. Smooth rendered ruled-and-lined walls over rubble stone construction with raised (ashlar?) block quoins to the corners and with plain stringcourse at first floor level. Sandstone plinth to base. Walls now largely covered with vegetation. Square-headed window openings with tooled sandstone sills and replacement windows. Central window opening to breakfront at first floor level set in segmental-headed recess. Central square-headed doorway to the main elevation having timber panelled double-doors with brass door furniture, leaded overlight with circular geometric glazing motifs, square-headed sidelights with two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows with margin glazing bars, and with tripartite ashlar doorcase comprising Tuscan pilasters with laurel wreath motifs over in bas relief to frieze, and supporting moulded ashlar cornice over. Set well back from road in extensive mature landscaped grounds and parkland. Ponds to the south-east and west of the house. Main entrance gateway (see 40909932) and attendant gate lodge (see 40909931) to the east, converted former outbuilding (see 40909930) and walled garden (see 40909952) to the rear (north-west). Located to the north of Ballintra.

• Coxtown House, gate lodge, 1835–1845 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey gate lodge associated with Coxtown House, built c. 1840, having central projecting pedimented porch with open bed pediment. Now unoccupied. Single-storey extension to the rear (north-west). Hipped natural slate roof with wide overhanging eaves supported on paired ashlar brackets, and having central rendered chimneystack with terracotta pots over. Pitched natural slate roof to breakfront supported on paired ashlar brackets. Smooth rendered walls having chamfered ashlar plinth course and with rusticated ashlar block-and-start quoins to the corners of the main block and to breakfront. Square-headed window openings having chamfered reveals, cut stone sills, and with cut stone hoodmoulding over. Tudor-arched/pointed segmental-headed doorway to the front face of breakfront (south-west) having chamfered reveal, replacement timber door, ashlar plinth blocks, and with Tudor-arched hoodmoulding over. Cut stone steps and cut stone threshold/platform to front of doorway. Set slightly back from road adjacent to the main entrance (see 40909932) to Coxtown House. Located to the east of the main house and to the north of Ballintra.

• Coxtown House, gates/railings/walls, 1835–1845 · Regional interest
  Description

  Gateway serving Coxtown House (see 40909913), comprising a central pair of ashlar sandstone gate piers (on square-plan) having inset recessed panels, chamfered moulded plinths and with moulded pyramidal ashlar capstones; and with a pair of cast-iron gates having spear finials, intricate pierced cast-iron finials to base, and with cast-iron anthemion finials to central join. Gateway flanked to either side by curved sections of cast-iron railings set on ashlar plinth walls having spear finials over, and with cast-iron posts at intervals along length having acorn finials over. Located adjacent to road at the start of long curving approach avenue to Coxtown House. Attendant gate lodge (see 40909931) adjacent to the north-east.

• Coxtown House, walled garden, 1790–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Walled garden associated with Coxtown House (see 40909913) on sub rectangular plan, erected c. 1810, having high rubble stone boundary walls. Now partially in use as garden with recent fruit trees planted to site. Integral pointed-arched opening to the south-east side having roughly dressed stone surround and decorative wrought-iron gate. Two square-headed window openings to the north-east side. Located to the rear (north-west) of Coxtown House with complex of outbuildings adjacent to south-west.

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 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 Coxtown.

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 Coxtown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Coxtown

Area

504,900 m² (50.49 ha, 124.76 acres)

Civil parish

Drumhome, and its townlands

Barony

Tirhugh

Electoral division

Ballintra, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballintra electoral division: 772 people in 281 households; 80% of households own their home; 39% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 9% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Drummanus Glebe, Kilgole, Lisnapaste, Rafoarty, Rathtinny Glebe, Trumman West

Placenames

Coxtown 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.