Crownasillagh
Townland in the civil parish of Kilcar, barony of Banagh, Co. Donegal; in Irish Cró na Saileach
- Area
- 353.9 ha
- 874 acres
- Land parcels
- 18
- registered freehold, median 4,624 m² (0.46 ha, 1.14 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Crownasillagh, from 1,290 m² to 1,052,571 m² (105.26 ha, 260.1 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 47 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 Crownasillagh 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
1 Dec 2025Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH PROPRIETARY SEWERAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2562109
3 Oct 2023Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW SLATTED AGRICULTURAL SHED WITH UNDERGROUND TANK AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2351482
23 Nov 2022Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE INCLUDING THE INSTALLATION OF A WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Outline permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2251888
24 Apr 2018Conditional
DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND CONSTRUCTION OF A REPLACEMENT HOUSE, PROPRIETARY WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM & PERCOLATION AREA AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1850630
6 Sept 2017N/a
ERECTION OF AN EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1751369
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 Crownasillagh.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Crownasillagh.
Architectural heritage
- Droichead Cró na Saileach, bridge, 1850–1880 · Regional interest
Description
Double-arched bridge carrying road over the Glenaddragh River, built c. 1860, having coursed rock-faced cutwater on semi-circular plan to the central pier. Segmental-headed arches having rock-faced voussoirs to arch having dressed margins; coursed squared masonry construction to arch barrels. Snecked and/or squared and coursed masonry construction to spandrels, abutments and to pier; rubble stone or rock-faced coping to parapets. Squared coursed rubble stone wing walls to either side. Tarmacadam Deck with grass verge. Located in the scenic rural landscape to the east of Cill Charta/Kilcar and the west of Killybegs.
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 20 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; parts are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Crownasillagh.
- 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 Crownasillagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Crownasillagh · Cró na Saileach
- Area
- 3,538,518 m² (353.85 ha, 874.39 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilcar, and its townlands
- Barony
- Banagh
- Electoral division
- Largymore, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Largymore electoral division: 523 people in 216 households; 84% of households own their home; 29% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 23% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballymoon, Bavan, Crowanrudda, Fintragh, Largysillagh, Meenboy, Meenychanon, Strabrinna Upper
- Gaeltacht
- In an Irish-speaking area
- Placenames
- Crownasillagh 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.