Culoort

159 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Culoort, from 38 m² to 322,097 m² (32.21 ha, 79.59 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 45 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 Culoort 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 Aug 2026Conditional

  DWELLING HOUSE BUILT DIFFERENT TO THAT APPROVED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 02/5084, CONNECTION TO EXISTING APPROVED SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS

  Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2661456

• 17 Feb 2026Conditional

  (1) RETENTION OF (A) DEMOLITION AND REBUILD OF COTTAGE, (B) EXTENSION AND MINOR ELEVATIONAL CHANGES TO EXTENSION PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 98/2874, (C) FIRST FLOOR EXTENSION, (D) PARTIAL DEMOLITION AND EXTENSION TO SHED, (E) TEMPORARY ACCOMMODATION IN SHED, (F) ENTRANCE, (G) SHED AND (2) DECOMMISSIONING OF EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND REPLACEMENT WITH A WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM, CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2660214

• 2 Nov 2025Conditional

  FIRST FLOOR AND PERMISSION FOR DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING DUE TO DEFECTIVE BUILDING MATERIALS AND ERECTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2561900

• 25 Mar 2024N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND GARAGE TOGETHER WITH AN ON-SITE SEWAGE SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2460394

• 21 Sept 2023Refused

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW SINGLE STOREY DETACHED DWELLING, PROPOSED NEW WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT AND PERCOLATION AREA, TOGETHER WITH ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS AND CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES. A NATURA IMPACT ASSESSMEMT (NIS) ACCOMPANIES THIS APPLICATION

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2351408

• 9 Feb 2023Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE-STOREY DWELLING HOUSE, AND SEPARATE GARAGE, ART STUDIO AND MUSIC STUDIO BUILDING, ALL FOR DOMESTIC AND PERSONAL USE ONLY

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2350151

• 22 Jul 2019Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A VEHICLE ACCESS BRIDGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) FORMS PART OF THIS APPLICATION.

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1951126

• 16 Jan 2019Unconditional

  CHANGE OF HOUSE TYPE DESIGN INCORPORATING EXISTING WALLSTEADS OF AN OLD COTTAGE RUINS. THE PROPOSED DESIGN DIFFERS FROM THAT APPROVED UNDER PLANNING PERMISSION REFERENCE 09/70462 (DURATION OF PERMISSION EXTENDED UNDER REF: 14/51121)

  Extension of duration, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1950033

• 20 Feb 2017N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A VEHICLE ACCESS BRIDGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1750252

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: North Inishowen Coast SAC 002012
• Special Protection Area: Trawbreaga Bay SPA 004034
• Special Protection Area: Malin Head SPA 004146
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: North Inishowen Coast 002012

Recorded monuments

• DG001-005 Burial ground
  Description

  The only indication of the 'Kilmurry' marked on the 1st and 2nd editions of the OS 6-inch maps is a modern field clearance cairn said locally to overlie 'graves'. This is situated on a slight ridge of cultivated land sloping down to the Culoort River close to the cliffs. (Bonner 1972, 55) The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated. Date of upload: 22 September 2008

• DG002-007 Cairn - unclassified
  Description

  A subcircular cairn, of small angular stones, c. 9.9m in diameter and.75m high. A rectangular pit has been dug into the cairn with the cleared stones heaped up to the NE giving the mound a peculiar profile. It may be simply the remains of a trigonometrical station. It is situated on the summit of Sheemore in rough boggy terrain. The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated. Date of upload: 22 September 2008

• DG002-008 Enclosure
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• DG003-001 Promontory fort - coastal
  Description

  A natural promontory with high ground to the land side dropping down to a level area before the narrow approaching neck and rising sharply to the promontory beyond. It is defended by an earthen bank with an internal ditch which may be modern, associated with the recent cultivation of the promontory. The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated. Date of upload: 22 September 2008

Architectural heritage

• House, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c. 1820, having windbreak porch to front and bed outshot to rear. Rounded pitched flax thatched roof with latticed restraining ropes, timber stays and stone pegs to eaves, and with chimneystacks to gable ends. Limewashed rendered rubble stone walls. Square-headed window openings with cut stone sills, and replacement timber windows. Square-headed door opening with timber panelled half-door. Set in own grounds adjacent to road and bound to rear by rubble stone wall.

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 Culoort, 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 high, 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 Culoort.

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.

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

Name

Culoort · Cúil Lúghoirt

Area

4,146,973 m² (414.7 ha, 1,024.74 acres)

Civil parish

Clonca, and its townlands

Barony

Inishowen East

Electoral division

Ardmalin, the unit of the census

Census 2022

673 people lived in 237 households in the Ardmalin electoral division. 82% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 43% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardmalin, Keenagh, Knockamany

Placenames

Culoort 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.