Derrycassan
Townland in the civil parish of Mevagh, barony of Kilmacrenan, Co. Donegal; in Irish Doire Chasáin
- Area
- 257.6 ha
- 637 acres
- Land parcels
- 320
- registered freehold, median 1,979 m²
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 22
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
320 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Derrycassan, from 5 m² to 294,618 m² (29.46 ha, 72.8 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 51 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 Derrycassan 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
20 May 2026N/a
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2660922
22 Oct 2025Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSION AND INCREASE IN HEIGHT OF DERELICT COTTAGE, UPGRADE OF EXISTING SEWERAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2550145
14 May 2025Conditional
CHANGE OF HOUSE DESIGN TO THAT PREVIOUSLY GRANTED (PLANNING REF. NO. 23/51217 REFERS) AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS INCLUDING INSTALLATION OF APPROVED WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 24/61323
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2560768
30 Aug 2024Conditional
INSTALLATION OF WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT AND SOIL POLISHING FILTER TO SERVE DWELLING APPROVED UNDER GRANT OF PLANNING PERMISSION 23/51217 IN LIEU OF CONNECTION TO COMMUNAL SYSTEM
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2461323
21 Jun 2024Conditional
(1) REFURBISHMENT OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, TO INCLUDE AN INCREASE TO THE EXISTING OVERALL RIDGE HEIGHT, (2) CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO ABOVE MENTIONED EXISTING DWELLING, (3) CHANGE OF USE OF EXISTING AGRICULTURAL SHED TO LIVING ACCOMMODATION, FOR USE AS PART OF OVERALL ABOVE REFERENCED DWELLING, (4) REVISED FENESTRATION AND INCREASE TO OVERALL RIDGE HEIGHT OF ABOVE REFERENCED EXISTING AGRICULTURAL SHED, (5) PROVISION OF A NEW SEPTIC TANK SYSTEM TO SERVICE THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT, (6) UPGRADE AND WIDENING OF EXISTING SITE ENTRANCE, (7) ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2460942
11 Jun 2024Conditional
RENOVATION AND EXTENSION OF DORMANT DWELLING AND PROVISION OF NEW ON-SITE SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2460867
22 May 2024Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC SHED WITH INSTALLATION OF SEPTIC TANK INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2460742
16 Aug 2023Conditional
ERECTION OF DWELLING AND CONNECTION TO EXISTING EFFLUENT TREATMENT PLANT AND ANCILLARY SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2351217
14 Jul 2023N/a
ERECTION OF A DWELLING AND CONNECTION TO EXISTING EFFLUENT TREATMENT PLANT AND ANCILLARY SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2351040
7 Oct 2022Conditional
ERECTION OF A PERMANENT DWELLING HOUSE WITH WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM INCLUDING ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2251692
12 Aug 2022Conditional
REFURBISHMENT AND ERECTION OF AN EXTENSION TO EXISTING DERELICT DWELLING, NEW SEPTIC TANK WITH PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2251365
15 Jun 2022Refused
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2251044
8 Jun 2022Conditional
DWELLING HOUSE INCLUDING ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2250990
13 Oct 2021Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF 63 NO. ADDITIONAL CARAVAN PITCHES AND 7 NO. LOG CABINS & ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS INCLUDING (1) NEW FOUL EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PUMP STATION INCLUDING CONNECTION TO EXISTING PUBLIC SEWER (2) NEW STORM WATER NETWORK INCLUDING ATTENUATION TANK AND A 3-STAGE WETLAND SYSTEM PRIOR TO DISCHARGE TO EXISTING WATER COURSE. AN ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT REPORT (EIAR) AND A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) ACCOMANPIES THIS APPLICATION
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2152038
18 Feb 2021Conditional
DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2150269
9 Feb 2021Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DOMESTIC GARAGE
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2150192
2 Dec 2020Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK SYSTEM AND DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2051847
16 Nov 2020N/a
(1) EXTENSION TO EXISTING CARAVAN PARK TO PROVIDE 63. NO ADDITIONAL CARAVAN PITCHES AND 7 NO. LOG CABINS (2) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS INCLUDING CONNECTION TO PROPOSED FOUL EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND SAND POLISHING FILTER
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2051751
5 Aug 2020Conditional
DEMOLITION OF EXISTING SHED AND CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW SHED WITH HOME OFFICE
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2051058
4 Nov 2019Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A SHED FOR DOMESTIC AND AGRICULTURAL USE
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1951692
1 Apr 2019Conditional
ONSITE TEMPORARY STRUCTURE AND PERMISSION FOR ERECTION OF A NEW SHED FOR FISHING EQUIPMENT WITH ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED WORKS
Retention · Donegal County Council, 1950440
12 Sept 2018Conditional
ERECTION OF AN EXTENSION TO DWELLING
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1851404
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Tranarossan and Melmore Lough SAC 000194
- Special Protection Area: Horn Head to Fanad Head SPA 004194
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Tranarossan And Melmore Lough 000194
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Derrycassan.
Architectural heritage
- Scoil Náisiúnta Doire Chasáin [Derrycassan National School], school, 1900–1905 · Regional interest
Description
Detached six-bay single-storey L-plan former national school, dated 1902, with single-storey porch to front. Now used as private dwelling. Pitched slate roof with two chimneystacks, one rendered and one yellow brick, exposed rafters, and replacement rainwater goods. Lean-to slate roof to porch. Painted and rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with six-over-nine pane and eight-over-twelve pane timber sliding sash windows. Set within low rendered boundary wall, with garden to west and south.
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 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; parts are water.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1657 (ZIP).
- 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 Derrycassan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Derrycassan · Doire Chasáin
- Area
- 2,576,195 m² (257.62 ha, 636.59 acres)
- Civil parish
- Mevagh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kilmacrenan
- Electoral division
- Rosguill, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Rosguill electoral division: 856 people in 321 households; 77% of households own their home; 31% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 58% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ardbane, Clontallagh, Crocknamurleog, Downies, Larganreagh, Magherabeg
- Gaeltacht
- In an Irish-speaking area
- Placenames
- Derrycassan 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.