Doocashel Glebe

69 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Doocashel Glebe, from 44 m² to 668,643 m² (66.86 ha, 165.23 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 Doocashel Glebe 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.

• 1 Nov 2023Conditional

  ERECTION OF A SELF CONTAINED FLAT AUXILIARY TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE WITH ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2351666

• 2 Mar 2022Refused

  (1) ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM (2) RELOCATION OF AN EXISTING WASTE WATER TREATMENT SERVING AN ADJACENT DWELLING AND ALL OTHER SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2250356

• 13 Sept 2017Conditional

  EXISTING EXTENSION TO THE SIDE OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 1751410

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: Sheephaven SAC 001190
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Sheephaven 001190

Recorded monuments

• DG026-012 Megalithic tomb - unclassified
  Description

  This feature was first shown on the 1847-9 edition of the OS 6-inch map. The site, alongside a gravelled roadway in a state forest, when visited in 1985 was overhung by branches and covered by briars and other undergrowth. Two set stones are visible here. These are 0.55m apart, parallel to each other and aligned almost N-S. The western one is 0.7m long, 0.2m thick and 0.8m in exposed height. The eastern one is 0.4m long, 0.2m thick and 0.4m high. At the southern end of this is a low stone with rounded top measuring c. 0.5m in maximum dimension and 0.3m in exposed height. This may also be a deliberate feature. There are a number of prostrate slabs, some quite sizeable, scattered in the surrounding undergrowth. There are two accounts of this site in OS documents. Thomas Fagan (1845-8) wrote a somewhat confused description of it. He saw it in 1845 and claimed that it was a cillín (a children's burial ground) originally enclosed by a thick stone wall within which was a gallery built of 'great slabs of stones' with other 'vaulted graves'. At the time of his visit much of the site had been cleared and the rest of it, including, apparently, the gallery feature, was covered by reclamation debris. According to Fagan, the gallery measured c. 12 feet (c. 3.65m) long and 4 feet (c. 1.2m) wide and at around mid-length there was a single roof stone 5 feet (c. 1.5m) long, 4 feet (c. 1.2m) broad and 1 foot (c. 0.3m) thick. A slightly later description of the site in an OS Revision Name Book (1847-9) reads as follows: 'This druidical monument is about 12 feet [c. 3.65m] long and 5 feet [c. 1.5m] broad. In the north end are two upright stones about 3 feet [c. 0.9m] in height and on the sides smaller stones set edgeways in the ground. The interior has been filled with rubbish gathered off the land by the occupant.' The report concludes with the observation that Fagan was in error in describing it as a cillín. The nature of the site is not apparent from the scant remains now present. The early accounts, quoted above, suggest that it may have been a megalithic tomb. Fagan 1845-8, book 2, 13; OS Revision Name Book, sheet 26 (1847-9), 47; Killanin and Duignan 1962, 181; Killanin and Duignan 1967, 191; Ó Nualláin 1983a, 47-8, no. 159; SMR 1987, 26:12; RMP 1995, 26:12. The above description was published in the 'Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume VI, County Donegal.' Compiled by: Eamon Cody (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). Date of upload: 22 September 2008

• DG026-013001 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  Internal diam. c. 22m. This cashel, now in Ards Forest Park, has been planted over. The wall which can be measured on the S is 2.4m wide. The outer face is intermittently trace-able all around and survives over much of the way to 1m in height. Most of the inner face is collapsed and covered over from forestry operations. In the interior a ruined wall surviving to a maximum of c. 0.5m in height and c. 1m in width, not including collapse, runs from the collapsed inner edge of the cashel wall on the NE for c. 14m to W, then curves round to run for c. 10m to S. It is not possible to say if this is contemporary with the cashel wall. Between this wall and partly set into the collapsed inner edge of the cashel wall on the N is a small, partly collapsed, drystone, hut-like structure (DG026-013002-), circular in plan measuring c. 1.5m in diameter. The enclosing wall which survives to a maximum of 1.15m in height ranges from c. 0.7m to 1.7m in width. There is a .5m gap on the S. The purpose of the structure is unclear. The cashel interior slopes downwards from S to N with a marked drop of c. 0.4m at mid way and it also slopes down from W to E. It is on a slight W facing slope with originally probably good views to N, E and S. Planting has obscured the nature of the land but some rock outcrop does occur. 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

• DG026-013002 Hut site
  Description

  This cashel (DG026-013001-), now in Ards Forest Park, has been planted over. The wall which can be measured on the S is 2.4m wide. The outer face is intermittently trace-able all around and survives over much of the way to 1m in height. Most of the inner face is collapsed and covered over from forestry operations. In the interior a ruined wall surviving to a maximum of c. 0.5m in height and c. 1m in width, not including collapse, runs from the collapsed inner edge of the cashel wall on the NE for c. 14m to W, then curves round to run for c. 10m to S. It is not possible to say if this is contemporary with the cashel wall. Between this wall and partly set into the collapsed inner edge of the cashel wall on the N is a small, partly collapsed, drystone, hut-like structure, circular in plan meas-uring c. 1.5m in diameter. The enclosing wall which survives to a maximum of 1.15m in height ranges from c. 0.7m to 1.7m in width. There is a .5m gap on the S. The purpose of the structure is unclear. The cashel interior slopes downwards from S to N with a marked drop of c. 0.4m at mid way and it also slopes down from W to E. It is on a slight W facing slope with originally probably good views to N, E and S. Planting has obscured the nature of the land but some rock outcrop does occur. 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

• DG026-014 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  The 2nd edition of the OS 6-inch map shows a single-ringed circular enclosure. There is no trace of it now. The position is a forest clearing overlooking Ards Strand to the S. 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

• Milestone/milepost, 1760–1800 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding cut-granite milestone, erected c.1780, on roadside. Inscribed (north): "L:KENNY/14/DUNFANAGHY/4½"; (east): "CREESH/LAGH/1 ½"; (west): "ARDS/1½".

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 5 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.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Doocashel Glebe.

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

Name

Doocashel Glebe · Dúchaiseal

Area

1,114,735 m² (111.47 ha, 275.46 acres)

Civil parish

Clondahorky, and its townlands

Barony

Kilmacrenan

Electoral division

Ards, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ards electoral division: 805 people in 270 households; 86% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 61% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghalattive, Cashelmore, Clonbeg Glebe

Placenames

Doocashel Glebe 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.