Doochill North

55 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Doochill North, from 53 m² to 292,354 m² (29.24 ha, 72.24 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 29 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 Doochill North 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.

• 16 Nov 2018N/a

  DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, DECOMMISSIONING OF THE EXISTING SEPTIC TANK SYSTEM AND CONSTRUCTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING HOUSE WITH NEW SEWERAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1851759

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: West of Ardara/Maas Road SAC 000197
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: West Of Ardara/Maas Road 000197

Recorded monuments

• DG074-011 Megalithic tomb - court tomb
  Description

  The monument is 2.1km E of Ardara on level pasture c. 100m N of and overlooking the westward-flowing Owentocker River. Now considerably ruined, it consists of the unroofed inner half of a gallery, apparently a two-chambered one, preceded at the NE by the remains of a court. The structure stands in a grass-grown mound that flanks both its sides and extends 5m E of the S arm of the court. The gallery is partially filled by grass-grown cairn material. The mound measures 11.5m N-S by 15m E-W and is c. 1m in maximum height. There are a number of displaced stones scattered on the cairn surface, some partly buried. A single courtstone, 0.5m high, survives at the outer end of the N side of the court. Its outer face is hidden by the cairn. Approximately 3m S of this is an arc of three contiguous courtstones. The northernmost is 0.4m high. The next is 0.75m high, and the southernmost is 0.45m high. The precise design of the court and its relationship to the gallery are not apparent. The gallery was c. 5.5m long, and the surviving section is up to 1.9m wide. Four stones are visible on its N side, and three on the S side, and it is closed by a large flat-topped backstone with a small set stone beside it at the N. Approximately 1.1m W of the northernmost of the arc of three courtstones described above are two sidestones next to each other inside the line of the rest of the northern side of the gallery. That to the E is 0.3m high, and that to the W is 0.3m high. Opposite the last and set askew to the S side of the gallery is a stone 0.7m high. The three stones just described narrow the gallery and seem to represent a division between two chambers. The sides of the gallery beyond the possible segmentation each comprise two stones. Both stones on the S side are 0.65m high. The eastern one at the N side of the gallery is 0.6m high, and the western is 0.65m high. The backstone, 0.7m high, is set with its inner face in line with the ends of both sides of the gallery. It is flat topped with slightly sloping sides. The small stone at its northern end measures 0.35m by at least 0.15m and is 0.65m high. Its inner face is concealed. The largest of the displaced stones at the site lies in the court area. It measures 1.35m by 1.35m and is 0.45m thick. Another displaced stone, 0.8m by 0.7m and 0.45m thick, lies at the inner end of the gallery. The rest vary from 0.55m to 1.1m in maximum dimension. Fagan 1845-8, book 22, 54; de Valera 1960, 107, DG. 16 (plan); L. McGill 1964, 63; Killanin and Duignan 1967, 63; P.J. McGill 1970, 6; Ó Nualláin 1983a, 20, no. 19 (plan); SMR 1987, 74: 11; Ó Nualláin 1989, 117; RMP 1995, 74:11. 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 See linked document with details from Eamon Cody, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume VI. County Donegal. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002)

Architectural heritage

• House, 1890–1930 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c.1910, having lower single-bay addition attached to west end. Pitched straw-thatched roof with mesh over, roped and pegged to metal pegs to eaves and painted stone pegs to gables, and having two rendered chimneystacks. Pebbledashed painted walls with smooth plinth course. Square-headed openings with replacement timber casements and concrete sills, and replacement timber door. Ruinous gable-fronted outbuilding opposite.

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 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.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1179 (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.

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

Name

Doochill North

Area

1,817,299 m² (181.73 ha, 449.06 acres)

Civil parish

Lower Killybegs, and its townlands

Barony

Banagh

Electoral division

Ardara, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ardara electoral division: 1,280 people in 509 households; 65% of households own their home; 39% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 14% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardara, Doochill South, Garvegort Glebe, Gortnacart Glebe, Lurganboy, Stormhill, Tullycleave More

Placenames

Doochill North 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.