# Doochill North, Co. Donegal: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Lower Killybegs, barony of Banagh, Co. Donegal.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,817,299 m² (181.73 ha, 449.06 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 55 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 4,377 m² (0.44 ha, 1.08 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010
- Civil parish: Lower Killybegs, https://everytownland.com/donegal/parish/lower-killybegs.md
- Barony: Banagh
- Electoral division: Ardara, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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.
- County: Co. Donegal, https://everytownland.com/donegal.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/14551
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 50936
- Centre: latitude 54.768296, longitude -8.388619 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

55 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Doochill North, from 53 m² to 292,354 m² (29.24 ha, 72.24 acres); 29 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 1410381: 292,354 m² (29.24 ha, 72.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1410381.md
- Parcel 1410377: 252,655 m² (25.27 ha, 62.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1410377.md
- Parcel 1405532: 245,748 m² (24.57 ha, 60.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1405532.md
- Parcel 1410379: 119,991 m² (12 ha, 29.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1410379.md
- Parcel 1322847: 119,037 m² (11.9 ha, 29.41 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1322847.md
- Parcel 5375797: 112,164 m² (11.22 ha, 27.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5375797.md
- Parcel 1376367: 108,707 m² (10.87 ha, 26.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1376367.md
- Parcel 1376364: 105,958 m² (10.6 ha, 26.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1376364.md
- Parcel 1376363: 91,673 m² (9.17 ha, 22.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1376363.md
- Parcel 1410373: 76,330 m² (7.63 ha, 18.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1410373.md
- Parcel 4597583: 60,751 m² (6.08 ha, 15.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4597583.md
- Parcel 1376361: 28,580 m² (2.86 ha, 7.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1376361.md
- Parcel 1402618: 27,456 m² (2.75 ha, 6.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1402618.md
- Parcel 1410374: 18,446 m² (1.84 ha, 4.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1410374.md
- Parcel 4738179: 18,100 m² (1.81 ha, 4.47 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4738179.md
- Parcel 1353018: 12,466 m² (1.25 ha, 3.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1353018.md
- Parcel 1376368: 10,688 m² (1.07 ha, 2.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1376368.md
- Parcel 1376365: 9,239 m² (0.92 ha, 2.28 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1376365.md
- Parcel 1362028: 8,647 m² (0.86 ha, 2.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1362028.md
- Parcel 1327860: 8,149 m² (0.81 ha, 2.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1327860.md
- Parcel 1354989: 8,029 m² (0.8 ha, 1.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1354989.md
- Parcel 1376362: 7,784 m² (0.78 ha, 1.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1376362.md
- Parcel 1319747: 6,166 m² (0.62 ha, 1.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1319747.md
- Parcel 1329748: 5,815 m² (0.58 ha, 1.44 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1329748.md
- Parcel 1306683: 5,762 m² (0.58 ha, 1.42 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1306683.md
- Parcel 1410376: 5,004 m² (0.5 ha, 1.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1410376.md
- Parcel 1410378: 4,962 m² (0.5 ha, 1.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1410378.md
- Parcel 1345498: 4,377 m² (0.44 ha, 1.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1345498.md
- Parcel 3658263: 4,247 m² (0.42 ha, 1.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3658263.md
- Parcel 1335569: 3,951 m² (0.4 ha, 0.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1335569.md
- Parcel 1423995: 3,730 m² (0.37 ha, 0.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1423995.md
- Parcel 1340537: 3,694 m² (0.37 ha, 0.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1340537.md
- Parcel 2454872: 3,100 m² (0.31 ha, 0.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2454872.md
- Parcel 2406037: 3,007 m² (0.3 ha, 0.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2406037.md
- Parcel 1341135: 2,685 m² (0.27 ha, 0.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1341135.md
- Parcel 2454868: 2,652 m² (0.27 ha, 0.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2454868.md
- Parcel 1412781: 2,476 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1412781.md
- Parcel 1333837: 2,318 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1333837.md
- Parcel 1358868: 2,296 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1358868.md
- Parcel 4738223: 2,257 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4738223.md
- Parcel 1359435: 2,241 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1359435.md
- Parcel 1358097: 2,110 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1358097.md
- Parcel 1417120: 1,983 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1417120.md
- Parcel 1410375: 1,980 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1410375.md
- Parcel 4738183: 1,872 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4738183.md
- Parcel 2454862: 1,755 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2454862.md
- Parcel 1358537: 1,694 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1358537.md
- Parcel 1347373: 1,467 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1347373.md
- Parcel 3658261: 858 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3658261.md
- Parcel 3658262: 572 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3658262.md
- Parcel 1355654: 356 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1355654.md
- Parcel 1355986: 355 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1355986.md
- Parcel 5871406: 264 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5871406.md
- Parcel 3658260: 116 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3658260.md
- Parcel 1306446: 53 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1306446.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

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.

## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)

1 application, newest first.

- 16 Nov 2018, Donegal County Council 1851759: N/a. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1851759/0

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## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

- Special Area of Conservation: West of Ardara/Maas Road SAC, site code 000197, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/000197
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: West Of Ardara/Maas Road, site code 000197

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- DG074-011: Megalithic tomb - court tomb, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDG074-011----. 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)

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).

## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage)

- House, 1890–1930, Regional interest, registry number 40907404, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=DG&regno=40907404. 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.

## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland)

- Radon: About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887
- 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, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_1179.zip (ZIP).
- Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use.

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.

## Downloads

- DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/donegal/doochill-north.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/donegal/doochill-north.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/donegal/doochill-north.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

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: https://everytownland.com/donegal.md

## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann)

- Ardara: https://everytownland.com/donegal/ardara.md
- Doochill South: https://everytownland.com/donegal/doochill-south.md
- Garvegort Glebe: https://everytownland.com/donegal/garvegort-glebe.md
- Gortnacart Glebe: https://everytownland.com/donegal/gortnacart-glebe.md
- Lurganboy: https://everytownland.com/donegal/lurganboy-51813.md
- Stormhill: https://everytownland.com/donegal/stormhill.md
- Tullycleave More: https://everytownland.com/donegal/tullycleave-more.md

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.

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Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged.

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