Dunkineely

221 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Dunkineely, from 1 m² to 33,060 m² (3.31 ha, 8.17 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 25 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 Dunkineely 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.

• 20 Apr 2026Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING PUBLIC SEWAGE SYSTEM, TOGETHER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2660679

• 13 Apr 2026Conditional

  SELF-CONTAINED RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY FOR SHORT-TERM LETTING PURPOSES, ASSOCIATED SIGNAGE AND SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2660617

• 5 Mar 2025Conditional

  DWELLING HOUSE, SEPTIC TANK SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2560310

• 3 Oct 2024Conditional

  REFURBISHMENT OF AN EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, REMOVAL OF AN EXISTING SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION, OTHER MINOR ALTERATIONS TO THE REAR ELEVATION AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2461557

• 13 Aug 2024Conditional

  CHANGE OF USE AT GROUND FLOOR LEVEL FROM COMMERCIAL TO RESIDENTIAL WITH ALTERATIONS TO THE ELEVATIONS, THE GROUND FLOOR WILL BE CONVERTED TO 2 NO. APARTMENTS AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2461239

• 1 Aug 2024N/a

  CHANGE OF USE AT GROUND FLOOR LEVEL FROM COMMERCIAL TO RESIDENTIAL, ALTERATIONS TO THE ELEVATIONS AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2461179

• 25 Aug 2023Conditional

  (1) CHANGE OF USE FROM EXISTING ATTACHED SHED TO ADDITIONAL LIVING AREA WITH ALTERATIONS TO THE FACADES, (2) CHANGE OF USE FROM EXISTING ATTACHED OUTHOUSE TO THE REAR OF THE DWELLING TO ADDITIONAL LIVING AREA WITH CONNECTION TO ALL EXISTING SITE SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2351260

• 24 Aug 2022Conditional

  ERECTION OF (1) AN EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING INCLUDING ALTERATIONS TO THE ELEVATIONS OF THE DWELLING (2) A DOMESTIC GARAGE

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2251419

• 20 May 2022Conditional

  CHANGE OF USE OF EXISTING GROUND FLOOR FROM FORMER FURNITURE STORE TO DOMESTIC LIVING ACCOMMODATION AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2250885

• 9 May 2022Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, CONNECTION TO THE EXISTING PUBLIC SEWER ON SITE AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2250799

• 12 Jan 2022Refused

  (A) ENTRANCE GATES (B) STONED CAR PARKING AREA (C) ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS AND SITE WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2250015

• 24 Nov 2021N/a

  (1) ENTRANCE GATES (2) STONED CAR PARKING AREA (3) ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS AND SITE WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2152340

• 15 Sept 2021N/a

  (1) ENTRANCE GATES (2) GRAVEL HARDSTANDING AREA (3) ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS AND SITE WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2151830

• 17 Feb 2021Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION AND ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2150253

• 16 May 2018Conditional

  DEMOLITION OF REAR PROJECTION AND ERECTION OF AN EXTENSION TO THE (MANSE) DWELLING HOUSE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1850780

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

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Dunkineely.

Recorded monuments

• DG098-010 Church
  Description

  There is now no trace of the 'Old Church' site marked on the 2nd edition of the OS 6-inch map. The site is located on fairly good pasture to the N of Dunkineely village. 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

• DG098-011 Enclosure
  Description

  Marked as a 'Fort' on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map. The site consists of an oval hill-top area 45m NE-SW × 32.5m NW-SE defined by a scarped edge. Modern roadways encroach on the site on the S and W sides. It is raised, from c. 0.8m on the NE to 3.2m on the SW, above the surrounding land. The site is located on good land in a commanding position. 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

• DG098-012 Enclosure
  Description

  There is now no sign of the single-ringed enclosure shown on the 2nd and 3rd editions of the OS 6-inch maps. It was located in an area of fairly good pasture. 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

• DG098-014 Road - road/trackway
  Description

  On the first edition of the Ordnance survey 6-inch map a road running NE-SW from Dunkineely towards Saint John's Point has been annotated in handwriting as an 'old road'. This road runs for a distance of approx. 1.1km and appears to connect Saint John's Point to the W end of the village of Dunkineely. Several monuments are located on the line of this roadway including a standing stone pair (DG098-0150012/002-) and cashel (DG098-016-) which are located at the SW end of the road and a large enclosure (DG098-011-) at the NE end of the road. The dating of this road is uncertain. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload/revision: : 20 May 2010

Architectural heritage

• Water pump, 1880–1910 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding cast-iron water hydrant, erected c. 1900, comprising fluted shaft on moulded base surmounted by fluted domed capping with acorn finial over, and having lion's head motif to spout. Foundry mark 'Glenfield & Kennedy Ltd, Kilmarnock' to shaft. Located in small lawned picnic area enclosed by timber fence to the west of Dunkineely.

• House, 1890–1920 · Regional interest
  Description

  End-of-terrace three-bay single-storey former local authority house, built c. 1910, having gable-fronted timber canopy porch to entrance and single-storey return to rear (south). One of a group of six buildings arranged into two groups of three. Now in use as a private house. Hipped natural slate roof with two red brick chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Pitched natural slate roof to porch. Roughcast rendered walls with painted plinth course. Square-headed window openings having four-over-eight pane timber sliding sash windows; single two-over-four pane timber sliding sash window adjacent to east side of door. Square-headed door opening with timber battened door and having plinth blocks to base. Road-fronted to the west end of Dunkineely with yard to rear (south).

• House, 1890–1910 · Regional interest
  Description

  End-of-terrace three-bay single-storey former local authority house, built c. 1910, having gable-fronted timber canopy porch to entrance and single-storey return to rear (south). One of a group of six buildings arranged into two groups of three. Hipped natural slate roof with two rendered red brick chimneystacks. Pitched natural slate roof to canopy porch. Roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed window openings having four-over-eight pane timber sliding sash windows; single two-over-four pane timber sliding sash window adjacent to east side of door. Square-headed door opening with plinth blocks to base and having replacement glazed timber door. Road-fronted to the west end of Dunkineely with yard to rear (south).

• House, 1850–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Attached five-bay three-storey house, built c. 1860 and altered c. 1900, having integral segmental-headed carriage-arch to the east end of the main elevation (north) and former shop/pubfront to the west end. Extensions to the rear (south). Possibly formerly in use as a post office c. 1907 (Ordnance Survey twenty-five inch map). Pitched natural slate roof having three smooth rendered chimneystacks with terracotta pots, profiled cast-iron/metal guttering, projecting eaves course and raised render verges to either end. Pebbledashed walls to upper floors with render block-and-start quoins to the corners; channelled smooth rendered walls to ground floor over projecting smooth rendered plinth course. Square-headed window openings to upper floors having stone sills and with six-over-three pane timber sliding sash windows to second floor and six-over-six pane to first floor. Single six-over-six pane timber sliding sash window to east side of main doorway at ground floor level. Three square-headed window openings to former shop/public house having timber casement windows; windows to former shop/public house flanked by fluted render pilasters with render fascia over with moulded render cornice. Central recessed square-headed door opening having replacement glazed timber door and replacement overlight and sidelight. Channelled render voussoirs to carriage-arch. Road-fronted to the centre of Dunkineely.

• Dunkineely Methodist Church, church/chapel, 1850–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding three-bay double-height gable-fronted Methodist chapel/meeting house, built 1854 and altered c. 1910, having bellcote over entrance gable (south). Pitched artificial slate roof (fibre cement) with metal ridge ventilator to centre, and with cut stone verges/coping to gable ends. Cut stone finial over north gable end. Cut stone eaves course brought across south gable end as projecting stringcourse. Smooth rendered ruled-and-lined walls. Pointed-arched window openings with plain ashlar surrounds and sills and having replacement windows. Paired pointed-arched window openings to the north gable having leaded coloured glass. Central pointed-arched door opening to south gable end with ashlar stone surround with chamfered reveals, replacement timber double doors and overlight, and having cut stone hoodmoulding over. Timber pews, pulpit and railings to interior, timber boarding to panelled flat ceiling, and having timber gallery to the south end, added c. 1910, having panelled balustrade with dentils. Set back from road in own grounds to the centre of Dunkineely with tarmacadam yard to site. Rubble stone boundary wall to road-frontage to the south having ashlar coping and wrought-iron railings over. Gateway to the south comprising a pair of cut stone gate piers (on square-plan) having chamfered plinths and pyramidal capstones, and having pair of wrought-iron gates. Single-storey outbuilding to the rear (north). Associated manse, built c. 1854, adjacent to the east having pitched natural slate roof, ruled-and-lined smooth rendered walls, square-headed window openings with replacement fittings, and central round-headed doorway with replacement fittings.

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 Dunkineely, about 1 in 5 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 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 Dunkineely.

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

Name

Dunkineely · Dún Cionnaola

Area

567,572 m² (56.76 ha, 140.25 acres)

Civil parish

Killaghtee, and its townlands

Barony

Banagh

Electoral division

Dunkineely, the unit of the census

Census 2022

904 people lived in 351 households in the Dunkineely electoral division. 73% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 20% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballymagowan, Beaugreen Glebe, Cashelfean, Killaghtee, Rahan Near

Placenames

Dunkineely 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.