Guystown

17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Guystown, from 33 m² to 200,336 m² (20.03 ha, 49.5 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 15 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 Guystown 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.

• 18 Aug 2026N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW UNDERGROUND AGRICULTURAL EFFLUENT TANK, AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2661533

• 13 Apr 2026N/a

  (1) RETENTION AND COMPLETION OF A HARDCORE COVERED TURNING AND PARKING AREA WHICH INCLUDES AN ACCESS ROAD, SURFACE WATER DRAINAGE AND PROVISION OF A VEHICULAR ENTRANCE FOR A HEAVY GOODS VEHICLE AND TRAILERS AND (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A DETACHED STORAGE SHED AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2660615

• 24 May 2020Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE DOMESTIC DWELLING HOUSE & DETACHED GARAGE/STORE & ON SITE FOUL SEWAGE WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM & PERCOLATION AREA, ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Outline permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2050433

• 2 Feb 2017Conditional

  EXTENSION TO EXISTING SILAGE PIT. THE EXTENSION WILL INCORPORATE AN ADDITIONAL SILAGE PIT AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1750144

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 Guystown.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Guystown.

Architectural heritage

• Guystown, house, 1700–1740 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached nine-bay single-storey with attic level vernacular house, built c. 1720 and extended on a number of occasions. Pitched artificial slate or tiled roof having eaves course, and with four smooth rendered chimneystacks with copings and clay ware pots; render failing to chimneystack to the north-west gable end exposing brick construction. Roughcast rendered rubble stone walls. Square-headed window openings with painted timber reveals, painted stone sill, and having one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows with horns. Square-headed doorway, offset to the east side of the centre of the main elevation (north-east), having timber panelled door with glazed panel to upper half, cut stone plinth blocks to base, and with decorative doorcase comprising fluted pilasters (on semi-circular plan) with decorative lintel over having fluted panels and circular motifs. Cut stone threshold to doorway. Set back from road in mature grounds in the rural countryside to the north-west of Ballindrait. Complex of two two-storey outbuildings to the rear (south-west), forming L-shaped plan, comprising seven-bay two-storey building parallel to south-west, built c. 1840, with five-bay two-storey building to the west, built c. 1750. External flight of rubble stone steps to the north-east elevation of outbuilding to the south-west giving access to doorway at first floor level. Single-bay single-storey red brick structure to the north-east end of outbuilding to the west having metal water tank over. Pitched and hipped natural slate roof with projecting eaves course, some surviving sections of cast-iron rainwater goods, and with raised rendered copings to the gable ends. Randomly coursed rubble stone walls with ashlar block and start quoins to the south-east end of outbuilding to the south-west. Roughcast rendered walls to the west elevation of outbuilding to the west. Square-headed window openings with remains of timber windows and battened timber shutters. Square-headed doorways and loading bays having timber lintels and battened timber doors. Square-headed carriage-arches. Gravelled yard between outbuildings and rear of house. Rubble stone boundary wall to road-frontage to the north having fieldstone coping over. Gateway to the north comprising a pair of decorative cast0iron gate posts having hooped wrought-iron gates. Gateway flanked to either side by sections of smooth rendered boundary wall with hooped wrought-iron railings over and with terminating smooth rendered piers (on square-plan).

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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility 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_1896 (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 Guystown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Guystown

Area

458,728 m² (45.87 ha, 113.35 acres)

Civil parish

Clonleigh, and its townlands

Barony

Raphoe North

Electoral division

Clonleigh North, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Clonleigh North electoral division: 1,429 people in 520 households; 84% of households own their home; 29% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballindrait, Drumnaha, Gortin North, Sheercloon, Tamnawood, Tieveboy

Placenames

Guystown 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.