Keeloges
Townland in the civil parish of Inver, barony of Banagh, Co. Donegal; in Irish Na Caológa
- Area
- 177.9 ha
- 440 acres
- Land parcels
- 121
- registered freehold, median 5,045 m² (0.5 ha, 1.25 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 12
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
121 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Keeloges, from 85 m² to 124,255 m² (12.43 ha, 30.7 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 30 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Keeloges 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
17 Oct 2025Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF NEW DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE, INSTALLATION OF A NEW PROPRIETARY SEWERAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM, PERCOLATION AREA AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2561813
25 Mar 2024Conditional
SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS INCLUDING (A) A VEHICULAR ENTRANCE, (B) INTERNAL ACCESS ROAD, (C) CONTAINERS ON SITE FOR STORAGE AND A MEETING ROOM, (D) POLYTUNNEL FOR GROWING PRODUCE, (E) 2M HIGH POST AND WIRE BOUNDARY FENCE TO THE PERIMETER OF THE SITE AND PERMISSION FOR ERECTION OF 5 NO. ADDITIONAL POLYTUNNELS, A TOILET FACILITY AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2460389
1 Nov 2023Conditional
EXTENSION AND RENOVATION OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND INSTALLATION OF A NEW SEWERAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2351662
30 Jan 2023N/a
A MARKET GARDEN FARM FOR THE GROWING AND SELLING OF VEGETABLES AND OTHER PLANTS TO THE LOCAL COMMUNITY INCLUDING THE ERECTION OF POLYTUNNELS, A SHED AND WELFARE FACILITIES ALONG WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2350095
8 Dec 2022Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEWERAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2251972
4 Nov 2022Conditional
(1) CONSTRUCTION OF (A) A SINGLE STOREY PITCHED ROOF DETACHED DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC PITCHED ROOF GARAGE (B) A VEHICULAR ENTRANCE ON TO THE PUBLIC ROAD (2) INSTALLATION OF A SEPTIC TANK/SEWERAGE TREATMENT UNIT AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SERVICES AND SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2251807
5 Oct 2022N/a
(1) CONSTRUCTION OF (A) A SINGLE STOREY PITCHED ROOF DETACHED DWELLING HOUSE (B) DOMESTIC PITCHED ROOF GARAGE (C) VEHICULAR ENTRANCE ONTO THE PUBLIC ROAD (2) INSTALLATION OF A SEPTIC/SEWERAGE TREATMENT UNIT AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SERVICES AND SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2251658
19 Jan 2022Conditional
IMPORTED FILL MATERIAL FROM THE ADJACENT SITE AND PERMISSION FOR ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEWERAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2250036
8 Sept 2020Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEWERAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2051256
6 Feb 2020Conditional
ALTERATIONS AND EXTENSIONS TO AN EXISTING SINGLE-STOREY COTTAGE AND CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE-STOREY EXTENSION TO THE COTTAGE, ALL TO PROVIDE A 2 BEDROOM DETACHED DWELLING HOUSE, REDUCTION OF EXISTING SURROUNDING GROUND LEVELS, PROVISION OF A NEW UPGRADED ROAD ACCESS AND CLOSURE OF THE EXISTING ROAD ACCESS AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2050113
26 Mar 2019Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF AN ASTRO TURF PITCH, WITH BOUNDARY FENCING/NETTING AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1950400
22 Feb 2019Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEWERAGE TREATMENT, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1950222
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Keeloges.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Keeloges.
Architectural heritage
- Bridge, 1890–1900 · Regional interest
Description
Single-arch former railway bridge, built c. 1893, carrying road over the former Donegal Town to Killybegs narrow gauge railway line. Now out of use (since 1960) with railway line removed. Snecked and squared rock-faced stone construction to spandrels and to parapets with rock-faced coping over parapets. Squared rubble stone construction to arch barrel. Segmental-headed arch with rock-faced ashlar voussoirs having dressed margins. Tarmacadam deck with grass verges. Side elevations of bridge (east and west) now largely covered in vegetation. Located to the north of Inver and the north-west of Mountcharles. Former Inver railway station adjacent to the east (see 40909218) and former water tank adjacent to the west.
- Bridge, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
Description
Double-arched road bridge over a tributary of the Eany Water River, built c. 1800, having V-profile cut stone/squared rubble stone cutwater to central pier. Segmental-headed arches having dressed voussoirs to arch; squared rubble stone construction to arch barrels. Uncoursed/randomly coursed rubble stone masonry to spandrels and parapets with rock-faced coping over parapets. Rubble stone wing walls to end of parapets; wing walls step outwards to either end of bridge. Tarmacadam deck with grass verges. Located to the north of Inver and to the north-west of Mountcharles.
- Water tower, 1890–1900 · Regional interest
Description
Single-bay single-storey former railway water tower, erected c. 1893, having metal water tank over. Originally built as part of Inver Railway Station (see 40909218). Now out of use and overgrown with vegetation. Constructed of squared coursed rock-faced sandstone masonry with rock-faced quoins to the corners. Round-headed window opening to the east elevation having rock-faced sandstone surround, cut stone sill, and remains of multi-paned timber sliding sash window. Square-headed doorway to the west elevation having rock-faced sandstone surround and rock-faced sandstone lintel over; original timber battened door now removed. Metal water tank over having former chute/nozzle and metal pulley wheel to the east side. Set back from road to the west of the former Inver Railway Station (see 40909218), and adjacent to the west of railway bridge (see 40909217). Located to the north of Inver and to the west of Mountcharles.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility 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 Keeloges.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Keeloges with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Keeloges · Na Caológa
- Area
- 1,779,024 m² (177.9 ha, 439.61 acres)
- Civil parish
- Inver, and its townlands
- Barony
- Banagh
- Electoral division
- Inver, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Inver electoral division: 795 people in 296 households; 86% of households own their home; 31% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 13% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ardaghy Glebe, Casheloogary, Cranny Lower, Drumlaghtafin, Drummacacullen, Inver Glebe, Leagans, Legnawley Glebe
- Placenames
- Keeloges 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.