Kilcaddan

1 registered freehold parcel lies mostly in Kilcaddan, from 2,324 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres) to 2,324 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 8 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 Kilcaddan 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.

• 1 Jul 2026Conditional

  ALTERATIONS TO THE DESIGN OF DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE / STORE PREVIOUSLY APPROVED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 16/50045 AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2661215

• 22 Apr 2026Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE, INSTALLATION OF SEPTIC TANK / SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2660699

• 12 Sept 2025Conditional

  DETACHED GARAGE / STORAGE SHED AND PERMISSION FOR RETENTION AND COMPLETION OF A NEW VEHICULAR ENTRANCE TO SERVICE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, WORKS SHALL INCLUDE CLOSING EXISTING APPROVED VEHICULAR ENTRANCE AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2561567

• 27 Apr 2022Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A SILAGE PIT AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2250747

• 8 Jul 2020Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL SHED AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2050901

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: River Finn SAC 002301

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Kilcaddan.

Architectural heritage

• Kilcaddan House, house, 1860–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay two-storey over basement house, built c. 1867 and altered c. 1910, having projecting entrance porch to the main elevation (south-east), single-bay single-storey canted bay window to the north-east end of the front elevation, and with three-bay single-storey return to the rear (north-west) to rear. Hipped natural slate roof with overhanging eaves supported on paired moulded brackets (front and side elevations), profiled cast-iron rainwater goods, two rendered chimneystacks aligned along with roof ridge, stepped rendered chimneystack to the rear (north-west), and metal rooflight to the rear pitch. Flat-roofs to porch and canted bay. Smooth rendered ruled-and-line walls over projecting smooth rendered plinth with raised rendered block quoins to the corners of the front elevation. Roughcast rendered walls to rear. Square-headed window openings to the front elevation having stone sills, render cornices over, and with one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Flush ashlar sandstone surrounds to canted bay window with two-over-two pane timber sliding sash window to central pane, and with moulded cornice over. Various timber sliding sash windows to rear and side elevations. Round-headed window opening to the rear elevation at first floor level, lighting stair hall, having two-over-two pane timber sliding sash window with margin glazing bars and coloured glass panels to outer panes. Segmental-headed doorway to porch having timber door, overlight, long narrow sidelights with one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows, and with render cornice over. Kilkenny marble fireplace with mirror over to interior, stucco cornices and ceiling roses, timber panelled doors and shutters to windows, timber half-glazed panelled doors. Set well back from road in extensive mature landscaped grounds to the west of Killygordon with long approach avenue to house from the south-west.

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

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Kilcaddan.

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

Name

Kilcaddan

Area

786,075 m² (78.61 ha, 194.24 acres)

Civil parish

Donaghmore, and its townlands

Barony

Raphoe South

Electoral division

Gleneely, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Gleneely electoral division: 1,672 people in 557 households; 89% of households own their home; 41% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynacor, Carricknamanna, Carrickshandrum, Drumavish, Garrisonhill

Placenames

Kilcaddan 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.