Kilcashel

5 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilcashel, from 2,821 m² (0.28 ha, 0.7 acres) to 256,472 m² (25.65 ha, 63.38 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 16 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 Kilcashel 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Kilcashel in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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: West of Ardara/Maas Road SAC 000197
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: West Of Ardara/Maas Road 000197

Recorded monuments

• DG073-013001 Cross
  Description

  A D-shaped area 32.2m N-S and 18.3m E-W is enclosed by a modern graveyard stone wall. Traces of older enclosing walls are visible in places. To the W of the graveyard (DG073-013004-) is St. Connell's cross (DG073-013001-). A crude cross-shaped slab, 1.57m in height, .32m wide at the base, .65m wide at the arms and 0.26m at the top. The cross is orientated E-W. At the junction of the arms and the shaft on the S face is a thin incised Latin cross with a circle at the centre. The top and base of this cross have T-bar terminals, while two bars cross the arms a little before their ends. The site is located on the E slope of Crockatee Hill in rough pasture and rock outcrop. The site over-looks the sea to the E. The hill is also known as Cashel Hill. The cross here has been eroded badly, particularly at the centre where the design is flaking off, since it was described in 1938 (Crozier and Lowry-Corry 1938, 221-2). 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

• DG073-013002 Church
  Description

  A D-shaped area 32.2m N-S and 18.3m E-W is enclosed by a modern graveyard stone wall. Traces of older enclosing walls are visible in places. To the W of the graveyard (DG073-013004-) is St. Connell's cross (DG073-013001-). A crude cross-shaped slab, 1.57m in height, .32m wide at the base, .65m wide at the arms and 0.26m at the top. The cross is orientated E-W. At the junction of the arms and the shaft on the S face is a thin incised Latin cross with a circle at the centre. The top and base of this cross have T-bar terminals, while two bars cross the arms a little before their ends. The site is located on the E slope of Crockatee Hill in rough pasture and rock outcrop. The site over-looks the sea to the E. The hill is also known as Cashel Hill. The cross here has been eroded badly, particularly at the centre where the design is flaking off, since it was described in 1938 (Crozier and Lowry-Corry 1938, 221-2). 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

• DG073-013003 Midden
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• DG073-013004 Burial ground
  Description

  A D-shaped area 32.2m N-S and 18.3m E-W is enclosed by a modern graveyard stone wall. Traces of older enclosing walls are visible in places. To the W of the graveyard (DG073-013004-) is St. Connell's cross (DG073-013001-). A crude cross-shaped slab, 1.57m in height, .32m wide at the base, .65m wide at the arms and 0.26m at the top. The cross is orientated E-W. At the junction of the arms and the shaft on the S face is a thin incised Latin cross with a circle at the centre. The top and base of this cross have T-bar terminals, while two bars cross the arms a little before their ends. The site is located on the E slope of Crockatee Hill in rough pasture and rock outcrop. The site over-looks the sea to the E. The hill is also known as Cashel Hill. The cross here has been eroded badly, particularly at the centre where the design is flaking off, since it was described in 1938 (Crozier and Lowry-Corry 1938, 221-2). 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

• DG073-013005 Ecclesiastical enclosure
  Description

  Recorded in 1981 as the 'remains of a large circular enclosure bounded by remains of an earth and stone bank best preserved from SW-W-N-E. The bank is eroded down to the interior from NW-N-E. From SW-W-N where the site is overlooked by a hillslope the bank drops appreciably into the interior and rises only very slightly on the outside. The SE quadrant is now occupied by a modern D-shaped graveyard enclosed by a modern dry stone masonry wall. A modern N-S stone wall divides a segment of the site from the rest on the W. A hollow way leads from the monument c. 45m to the SSW and it may be an ancient roadway. The N end of the hollow way appears to have been cut through rock. The hollow way is 3m wide at the bottom. At the N end of the hollow way there may have been a gap 3m wide in the enclosure bank but it is now blocked by a slight relative modern looking bank. The interior has many humps and outcrops. The NE quadrant of the bank has been partly bulldozed away very recently. Very black earth and stones are visible where portions of the bank remain and thick deposits of oyster shells are visible for a depth of about 1m from the top' (SMR File 1981). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload/revision: : 02 September 2010.

• DG073-015001 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  Internal diam. 15m. An almost circular area enclosed by a stone wall which survives up to 1.1m in height. Sections of rock outcrop are incorporated in the wall. The wall varies in width from 1.3m to 2.85m. The site is located on a knoll of limestone surrounded on the N, E and S by the sea. There is rough pasture with much rock outcrop. 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

• DG073-015002 Cross-inscribed stone
  Description

  A portable stone .37m x .36m x .32m tapering to .23m at one side. A plain Latin cross with T-bar endings is carved on one face. The stone is located near a cashel (DG073-015001-). Cross was removed from hawthorn tree 3.2m to the west by person taking photographs. Not known if it faced south its original position but likely. 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

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Kilcashel.

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

Landslides

Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Kilcashel · Cill Chaisil

Area

491,916 m² (49.19 ha, 121.56 acres)

Civil parish

Inishkeel, and its townlands

Barony

Banagh

Electoral division

Glengesh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Glengesh electoral division: 694 people in 263 households; 82% of households own their home; 30% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 22% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Crannogeboy, Liskeeraghan, Longfield

Placenames

Kilcashel 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.