Kilcreen

63 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilcreen, from 81 m² to 95,236 m² (9.52 ha, 23.53 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 24 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 Kilcreen 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.

• 28 Jul 2026N/a

  ERECTION OF DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM, DOMESTIC GARAGE, TEMPORARY PLACEMENT OF MOBILE HOME ON SITE TO BE REMOVED UPON COMPLETION OF THE DWELLING AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 2 homes · Donegal County Council, 2661404

• 13 Apr 2025Conditional

  CHANGE OF HOUSE DESIGN AND GARAGE DESIGN FROM THAT PREVIOUSLY GRANTED (PLANNING REF. NO. 24/60470 REFERS)

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2560559

• 21 Nov 2024Conditional

  (1) COMPLETION OF DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS PREVIOUSLY APPROVED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 12/50624 AND EXTENDED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 18/50013 AND (2) CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSIONS AND ALTERATIONS TO DWELLING

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2461897

• 8 Apr 2024Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF TWO-STOREY DWELLING AND GARAGE WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS TO INCLUDE A WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND POLISHING FILTER

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2460470

• 2 Apr 2024Conditional

  RELOCATION OF WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT PREVIOUSLY APPROVED UNDER PLANNING REFERENCE NUMBER 21/51371

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2460425

• 12 Jul 2021Conditional

  (1)CHANGE OF USE OF DISUSED NATIONAL SCHOOL TO A DWELLING HOUSE TO INCLUDE RENOVATIONS TO THE EXISTING STRUCTURE AND ERECTION OF A SINGLE STOREY REAR EXTENSION (2) ALL ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS TO INCLUDE A WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND POLISHING FILTER

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2151371

• 11 Jan 2018Unconditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH DOMESTIC GARAGE, WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM & ALL ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS

  Extension of duration, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1850013

• 11 Jan 2018Unconditional

  CHANGE OF HOUSE TYPE, RELOCATION OF ENTRANCE AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS, PREVIOUSLY PERMITTED UNDER PLANNING PERMISSION REF. NO. 12/50625

  Extension of duration, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1850014

• 11 Jan 2018Unconditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH DOMESTIC GARAGE, WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS

  Extension of duration, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1850015

• 17 Feb 2017Conditional

  CHANGE OF HOUSE TYPE, RELOCATION OF ENTRANCE AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS, PREVIOUSLY PERMITTED UNDER PLANNING PERMISSION REF. NO. 12/50625

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1750225

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 Kilcreen.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Kilcreen.

Architectural heritage

• Kilcreen Catholic Chapel, church/chapel, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Ruins of freestanding T-plan Catholic chapel, built c.1820, having four-bay nave. Roofless, previously pitched, with projecting eaves course. Remains of lime render over rubble stone walls. Pointed-arch openings with rubble stone voussoirs. Recent plaque to altar inscribed 'Peace in our time'. Stands in graveyard bounded by rubble stone wall with round-plan piers having metal gate.

• Kilcreen National School, school, 1935–1940 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey T-plan former national school, dated 1936, having projecting two-bay gabled porch to front. Pitched slate roof with overhanging rendered eaves course, cast-iron rainwater goods and with slightly projecting yellow brick chimneystacks to gable ends. Smooth-rendered walls with rusticated cut-limestone plaque inscribed: "Sgoil na Coilleadh Críne/Sgoil Náisíunta/1936". Square-headed openings, having concrete sills and timber sliding sash windows, six-over-six pane to end bays of front and to rear, four-over four pane to porch, and six-over-nine pane to gable ends. Square-headed timber battened doors to sides of porch. Set at road junction with rendered wall to rear dividing yard, single-storey outbuildings to northwest and low rendered boundary wall to front having chamfered coping, square-plan piers with remains of metal gate, and stile.

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 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 Kilcreen.

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

Name

Kilcreen

Area

844,383 m² (84.44 ha, 208.65 acres)

Civil parish

Aughnish, and its townlands

Barony

Kilmacrenan

Electoral division

Rathmelton, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Rathmelton electoral division: 2,494 people in 938 households; 71% of households own their home; 42% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aughnish, Ballybokeel, Ballyelly, Carnhill, Carrygalt, Croaghan, Killydonnell, Newmill, Prablin

Placenames

Kilcreen 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.