Kill
Kill is a townland in the civil parish of Mevagh, barony of Kilmacrenan, Co. Donegal.
- Area
- 222.2 ha
- 549 acres
- Land parcels
- 111
- registered freehold, median 1,687 m²
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 10
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
111 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kill, from 10 m² to 1,019,406 m² (101.94 ha, 251.9 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 41 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Kill 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
15 Dec 2025Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2562218
29 Oct 2025Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE AND INSTALLATION OF A WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2561882
20 Dec 2023Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A PART SINGLE STOREY DWELLING HOUSE WITH ATTIC ACCOMMODATION, PROVISION OF A WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2351960
24 May 2023Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE AND TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH SOIL POLISHING FILTER AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2350724
24 Nov 2021Conditional
ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING DWELLING AND CONSTRUCTION OF FRONT EXTENSION, RECONFIGURATION OF EXISTING ACCESS TO REAR OF PROPERTY AND ALTERATIONS TO BOUNDARY TREATMENTS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2152337
12 Nov 2021N/a
ALTERATIONS TO AN EXISTING DWELLING AND CONSTRUCTION OF FRONT EXTENSION, RECONFIGURATION OF EXISTING ACCESS TO REAR OF PROPERTY AND ALTERATIONS TO BOUNDARY TREATMENTS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2152239
17 Oct 2018Conditional
REPLACEMENT OF EXISTING SEPTIC TANK WITH A WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1851604
10 Aug 2018Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING AND SEPTIC TANK TOGETHER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1851234
31 Jul 2018N/a
CONSTRUCTION OF NEW DWELLING AND SEPTIC TANK TOGETHER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1851185
4 Oct 2017Conditional
COMPLETION OF PARTIALLY COMPLETED HOUSE AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1751522
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Cloghernagore Bog and Glenveagh National Park SAC 002047
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Kill.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Kill.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Kill, about 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Kill.
- Flooding
- The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Kill with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Kill
- Area
- 2,221,831 m² (222.18 ha, 549.03 acres)
- Civil parish
- Mevagh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kilmacrenan
- Electoral division
- Carrickart, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 965 people lived in 353 households in the Carrickart electoral division. 73% of households owned their home. 37% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 40% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Carnagore, Drumdutton, Dunmore, Glengillagrana High, Glenmenagh, Glenree
- Placenames
- Kill 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.