Killultan
Townland in the civil parish of Killaghtee, barony of Banagh, Co. Donegal; in Irish Cill Ultáin
- Area
- 80 ha
- 198 acres
- Land parcels
- 64
- registered freehold, median 2,979 m² (0.3 ha, 0.74 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
64 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Killultan, from 30 m² to 46,053 m² (4.61 ha, 11.38 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 7 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 Killultan 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
5 Aug 2026N/a
(1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING AND DOMESTIC SHED, (2) DECOMMISSION OF EXISTING SEPTIC TANK, (3) CONSTRUCTION OF NEW DWELLING HOUSE WITH ATTACHED GARAGE, (4) PROPOSED ON-SITE WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM, POLISHING FILTER AREA AND (5) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2661464
30 Oct 2024Conditional
FRONT PORCH/SUN ROOM EXTENSION TO DWELLING HOUSE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2461736
21 Feb 2024Conditional
(1) REFURBISHMENT OF EXISTING DERELICT VERNACULAR HOUSE, (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A ONE AND HALF-STOREY EXTENSION TO THE WEST SIDE AND A SINGLE-STOREY LEAN-TO STORAGE SHED TO THE EAST SIDE OF EXISTING HOUSE, (3) DEMOLITION OF DERELICT OUTBUILDINGS, (4) PROVISION OF AN EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH PERCOLATION AREA AND (5) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) ACCOMPANIES THIS APPLICATION
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2460182
25 Apr 2023Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE-STOREY DWELLING HOUSE, DETACHED GARAGE, EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2350544
12 Jul 2021Conditional
ERECTION OF AN EXTENSION TO THE REAR OF HOUSE INCLUDING ELEVATION CHANGES TO THE EXISTING TWO STOREY BLOCK, MODIFICATIONS TO EXISTING FRONT PORCH, CONNECTIONS TO EXISTING SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2151373
7 Jul 2017Conditional
MINOR ELEVATIONAL CHANGES TO EXTENSION GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REFERENCE 07/20768, CHANGES INCLUDE ONE ADDITIONAL WINDOW TO BOTH THE EASTERN AND WESTERN ELEVATIONS, RELOCATION OF BEDROOM WINDOW ON WESTERN ELEVATION, RELOCATION OF CHIMNEY AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS
Retention · Donegal County Council, 1751084
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: St. John's Point SAC 000191
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: St. John's Point 000191
Recorded monuments
- DG097A001 Ringfort - unclassified
Description
Internal diam. 27.8m E-W, 29.3m N-S. An earthen platform from .5m to 1.5m above the surrounding ground is enclosed by an earthen bank up to .68m in height and by a largely silted-up fosse, best evident on the SW side, varying from 2.6m to 3.2m in width. There is slight evidence of an outer bank up to .3m in height and 4.7m in width. Six stones protrude through the surface of the interior, otherwise it is flat. The site is located on a prominent height overlooking the sea to the N, S and W in an area of good grass-land. There is some marshy land immediately to the S. 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 Killultan.
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 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 Killultan.
- 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 Killultan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Killultan · Cill Ultáin
- Area
- 800,047 m² (80 ha, 197.7 acres)
- Civil parish
- Killaghtee, and its townlands
- Barony
- Banagh
- Electoral division
- Dunkineely, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Dunkineely electoral division: 904 people in 351 households; 73% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 20% were holiday homes.
- Placenames
- Killultan 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.