Killydesert

40 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Killydesert, from 410 m² to 165,619 m² (16.56 ha, 40.93 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 17 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 Killydesert 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 May 2026Conditional

  (1) RETENTION OF PORCH EXTENSION TO THE FRONT ELEVATION OF EXISTING DWELLING AND (2) RETENTION AND COMPLETION OF PARTIALLY CONSTRUCTED EXTENSION TO THE REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2660777

• 4 Sept 2025Conditional

  DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DERELICT DWELLING HOUSE AND ERECTION OF A NEW REPLACEMENT DWELLING HOUSE INCLUDING ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2561520

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 Killydesert.

Recorded monuments

• DG045-027001 Church
  Description

  Marked as the 'site of' a church on the 2nd and 3rd editions of the OS 6-inch maps. The site consists of a heap of stones (some with encrusted mortar) 5m x 3.5m x .5m in height. A straight field wall to the E and a curving wall to the S and W partially enclose the site. Curving to the N beyond the curving field wall is a 12m stretch consisting of a basal layer of small stones which possibly represents the remains of an earlier enclosure (DG045-027002-). The interior slopes from N to S and E to W as does the surrounding land. Although there is no certain evidence of a complete circle here, the remains suggest an enclosure c. 40m in diameter. The site is located in an area of rough pasture with some rock outcrop and is concealed by overgrowth. 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

• DG045-027002 Ecclesiastical enclosure
  Description

  Marked as the 'site of' a church (DG045-027001-) on the 2nd and 3rd editions of the OS 6-inch maps. The site consists of a heap of stones (some with encrusted mortar) 5m x 3.5m x .5m in height. A straight field wall to the E and a curving wall to the S and W partially enclose the site. Curving to the N beyond the curving field wall is a 12m stretch consisting of a basal layer of small stones which possibly represents the remains of an earlier enclosure (DG045-027002-). The interior slopes from N to S and E to W as does the surrounding land. Although there is no certain evidence of a complete circle here, the remains suggest an enclosure c. 40m in diameter. The site is located in an area of rough pasture with some rock outcrop and is concealed by overgrowth. 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

• DG045-028 Burial ground
  Description

  There is now no trace of the burial ground marked on the 2nd and 3rd editions of the OS 6-inch maps. It was located on a ridge of rock on a S facing slope in an area of rough pasture. 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

• DG045-029 Souterrain
  Description

  An underground cavity with a clay covered floor, and roof and sides of natural rock. It is difficult to say to what extent this is an artificial feature. An entry 1m wide × 0.75m high enters the main 'chamber' which is 1m to 1.5m below ground level and 4m N-S × 2m to 2.8m E-W. A possible side-chamber in the NW cor-ner is now inaccessible. A narrow passage, at the SW end, is now partially destroyed by a road which crosses over this end. There are two small openings through the roof, one to the NE and another to the W. These are possibly air vents. The site is located close to the bottom of a S-facing slope with a lot of rock outcrop and overgrowth. 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

• House, 1890–1910 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey labourer's cottage with attic, built c.1900, entrance being within integral lean-to bay to one gable. Disused at time of survey. Single-storey outbuilding attached to west. Pitched slate roof with cast-iron rainwater goods on raised eaves course and limewashed rubble stone chimneystacks to gables with flat stone copings. Entrance bay has corrugated-iron roof. Limewashed rubble stone walls. Square-headed openings with two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows and stone sills, and replacement sheet metal door with overlight.

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 high, 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 Killydesert.

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

Name

Killydesert · Cill an Dísirt

Area

1,227,222 m² (122.72 ha, 303.25 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmacrenan, and its townlands

Barony

Kilmacrenan

Electoral division

Edenacarnan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Edenacarnan electoral division: 1,824 people in 586 households; 69% of households own their home; 70% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bellanascaddan, Cashelgay, Cloghroe, Edenacarnan North, Edenacarnan South, Gortalaban

Placenames

Killydesert 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.