# Killydesert, Co. Donegal: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Kilmacrenan, barony of Kilmacrenan, Co. Donegal; in Irish Cill an Dísirt. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,227,222 m² (122.72 ha, 303.25 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 40 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 11,361 m² (1.14 ha, 2.81 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Kilmacrenan, https://everytownland.com/donegal/parish/kilmacrenan.md - Barony: Kilmacrenan - Electoral division: Edenacarnan, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 1,824 people lived in 586 households in the Edenacarnan electoral division. 69% of households owned their home. 70% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Donegal, https://everytownland.com/donegal.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/15520 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 51575 - Centre: latitude 54.997398, longitude -7.768689 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 40 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Killydesert, from 410 m² to 165,619 m² (16.56 ha, 40.93 acres); 17 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1372215: 165,619 m² (16.56 ha, 40.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1372215.md - Parcel 1357539: 113,093 m² (11.31 ha, 27.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1357539.md - Parcel 1316118: 98,059 m² (9.81 ha, 24.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1316118.md - Parcel 1346217: 97,340 m² (9.73 ha, 24.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1346217.md - Parcel 1301597: 89,093 m² (8.91 ha, 22.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1301597.md - Parcel 1417205: 81,643 m² (8.16 ha, 20.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1417205.md - Parcel 1352218: 47,997 m² (4.8 ha, 11.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1352218.md - Parcel 1322495: 45,435 m² (4.54 ha, 11.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1322495.md - Parcel 1331279: 39,999 m² (4 ha, 9.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1331279.md - Parcel 1310693: 32,602 m² (3.26 ha, 8.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1310693.md - Parcel 1305887: 31,326 m² (3.13 ha, 7.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1305887.md - Parcel 1310528: 30,483 m² (3.05 ha, 7.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1310528.md - Parcel 1331589: 30,036 m² (3 ha, 7.42 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1331589.md - Parcel 1315746: 26,272 m² (2.63 ha, 6.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1315746.md - Parcel 1346353: 26,164 m² (2.62 ha, 6.47 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1346353.md - Parcel 1394558: 17,351 m² (1.74 ha, 4.29 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1394558.md - Parcel 1321955: 13,386 m² (1.34 ha, 3.31 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1321955.md - Parcel 1352279: 12,779 m² (1.28 ha, 3.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1352279.md - Parcel 1339344: 11,969 m² (1.2 ha, 2.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1339344.md - Parcel 1306252: 11,500 m² (1.15 ha, 2.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1306252.md - Parcel 1331171: 11,221 m² (1.12 ha, 2.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1331171.md - Parcel 1427322: 10,719 m² (1.07 ha, 2.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1427322.md - Parcel 1352336: 10,298 m² (1.03 ha, 2.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1352336.md - Parcel 1331033: 9,130 m² (0.91 ha, 2.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1331033.md - Parcel 1357183: 8,264 m² (0.83 ha, 2.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1357183.md - Parcel 1322162: 6,633 m² (0.66 ha, 1.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1322162.md - Parcel 1310404: 6,163 m² (0.62 ha, 1.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1310404.md - Parcel 1331078: 5,544 m² (0.55 ha, 1.37 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1331078.md - Parcel 1394540: 3,903 m² (0.39 ha, 0.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1394540.md - Parcel 1426833: 3,644 m² (0.36 ha, 0.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1426833.md - Parcel 1352358: 3,449 m² (0.34 ha, 0.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1352358.md - Parcel 4760802: 3,315 m² (0.33 ha, 0.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4760802.md - Parcel 1322113: 2,764 m² (0.28 ha, 0.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1322113.md - Parcel 1339374: 2,145 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1339374.md - Parcel 1322264: 2,007 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1322264.md - Parcel 1424188: 1,943 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1424188.md - Parcel 4616829: 1,818 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4616829.md - Parcel 1339389: 1,026 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1339389.md - Parcel 1357161: 537 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1357161.md - Parcel 1306086: 410 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1306086.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 2 applications, newest first. - 1 May 2026, Donegal County Council 2660777: Conditional. Permission. (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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660777/0 - 4 Sept 2025, Donegal County Council 2561520: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DERELICT DWELLING HOUSE AND ERECTION OF A NEW REPLACEMENT DWELLING HOUSE INCLUDING ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2561520/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Killydesert. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - DG045-027001: Church, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDG045-027001-. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDG045-027002-. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDG045-028----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDG045-029----. 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 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - House, 1890–1910, Regional interest, registry number 40904554, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=DG®no=40904554. 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. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Killydesert, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. - 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, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/donegal/killydesert.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/donegal/killydesert.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/donegal/killydesert.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Killydesert with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal: https://everytownland.com/donegal.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Bellanascaddan: https://everytownland.com/donegal/bellanascaddan.md - Cashelgay: https://everytownland.com/donegal/cashelgay.md - Cloghroe: https://everytownland.com/donegal/cloghroe-50648.md - Edenacarnan North: https://everytownland.com/donegal/edenacarnan-north.md - Edenacarnan South: https://everytownland.com/donegal/edenacarnan-south.md - Gortalaban: https://everytownland.com/donegal/gortalaban.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/donegal/killydesert - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/donegal/killydesert