Killygarvan Lower

12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Killygarvan Lower, from 1,578 m² to 181,642 m² (18.16 ha, 44.88 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 8 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 Killygarvan Lower 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.

• 22 Jul 2019Conditional

  EXTENSIONS AND ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING DWELLING AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1951125

• 24 Oct 2018Conditional

  (1) AN FOIRGNEAMH INÁITRITHE ATÁ ANSIN FAOI LÁTHAIR A BHFUIL DHÁ STÓR ANN A LEAGADH, AGUS AN DAMHACH SHÉIREACHAIS ATÁ LEIS A DHÍOCHOIMISIÚNÚ (2) TEACH CÓNAITHE DHÁ STÓR MAR AON LE STÓR/SEOMRA INNEALRA SEACHTRACH DHÁ STÓR; A THOGÁIL CHOMH MAITH LE LINN SNÁMHA TAOBH AMUIGH ; CÓRAS CÓIRÉALA DRAMHUISCE AGUS GACH OIBREACHA A BHAINEANN LE FORBAIRT AN TSUÍOMH

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1851628

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Lough Swilly SAC 002287
• Special Protection Area: Lough Swilly SPA 004075
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Swilly Including Big Isle, Blanket Nook & Inch Lake 000166

Recorded monuments

• DG028-033 Burial ground
  Description

  In April 1988 the discovery of human remains on Killygarvan Island were reported to the National Museum by mr. Roy Spence of Belfast. This proved to have been placed in a lintelled grave and in September 1988 Mr. Spenmce reported the disccovery of a second grave nearby. The site is a tidal island located at the northern end of kinnegar Strand, c. 50m in diameter and c. 2m in maximum height. Its southern flank is being actively eroded and it was along this side that two lintel graves were uncovered. The first grave (Grave I) lay 2.1m north-west of the second (Grave II). Excavation by R. O Floinn of the NMI revelaed that Grave I was located 0.3-0.4m below the sod and consisted of three covering slabs; one at the west end measuring 0.6m by 0.4m; one at the east end measuring 1.2m by 0.5m, which was overlain by a small D-shaped slab 0.4m by 0.3m. The sidestones consisted of slabs or water rolled stones with flat inner faces. There were five principal slabs on each side and all were inclined outwards. The grave was irregular in plan, measuring 1.73m in internal length and 0.34m in width at the broader, western end. The sidestones varied in height from 0.29m to 0.46m. The north west and north east corners were occupied by tall, pillar-like stones which filled the spaces between the ends and the long sides of the grave. The floor was paved with a series of carefully laid slabs. The skeleton lay directly on the paved floor, fully extended and on its back. The head lay in the south western corner of the grave, facing south. The lower arm bones, vertebrae, ribs and pelvic bones were almost entirely missing due to the collpase of the covering slabs. The remains have been identified as those of an adult female. The grave was orientated south west/ north east with the head in the south west. Grave II contined no evidence of human remains and excavation revealed that the covering stones of the grave which had been arranged neatly and which covered an oval area 1.25m long an 0.7m wide. There were four principal covering stones, irregular in shape, which overlapped one another and lay directly in the sidestones. As excavation of the cist began, a large tapering pillar-like stone, 0.7m long and rectnagular in section (0.2m x 0.08m) was discovered lying horizontally over the covering stones, its long axis parallel to that of the grave. It was undecorated and was centrally placed, its narrow end close to the southern end of the grave. It originally stood in a vertical position at the southern end of the grave and can be interpreted as a grave-marker. This grave was orientated south south-west/north north-east. Although no bone survived, the presence of a headstone and pillow stone showed that the head was placed to the south. The size of the grave indicated that it contained the remains of a child. At Killygarvan island the nearest church is much closer but the absence of any structures or tradition of burial may indicate that the lintel graves represent part of an early cemetery which was replaced by that which surrounds Killygarvan Church to the north (O' Floinn 1992, 42-50). The above information was taken from an article written by R. O Floinn in 1992 and published in the Donegal Annual for 1992.

• DG028-033002 Burial
  Description

  In January 1995 a lintel grave containing an inhumation burial was discovered on this island. It was located on the south side of the island, where erosion had exposed it in long section. The grave had been partially destroyed and lay on the high-tide line. Some of the human remains eroding out of the section had been removed to Donegal County Museum. The cist was rectangular in plan with its long axis aligned east/west. The surviving portion measured approximately 1.7m long by 0.4m wide by 0.3m high. Erosion had exposed the southern side of the cist, and only two collapsed side stones survived. The north side was formed of three edge-set slabs, each approximately 0.5m in length, with the flat sides facing inwards. The ends of the cists were not closed, but one stone found lying flat near the west end might represent a collapsed end stone. A number of courses of flat stones survived above the southern side walls. The cist contained an extended inhumation of an adult female (NMI 1995:175) lying west/east and no accompanying artefacts were found. Much of the skeleton had been removed prior to excavation, but the skull was found at the western end. A number of lintel graves had been excavated in the same location by Raghnall Ó Floinn in 1988 (DG0238-033----) (Ó Floinn 1992).(Cahill and Sikora 2011, ii, 18-21) Compiled by: Paul Walsh Date of upload: 15 April 2014

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Killygarvan Lower.

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 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 Killygarvan Lower.

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

Name

Killygarvan Lower · Cill Gharbháin Íochtarach

Area

584,634 m² (58.46 ha, 144.47 acres)

Civil parish

Killygarvan, and its townlands

Barony

Kilmacrenan

Electoral division

Rathmullan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Rathmullan electoral division: 965 people in 357 households; 75% of households own their home; 32% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 47% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Glebe, Killygarvan Upper, Saltpans

Placenames

Killygarvan Lower 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.