# Killygarvan Upper, Co. Donegal: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Killygarvan, barony of Kilmacrenan, Co. Donegal; in Irish Cill Gharbháin Uachtarach. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 588,068 m² (58.81 ha, 145.31 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 1,339 m² - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 7 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Killygarvan, https://everytownland.com/donegal/parish/killygarvan.md - Barony: Kilmacrenan - Electoral division: Rathmullan, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 965 people lived in 357 households in the Rathmullan electoral division. 75% of households owned their home. 32% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 47% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Donegal, https://everytownland.com/donegal.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/16037 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 51578 - Centre: latitude 55.120938, longitude -7.533612 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Killygarvan Upper, from 165 m² to 162,814 m² (16.28 ha, 40.23 acres); 11 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1310095: 162,814 m² (16.28 ha, 40.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1310095.md - Parcel 1423191: 114,133 m² (11.41 ha, 28.2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1423191.md - Parcel 1339666: 102,618 m² (10.26 ha, 25.36 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1339666.md - Parcel 1387802: 88,600 m² (8.86 ha, 21.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1387802.md - Parcel 1422799: 59,625 m² (5.96 ha, 14.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1422799.md - Parcel 5218079: 16,049 m² (1.6 ha, 3.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5218079.md - Parcel 1387803: 11,213 m² (1.12 ha, 2.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1387803.md - Parcel 1402907: 2,917 m² (0.29 ha, 0.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1402907.md - Parcel 3662118: 2,280 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3662118.md - Parcel 4890361: 1,979 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4890361.md - Parcel 1374128: 1,743 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1374128.md - Parcel 3662117: 1,339 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3662117.md - Parcel 1426973: 1,114 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1426973.md - Parcel 1424219: 1,075 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1424219.md - Parcel 1375247: 1,072 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1375247.md - Parcel 1406783: 830 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1406783.md - Parcel 5892633: 799 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5892633.md - Parcel 1382765: 798 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1382765.md - Parcel 1410822: 777 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1410822.md - Parcel 5892630: 712 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5892630.md - Parcel 1413010: 659 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1413010.md - Parcel 1421973: 601 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1421973.md - Parcel 5892644: 165 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5892644.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Killygarvan Upper 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) 7 applications, newest first. - 9 Jun 2026, Donegal County Council 2661052: Conditional. Permission. (1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING MARQUEE AND BACK OF HOUSE FACILITIES, (2) PART DEMOLITION OF EXISTING STONE AND BRICK WALL, (3) CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW TWO STOREY STRUCTURE TO INCLUDE (A) A NEW FUNCTION HALL AND ASSOCIATED BACK OF HOUSE TO REPLACE EXISTING MARQUEE AND BACK OF HOUSE FACILITIES AND (B) 9 NO. NEW BEDROOMS AS AN EXTENSION OF EXISTING ANCILLARY WEDDING VENUE ACCOMMODATION, (4) DECOMMISSIONING OF EXISTING WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND INSTALLATION OF REPLACEMENT WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND SECONDARY / TERTIARY POLISHING PERCOLATION FACILITY AND (5) ALL ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2661052/0 - 7 Oct 2025, Donegal County Council 2561751: Conditional. Permission. AMENDMENT TO CONDITION NO. 2 (B) OF A PREVIOUS GRANT OF PERMISSION (PLANNING REF. NO. 17/50839 REFERS) TO EXTEND THE USE OF THE FACILITIES TO YEAR ROUND USE. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2561751/0 - 31 Jul 2025, Donegal County Council 2561314: Conditional. Permission. (1) MODIFICATIONS TO THE SITE ENTRANCE (2) THE DEMOLITION OF AN EXISTING PORCH TO HOUSE AND REPLACEMENT WITH NEW PORTICO STRUCTURE (3) NEW SUNROOM EXTENSION TO HOUSE (4) INTERNAL MODIFICATIONS TO HOUSE AND (5) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2561314/0 - 23 Oct 2024, Donegal County Council 2461681: Conditional. Permission. ERECTION OF NEW STORAGE SHED TO SIDE AND REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2461681/0 - 21 Feb 2023, Donegal County Council 2350191: Conditional. Retention. MEETING ROOM BUILDING. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2350191/0 - 22 Jul 2019, Donegal County Council 1951125: Conditional. Permission. EXTENSIONS AND ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING DWELLING AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1951125/0 - 30 May 2017, Donegal County Council 1750839: Conditional. Permission. ERECTION OF A MARQUEE. ALSO RETENTION PERMISSION FOR THE FOLLOWING (1) ADDITIONAL COVERED ENTRANCE AND COVERED LINK TO MARQUEE, (2) ANCILLARY TOILET BLOCK, KITCHEN AND STORE AND ASSOCIATED WORKS INCLUDING CONNECTION TO EXISTING APPROVED TREATMENT SYSTEM SEVING DRUMHALLA HOUSE. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1750839/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: Lough Swilly SAC, site code 002287, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/002287 - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Swilly Including Big Isle, Blanket Nook & Inch Lake, site code 000166 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - DG028-025: Ritual site - holy well, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDG028-025----. OS 28 (Precise location not discovered) 54 (Ó Muirgheasa No. 64) 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 - DG028-032: Souterrain, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDG028-032----. The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie. 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) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Killygarvan Upper. ## 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 Killygarvan Upper, 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 Killygarvan Upper. - 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/killygarvan-upper.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/donegal/killygarvan-upper.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/donegal/killygarvan-upper.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Killygarvan Upper 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) - Clondallan: https://everytownland.com/donegal/clondallan.md - Glebe: https://everytownland.com/donegal/glebe-51321.md - Gortflugh: https://everytownland.com/donegal/gortflugh.md - Killygarvan Lower: https://everytownland.com/donegal/killygarvan-lower.md - Saltpans: https://everytownland.com/donegal/saltpans-52346.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/killygarvan-upper - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/donegal/killygarvan-upper