# Kilpheak, Co. Donegal: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Conwal, barony of Kilmacrenan, Co. Donegal. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 2,003,202 m² (200.32 ha, 495 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 40 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 7,454 m² (0.75 ha, 1.84 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 6 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Conwal, https://everytownland.com/donegal/parish/conwal.md - Barony: Kilmacrenan - Electoral division: Killymasny, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 512 people lived in 166 households in the Killymasny electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 42% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Donegal, https://everytownland.com/donegal.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/15569 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 51591 - Centre: latitude 54.94354, longitude -7.877688 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 40 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilpheak, from 214 m² to 219,908 m² (21.99 ha, 54.34 acres); 23 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 4240408: 219,908 m² (21.99 ha, 54.34 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4240408.md - Parcel 1394009: 210,620 m² (21.06 ha, 52.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1394009.md - Parcel 1385187: 173,096 m² (17.31 ha, 42.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1385187.md - Parcel 1385191: 165,145 m² (16.51 ha, 40.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1385191.md - Parcel 1419974: 143,594 m² (14.36 ha, 35.48 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1419974.md - Parcel 1419980: 141,179 m² (14.12 ha, 34.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1419980.md - Parcel 1419979: 120,785 m² (12.08 ha, 29.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1419979.md - Parcel 5540082: 105,819 m² (10.58 ha, 26.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5540082.md - Parcel 1331846: 89,037 m² (8.9 ha, 22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1331846.md - Parcel 1385186: 86,463 m² (8.65 ha, 21.37 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1385186.md - Parcel 1346801: 67,800 m² (6.78 ha, 16.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1346801.md - Parcel 1385190: 63,029 m² (6.3 ha, 15.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1385190.md - Parcel 1352743: 42,399 m² (4.24 ha, 10.48 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1352743.md - Parcel 1419973: 41,467 m² (4.15 ha, 10.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1419973.md - Parcel 1322405: 39,988 m² (4 ha, 9.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1322405.md - Parcel 1331177: 38,380 m² (3.84 ha, 9.48 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1331177.md - Parcel 4816625: 27,911 m² (2.79 ha, 6.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4816625.md - Parcel 1394826: 13,272 m² (1.33 ha, 3.28 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1394826.md - Parcel 1395051: 10,259 m² (1.03 ha, 2.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1395051.md - Parcel 1357579: 9,151 m² (0.92 ha, 2.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1357579.md - Parcel 1321589: 5,757 m² (0.58 ha, 1.42 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1321589.md - Parcel 3661654: 5,491 m² (0.55 ha, 1.36 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3661654.md - Parcel 1417246: 4,510 m² (0.45 ha, 1.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1417246.md - Parcel 5194321: 3,799 m² (0.38 ha, 0.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5194321.md - Parcel 4737508: 3,723 m² (0.37 ha, 0.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4737508.md - Parcel 4816628: 3,640 m² (0.36 ha, 0.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4816628.md - Parcel 5332635: 3,401 m² (0.34 ha, 0.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5332635.md - Parcel 4189333: 3,282 m² (0.33 ha, 0.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4189333.md - Parcel 5540094: 3,203 m² (0.32 ha, 0.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5540094.md - Parcel 2472696: 3,129 m² (0.31 ha, 0.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2472696.md - Parcel 1391389: 2,871 m² (0.29 ha, 0.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1391389.md - Parcel 3661651: 2,497 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3661651.md - Parcel 3661652: 2,390 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3661652.md - Parcel 1412892: 2,368 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1412892.md - Parcel 1399776: 2,287 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1399776.md - Parcel 1421865: 2,180 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1421865.md - Parcel 3661653: 2,143 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3661653.md - Parcel 5559072: 1,637 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5559072.md - Parcel 5540086: 1,312 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5540086.md - Parcel 4771803: 214 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4771803.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Kilpheak 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) 6 applications, newest first. - 10 May 2023, Donegal County Council 2350640: Conditional. Retention. DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH LEAN TO ANNEX. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2350640/0 - 26 Jan 2022, Donegal County Council 2250084: Conditional. Permission. REFURBISHMENT AND EXTENSION TO AN EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE WITH INSTALLATION OF A NEW WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2250084/0 - 20 Jun 2019, Donegal County Council 1950931: N/a. Retention, 1 home. (1) SITE WORKS/ REDUCED LEVELS ON-SITE, PREVIOSULY APPROVED UNDER PL REF. 07/50767 AND PERMISSION FOR ERECTION OF A NEW SPLIT-LEVEL DWELLING HOUSE TOGETHER WITH DOMESTIC GARAGE, ON-SITE TREATMENT SYSTEM, POLISHING FILTER, INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1950931/0 - 7 Jun 2019, Donegal County Council 1950862: N/a. Retention, 1 home. (1) SITE WORKS/ REDUCED LEVELS ON-SITE, PREVIOSULY APPROVED UNDER PL REF. 07/50767 AND PERMISSION FOR (2) ERECTION OF A NEW SPLIT-LEVEL DWELLING HOUSE TOGETHER WITH DOMESTIC GARAGE, ON-SITE TREATMENT SYSTEM, POLISHING FILTER, INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1950862/0 - 2 May 2018, Donegal County Council 1850703: Conditional. Permission. ERECTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL SLATTED SHED WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1850703/0 - 24 Apr 2017, Donegal County Council 1750613: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND DOMESTIC GARAGE. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1750613/0 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 Kilpheak. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - DG052-026: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDG052-026----. There is no sign of the single-ringed enclosure shown on the 1st and 2nd editions of the OS 6-inch maps. Situated in a valley of good farming land. 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) - Saint Columba's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1840–1895, Regional interest, registry number 40905207, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=DG®no=40905207. Freestanding Catholic church, built c.1841 and altered c.1890, having seven-bay nave, and lower three-bay sacristy added c.1890 to middle of south elevation. Building re-roofed c.1890 and renovated 1994. Pitched slate roof with blue clay ridge tiles, ventilator to middle of nave roof, projecting eaves course, rendered cross finials to nave gables, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Pitched slate roof to sacristy with rendered chimneystack. Painted roughcast rendered walls, with smooth rendered sill course to nave. Pointed-arch window openings to south elevation of nave and to west gable, with painted stone sills and replacement twelve-over-twelve pane timber sliding sash windows with intersecting tracery to fanlights. Pointed-arch opening to east gable (lighting gallery to interior) with fixed-pane timber window having intersecting tracery to head; square-headed window opening below with render surround and fixed-pane window. Pointed-arch and square-headed window openings to sacristy with replacement fittings. Pointed-arch doorways to each end of south elevation of nave, having smooth rendered reveals, overlights with intersecting tracery, battened timber double-leaf door to east and replacement glazed double-leaf door to west. Square-headed replacement timber doors to sacristy. Interior has timber sheeted ceiling with exposed queen-post truss roof; choir balcony to east supported on cast-iron columns and having decorative timber balustrade; pointed-arch statue niche with statue of Virgin Mary; and timber pews. Set on elevated site sloping down to River Swilly, with lawns to south and low roughcast rendered boundary wall to north having gateway with roughcast rendered square-plan piers with cross finials and wrought-iron double-leaf gate. Inscribed stone slab to west gable of church inscribed 'St Colmcille' and 'St Columba's', and with depiction of south elevation of church. Marian grotto to west side of grounds, and parochial house adjacent to east. ## 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 Kilpheak, about 1 in 20 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 Kilpheak. - 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/kilpheak.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/donegal/kilpheak.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/donegal/kilpheak.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Kilpheak 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) - Ballygawley: https://everytownland.com/donegal/ballygawley.md - Barrack or Ballymagig: https://everytownland.com/donegal/barrack-or-ballymagig.md - Cashelreagh: https://everytownland.com/donegal/cashelreagh.md - Drumenan: https://everytownland.com/donegal/drumenan-51042.md - Procklis: https://everytownland.com/donegal/procklis-52228.md - Seacor: https://everytownland.com/donegal/seacor.md - Tullychullion: https://everytownland.com/donegal/tullychullion.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/kilpheak - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/donegal/kilpheak