Kilrean Lower
Townland in the civil parish of Lower Killybegs, barony of Boylagh, Co. Donegal; in Irish Cill Riáin Íochtarach
- Area
- 130.3 ha
- 322 acres
- Land parcels
- 47
- registered freehold, median 5,571 m² (0.56 ha, 1.38 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
47 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilrean Lower, from 946 m² to 143,282 m² (14.33 ha, 35.41 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 18 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Kilrean 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
31 May 2023N/a
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH PROPRIETARY WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2350766
1 Oct 2019Refused
CHANGE OF USE FROM OUTBUILDING TO USE AS ANCILLARY ACCOMMODATION ASSOCIATED WITH EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, ELEVATIONAL CHANGES & RAISING THE ROOF BY 700MM OF OUTBUILDING, CONNECTION TO EXISTING EFFLUENT TREATMENT UNIT AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1951478
20 Aug 2019N/a
CHANGE OF USE OF AN EXISTING OUTBUILDING TO USE AS ANCILLARY ACCOMODATION ASSOCIATED WITH AN EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, ELEVATIONAL CHANGES TO SAID OUTBUILDING, RAISING THE ROOF OF SAID OUTBUILDING BY 700MM, CONNECTION TO EXISTING EFFLUENT TREATMENT UNIT AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1951270
25 Oct 2018N/a
MINOR AMENDMENT TO FILE NO. 04/3600 FOR RE-ALIGNMENT OF TREATMENT PLANT AND IRRIGATION PIPEWORK LOCATION
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1851690
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
- Special Area of Conservation: West of Ardara/Maas Road SAC 000197
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: West Of Ardara/Maas Road 000197
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Kilrean Lower.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Kilrean 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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 20 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 Kilrean 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Kilrean Lower with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Kilrean Lower · Cill Riáin Íochtarach
- Area
- 1,302,911 m² (130.29 ha, 321.96 acres)
- Civil parish
- Lower Killybegs, and its townlands
- Barony
- Boylagh
- Electoral division
- Ardara, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Ardara electoral division: 1,280 people in 509 households; 65% of households own their home; 39% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 14% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Clonconwal, Corraness Glebe, Drumnacross, Garvegort Glebe, Gortnacart Glebe, Kilrean Upper, Tullyard, Urbaldeevan
- Placenames
- Kilrean 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.