# Kiltown, Co. Donegal: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Donaghmore, barony of Raphoe South, Co. Donegal. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 836,464 m² (83.65 ha, 206.69 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 29,236 m² (2.92 ha, 7.22 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Donaghmore, https://everytownland.com/donegal/parish/donaghmore.md - Barony: Raphoe South - Electoral division: Killygordon, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 1,146 people lived in 451 households in the Killygordon electoral division. 70% of households owned their home. 34% 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/16436 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 51598 - Centre: latitude 54.798923, longitude -7.662366 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kiltown, from 732 m² to 251,898 m² (25.19 ha, 62.25 acres); 14 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1428134: 251,898 m² (25.19 ha, 62.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1428134.md - Parcel 1315096: 155,717 m² (15.57 ha, 38.48 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1315096.md - Parcel 5140892: 136,777 m² (13.68 ha, 33.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5140892.md - Parcel 1322356: 76,358 m² (7.64 ha, 18.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1322356.md - Parcel 1330301: 56,601 m² (5.66 ha, 13.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1330301.md - Parcel 1339962: 42,701 m² (4.27 ha, 10.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1339962.md - Parcel 1310630: 29,363 m² (2.94 ha, 7.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1310630.md - Parcel 1315964: 29,110 m² (2.91 ha, 7.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1315964.md - Parcel 1331452: 19,727 m² (1.97 ha, 4.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1331452.md - Parcel 3657364: 10,416 m² (1.04 ha, 2.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3657364.md - Parcel 1352884: 2,610 m² (0.26 ha, 0.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1352884.md - Parcel 1405550: 1,721 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1405550.md - Parcel 1357827: 1,335 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1357827.md - Parcel 1402511: 732 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1402511.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Kiltown 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. - 30 Jun 2023, Donegal County Council 2350947: Conditional. Permission. EXTENSION AND RENOVATION OF EXISTING DWELLING. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2350947/0 - 22 Jun 2020, Donegal County Council 2050804: Conditional. Retention. RETENTION AND COMPLETION OF A DOMESTIC GARAGE AND STORE WITH ATTACHED LEAN TO STRUCTURE INCORPORATING A HORSE STABLE AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2050804/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: River Finn SAC, site code 002301, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/002301 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - DG078-022: Ritual site - holy well, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDG078-022----. A well, said to cure eye ailments, situated under bushes in 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 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) - Kiltown House, house, 1880–1910, Regional interest, registry number 40907845, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=DG®no=40907845. Detached three-bay single-storey house with half-dormer attic level with gable-fronted dormers, built c. 1890, having central single-bay single-storey lean-to service return to rear (north). Pitched natural slate roof (purple slate\Bangor blue) having terracotta ridge tiles, cast-iron rainwater goods, decorative timber bargeboards to gables and gabled-fronted dormers, terracotta finials to gabled-fronted dormers, and with yellow brick chimneystacks to the gable ends (east and west). Painted roughcast rendered walls over projecting roughcast rendered plinth. Shallow segmental-headed window openings to main elevation at ground floor level (south) having smooth rendered reveals, and with two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows; round-headed windows to gabled dormer openings to main elevation having smooth rendered reveals, and with one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows; square-headed window openings to rear (north) having smooth rendered reveals and mainly two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows, and some replacement timber casement windows at ground floor level; square-headed window opening to the centre of the rear elevation at first floor level, lighting stair hall, having smooth rendered reveal and with one-over-one pane timber sliding sash window having margin glazing bars with coloured glass to outer panels; square-headed and single segmental-headed window openings to side elevations (east and west) having smooth rendered reveals, and with two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows. Central segmental-headed doorway to the main elevation (south) having replacement timber door with glazed upper panel, replacement sidelights, replacement overlight, and with flight of concrete steps. Set back from road in own grounds to the north-east of Killygordon with garden to front (south) and yard to rear (north) with complex of single-storey outbuildings. Detached seven-bay single-storey outbuilding to the north side of yard to rear of house having pitched corrugated-metal roof with raised rendered verges to the gable ends, whitewashed rubble stone walls, square-headed doorways with battened timber and corrugated-metal doors, and with square-headed window openings blocked with corrugated-metal sheeting. Detached three-bay single-storey outbuilding to the east side of yard having pitched corrugated-metal roof, rubble stone walls with sections of timber boarding to front (west), and with square-headed openings having battened timber and corrugated metal sheeted doors. Detached single-bay single-storey outbuilding to the west side of yard having pitched corrugated-metal roof with raised rendered verges to the gable ends and with rooflight, whitewashed roughcast rendered rubble stone walls, and with square-headed carriage-arch. Gateway to the south-west of site comprising a pair of rendered gate piers (on square-plan) having projecting plinths and pyramidal coping over, and with hooped wrought-iron gates. Rendered walls to site. ## 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 Kiltown, 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 low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Kiltown. - 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/kiltown.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/donegal/kiltown.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/donegal/kiltown.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Kiltown 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) - Ardnagannagh: https://everytownland.com/donegal/ardnagannagh.md - Ballyarrell: https://everytownland.com/donegal/ballyarrell.md - Killygordon: https://everytownland.com/donegal/killygordon.md - Liscooly: https://everytownland.com/donegal/liscooly.md - Magheraboy: https://everytownland.com/donegal/magheraboy-51832.md - Mullingar: https://everytownland.com/donegal/mullingar.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/kiltown - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/donegal/kiltown