Kiltyfergal

60 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kiltyfergal, from 70 m² to 230,746 m² (23.07 ha, 57.02 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 10 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Kiltyfergal 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.

• 28 Sept 2026N/a

  ALTERATIONS TO ELEVATIONS OF DWELLING AS CONSTRUCTED WHICH DIFFER FROM THOSE PREVIOUSLY APPROVED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 00/8169, TOGETHER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED ANCILLARY SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2661791

• 28 Oct 2025Conditional

  (1) CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW VEHICULAR ENTRANCE FROM THE EXISTING PRIVATE ACCESS ROAD TO PROVIDE ACCESS TO THE PROPOSED SITE, (2) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING AGRICULTURAL BUILDINGS, (3) RENOVATION AND ALTERATION OF EXISTING DERELICT DWELLING TOGETHER WITH THE CONVERSION OF AN ADJOINING AGRICULTURAL SHED TO PROVIDE NEW ACCOMMODATION ANCILLARY TO THE DWELLING INCLUDING CHANGES TO THE EXISTING ELEVATIONS, (4) DEMOLITION OF REAR WALL OF THE EXISTING DERELICT DWELLING AND GABLE WALL OF ADJOINING AGRICULTURAL SHED AND CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO THE EXISTING DERELICT DWELLING AND ADJOINING AGRICULTURAL SHED WHICH WILL INCLUDE AN ATTACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE AND (5) ALL ANCILLARY SITEWORKS REQUIRED TO FACILITATE THE DEVELOPMENT

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2561877

• 15 Jun 2024Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE INCORPORATING A WASTE WATER SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2460904

• 1 Sept 2023Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE INCORPORATING A WASTEWATER SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2351303

• 12 Jul 2021Conditional

  REPOSITIONING OF DWELLING HOUSE FROM THAT PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER REFERENCE NO 05/9281

  Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2151380

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: River Finn SAC 002301

Recorded monuments

• DG068-028 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  Internal diam. c. 20m-30m. Known as 'Caiseal Ban' a few boulders mark the site which was largely destroyed about 50 years ago. It was situated on a slight knoll on the side of Glenfinn Valley in fairly good 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 Excavation licence number 04E0763 The site of the proposed development at Kiltyfergal, Cloghan, of three detached houses, access roads and septic tanks/percolation areas is in a small field atop a low hill in a very hilly area close to Ballybofey. The site was overgrown and instruction had been given to remove the growth from the site prior to testing. Unfortunately the sod and a few centimetres of topsoil were also removed during the process. The proposed development site contains the site of a cashel. The Donegal Archaeological Survey (ed. Brian Lacy, 1983, p. 147) describes the site as a collection of boulders, with the majority of the cashel having been removed 60 years ago. Testing was carried out in June 2004. Six trenches were excavated by machine across the site, specifically sited to investigate the possible location of the cashel and the portions of the site to be directly affected by the proposed development. The site has been massively disturbed in the past and, to a lesser extent, more recently. A large spread of loose stone was immediately obvious on the site, exposed through the removal of the growth and sod. It measures roughly 15m east-west by 10m and extends north beyond the site obviously under the sod. This spread was intersected by Trench 5. No archaeological features or finds were identified in any of the six trenches. However, a visual examination of the stone spread revealed a portion of a jet/lignite bracelet, located between Trenches 5 and 6. The finding of this artefact confirms the presence of a cashel in the immediate area and also that the spread of stones is likely to be the remains of the cashel walls, clearly dumped in a secondary location some time in the recent past. As none of the trenches identified any cut features or wall foundations that could be associated with the cashel, it is quite possible that the cashel's original location was to the north of the proposed development site. The results from the testing revealed no evidence of archaeological activity. However, the spread of stones and the fragment of the jet/lignite bracelet may indicate the presence of subsurface archaeological features or finds not revealed by the testing. (Excavations Bulletin 2004) Christopher Read, North West Archaeological Services, Cloonfad Cottage, Cloonfad, Carrick-on-Shannon, Co. Leitrim.

• DG068-031 Penal Mass station
  Description

  This feature is listed as a 'dolmen' by Borlase (1897) and later as a 'prehistoric chamber tomb' (Killanin and Duignan 1962; 1967). All trace of it had been removed by 1904 (OS 1:2,500 Name Book). Although there is no information about the nature of the site, there can be little doubt that this, like most other sites so named on the OS 6-inch maps of County Donegal, was a Penal altar. Borlase 1897, 236, Raphoe South no. 3; OS 1:2,500 Name Book, sheet 68 (1904), 24; Killanin and Duignan 1962, 81; Killanin and Duignan 1967, 92. The above description was published in the 'Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume VI, County Donegal.' Compiled by: Eamon Cody (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). Date of upload: 22 September 2008

• DG068-032 Burnt mound
  Description

  Excavation licence number 98E0232. The borrow pit field, which is under improved grassland, slopes moderately steeply down from the present R252 road line. It then levels out into a long, undulating terrace, which runs from west to east, roughly parallel to the course of the River Finn. This terrace has two pronounced but relatively flat-topped hillocks, which together form the crest of a very steep slope that falls down to the river valley bottom. It was these hillocks that, during initial survey, presented themselves as possible areas of archaeological potential, particularly as on a similar terrace (albeit slightly upslope) lies a good example of a rath. Using a 4ft-wide blade bucket six trenches were excavated. The first was opened along the crest of the ridge, angled to cross the summit of each of the hillocks. Nothing of archaeological significance was noted. Ploughsoil rested directly on natural that varied from yellow/brown, sandy gravel to yellow/ brown, stony gravel. It was apparent that the hillocks were the product of local undulations in the underlying bedrock. Four trenches were opened running perpendicular to the main east-west trench. Nothing of interest was noted in three of the four. The exception was the extreme eastern trench. The topography at this end of the field was different, consisting of a shallow depression open to the south. The base of this depression was relatively flat, and the test-trench was aligned to run across this level area. The depth of ploughsoil at the southern end of the trench was consistent with that noted elsewhere, some 0.3m. However, as the trench progressed northwards, the depth of soil overburden increased, presumably owing to the process of hill wash. Close to the point where the subsoil started its natural rise upslope an area of grey clay, overlain by a stony, charcoal-blackened soil, was noted. Many of the stones within the black soil were heat-shattered, and it was immediately apparent that the vestiges of a burnt mound had been uncovered. A small trench was opened from the apparent centre of the concentration westwards. The burnt material in these two trenches was noted, therefore, to extend in an approximately circular area, some 10m in diameter. Using the same-sized bucket three long trenches were opened roughly along the centre line of the proposed new roadway. Nothing of archaeological significance was noted in any of the three segments tested. Only one minor piece of archaeology was uncovered. At the extreme western end of the westernmost trench along the road line a small area of in situ burning was noted. It appeared as the basal remains of a 1.5m-wide, circular, flat-bottomed pit. At most, the pit was 0.1m deep, with charcoal overlying red, oxidised clay. Nothing datable was noted in association, and its function remains unknown. (Excavations Bulletin 1998) Eoin Halpin, Archaeological Development Services Ltd, Unit 48, Westlink Enterprise Centre, 30-50 Distillery Street, Belfast BT12 5BJ.

Architectural heritage

• Our Lady of Perpetual Help, church/chapel, 1925–1930 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding Catholic church on cruciform-plan, built 1925-28, having four-bay nave to the south-west, projecting chancel to the north-east, short two-bay transepts to the south-west and north-east each having shallow projecting porch to the outer bay on the south-west elevation, two-bay single-storey side chapels to either side of the chancel, and with two-bay single-storey addition attached to the south-east elevation of side chapel to the south-east. Pitched natural slate roofs with clayware chevron ridge comb, raised concrete copings to gable ends having cut stone kneeler stone detailing to eaves, chamfered concrete eaves course, cast-iron rainwater goods, and with concrete(?) Celtic cross finials over gable apexes; hipped natural slate roof to sacristy with ashlar chimneystack to the north-west end having moulded coping over. Snecked and squared rock-faced sandstone masonry over chamfered cut stone plinth course, flush concrete sill course to nave and south-west elevations of transepts, flush concrete (?) block-and-start quoins to the corners, clasping stepped concrete buttresses to corners and between bays to nave having feathered coping over. Incised cut stone date plaque to exterior. Round-headed window openings to side elevations to nave, the south-west elevations of transepts, and to the north-east elevations of side chapels having flush concrete block-and-start surrounds, concrete sills, and leaded coloured glass windows; three graded round-headed window openings to the chancel gable and to the south-west gable ends of transepts having flush concrete block-and-start surrounds, moulded sills and hoodmouldings, and leaded coloured glass windows; three graded round-headed window openings to the gable ends of transepts having flush concrete block-and-start surrounds and leaded coloured glass windows. Round-headed window openings to the entrance gable, flanking main doorway, having flush concrete block-and-start surrounds and leaded coloured glass windows; roundel window openings to gable ends of transepts having concrete surrounds and leaded coloured glass windows; roundel window opening to the gable end of side chapel to the north-west having flush concrete surround and leaded glass window; roundel vents to gable apexes having flush concrete block-and-start surrounds and louvered fittings; square-headed window openings to sacristy with flush concrete block-and-start surrounds, and one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Round-headed doorway to the centre of the entrance gable (south-west gable end of nave) having wide splayed concrete block-and-start surround, hoodmoulding with label stops, and with timber panelled doors with leaded glass panels; shallow segmental-headed doorways to the south-west elevations of transepts, set in projecting porches, having stepped flush concrete surrounds, and replacement timber doors; square-headed doorway to sacristy having flush concrete block-and-start surround and timber door. Interior has open timber scissors-truss roof structure with timber boarding to coffers, encaustic tiled floor, round-headed arched to transepts having polished granite columns (on quatrefoil-plan), carved marble altar, carved marble panelling to rear of chancel, and with timber gallery to the south-west end of nave having cast-iron supporting columns and with carved timber parapet. Set back from road in own grounds to the west/north-west of Ballybofey, and to the south-east of Cloghan with tarmacadam car parks to site. Freestanding belfry to the south-east of carpark (probably taken from earlier church to the south) having cast-iron columns supporting large bell metal bell. Associated parochial house to the south-east (not in survey), school to the south possibly incorporating fabric of earlier church to site; cut stone Celtic cross memorial to priest’s grave adjacent to school.

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

At the centre of the townland of Kiltyfergal, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as 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 Kiltyfergal.

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Kiltyfergal with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Kiltyfergal · Coillte Feargail

Area

1,816,860 m² (181.69 ha, 448.96 acres)

Civil parish

Kilteevoge, and its townlands

Barony

Raphoe South

Electoral division

Cloghan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

935 people lived in 318 households in the Cloghan electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Altnapaste, Ballybobaneen, Ballybotemple, Cloghan More, Corlacky

Placenames

Kiltyfergal 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.