Kilwarry
Townland in the civil parish of Tullyfern, barony of Kilmacrenan, Co. Donegal
- Area
- 36.7 ha
- 91 acres
- Land parcels
- 5
- registered freehold, median 45,214 m² (4.52 ha, 11.17 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
5 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilwarry, from 4,681 m² (0.47 ha, 1.16 acres) to 160,497 m² (16.05 ha, 39.66 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 7 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 Kilwarry 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
16 Mar 2023Refused
CONSTRUCTION OF A 20KV OVERHEAD & UNDERGROUND ELECTRICITY CABLE TO SERVE APPROVED WINDFARM DEVELOPMENT. THE PLANNING APPLICATION IS ACCOMPANIED BY A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS)
Extension of duration · Donegal County Council, 2350340
12 Jul 2017Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A 20KV OVERHEAD & UNDERGROUND ELECTRICITY CABLE TO SERVE APPROVED WINDFARM DEVELOPMENT. THE PLANNING APPLICATION IS ACCOMPANIED BY A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS)
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1751115
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Kilwarry.
Recorded monuments
- DG036-008 Ringfort - unclassified
Description
Marked on the 1st and 2nd editions of the OS 6-inch maps. No visible sign of the 'Fort' now survives. It was located on a small rise in undulating 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
- DG036-009 Burial ground
Description
The 'graveyard' marked on the OS 6-inch maps consists of a subcircular area 26m to 27m in diameter enclosed by a modern stone wall built on top of what appears to be an earlier collapsed wall. A modern field boundary running E-W divides the site in half. The site, which is located on the W slope of a small valley in good pasture, is heavily overgrown. 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
- DG036-011 Crannog
Description
Kinahan (1889, 281) suggested that a small island in Columcille Lough is a 'Stone crannog'. It was not inspected on this occasion. 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
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Kilwarry.
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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Kilwarry.
- 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 Kilwarry with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Kilwarry
- Area
- 366,837 m² (36.68 ha, 90.65 acres)
- Civil parish
- Tullyfern, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kilmacrenan
- Electoral division
- Millford, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Millford electoral division: 1,633 people in 608 households; 72% of households own their home; 40% of homes were built since 2001; 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Aghanursan, Ballygay, Claggan, Urbalshinny
- Placenames
- Kilwarry 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.