Kinnea
Kinnea is a townland in the civil parish of Clonmany, barony of Inishowen East, Co. Donegal. Its name in Irish is Cionn Fheadha.
- Area
- 232.4 ha
- 574 acres
- Land parcels
- 95
- registered freehold, median 3,723 m² (0.37 ha, 0.92 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 17
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
95 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kinnea, from 6 m² to 726,478 m² (72.65 ha, 179.52 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 43 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Kinnea 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
14 Jul 2026Refused
DEVELOPMENT OF GLAMPING (10 NO UNITS) AND WELLBEING CENTRE WITH ASSOCIATED FACILITIES AND ON-SITE SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM, AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2661300
10 Jul 2026N/a
DEVELOPMENT OF GLAMPING (10 NO. UNITS) AND WELLBEING CENTRE WITH ASSOCIATED FACILITIES AND ON-SITE SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM, AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2661281
23 Oct 2025Conditional
RESTORATION AND RECONSTRUCTION OF EXISTING DWELLING AND OUTHOUSE WITH CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW EXTENSION TO DWELLING, CONNECTION TO A NEW SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL OTHER SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2561841
25 Aug 2025Conditional
(1) REVISED FRONT ELEVATION, (2) FIRST FLOOR ATTIC CONVERSION INCLUDING GABLE WINDOWS AND SKYLIGHTS, (3) DOMESTIC SHED TO THE REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING AND PERMISSION FOR INSTALLATION OF A NEW SEPTIC TANK SYSTEM, TOGETHER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2561460
5 Aug 2025Conditional
SIDE AND REAR EXTENSION AND ATTIC CONVERSION TOGETHER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2561342
6 Mar 2025Conditional
(1) DEMOLITION OF THE EXISTING, DETACHED, BUNGALOW HOUSE DAMAGED DUE TO DEFECTIVE (MICA) PRECAST CONCRETE BLOCKS AND (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A REPLACEMENT DETACHED, BUNGALOW HOUSE WITH ALTERATIONS FROM THAT OF THE EXISTING HOUSE AND THE RELEVANT ASSOCIATED REPLACEMENT WORKS TO BE CONNECTED TO THE EXISTING SITE SERVICES
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2560319
3 Mar 2025Conditional
(1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE DUE TO DEFECTIVE CONCRETE BLOCKWORK GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 01/4223 AND (2) ERECTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING TO BE CONNECTED TO THE EXISTING PREVIOUSLY APPROVED EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM, TOGETHER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2560294
14 May 2024N/a
(1) REVISED FRONT ELEVATION, (2) FIRST FLOOR ATTIC CONVERSION TO INCLUDE GABLE WINDOWS AND SKYLIGHTS, (3) DOMESTIC SHED TO THE REAR OF THE EXISTING DWELLING AND (4) SEPTIC TANK SYSTEM AS CONSTRUCTED WHICH WAS RELOCATED FROM THAT PREVIOUSLY APPROVED UNDER APPLICATION REF. NO. 00/4341 TOGETHER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2460704
2 Oct 2023Conditional
PORCH TO THE FRONT OF THE EXISTING DWELLING AND PERMISSION FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO THE SIDE OF THE EXISTING DWELLING, TOGETHER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2351474
3 Aug 2021Conditional
SITE WORKS AND NEW ENTRANCE AND PERMISSION FOR CONSTRUCTION OF A STORAGE SHED TO BE PART USED FOR DOMESTIC PURPOSES AND PART USED FOR THE PARKING OF LORRY AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2151553
27 May 2021N/a
SITE WORKS AND PERMISSION FOR CONSTRUCTION OF A STORAGE SHED AND ALL ASSOICATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2151044
6 May 2021N/a
SITE WORKS AND PERMISSION FOR CONSTRUCTION OF A STORAGE SHED AND ALL ASSOICATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2150838
20 Apr 2021N/a
SITE WORKS AND PERMISSION FOR CONSTRUCTION OF A STORAGE SHED AND ALL ASSOICATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2150701
19 Oct 2020N/a
CONSTRUCTION OF A DOMESTIC STORAGE SHED AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2051543
3 Jul 2020N/a
ERECTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL SLATTED WEANER HOUSE FOR PIGS WITH SILO MEAL BIN AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2050875
3 Jun 2020N/a
ERECTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL SLATTED WEANER HOUSE FOR PIGS WITH SILO MEAL BIN AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS.
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2050699
5 May 2020N/a
ERECTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL SLATTED SOW HOUSE WITH SILO MEAL BIN AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT WILL FORM PART OF THIS APPLICATION
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2050586
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: North Inishowen Coast SAC 002012
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: North Inishowen Coast 002012
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Kinnea.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Kinnea.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Kinnea, 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 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 Kinnea.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Kinnea with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Kinnea · Cionn Fheadha
- Area
- 2,323,942 m² (232.39 ha, 574.26 acres)
- Civil parish
- Clonmany, and its townlands
- Barony
- Inishowen East
- Electoral division
- Dunaff, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 705 people lived in 248 households in the Dunaff electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 32% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 29% were holiday homes.
- Placenames
- Kinnea 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.