Kirkstown
Kirkstown is a townland in the civil parish of Conwal, barony of Kilmacrenan, Co. Donegal.
- Area
- 191.8 ha
- 474 acres
- Land parcels
- 71
- registered freehold, median 2,240 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 14
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
71 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kirkstown, from 39 m² to 527,946 m² (52.79 ha, 130.46 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 20 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 Kirkstown 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
17 Sept 2026N/a
DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2661730
25 Feb 2026Application declared invalid
Planning permission to erect a single storey extension to side and front of our existing dwelling with connection to existing services and all associated site development works.
Permission · Dublin City Council, WEB1417/26
19 Jan 2026Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK SYSTEM AND DOMESTIC GARAGE INCLUDING ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2660053
28 Nov 2025N/a
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK SYSTEM AND DOMESTIC GARAGE INCLUDING ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2562096
19 Nov 2025N/a
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK SYSTEM AND DOMESTIC GARAGE INCLUDING ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2562018
27 Aug 2025Conditional
CHANGE OF HOUSE TYPE OF PREVIOUSLY GRANTED PLANNING APPLICATION (PLANNING REF. NO. 25/60569 REFERS)
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2561476
20 Jun 2025Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A ONE-BEDROOM DWELLING TO REPLACE DEMOUNTABLE DWELLING PREVIOUSLY APPROVED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 16/51468 WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING ONSITE SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2561038
14 Apr 2025Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS INCLUDING THE REMOVAL OF EXISTING SEPTIC TANK SYSTEM AND INSTALLATION OF A NEW WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2560569
12 Mar 2024Conditional
ERECTION OF A SINGLE TWO STOREY DOMESTIC DWELLING WITH WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2460313
4 Mar 2024Conditional
ERECTION OF AN EXTENSION AND ALTERATIONS TO DWELLING WITH ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2450071
15 Aug 2023Conditional
(1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING MICA DEFECTIVE DWELLING AND (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2351202
10 Jan 2023Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF TWO STOREY DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC DETACHED GARAGE AND PROVISION OF SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS AND SERVICES
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2350014
26 Jan 2022Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2250085
14 Jul 2021Conditional
DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2151413
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 Kirkstown.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Kirkstown.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Kirkstown.
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 Kirkstown, 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 Kirkstown.
- 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 Kirkstown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Kirkstown
- Area
- 1,917,585 m² (191.76 ha, 473.85 acres)
- Civil parish
- Conwal, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kilmacrenan
- Electoral division
- Ballymacool, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 2,741 people lived in 963 households in the Ballymacool electoral division. 62% of households owned their home. 66% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballymacool, Glencar Scotch, Gortnacorrib, Magheran
- Placenames
- Kirkstown 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.