# Kirkstown, Co. Donegal: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Conwal, barony of Kilmacrenan, Co. Donegal. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,917,585 m² (191.76 ha, 473.85 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 71 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,240 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 14 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Conwal, https://everytownland.com/donegal/parish/conwal.md - Barony: Kilmacrenan - Electoral division: Ballymacool, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Donegal, https://everytownland.com/donegal.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/15422 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 51623 - Centre: latitude 54.959194, longitude -7.78012 (WGS 84) ## 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); 20 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 5182177: 527,946 m² (52.79 ha, 130.46 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5182177.md - Parcel 1361820: 251,345 m² (25.13 ha, 62.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1361820.md - Parcel 4864628: 230,535 m² (23.05 ha, 56.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4864628.md - Parcel 1372165: 89,097 m² (8.91 ha, 22.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1372165.md - Parcel 5182191: 72,677 m² (7.27 ha, 17.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5182191.md - Parcel 4864639: 69,914 m² (6.99 ha, 17.28 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4864639.md - Parcel 5182137: 69,175 m² (6.92 ha, 17.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5182137.md - Parcel 1352755: 66,356 m² (6.64 ha, 16.4 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1352755.md - Parcel 1388979: 51,390 m² (5.14 ha, 12.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1388979.md - Parcel 1400451: 37,284 m² (3.73 ha, 9.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1400451.md - Parcel 1426768: 29,264 m² (2.93 ha, 7.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1426768.md - Parcel 1338703: 26,926 m² (2.69 ha, 6.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1338703.md - Parcel 1322901: 21,185 m² (2.12 ha, 5.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1322901.md - Parcel 1354950: 10,342 m² (1.03 ha, 2.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1354950.md - Parcel 1320407: 8,451 m² (0.85 ha, 2.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1320407.md - Parcel 1400453: 5,619 m² (0.56 ha, 1.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1400453.md - Parcel 1349767: 4,680 m² (0.47 ha, 1.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1349767.md - Parcel 1357589: 4,375 m² (0.44 ha, 1.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1357589.md - Parcel 1360559: 3,854 m² (0.39 ha, 0.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1360559.md - Parcel 1342946: 3,818 m² (0.38 ha, 0.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1342946.md - Parcel 1360046: 3,777 m² (0.38 ha, 0.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1360046.md - Parcel 1348399: 3,672 m² (0.37 ha, 0.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1348399.md - Parcel 1399623: 3,465 m² (0.35 ha, 0.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1399623.md - Parcel 1311888: 2,711 m² (0.27 ha, 0.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1311888.md - Parcel 4987892: 2,596 m² (0.26 ha, 0.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4987892.md - Parcel 4648152: 2,535 m² (0.25 ha, 0.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4648152.md - Parcel 4618450: 2,516 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4618450.md - Parcel 4648144: 2,502 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4648144.md - Parcel 4647889: 2,464 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4647889.md - Parcel 1355869: 2,423 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1355869.md - Parcel 1353708: 2,303 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1353708.md - Parcel 1397915: 2,299 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1397915.md - Parcel 1399834: 2,287 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1399834.md - Parcel 4648308: 2,256 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4648308.md - Parcel 3963983: 2,255 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3963983.md - Parcel 1399624: 2,240 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1399624.md - Parcel 1366465: 2,210 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1366465.md - Parcel 3119933: 2,185 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3119933.md - Parcel 1344075: 2,173 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1344075.md - Parcel 1326320: 2,152 m² (0.22 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1326320.md - Parcel 1304068: 2,084 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1304068.md - Parcel 1339806: 2,071 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1339806.md - Parcel 1359505: 2,055 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1359505.md - Parcel 1313376: 2,046 m² (0.2 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1313376.md - Parcel 1358501: 1,992 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1358501.md - Parcel 3963988: 1,991 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3963988.md - Parcel 1346813: 1,936 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1346813.md - Parcel 1303013: 1,934 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1303013.md - Parcel 1355302: 1,877 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1355302.md - Parcel 1358760: 1,865 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1358760.md - Parcel 1354497: 1,779 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1354497.md - Parcel 1306716: 1,648 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1306716.md - Parcel 1350273: 1,473 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1350273.md - Parcel 1359731: 1,264 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1359731.md - Parcel 1323457: 1,219 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1323457.md - Parcel 3981635: 1,135 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3981635.md - Parcel 3026919: 1,098 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3026919.md - Parcel 1319255: 889 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1319255.md - Parcel 1389454: 516 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1389454.md - Parcel 4987890: 446 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4987890.md - Parcel 1307329: 334 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1307329.md - Parcel 3119928: 239 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3119928.md - Parcel 3981875: 174 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3981875.md - Parcel 3119934: 163 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3119934.md - Parcel 2589508: 152 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2589508.md - Parcel 3119944: 132 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3119944.md - Parcel 4987907: 131 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4987907.md - Parcel 1358153: 110 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1358153.md - Parcel 4876779: 98 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4876779.md - Parcel 2589511: 75 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2589511.md - Parcel 4987893: 39 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4987893.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 14 applications, newest first. - 17 Sept 2026, Donegal County Council 2661730: N/a. Retention. DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2661730/0 - 25 Feb 2026, Dublin City Council WEB1417/26: Application declared invalid. Permission. 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.. - 19 Jan 2026, Donegal County Council 2660053: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK SYSTEM AND DOMESTIC GARAGE INCLUDING ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660053/0 - 28 Nov 2025, Donegal County Council 2562096: N/a. Permission, 1 home. ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK SYSTEM AND DOMESTIC GARAGE INCLUDING ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2562096/0 - 19 Nov 2025, Donegal County Council 2562018: N/a. Permission, 1 home. ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK SYSTEM AND DOMESTIC GARAGE INCLUDING ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2562018/0 - 27 Aug 2025, Donegal County Council 2561476: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. CHANGE OF HOUSE TYPE OF PREVIOUSLY GRANTED PLANNING APPLICATION (PLANNING REF. NO. 25/60569 REFERS). File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2561476/0 - 20 Jun 2025, Donegal County Council 2561038: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2561038/0 - 14 Apr 2025, Donegal County Council 2560569: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560569/0 - 12 Mar 2024, Donegal County Council 2460313: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. ERECTION OF A SINGLE TWO STOREY DOMESTIC DWELLING WITH WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460313/0 - 4 Mar 2024, Donegal County Council 2450071: Conditional. Permission. ERECTION OF AN EXTENSION AND ALTERATIONS TO DWELLING WITH ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2450071/0 - 15 Aug 2023, Donegal County Council 2351202: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. (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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2351202/0 - 10 Jan 2023, Donegal County Council 2350014: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. CONSTRUCTION OF TWO STOREY DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC DETACHED GARAGE AND PROVISION OF SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS AND SERVICES. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2350014/0 - 26 Jan 2022, Donegal County Council 2250085: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2250085/0 - 14 Jul 2021, Donegal County Council 2151413: Conditional. Retention. DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2151413/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Kirkstown. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Kirkstown. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Kirkstown. ## 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 Kirkstown, 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 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 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/kirkstown.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/donegal/kirkstown.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/donegal/kirkstown.kml ## Homes sold (Residential 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: https://everytownland.com/donegal.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ballymacool: https://everytownland.com/donegal/ballymacool.md - Glencar Scotch: https://everytownland.com/donegal/glencar-scotch.md - Gortnacorrib: https://everytownland.com/donegal/gortnacorrib.md - Magheran: https://everytownland.com/donegal/magheran.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/kirkstown - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/donegal/kirkstown