Middletown

47 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Middletown, from 34 m² to 113,410 m² (11.34 ha, 28.02 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Middletown 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Middletown in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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: West of Ardara/Maas Road SAC 000197
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: West Of Ardara/Maas Road 000197

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Middletown.

Architectural heritage

• Hotel, 1880–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey L-plan hotel, built c.1890, having open porch to front re-entrant corner, canted-bay window to front, and two-storey canted bay to southwest gable. Now in use as private dwelling. Possibly incorporating fabric from earlier building, and having single-storey and two-storey additions to rear. Hipped slate roof with overhanging lined eaves, replacement rainwater goods and paired smooth-rendered chimneystacks with cornices and clay pots. Hipped slate roof to canted bay. Flat rendered ovoid roof to porch and bay window with continuous projecting moulded cornice on eaves course. Smooth-rendered walls on plinth course with sill course to canted bay, having moulded string course to first floor, sill course to bay window and moulded course to springing level of arched openings to porch. Square-headed openings with painted stone sills and two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows; internal timber panelled shutters remain. Round arch opening to porch with moulded and chamfered surround with vermiculated keystone; round-headed doorway to interior with double-leaf timber panelled door with moulded transom, and fanlight, approached by stone step. Set in exposed location, with surrounding garden, single-storey outbuilding to north, rubble stone boundary wall, and road entrance with squared-plan rendered piers with plinths, stepped cornices and oversize pyramidal copings and cast-iron double-leaf gate.

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

About 1 in 5 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.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Middletown.

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.

No address of the register names Middletown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Middletown

Area

647,763 m² (64.78 ha, 160.07 acres)

Civil parish

Inishkeel, and its townlands

Barony

Boylagh

Electoral division

Dawros, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Dawros electoral division: 717 people in 288 households; 82% of households own their home; 26% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 51% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Dawros, Eden

Placenames

Middletown 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.