Newtowncunningham

138 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Newtowncunningham, from 20 m² to 155,419 m² (15.54 ha, 38.4 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 28 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Newtowncunningham 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.

• 10 Aug 2026N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF FIRST FLOOR EXTENSION INCLUDING DORMERS TO THE REAR, WITH INTERNAL ALTERATIONS INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2661487

• 22 Jul 2026Conditional

  A MODULAR CLASSROOM UNIT AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2661361

• 12 Dec 2025Conditional

  INSTALLATION OF NEW ON-SITE SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2562210

• 14 Nov 2025Conditional

  (1) DEMOLITION OF ATTACHED SHED TO THE NORTHERN ELEVATION AND (2) CONSTRUCTION OF (A) SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO THE NORTHERN (REAR) ELEVATION OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND (B) DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS AND SITE DEVELOPMENTS WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2561990

• 11 Apr 2023Conditional

  (1) REFURBISHMENT OF THE COLUMBAN HALL, (2) DEVELOPMENT OF A CHILDRENS PLAYPARK, COMMUNITY GARDENS AND A SENSORY GARDEN ON THE EXISTING GREEN AREA OF THE HALL GROUNDS AND (3) REPLACEMENT OF THE EXISTING BOUNDARY WALL WITH A COMMUNITY OPEN SHELTER INCLUDING SEATING, WIFI AND CHARGING POINTS ALONG WITH ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2350468

• 18 Oct 2021Conditional

  (1) DEMOLITION OF AN EXISTING CONSERVATORY (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION AS REPLACEMENT CONSISTING OF A BEDROOM AND WET ROOM TO THE SIDE OF EXISTING DWELLING

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2152056

• 4 Dec 2020Conditional

  RELOCATION OF PROPOSED CHEMIST WITHIN SAME SITE PLANNING REF NO: 20/50035 GRANTED ON 1ST JULY 2020

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2051856

• 6 Oct 2020Unconditional

  (1) DEMOLITION OF 2 NO. EXISTING COMMERCIAL BUILDINGS AND AN EXISTING SHED; (2) ERECTION OF 2 NO. COMMERCIAL UNITS FOR USE AS (A) A COMMERCIAL TYRE MAINTENANCE GARAGE AND (B) A HGV MAINTENANCE GARAGE; (3) DEMOLITION OF 4 OUT OF 6 BAYS OF AN EXISTING GRAIN STORE AND THE REFURBISHMENT AND UPGRADING OF THE REMAINING 2 BAYS FOR CONTINUED USE AS A GRAIN STORE; (4) REFURBISHMENT AND UPGRADING OF AN EXISTING GRAIN STORE (AT THE SOUTHERN END OF THE SITE; (5) FORMATION OF 2 NO. SITE ENTRANCES ONTO LONG LANE AND (6) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Extension of duration · Donegal County Council, 2051440

• 20 Jan 2020Conditional

  DEMOLITION OF AN EXISTING DWELLING AND SHED AND CONSTRUCTION OF A PURPOSE BUILT CHEMIST WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING PUBLIC SEWER ALONG WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2050035

• 27 May 2019Conditional

  (A) PROVISION OF ADDITIONAL CAR PARKING SPACES TO THE EAST OF THE SITE, (B) RECONFIGURED CAR PARKING ARRANGEMENTS IN LIEU OF PREVIOUSLY GRANTED ARRANGEMENT PLANNING REF. NO. 17/50938, (C) RELOCATED GAS TANK AT REAR OF SITE, (D) RELOCATED CAR WASH AREA WITH ATTENDANTS HUT AND CAR VALET AREA WITH ROOF OVER TO REAR OF SITE, (E) RELOCATED ENCLOSURE TO BINS AREA AT REAR OF SITE

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 1950769

• 12 Oct 2018Conditional

  (1) DEMOLITION OF AN EXISTING DILAPIDATED 2 STOREY STRUCTURE AND (2) THE CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW PRIMARY CARE CENTRE AND ASSOCIATED CAR PARKING AND SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1851568

• 21 Jun 2018Conditional

  EXTENSIONS TO FRONT, SIDES & REAR OF DWELLING HOUSE INCLUDING ATTACHED CAR PORT WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 1850964

• 15 Jun 2017Conditional

  (1) CONSTRUCTION OF A TWO STOREY EXTENSION TO PROVIDE A DELI, COFFEE DOCK, KITCHEN, ACCESSIBLE TOILETS AND ASSOCIATED FACILITIES ON THE GROUND FLOOR AND OFFICES ON THE FIRST FLOOR, (2) EXTENSION OF AN EXTERNAL CANOPY STRUCTURE TO THE EAST SIDE ELEVATION TO CONNECT TO THE NEW TWO STOREY STRUCTURE, (3) MATERIAL ALTERATIONS INTERNALLY WITHIN THE SUPERMARKET TO INCREASE RETAIL FLOOR AREA AND RECONFIGURE STAFF FACILITIES, (4) ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS INCLUDING RECONFIGURED CAR PARKING, (5) CONSTRUCTION OF AN ENCLOSURE TO ACCOMMODATE COLD ROOM AND FREEZER ROOM TO THE WEST SIDE ELEVATION OF A RETAINED STORE AREA AND (6) RETENTION OF A SINGLE STOREY STRUCTURE TO THE REAR OF THE SUPERMARKET FORMING A STORE AREA

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1750938

• 12 May 2017Refused

  DEMOLITION OF AN EXISTING DILAPIDATED 2 STOREY STRUCTURE AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW PRIMARY CARE CENTRE AND ASSOCIATED CAR PARKING AND SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1750717

• 28 Apr 2017N/a

  DEMOLITION OF AN EXISTING DILAPIDATED 2 STOREY STRUCTURE AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW PRIMARY CARE CENTRE AND ASSOCIATED CAR PARKING AND SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1750632

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Newtowncunningham.

Recorded monuments

• DG054-002 Standing stone
  Description

  A standing stone 1.63m high × 1m wide × 0.75m thick; N-S. There is a large slab, c. 1.1m × 1.15m, lying beside it and some boulders and small slabs surround its base. Some, at least, are the result of field clearance. Situated on good land, on a level shoulder generally rising to E. 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

• Newtowncunningham Presbyterian Church, church/chapel, 1880–1885 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay Presbyterian church\meeting house, dated 1881, having bellcote over the entrance front (west), and with two-bay single-storey vestry to the rear (east). Pitched natural slate roof having smooth rendered chimneystack to east gable apex with red clay pots over, red clayware ridge tiles alternating from plain to crested along ridge, projecting stone corbels to eaves, raised ashlar coping to gable ends having intermittent ashlar blocks with trefoil motifs and with kneeler stones to eaves, and with painted gable-fronted ashlar bellcote to the entrance gable having wrought-iron finial over; pitched natural slate roof to vestry. Metal rainwater goods. Uncoursed rubble stone walls having diagonally-set stepped clasping stone buttresses to the corners of the main body of building with ashlar stone quoins and feathered ashlar coping, stepped clasping stone buttresses between bays to side elevations of main body of building with ashlar stone quoins and feathered ashlar coping, stepped clasping stone buttresses flanking main entrance to church to the entrance gable (west) with ashlar stone quoins and feathered ashlar coping, and painted moulded ashlar stringcourse to side elevations below sill level. Pointed-arched window openings to side elevations of main body of building, and to the end bays to the entrance front (west), having flush painted chamfered ashlar block-and-start surrounds and sills, cut stone hoodmouldings over, and with cast-iron quarry-glazed windows with coloured glass panels to outer panes; central pointed-arched trifoliated window opening to the entrance gable (west), over main doorway, having flush painted chamfered ashlar block-and-start surrounds and sills, cut stone hoodmouldings over, cut stone Geometric tracery, and with cast-iron quarry-glazed windows; sub-rectangular window opening to the east gable end having flush painted chamfered ashlar surround, cut stone hoodmouldings over, cut stone Geometric tracery, and with leaded windows; square-headed window openings to vestry having six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows. Central pointed segmental-headed door opening to the entrance gable having flush painted chamfered ashlar block-and-start surround, staged to head, chamfer stops to base, cut stone hoodmoulding, date-inscribed tympanum over, and with pair of battened timber hardwood double-doors with ornate wrought-iron hinges; pointed segmental-headed doorway to vestry having painted ashlar block-and-start surround and replacement timber door. Open decorative timber Queen post roof structure to interior resting on corbels, pitch pine pews, pitch pine pulpit to east end, and with gallery over doorway to the west end having perforated timber parapet. Set back from road in own grounds to the west end of Newtowncunningham. Graveyard to the north and west of site with collection of upstanding memorials. Tarmacadamed area to the south. Detached altered single- and two-storey former school to the south of site. Low roughcast rendered boundary wall to the west of site having wrought-iron railings over with cast-iron finials over. Rubble stone boundary walls to the other site boundaries. Gateway to the west of site comprising a pair of rubble stone gate piers (on square-plan) having ashlar quoins to corners, painted chamfered coping over, and with a pair of wrought-iron gates with cast-iron finials over.

• House, 1900–1910 · Regional interest
  Description

  Attached end-of-terrace three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1905, having single-bay single-storey addition to the west gable end. One of a group of three buildings with the buildings adjoining to the east. Pitched natural slate roof having raised cement rendered coping and yellow brick chimneystacks to the gable ends (east and west) with clay pots over, and grey clayware ridge tiles. Roughcast rendered walls, largely covered in ivy to front elevation (north). Segmental-headed window openings with smooth rendered reveals, and with two-over-two pane horned timber sliding sash windows; pair of segmental-headed window openings to front elevation at first floor level having smooth rendered reveals, painted sills, one-over-over pane timber sliding sash windows, and with central moulded timber mullion. Square-headed window opening to centre of the rear elevation (south) having one-over-one pane timber sliding sash window with margin glazing bars. Central segmental-headed door opening to front elevation having lugged smooth rendered surround and reveals, timber panelled door with raised and fielded panels, flanking fielded timber pilasters with timber console brackets supporting timber cornice over, and with plan overlight. Set back from road in own grounds to the west end of Newtowncunningham with small enclosed garden to the front (north) and enclosed yard to the rear (south). Rendered boundary walls to road-frontage to the north having hooped wrought-iron railings over. Pedestrian gateway to the north comprising a pair of rendered gate piers (on square-plan) having pyramidal coping over, and with hooped wrought-iron gate. Derelict two-bay two-storey house attached to the east having projecting single-storey addition to the west end of the front elevation (north), pitched natural slate roof, roughcast rendered walls, blocked segmental-headed window openings, square-headed doorway with timber panelled door, and with segmental-headed carriage-arch to the east end.

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

At the centre of the townland of Newtowncunningham, 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1922 (ZIP).

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.

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

Name

Newtowncunningham

Area

983,107 m² (98.31 ha, 242.93 acres)

Civil parish

Allsaints, and its townlands

Barony

Raphoe North

Electoral division

Newtown Cunningham, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,028 people lived in 372 households in the Newtown Cunningham electoral division. 66% of households owned their home. 49% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyhasky, Blanket Nook, Colehill, Monfad, Moyle, Moylemoss, Plaster

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.