Oughterlin

44 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Oughterlin, from 521 m² to 2,447,496 m² (244.75 ha, 604.79 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 37 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 Oughterlin 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.

• 19 Dec 2025Conditional

  ATTIC DEVELOPMENT IN EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 92/1033

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2550181

• 12 Jul 2023Conditional

  ERECTION OF NEW DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2351030

• 31 Dec 2020Conditional

  EXTENSIONS TO EXISTING DWELLING PLANNING REFERENCE 07/50104 TO INCLUDE (1) CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION AND TRELLIS STRUCTURE TO THE EASTERN ELEVATION OF THE DWELLING (2) CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO THE WESTERN ELEVATION OF THE DWELLING (3) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2052069

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 Oughterlin.

Recorded monuments

• DG028-029 Megalithic structure
  Description

  This feature, first shown on the 1849-50 edition of the OS 6-inch map, is to the N of Croaghan Hill in an area of rough terrain, the surface of which is rocky, uneven and strewn with boulders. It is prominently sited toward the northern end of a narrow ridge of bare rock and consists of a large slab resting on three low stones, which in turn lie flat on the rocky surface. The raised slab, which is c. 0.5m clear of the ground, measures 3.7m NNW-SSE by 2.3m wide at its southern end, narrowing to c. 1.5m at the northern end, and is c. 0.7m thick. The raised slab is tilted slightly from the horizontal, with the northern end a little higher than the southern end. This feature is not a megalithic tomb, but whether it is natural or artificial in origin is somewhat uncertain. Approximately 30m to the S there is a large boulder supported in a more or less upright position on some low stones, as if an attempt had been made to prop it up, and there is a similar feature a further 30m to the S. These are not megalithic tombs, although they have been listed as such in the SMR for County Donegal (1987). OS Revision Name Book, sheet 28 (1849-50), 39; Kinahan 1889, 280; Borlase 1897, 232, Kilmacrenan no. 10; OS 1:2,500 Name Book, sheet 28 (1902-3), 41; Somerville 1909, 219-20 (plan); Somerville 1929, 169-70 (sketch); H. Morris 1947, 41, B16; Killanin and Duignan 1962, 408 ('On the N slope of Croaghan'); Killanin and Duignan 1967, 412; Ó Nualláin 1983a, 49, no. 177; SMR 1987, 28:28, 28:29, 28:30; RMP 1995, 28:28; 28:29; 28:30. The above description was published in the 'Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume VI, County Donegal.' Compiled by: Eamon Cody (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). Date of upload: 22 September 2008

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Oughterlin.

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 20 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; parts are water.

Terrain model

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

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 Oughterlin with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Oughterlin

Area

3,137,997 m² (313.8 ha, 775.42 acres)

Civil parish

Killygarvan, and its townlands

Barony

Kilmacrenan

Electoral division

Killygarvan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Killygarvan electoral division: 120 people in 45 households; 93% of households own their home; 39% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 21% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Glenalla, Kinletteragh, Legland, Lurganboy

Placenames

Oughterlin 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.