Rosskirk and Killhill
Townland in the civil parish of Clondavaddog, barony of Kilmacrenan, Co. Donegal
- Area
- 250.2 ha
- 618 acres
- Land parcels
- 33
- registered freehold, median 5,442 m² (0.54 ha, 1.34 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
33 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rosskirk and Killhill, from 259 m² to 698,323 m² (69.83 ha, 172.56 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 30 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Rosskirk and Killhill 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
16 Feb 2021Refused
CONSTRUCTION OF A SHED WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2150254
17 Apr 2018Conditional
(1) RETENTION OF (A) EXISTING SHED AND (B) EXISTING MOBILE HOME WITH SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA AND (2) CHANGE OF USE OF EXISTING SHED TO DOMESTIC DWELLING HOUSE WITH WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA
Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1850585
23 Jun 2017Refused
CHANGE OF USE OF EXISTING DOMESTIC SHED GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REFERENCE NUMBERS 06/51386 AND 09//40247 TO DOMESTIC DWELLING HOUSE WITH WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA, AND RETENTION OF EXISTING MOBILE HOME WITH SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1750990
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 Rosskirk and Killhill.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Rosskirk and Killhill.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Rosskirk and Killhill.
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
- 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 Rosskirk and Killhill.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Rosskirk and Killhill with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Rosskirk and Killhill
- Area
- 2,501,512 m² (250.15 ha, 618.14 acres)
- Civil parish
- Clondavaddog, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kilmacrenan
- Electoral division
- Fanad North, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Fanad North electoral division: 540 people in 209 households; 88% of households own their home; 26% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 42% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballincrick and Ballynabrocky, Cooladerry Mountain, Corry, Doagh Beg, Drumavohy and Ballybolagan, Murren
- Gaeltacht
- In an Irish-speaking area
- Placenames
- Rosskirk and Killhill 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.