Rowantreehill

13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rowantreehill, from 994 m² to 413,351 m² (41.34 ha, 102.14 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 5 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 Rowantreehill 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.

• 26 Jul 2022Conditional

  (1) ERECTION OF DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH SOIL POLISHING FILTER, (2) ALTERATIONS AND WIDENING OF THE EXISTING SITE ENTRANCE ONTO THE PUBLIC ROAD INCLUSIVE OF ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2251275

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 Rowantreehill.

Recorded monuments

• DG107-101 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Internal diam. 23.4m. Now a D-shaped space truncated by a road to the W. It is enclosed by an earthen bank up to 1.5m in height and an external fosse. A gap in the S may have been the original entrance. It is situated on a platform, probably artificially created by levelling the crest of the hill. There are excellent views over the Erne valley. 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

• DG107-102 Megalithic tomb - unclassified
  Description

  This monument is 4.6km SE of Bally shannon. It is prominently sited on the crest of a ridge above the basin of the River Erne and commands an extensive outlook in all directions. Only two orthostats of the monument survive. One, at the S, lies E-W, and 3m to the N of its western end is another, orientated N-S. The southern stone is flat topped and 0.65m high. The northern stone, a considerable block, is uneven on top and 1m high. A modern field wall, not on the plan, runs E-W just N of the remains. In the field wall c. 8m NW of the northern orthostat there is a large stone, and 3m further W another, both c. 1m in maximum dimension. These may have been robbed from the monument. The monument was in its present state in around 1850, according to an account in an OS Revision Name Book. Allingham (1879, 108-9), apparently on the basis of a report in The Dublin Penny Journal (G.H.R. 1834-5), recorded that a cinerary urn was found here. It reportedly contained ashes and several large bones. The size and juxtaposition of the two surviving orthostats indicate that this was a megalithic tomb, although it must remain unclassified. G.H.R. 1834-5 ('...situated at the top of an eminence...'); OS Revision Name Book, sheet 107 (1847-50), 27; Allingham 1879, 108-9; Holly 1975-6, 196 (plan); Ó Nualláin 1983a, 46, no. 37; SMR 1987, 107:102; Ó Nualláin 1989, 142; RMP 1995, 107:102. 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 See linked document with details from Eamon Cody, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume VI. County Donegal. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002)

Architectural heritage

• Rowantreehill House, house, 1780–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house on L-shaped plan, built c. 1800 and altered c. 1880, having projecting bay to the east end of the front elevation (north) having two-storey canted-bay window, two-storey canted-bay window to the angle of advanced bay and main body of building, central two-storey stair return to the rear (south), and with various single- and two-storey returns to the rear. Pitched and hipped natural slate roofs having terracotta ridge tiles, raised rendered verges to the gable ends (east and west), rendered chimneystacks to the gable ends with terracotta pots over, and with surviving sections of cast-iron rainwater goods. Hipped natural slate roofs to canted-bays, mono-pitched natural slate roofs to some rear returns. Pronounced rendered eaves course to main block to the rear elevation (south). Smooth rendered ruled-and-lined walls over smooth rendered plinth course, and having smooth rendered block-and-start quoins to the south corners of the side elevations (east and west). Square-headed window openings with painted sills and with one-over-one and two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows. Segmental-headed window opening to the west elevation having two-over-two pane timber sliding sash window. Six-over-six pane timber sliding sash window to rear. Square-headed door opening to front elevation of canted-bay adjacent to advanced bay having timber panelled door and plain overlight. Round-headed niche to the west elevation of projecting bay to the east end of front elevation (north) at ground floor level. Set back from road in own grounds to the south-east of Ballyshannon and to the west of Belleek. House aligned at a right-angle to the road-alignment. Complex of single- and two-storey outbuildings to the rear (south) and to the west, built c. 1800 and c. 1860, having pitched natural slate and corrugated-metal roofs, rubble stone walls, and square-headed openings with timber battened doors and timber window fittings. Barrel-vaulted corrugated-metal roof to one outbuilding. Square-headed carriage-arch to the north elevation of two-storey outbuilding to the south-west having timber double-doors. Two-storey outbuilding across laneway to the west having pitched natural slate roof, rubble stone walls with flush roughly squared quoins to the corners, square-headed openings with brick surrounds, and with battened timber doors. Remains of walled garden (on sun rectangular-plan) to the east having rubble stone walls and with pointed-arch entrance. Enclosed yard to front having rendered boundary walls. Remains of pond to the east.

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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility 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 Rowantreehill.

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

Name

Rowantreehill · Cnoc an Chaorthainn

Area

776,416 m² (77.64 ha, 191.86 acres)

Civil parish

Kilbarron, and its townlands

Barony

Tirhugh

Electoral division

Carrickboy, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Carrickboy electoral division: 389 people in 156 households; 86% of households own their home; 21% of homes were built since 2001; 18% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Knocknashangan, Lissacholly, Templenew

Placenames

Rowantreehill 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.