Saltpans

81 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Saltpans, from 30 m² to 103,261 m² (10.33 ha, 25.52 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 17 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 Saltpans 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.

• 3 Nov 2025Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY DOMESTIC GARAGE, WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2561902

• 23 Sept 2025Conditional

  RETENTION AND COMPLETION OF AN AGRICULTURAL SHED AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2561650

• 25 Aug 2025Unconditional

  (1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING AND ATTACHED SHED AND (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW 2 STOREY DWELLING HOUSE AND INSTALLATION OF A WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND SAND POLISHING FILTER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) ACCOMPANIES THIS APPLICATION

  Extension of duration, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2550112

• 1 Jul 2025Conditional

  DOMESTIC SHED AND PERMISSION FOR DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DEFECTIVE CONCRETE BLOCK HOUSE AND CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE ON THE SAME SITE WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING ONSITE SEWERAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2550093

• 8 Jul 2024Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF AGRICULTURAL SHED WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2450170

• 14 May 2024N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL SHED WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2450138

• 20 Feb 2024Conditional

  CONSERVATORY EXTENSION TO SIDE OF DWELLING HOUSE WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2450057

• 3 Mar 2023Refused

  CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO DWELLING HOUSE WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING SEWERAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2350261

• 27 Feb 2023Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DORMER EXTENSION AND ELEVATIONAL AMENDMENTS TO EXISTING HOLIDAY HOME

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2350224

• 2 Mar 2020Conditional

  (1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING AND ATTACHED SHED (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW 2 STOREY DWELLING HOUSE & INSTALLATION OF A WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND SAND POLISHING FILTER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) ACCOMPANIES THIS APPLICATION

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2050248

• 21 Jun 2019Conditional

  ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE GRANTED UNDER PLANNING 06/51496 WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1950944

• 29 May 2019N/a

  ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE GRANTED UNDER PLANNING 06/51496 WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1950821

• 3 May 2019N/a

  ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE GRANTED UNDER PLANNING 06/51496 WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1950637

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: Lough Swilly SAC 002287
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Swilly Including Big Isle, Blanket Nook & Inch Lake 000166

Recorded monuments

• DG028-040 Promontory fort - coastal
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• DG028-041 Promontory fort - coastal
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• DG028-042 Promontory fort - coastal
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• DG028-043 Promontory fort - coastal
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

Architectural heritage

• Macamish Fort, martello tower, 1810–1815 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding three-stage Martello tower, built c.1812-13, on ovoid plan, having three-gun battery to north. Now in use as private dwelling/holiday home, with modern additions. Flat roof to tower, hidden behind raised ashlar granite parapet. Remains of traversing gun platform to roof (not viewed), and with later rendered chimneystacks to east and northwest sides. Crenellated parapet to later addition to northwest side of tower, and shallow pitched roof to later addition to northeast. Dressed ashlar granite walling to tower, with machicolation on corbelled base over doorway to southwest side. Square-headed window opening to south face, having cast-iron quarry-glazed window. Square-headed doorway to southwest side at second stage level with dressed monolithic lintel and battened timber door, accessed by flight of concrete steps with wrought-iron or mild steel guard-rail. Square-headed openings to later additions. Site surrounded by battered coursed rubble stone boundary walls. Recent buildings to site with flat concrete roofs. Concrete bridge over rock-cut ditch to landward, south side, having coursed stone walls to each side. Gateway to south of site with coursed stone square-plan gate piers and wrought-iron double-leaf gate. Tower sited on narrow promontory jutting out into west side of Lough Swilly, to north of Rathmullan.

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

The EPA radon map gives no estimate at the centre of the townland of Saltpans.

Landslides

Susceptibility 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 Saltpans.

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.

• Saltpans, Rathmullan5 sales

Name

Saltpans

Area

1,018,297 m² (101.83 ha, 251.63 acres)

Civil parish

Killygarvan, and its townlands

Barony

Kilmacrenan

Electoral division

Rathmullan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Rathmullan electoral division: 965 people in 357 households; 75% of households own their home; 32% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 47% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bin, Clondallan, Drumhallagh Lower, Killygarvan Lower, Killygarvan Upper

Placenames

Saltpans 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.