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Sandhill

Sandhill is a townland in the civil parish of Clondahorky, barony of Kilmacrenan, Co. Donegal.

Area
50.9 ha
126 acres
Land parcels
119
registered freehold, median 628 m²
Zoning
—
not in a zoned settlement
Planning
31
applications since 2010

Land parcels

Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann

SandhillWoodhillKillRinnaraw
500 m
154 parcels are drawn. Click one to see it.© Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0

119 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Sandhill, from 16 m² to 150,893 m² (15.09 ha, 37.29 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 35 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.

Zoning

Development plans, national zoning

No zone of a development plan covers Sandhill 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

The 25 most recent of 31 applications.

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

Recorded monuments

Architectural heritage

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
At the centre of the townland of Sandhill, 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
Terrain model
LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1567 (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.

Homes sold

Property Price Register

The townland

Name
Sandhill
Area
509,314 m² (50.93 ha, 125.85 acres)
Civil parish
Clondahorky, and its townlands
Barony
Kilmacrenan
Electoral division
Ards, the unit of the census
Census 2022
805 people lived in 270 households in the Ards electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 61% were holiday homes.
Neighbouring townlands
Kill, Rinnaraw, Woodhill
Placenames
Sandhill 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.