Shellfield

11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Shellfield, from 12 m² to 102,927 m² (10.29 ha, 25.43 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 8 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 Shellfield 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.

• 25 Jul 2019Conditional

  (A) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING OUTBUILDING AND DEMOLITION OF EXISTING EXTENSIONS TO AN EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, (B) ERECTION OF AN EXTENSION TO SAID EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, (C) DECOMMISSIONING OF AN EXISTING SEPTIC TANK, (D) INSTALLATION OF A NEW EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND POLISHING FILTER AND (E) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT ACCOMPANIES THE APPLICATION

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1951142

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
• Special Protection Area: Lough Swilly SPA 004075
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Swilly Including Big Isle, Blanket Nook & Inch Lake 000166

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Shellfield.

Architectural heritage

• Shellfield, farmyard complex, 1760–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Group of single and two-storey outbuildings, built c.1780, associated with Shellfield. Comprises seven-bay two-storey building extended to rear, with five-bay single-storey outbuilding at right angles, and three-bay single-storey building of c.1860 to north. Largest building has saltbox-profile slate roof with rendered coping to east gable, terracotta finials to both gables and cast-iron rainwater goods, rubble stone walls with roughcast render to gable, square-headed openings, diminutive to first floor, and vehicular entrance with depressed three-centred brick relief arches to ground floor with timber lintels and brick reveals; external stone steps to west gable giving access to first floor. Five-bay building has pitched slate roof with rendered copings, exposed rafter ends and cast-iron rainwater goods, square-headed openings with painted stone sills and replacement timber casement windows and timber battened door. Smallest building has pitched slate roof with rendered copings, exposed rafter ends and cast-iron rainwater goods, rubble stone walls, and square-headed openings with timber and concrete lintels. Located to west of Shellfield, with L-plan walled garden to north having rubble stone boundary walls with square-headed opening having timber lintel, and wrought-iron gate to south with acorn finial.

• Shellfield, house, 1740–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey T-plan house with exposed basement and attic, built c.1750, having shallow breakfront having canted porch to front of latter, and single-bay return to rear. Renovated and extended c.1810. Pitched slate roof with moulded eaves course, cast-iron rainwater goods and rendered chimneystacks to all three gables, stacks having stepped plan to main gables. Porch flanked by open areas to each side, with flat roof and moulded cornice, outer parts of open areas being supported on fluted Tuscan columns, with fluted respond pilasters to face of house proper, and with similar pilasters to corners of porch projection, and approached by flight of eight stone steps to landings and seven there. Painted and smooth-rendered walls. Mainly square-headed window openings with stone sills and timber sliding sash windows, tripartite to end bays of front elevation, having six-over-six pane frames to ground floor (camber-arch to east gable), six-over-three pane to first floor and basement of front elevation, and four-over-four pane to basement and first floor of south gable, with replacement windows to attic of same gable. Square-headed timber panelled doors to sides of porch. Set overlooking Lough Swilly with mature gardens to east and south, outbuilding to north, approached by laneway to west with two sets of square-plan rubble stone piers with decorative fleur-de-lys cast-iron gates.

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 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 Shellfield.

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

Name

Shellfield

Area

237,932 m² (23.79 ha, 58.79 acres)

Civil parish

Aughnish, and its townlands

Barony

Kilmacrenan

Electoral division

Rathmelton, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Rathmelton electoral division: 2,494 people in 938 households; 71% of households own their home; 42% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrygalt, Croaghan, Killydonnell

Placenames

Shellfield 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.