# Shellfield, Co. Donegal: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Aughnish, barony of Kilmacrenan, Co. Donegal. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 237,932 m² (23.79 ha, 58.79 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 5,111 m² (0.51 ha, 1.26 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Aughnish, https://everytownland.com/donegal/parish/aughnish.md - Barony: Kilmacrenan - Electoral division: Rathmelton, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Donegal, https://everytownland.com/donegal.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/15996 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 52382 - Centre: latitude 55.023423, longitude -7.587004 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Shellfield, from 12 m² to 102,927 m² (10.29 ha, 25.43 acres); 8 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1357548: 102,927 m² (10.29 ha, 25.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1357548.md - Parcel 1402781: 58,011 m² (5.8 ha, 14.33 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1402781.md - Parcel 4934217: 51,552 m² (5.16 ha, 12.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4934217.md - Parcel 1352718: 5,645 m² (0.56 ha, 1.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1352718.md - Parcel 1330483: 5,204 m² (0.52 ha, 1.29 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1330483.md - Parcel 1346770: 5,111 m² (0.51 ha, 1.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1346770.md - Parcel 1339762: 3,383 m² (0.34 ha, 0.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1339762.md - Parcel 1399588: 2,834 m² (0.28 ha, 0.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1399588.md - Parcel 1331909: 2,151 m² (0.22 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1331909.md - Parcel 1405693: 197 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1405693.md - Parcel 1301607: 12 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1301607.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 1 application, newest first. - 25 Jul 2019, Donegal County Council 1951142: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. (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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1951142/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: Lough Swilly SAC, site code 002287, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/002287 - Special Protection Area: Lough Swilly SPA, site code 004075, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/spa/004075 - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Swilly Including Big Isle, Blanket Nook & Inch Lake, site code 000166 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Shellfield. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Shellfield, farmyard complex, 1760–1880, Regional interest, registry number 40904618, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=DG®no=40904618. 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, registry number 40904619, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=DG®no=40904619. 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. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/donegal/shellfield.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/donegal/shellfield.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/donegal/shellfield.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Shellfield with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal: https://everytownland.com/donegal.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Carrygalt: https://everytownland.com/donegal/carrygalt.md - Croaghan: https://everytownland.com/donegal/croaghan-50794.md - Killydonnell: https://everytownland.com/donegal/killydonnell.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/donegal/shellfield - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/donegal/shellfield