Templenew
Templenew is a townland in the civil parish of Kilbarron, barony of Tirhugh, Co. Donegal.
- Area
- 40.7 ha
- 101 acres
- Land parcels
- 10
- registered freehold, median 7,019 m² (0.7 ha, 1.73 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Templenew, from 225 m² to 64,029 m² (6.4 ha, 15.82 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 10 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 Templenew 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
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
8 Dec 2017Conditional
DOMESTIC GARAGE
Retention · Donegal County Council, 1751852
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Templenew.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Templenew.
Architectural heritage
- Templenew House, house, 1840–1850 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay two-storey over basement house with attic storey, built c. 1845, having two-storey over basement return to the rear (north) at the west corner. Modern single-storey garage addition to the rear (north). Half-hipped natural slate roof to main block having a central pair of rendered chimneystacks with terracotta pots over. Some remaining sections of cast-iron rainwater goods. Mono-pitched natural slate roof to return to rear. Smooth rendered ruled-and-lined walls to front elevation (south) having projecting rounded stringcourse/plinth course to base. Smooth rendered walls to side elevations (east and west) and roughcast rendered walls to rear (north). Square-headed window openings to front elevation having Wyatt-style timber sliding sash windows, painted stone sills, rendered surrounds, and with render fan/rosette motifs (on semi-circular plan) over. Square-headed window openings to other elevations having mainly six-over-six and nine-over-nine pane timber sliding sash windows. Central square-headed door opening to the front elevation (south) having timber panelled double-doors, sidelights with margin glazing bars and coloured glass, timber pilasters with console brackets over, raised rendered surround, and with render fan/rosette motif (on semi-circular plan) over. Flight of cut stone steps to entrance. Set back from road in extensive mature grounds to the south-east of Ballyshannon and to the west of Belleek. Ruinous two-storey outbuilding to rear, built c. 1820, having remains of pitched natural slate roof, projecting cut stone eaves course, rendered rubble stone walls, square-headed window openings with red brick surrounds and remains of timber windows, square-headed doorways with remains of timber fittings, and segmental-headed carriage-arch with red brick voussoirs. Remains of former walled garden (on rectangular-plan) to the rear (north) having rubble stone boundary walls. Main entrance to the south-west having squared rubble stone gate piers (on square-plan) having sections of squared rubble stone boundary walls to either side.
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 Templenew, about 1 in 5 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. Parts of the land are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Templenew.
- 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
No address of the register names Templenew with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Templenew
- Area
- 407,461 m² (40.75 ha, 100.69 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilbarron, and its townlands
- Barony
- Tirhugh
- Electoral division
- Carrickboy, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 389 people lived in 156 households in the Carrickboy electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 21% of homes were built since 2001. 18% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Camlin, Edenagor, Knocknashangan, Lissacholly, Mullans, Rowantreehill
- Placenames
- Templenew 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.