Tircallan

69 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Tircallan, from 1 m² to 101,394 m² (10.14 ha, 25.06 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 14 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 Tircallan 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.

• 23 Sept 2025Conditional

  AMENDMENT TO PLANNING CONDITION 16 OF PLANNING PERMISSION REF: 23/50082 FROM THE APPROVED WASTE-WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM TO A SEPTIC TANK SYSTEM, PERCOLATION AREA AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2561641

• 29 Jul 2025Conditional

  CHANGE OF DESIGN AND RELOCATION OF DOMESTIC GARAGE PERMITTED UNDER PLANNING REF: 23/50082 AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2561297

• 18 Oct 2024Conditional

  DETACHED STORAGE SHED AND PERMISSION FOR CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSION AND CHANGE OF USE OF PART OF EXISTING DETACHED STORAGE SHED TO PROVIDE A SELF-CONTAINED RESIDENTIAL ANNEX, CONNECTION INTO EXISTING SEPTIC TANK SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2461654

• 28 Aug 2023Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, SEPTIC TANK/SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2351271

• 30 Jan 2023Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK/SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2350082

• 19 Mar 2021Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH ON-SITE SEWERAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2150487

• 8 Dec 2020Refused

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH ON-SITE SEWERAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2051896

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Tircallan.

Recorded monuments

• DG069-039 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located in pasture, on a low flat-topped elevation with a gentle fall of ground to an area of damp ground at W and N. It is overlooked c. 300m to E by a high ridge, now forested, and by a hill 250m to N on which another possible rath (MA069-038----) is located. This enclosure, most likely a rath, was levelled at some unknown date in the past. It is not shown on any edition of the OS 6-inch maps. The outline of a circular enclosure is clearly visible in Lidar imagery. A roughly circular area (diam. c. 38m) is defined by a low undulation/levelled scarp (Wth slope c. 7m; H 0.8m at SW), which can be traced at ground level at S−NE where it coincides with a natural fall of ground. It is barely discernible on the E arc, which may be the location of the original entrance. The interior is grassy, flat and featureless. Notified to NMS by Steve McGlade. DG069-039----_01.JPG Levelled enclosure, viewed from W DG069-039----_02.JPG Lidar image (Open topographic data viewer) Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 10 May 2022

Architectural heritage

• Tyrcallen House, hunting/fishing lodge, house, 1780–1800 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay single-storey former hunting lodge with attic level, built c. 1790 and altered 1828, having single-bay gable-fronted glazed entrance porch to the centre of the main elevation (south) and with two-storey returns to the rear (north). Now out of use and derelict. Pitched natural slate roof to main block, now collapsing, with roughcast rendered chimneystacks to either gable end (east and west) having terracotta pots, terracotta ridge tiles, and with surviving sections of cast-iron rainwater goods. Pitched natural slate roof to porch and hipped natural slate roof to return to the north of house. Roughcast rendered coursed rubble stone walls; brick and timber structure to porch. Square headed openings with cut stone sills, internal timber shutters, brick reveals, and with the remnants of six-over-six pane and three-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows; most windows now boarded. Square-headed door opening to front elevation of projecting porch and square-headed doorway to the east elevation, both now boarded. Set back from road in own grounds to the north of Stranorlar. Modern houses align former approach avenue from the west/north-west. Associated former tower (see 40906908) on top of hill to the north-east. Complex of ruinous single- and two-storey outbuildings arranged around a courtyard to the rear (north) having remains of pitched natural slate roofs, projecting cut stone eaves courses, and with rubble stone chimneystacks; rubble stone walls, formerly rendered, with flush roughly dressed stone quoins to the corners; square-headed door and window openings with roughly dressed rubble stone voussoirs, and remains of timber fittings, some openings now blocked; and with segmental-headed carriage-arches having roughly dressed rubble stone voussoirs. Small ruinous brick structure adjacent to the east gable end of house having tooled and decorated lintel, possibly introduced to site from elsewhere.

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 high, 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 Tircallan.

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

Name

Tircallan · Tír Challann

Area

571,426 m² (57.14 ha, 141.2 acres)

Civil parish

Stranorlar, and its townlands

Barony

Raphoe South

Electoral division

Stranorlar, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Stranorlar electoral division: 4,706 people in 1,787 households; 61% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Dunwiley, Kilross, Knockfair, Mullaghagarry, Teevickmoy

Placenames

Tircallan 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.