Windyhall

51 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Windyhall, from 218 m² to 311,259 m² (31.13 ha, 76.91 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 52 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Windyhall 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.

• 30 Jun 2026N/a

  A PERIOD OF 10 YEARS FOR A LARGE-SCALE RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT (LRD) CONSISTING OF THE PROVISION OF A TOTAL OF 346 NO. RESIDENTIAL UNITS ALONG WITH THE PROVISION OF A NEIGHBOURHOOD CENTRE THAT WILL INCORPORATE A CRECHE. PARTICULARS OF THE DEVELOPMENT COMPRISE AS FOLLOWS (1) SITE EXCAVATION WORKS TO FACILITATE THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT TO INCLUDE EXCAVATION AND GENERAL SITE PREPARATION WORKS, (2) PROVISION OF A TOTAL OF 346 NO. RESIDENTIAL UNITS WHICH WILL CONSIST OF: 10 NO. 1 BED DUPLEX APARTMENT UNITS; 123 NO. 2 BED DUPLEX APARTMENT UNITS; 42 NO. 3 BED DUPLEX APARTMENT UNITS; 98 NO. 2 BED DWELLINGS; 53 NO. 3 BED DWELLINGS AND 20 NO. 4 BED DWELLINGS. BUILDING TYPOLOGIES RANGE IN HEIGHT FROM SINGLE TO THREE STOREY AND COMPRISE A MIXTURE OF DETACHED, SEMI-DETACHED AND TERRACED DWELLINGS ALONG WITH PROVISION OF DUPLEX APARTMENT UNITS, (3) PROVISION OF A CRECHE THAT WILL SERVE AS A NEIGHBOURHOOD CENTRE, (4) PROVISION OF ASSOCIATED CAR PARKING AT SURFACE LEVEL VIA A COMBINATION OF IN-CURTILAGE PARKING FOR DWELLINGS AND VIA ON-STREET PARKING FOR THE CRECHE AND APARTMENT UNITS, (5) PROVISION OF ELECTRIC VEHICLE CHARGE POINTS WITH ASSOCIATED SITE INFRASTRUCTURE DUCTING TO PROVIDE CHARGE POINTS FOR RESIDENTS THROUGHOUT THE SITE, (6) PROVISION OF ASSOCIATED BICYCLE STORAGE FACILITIES AT SURFACE LEVEL THROUGHOUT THE SITE AND BIN STORAGE FACILITIES, (7) PROVISION OF ASSOCIATED OPEN SPACE AREAS, RESIDENTIAL COMMUNAL OPEN SPACE AREAS TO INCLUDE FORMAL PLAY AREAS ALONG WITH ALL HARD AND SOFT LANDSCAPE WORKS FOR PRIVATE GARDENS AND AMENITY SPACES ALONG WITH PUBLIC LIGHTING, PLANTING AND BOUNDARY TREATMENTS TO INCLUDE BOUNDARY WALLS, RETAINING WALLS, RAILINGS AND FENCING, (8) PROVISION OF A NEW LINK ROAD WITH ASSOCIATED WORKS TO INCLUDE FOR PROVISION OF ASSOCIATED CYCLE AND WALKING INFRASTRUCTURE ALONG WITH ANCILLARY WORKS TO INCLUDE FOR CULVERTING OF EXISTING WATERCOURSES, LANDSCAPING AND LIGHTING WORKS. THE PROPOSED LINK ROAD WILL FACILITATE PART OF THE NORTHERN NETWORK PROJECT, (9) PROVISION OF NEW ENTRANCES ONTO THE NEW LINK ROAD WITH ASSOCIATED PEDESTRIAN CONNECTIONS, (10) PROVISION OF INTERNAL CULVERTS AND ASSOCIATED WORKS ALONG WITH REALIGNMENT AND DECOMMISSIONING OF EXISTING DRAINAGE CHANNELS WITHIN THE SITE. CULVERT WORKS TO INCLUDE FOR PROVISION OF HEADWALLS, (11) PROVISION OF ESB SUBSTATIONS, (12) ASSOCIATED INTERNAL SITE WORKS AND ATTENUATION SYSTEMS TO INCLUDE FOR HYDROCARBON AND SILT INTERCEPTORS, (13) PROVISION OF ANCILLARY SITE DEVELOPMENT/CONSTRUCTION WORKS

  Permission, 171 homes · Donegal County Council, 2661208

• 18 Nov 2025Conditional

  REVISIONS TO PREVIOUSLY APPROVED PLANNING REF. NOS. 19/51064 & 22/51830 AND EXTENDED UNDER PLANNING REF. NOS. 25/50028 & 25/50027 WITH REVISIONS TO INCLUDE: (1) CHANGE OF HOUSE TYPE ON SITE NOS. 25 TO 52 INCL. (28 NO. DWELLINGS IN TOTAL) AS PHASE 2 OF HOUSING DEVELOPMENT AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS INCLUDING MINOR REVISIONS TO LAYOUT OF PHASE 2 AND CONNECTION TO EXISTING FOUL AND STORM SEWERS

  Permission, 28 homes · Donegal County Council, 2562010

• 27 Mar 2025Conditional

  (1) EXTENSION TO THE REAR OF DWELLING, (2) SEPARATE DOMESTIC WORKSHOP LINKED TO THE NEW EXTENSION VIA A SHED, (3) WINDOWS ON THE EAST AND NORTH FACING FACADES, (4) BOUNDARY WALLS TO THE NORTH AND WEST SIDE OF SITE AND (5) ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS AND SITE WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2560448

• 24 Mar 2025Unconditional

  REVISIONS TO PREVIOUSLY APPROVED PLANNING REF. NO. 19/51064 INCLUDING THE FOLLOWING: (1) DEMOLITION OF 6 NO. DWELLINGS AND 4 NO. APARTMENTS PARTIALLY CONSTRUCTED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 05/40222, (2) OMISSION OF 30 NO. DWELLINGS AND 20 NO. APARTMENTS AND CONSTRUCTION OF 50 NO. DWELLINGS IN TOTAL AND (3) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS INCLUDING: (A) CAR PARKING AND (B) CONNECTION TO EXISTING FOUL AND STORM SEWERS WITH PROPOSED ACCESS THROUGH EXISTING HOUSING ESTATES GLEANN TAIN MANOR AND GORT NA GREINE

  Extension of duration, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2550027

• 24 Mar 2025Unconditional

  REVISIONS TO PREVIOUSLY APPROVED PLANNING REF. NO. 22/51830 TO INCLUDE (1) OMISSION OF 4 NO. SEMI-DETACHED DWELLINGS AND CONSTRUCTION OF 6 NO. SEMI-DETACHED DWELLINGS AND (2) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS INCLUDING CARPARKING AND CONNECTION TO EXISTING FOUL AND STORM SEWERS

  Extension of duration, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2550029

• 18 Feb 2025Conditional

  CHANGE OF USE OF A DWELLING HOUSE TO HOSTEL RESIDENTIAL ACCOMMODATION

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2560200

• 16 Feb 2024Conditional

  (1) PLINTH MOUNTED SINGLE SIDED SIGNAGE LOCATED TO THE FRONT OF OFFICE BUILDING 1 CAR PARK (NORTH) COMPOSED OF 20MM FOAMEX LETTERS WHICH WILL APPEAR “ORANGE” ON WHITE DIBOND ALUMINIUM COMPOSITE (200MM THICK), SUPPORTED BY 4” X 6” GALVANISED STEEL FRAME ON REINFORCED CONCRETE BASE 3FT X 2FT X 8FT. THE SIGNAGE HAS AN OVERALL AREA OF 7.1 SQ.M, AND (2) PLINTH MOUNTED SINGLE SIDED SIGNAGE LOCATED TO THE FRONT OF OFFICE BUILDING 1 CAR PARK (SOUTH) COMPOSED OF 20MM FOAMEX LETTERS WHICH WILL APPEAR “ORANGE” ON WHITE DIBOND ALUMINIUM COMPOSITE (200MM THICK), SUPPORTED BY 4” X 6” GALVANISED STEEL FRAME ON REINFORCED CONCRETE BASE 2FT X 2FT X 8FT. THE SIGNAGE HAS AN OVERALL AREA OF 4.2 SQ.M

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2460165

• 12 Feb 2024N/a

  ERECTION OF (1) PLINTH MOUNTED SINGLE SIDED SIGNAGE LOCATED TO THE FRONT OF OFFICE BUILDING 1 CAR PARK (NORTH) COMPOSED OF 20MM FOAMEX LETTERS WHICH WILL APPEAR "ORANGE" ON WHITE DIBOND ALUMINIUM COMPOSITE (200MM THICK), SUPPORTED BY 4" X 6" GALVANISED STEEL FRAME ON REINFORCED CONCRETE BASE 3FT X 2FT X 8FT. THE SIGNAGE HAS AN OVERALL AREA OF 7.1 SQUARE METERS, (2) PLINTH MOUNTED SINGLE SIDED SIGNAGE LOCATED TO THE FRONT OF OFFICE BUILDING 1 CAR PARK (SOUTH) COMPOSED OF 20MM FOAMEX LETTERS WHICH WILL APPEAR "ORANGE" ON WHITE DIBOND ALUMINIUM COMPOSITE (200MM THICK), SUPPORTED BY 4" X 6" GALVANISED STEEL FRAME ON REINFORCED CONCRETE BASE 2FT X 2FT X 8FT. THE SIGNAGE HAS AN OVERALL AREA OF 4.2 SQUARE METERS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2460136

• 25 Oct 2023Conditional

  (A) PROVISION OF 2NR. NEW GAS STORAGE COMPOUNDS WITH ASSOCIATED HARD-STANDINGS, WALLS, STRUCTURES AND SECURITY FENCING, (B) 1NR. 5.6MSQ VAPORIZER PLANT ROOM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND INFRASTRUCTURE

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2351628

• 22 Sept 2023Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO CONNECT AND CHANGE THE USE OF EXISTING DETACHED GARAGE TO FORM PART OF THE RESIDENTIAL DWELLING HOUSE, WORKS TO INCLUDE AMENDMENTS TO WINDOW OPENINGS AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE AND ASSOCIATED DEVELOPMENTS WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2351421

• 23 Aug 2023Conditional

  REVISIONS TO PREVIOUSLY APPROVED PLANNING REF NO: 22/51830 TO INCLUDE (1) OMISSION OF 4 NO. SEMI-DETACHED DWELLINGS AND CONSTRUCTION OF 6 NO. SEMI-DETACHED DWELLINGS AND (2) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS INCLUDING CARPARKING AND CONNECTION TO EXISTING FOUL AND STORM SEWERS

  Permission, 6 homes · Donegal County Council, 2351254

• 18 Aug 2023Conditional

  EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND GARAGE CONSTRUCTED UNDER APPROVED PLANNING APPLICATION REF: 98/615 AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS AND SITE WORKS

  Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2351231

• 27 Apr 2023Conditional

  (1) DEMOLITION/REMOVAL OF THE EXISTING SCHOOL AND REMOVAL OF TEMPORARY BUILDINGS, (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW PERMANENT 2-STOREY POST PRIMARY SCHOOL BUILDING FOR ERRIGAL COLLEGE (9,000 SQM NEW GROSS FLOOR AREA) WITH ASSOCIATED EXTERNAL SIGNAGE. THE CONSTITUENT ELEMENTS OF THE NEW SCHOOL COMPRISE: 27 GENERAL CLASSROOMS, 19 SPECIALIST CLASSROOMS, 2 SPECIAL NEEDS CLASSROOMS WITHIN A SPECIAL EDUCATIONAL NEEDS SUITE, MP HALL AND ASSOCIATED PE ANCILLARY ACCOMMODATION, STAFFROOM, ADMINISTRATION ROOMS, TOILETS, STORES AND GENERAL ANCILLARY ACCOMMODATION AND A DOUBLE HEIGHT GENERAL PURPOSE ROOM WITH ASSOCIATED KITCHEN AND STORE, (3) EXTERNAL COVERED AREA AND EXTERNAL CONSTRUCTION STUDIES STORE, (4) SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS INCLUDING REVISIONS TO VEHICULAR/PEDESTRIAN AND CYCLE ACCESS ARRANGEMENTS TO PROVIDE CAR AND BUS SET-DOWN SPACES INCLUDING 63 NO. STANDARD CAR PARKING SPACES FOR STAFF/VISITORS, 3 NO. UNIVERSALLY ACCESSIBLE PARKING SPACES, AREA FOR 90 NO. CYCLE PARKING SPACES AND VEHICULAR ENTRANCE/EXIT ONTO KILMACRENNAN ROAD, (5) 5 NO. HARD COURTS AND (6) A ROOF MOUNTED PHOTOVOLTAIC ARRAY. THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT ALSO INCLUDES HARD AND SOFT LANDSCAPING, GRASSED PLAY SPACE, OUTER ACITIVITY COURTYARDS, SEN GARDEN/PLAY SPACE, EXTERNAL GRASS PITCHES, ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT AND SERVICE INFRASTRUCTURE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2350561

• 20 Feb 2023N/a

  (1) PROVISION OF 2 NO. NEW GAS STORAGE COMPOUNDS WITH 2 NO. 5.6M2 VAPORIZER PLANT ROOMS AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS, (2) INSTALLATION OF 4 NO. PHOTOVOLTAIC CELL ARRAYS ACROSS 4 NO. ROOFS ON CAMPUS - TOTAL AREA OF 9000M2 AND (3) 9M2 EXTENSION TO EXISTING PLANT ROOM

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2350186

• 1 Feb 2023N/a

  (1) 2 NO. NEW GAS STORAGE COMPOUNDS AND ASSOCIATED WORKS (2) INSTALLATION OF A PHOTOVOLTAIC CELL ARRAY AND (3) EXPANSION OF AN EXISTING PLANT ROOM

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2350110

• 9 Nov 2022Conditional

  REVISIONS TO PREVIOUSLY APPROVED PLANNING REF. NO. 19/51064 INCLUDING THE FOLLOWING: (1) DEMOLITION OF 6 NO. DWELLINGS AND 4 NO. APARTMENTS PARTIALLY CONSTRUCTED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 05/40222, (2) OMISSION OF 30 NO. DWELLINGS AND 20 NO. APARTMENTS AND CONSTRUCTION OF 50 NO. DWELLINGS IN TOTAL AND (3) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS INCLUDING: (A) CAR PARKING AND (B) CONNECTION TO EXISTING FOUL AND STORM SEWERS WITH PROPOSED ACCESSS THROUGH EXISTING HOUSING ESTATES GLEANN TAIN MANOR AND GORT NA GREINE

  Permission, 50 homes · Donegal County Council, 2251830

• 19 Apr 2021Conditional

  (A) CONSTRUCTION OF 21NO RESIDENTIAL UNITS OVER 5NO BLOCKS, WITH BLOCK A CONTAINING 6NO APARTMENTS, BLOCK B CONTAINING 2NO APARTMENTS AND 2NO DUPLEX APARTMENTS BLOCK C CONTAINING 2NO APARTMENTS AND 2NO DUPLEX APARTMENTS, BLOCK D CONTAINING 2NO APARTMENTS AND 2NO DUPLEX APARTMENTS AND BLOCK E CONTAINING 1NO APARTMENT AND 2NO DUPLEX APARTMENTS (B) ALL SITEWORKS INCLUDING FENCING/RAILINGS, RETAINING WALLS, PUBLIC LIGHTING, PARKING, COVERED BIKE STAND, BIN STORES AND LANSCAPING (C) WIDENING OF WINDYHALL ROAD FOR ENTIRE LENGTH OF SITE (D) PROVISION OF A FOUL SEWERAGE TREATMENT PLANT WITH CONNECTION TO PUBLIC SEWER (E) CONNECTION TO EXISTING PUBLIC STORM DRAINAGE (F) ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS AND SITEWORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2150695

• 20 Jul 2020Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A ROADSIDE BOUNDARY WALL AND WING WALLS TO THE EXISTING ENTRANCE SERVING DWELLING TOGETHER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2050958

• 29 Jan 2020Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY SUN LOUNGE EXTENSION TO THE WESTERN SIDE ELEVATION OF EXISTING DWELLING

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2050073

• 26 Apr 2018Conditional

  (1) RETENTION OF PLINTH MOUNTED DOUBLE SIDED SIGNAGE AND 3 NO. 5M HIGH FLAGPOLES LOCATED TO THE FRONT OF OFFICE BUILDING 1 CAR PARK, (2) SIGNAGE MOUNTED ON OFFICE BUILDING 1 FRONT ELEVATION OVER MAIN ENTRANCE, (3) SIGNAGE MOUNTED ON OFFICE BUILDING 2 FRONT ELEVATION OVER MAIN ENTRANCE, (4) SIGNAGE MOUNTED ON OFFICE BUILDING 3 FRONT ELEVATION OVER MAIN ENTRANCE AND (5) 3 NO. 5M HIGH FLAGPOLES ADJACENT TO BUILDING 3

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 1850654

• 27 Feb 2018Conditional

  DEVELOPMENT OF CAR PARKING, EXTENSION TO ACCESS ROAD AND ASSOCIATED ANCILLARY WORKS ADJACENT TO IDA OFFICE PARK

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1850315

• 14 Sept 2017Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO THE NORTH EASTERN CORNER OF THE EXISTING BUILDING CONTAINING STAFF TOILETS AND A NEW LOBBY ALONG WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS INCLUDING CONNECTION TO EXISTING FOUL/STORM SEWERS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1751418

• 15 May 2017Conditional

  NEW ATTIC CONVERSION AT EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1750740

• 13 Apr 2017N/a

  ERECTION OF A NEW ATTIC CONVERSION AT EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1750582

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 Windyhall.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Windyhall.

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Windyhall.

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

At the centre of the townland of Windyhall, 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. Parts of the land are made ground.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Windyhall.

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.

No address of the register names Windyhall with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Windyhall

Area

843,668 m² (84.37 ha, 208.47 acres)

Civil parish

Conwal, and its townlands

Barony

Kilmacrenan

Electoral division

Letterkenny Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

12,191 people lived in 4,494 households in the Letterkenny Rural electoral division. 48% of households owned their home. 37% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyboe Glencar, Carnamogagh Upper, Curraghlea, Glencar Irish, Killylastin, Knocknamona

Placenames

Windyhall 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.