Woodhill
Townland in the civil parish of Clondahorky, barony of Kilmacrenan, Co. Donegal; in Irish Cnoc na Coille
- Area
- 44.8 ha
- 111 acres
- Land parcels
- 109
- registered freehold, median 637 m²
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 31
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
109 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Woodhill, from 1 m² to 156,446 m² (15.64 ha, 38.66 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 34 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Woodhill 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
13 Jun 2026Conditional
(1) RETENTION OF DOMESTIC GARAGE AND (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A FIRST FLOOR EXTENSION OVER THE EXISTING DOMESTIC GARAGE, TO BE USED AS AUXILIARY ACCOMMODATION TO THE MAIN DWELLING HOUSE, WITH CONNECTION TO THE EXISTING PUBLIC SEWER INCLUDING ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2661085
27 May 2026Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A FIRST FLOOR DORMER STYLE CANTILEVERED EXTENSION TO THE REAR OF THE EXISTING DWELLING, CONVERSION OF THE EXISTING CONSERVATORY ROOF TO A FLAT ROOF BALCONY, PROVISION OF AN EXTERNAL STAIRCASE PROVIDING ACCESS TO THE BALCONY AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2660965
23 Mar 2026N/a
CONSTRUCTION OF A FIRST FLOOR DORMER STYLE CANTILEVERED EXTENSION TO THE REAR OF THE EXISTING DWELLING, CONVERSION OF THE EXISTING CONSERVATORY ROOF TO A FLAT ROOF BALCONY AND PROVISION OF AN EXTERNAL STAIRCASE PROVIDING ACCESS TO THE BALCONY, TOGETHER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2660480
20 Jan 2025Conditional
(1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING SHED, (2) CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSION AND REFURBISHMENT OF THE EXISTING COTTAGE AND (3) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) ACCOMPANIES THIS APPLICATION
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2560048
6 Mar 2024Conditional
SEOMRA STAIDÉIR/OIFIGE CÚNTA DON PHRÍOMHTEACH AG CEANGAILT ISTEACH IN SAN DABHACH SEARACHAS ATÁ ANN CHEANNA
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2460276
23 Feb 2024N/a
SEOMRA STAIDÉIR/OIFIGE CÚNTA DON PHRÍOMHTEACH AG CEANGAILT ISTEACH IN SAN DABHACH SEARACHAS ATÁ ANN CHEANNA
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2460204
12 Jul 2023Conditional
DEMOLITION OF EXISTING SUNROOM AND ERECTION OF A NEW EXTENSION INCLUDING INTERNAL CHANGES TO THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2351032
9 Nov 2022Conditional
CHANGE OF HOUSE TYPE PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF. 20/51943 WITH CONNECTION TO MAIN SEWER AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2251828
26 Jul 2022Conditional
ERECTION OF AN EXTENSION TO THE SIDE OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE INCLUDING ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2251280
26 Jul 2022Conditional
REFURBISHMENT AND EXTENSION OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE WITH ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2251279
13 Jul 2022Conditional
DOMESTIC GARAGE AND SELF RETAINED FLAT AUXILIARY TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE
Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2251208
10 Jun 2022N/a
DOMESTIC GARAGE AND SELF RETAINED FLAT AUXILIARY TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE
Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2251013
13 May 2022N/a
DOMESTIC GARAGE AND SELF RETAINED FLAT AUXILIARY TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2250834
12 Apr 2022N/a
DOMESTIC GARAGE AND SELF CONTAINED APARTMENT AUXILIARY TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2250644
17 Dec 2021Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING PUBLIC SEWER AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2152544
10 Nov 2021Conditional
ERECTION OF AN EXTENSION TO THE SIDE OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2152222
4 Aug 2021Conditional
ERECTION OF A PART TWO STOREY/PART SINGLE STOREY HOUSE WITH PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) ACCOMPANIES THIS APPLICATION
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2151563
13 Jul 2021N/a
ERECTION OF A PART 2 STOREY/PART SINGLE STOREY HOUSE WITH PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) ACCOMPANIES THIS APPLICATION
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2151407
11 Jun 2021N/a
ERECTION OF A PART 2 STOREY/PART SINGLE STOREY HOUSE WITH PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2151156
16 Dec 2020Conditional
DEMOLITION OF AN EXISTING BUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH CONNECTION TO MAIN SEWER AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2051943
2 Dec 2020Conditional
(1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING SINGLE STOREY FRONT PORCH AND ERECTION OF NEW TWO STOREY FRONT PORCH, (2) ERECTION OF A NEW SIDE EXTENSION AND (3) REFURBISHMENT OF EXISTING HOUSE INCLUDING MAKING WINDOWS BIGGER AND INSTALLATION OF NEW WINDOWS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2051843
14 Oct 2020N/a
CONSTRUCTION OF DWELLING HOUSE WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING PUBLIC SEWER
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2051512
16 Sept 2020Conditional
STUDIO/HOME OFFICE AND PERMISSION TO RELOCATE 2 EXISTING WINDOWS FROM THE REAR ELEVATION TO THE GABLE ENDS OF THE BUILDING AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED WORKS
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2051309
16 Mar 2020Conditional
DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND CONSTRUCTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING HOUSE WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS, CONNECTION TO EXISTING SITE SERVICES AND CONNECTION TO EXISTING PUBLIC SEWER
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2050368
22 Jan 2020Conditional
DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND ERECTION OF A NEW REPLACEMENT DWELLING HOUSE WITH ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2050050
The 25 most recent of 31 applications.
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Sessiagh Lough SAC 000185
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Sessiagh Lough 000185
Recorded monuments
- DG016-020 Castle - unclassified
Description
This area is marked McSwyne's Castle on the 3rd edition of the OS 6-inch map. There is a local tradition that the castle stood on an elevated platform of rock here. No trace of the castle now exists. Its reported position is a commanding one in grazing land marked by the occurrence of rock outcrop. The precise location of this castle has not been identified, the placename 'Mc Swyne's Castle' on the OS 6-inch map extends over a large area of rock outcrop, the castle if there was one at this location may have been located somewhere within the vicinity of this placename. In 1943 the ITA Survey recorded, there was a 'tradition that a castle of the Mac Swynes stood on a large rock at the back of Stewarts house in Woodhill (SMR File). The Donegal Survey recorded that a 'local woman (Miss Stewart) described an elevated platform of rock as being the site of "Castle Suibhe". According to Miss Stewart there was no trace of the castle during her grandfathers lifetime' (SMR File). The proposed development at Sandhill, Dunfanaghy, consisted of a house, garden and car parking area. As part of the planning conditions, an assessment was requested due to the site’s close proximity to the site of McSwyne’s Castle, DG016–020----. Testing was carried out by Eoin Corcoran, Archaeological Development Services Ltd, under licence No. 07E0353 as per the planning condition. No archaeological features, deposits or artefacts were identified during testing. The site appears to have been quarried out in the past and all deposits noted during the testing consisted of dumped material over bedrock. Therefore any potential archaeological material that may have existed on the site was removed during the quarrying process. Documentary sources also indicate that the classification of the site as a castle was based on local tradition rather than extant remains. Cartographic evidence also does not indicate the presence of a castle at the site (Bennett 2010, 82). The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated. Compiled by Caimin O'Brien Date of upload/revision: 18 November 2011
- DG016-021 Crannog
Description
An apparently artificial island in Sessiagh Lake con-structed of stone 18.8m N-S and 20m E-W. On top of the created platform is a subcircular drystone enclosure faced on both sides surviving up to 1m high in places and 0.8m wide. The wall is set in about 1m from the edge of the island. At the N interior is a lintelled drain-hole. At the NE end of the island is a stone landing stage 2.5m × 1.9m which appears to be contemporary with the enclosure. See also Largynagreana (259). The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated. Date of upload: 22 September 2008
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Woodhill.
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
- About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1567 (ZIP).
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
- Woodhill, Dunfanaghy8 sales
The townland
- Name
- Woodhill · Cnoc na Coille
- Area
- 447,929 m² (44.79 ha, 110.69 acres)
- Civil parish
- Clondahorky, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kilmacrenan
- Electoral division
- Ards, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Ards electoral division: 805 people in 270 households; 86% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 61% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Kill, Knocknafaugher, Rinnaraw, Sandhill
- Placenames
- Woodhill 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.