Church Hill

71 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Church Hill, from 33 m² to 211,858 m² (21.19 ha, 52.35 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 25 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Church Hill 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.

• 13 Oct 2025Conditional

  CONVERSION OF AN EXISTING PUBLIC HOUSE INTO TWO RESIDENTIAL APARTMENTS, INCLUDING MINOR ELEVATIONAL ALTERATIONS, CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES, AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2561782

• 27 Jun 2025Conditional

  EXISTING FIRST FLOOR RENOVATION (ORIGINAL PLANNING APPLICATION 03/7697)

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2561089

• 11 Oct 2022Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH ASSOCIATED SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2251711

• 12 Jan 2021Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH DOMESTIC GARAGE, WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2150020

• 13 Feb 2018Conditional

  (1) RETENTION OF GROUND FLOOR EXTENSION AND (2) ERECTION OF NEW 2 STOREY EXTENSION AND GROUND WORKS INCLUDING PAVED AREAS AND DRAINAGE WORKS ASSOCIATED WITH THE DEVELOPMENT

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1850183

• 18 Jul 2017Conditional

  (1) ERECTION OF NEW DOMESTIC GARAGE AND OIL TANK STORAGE AREA WITHIN GARAGE STRUCTURE (2) RETENTION FOR CONSTRUCTION OF A HIGH CONCRETE RETAINING WALL (LENGTH 28.70 METRES AND MAXIMUM HEIGHT 2.90 METRES) TO SIDE OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND THE EXCAVATION OF LAND AND MATERIAL TO THE SIDE AND REAR CURTILAGE OF DWELLING HOUSE SO AS TO LOWER THE PRE-EXISTING LEVELS IN PLACES BY MORE THAN ONE METRE, AND THE DEPOSITION OF EXCAVATED SOIL, SUBSOIL AND ROCK WITHIN THE SAME CURTILAGE TO THE EFFECT OF RAISING PRE-EXISTING GROUND LEVELS BY MORE THAN ONE METRE IN PLACES

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1751125

• 4 Jul 2017N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A HIGH CONCRETE RETAINING WALL (LENGTH 28.70 METRES AND MAXIMUM HEIGHT 2.90 METRES) TO SIDE OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND THE EXCAVATION OF LAND AND MATERIAL TO THE SIDE AND REAR CURTILAGE OF DWELLING HOUSE SO AS TO LOWER THE PRE-EXISTING LEVELS IN PLACES BY MORE THAN ONE METRE, AND THE DEPOSITION OF EXCAVATED SOIL, SUBSOIL AND ROCK WITHIN THE SAME CURTILAGE TO THE EFFECT OF RAISING PRE-EXISTING GROUND LEVELS BY MORE THAN ONE METRE IN PLACES AND FOR PLANNING PERMISSION TO ERECT NEW DOMESTIC GARAGE AND OIL TANK STORAGE AREA WITHIN GARAGE STRUCTURE

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 1751057

• 28 Jun 2017Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A COMMUNITY PLAY GROUND, JOGGING TRACK WITH ASSOCIATED EXERCISE EQUIPMENT, COMMUNITY GARDEN AREA AND ASSOCIATED PARKING FACILITIES INCLUDING ALL OTHER RELEVANT SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1751030

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 Church Hill.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Church Hill.

Architectural heritage

• Church Hill Post Office, house, 1820–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached nine-bay two-storey block of buildings, built c.1830, comprising two-bay post office and seven-bay house and public house, having single-storey extension to rear. Pitched purple slate roof with projecting eaves course, smooth-rendered chimneystacks with clay pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Whitewashed lime-rendered walls, with smooth render to south gable and northern four bays. Square-headed openings with painted concrete sills and replacement timber sliding sash windows, ten-over-ten pane to southern five bays and two-over-two pane to northern four, and having timber battened door to post office and replacement timber doors to public house, with overlights. Two-storey outbuildings to rear with pitched purple slate roofs, limewashed rubble stone walls and square-headed openings.

• Saint Columba's Church (Gartan), church/chapel, 1815–1915 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached Church of Ireland church, dated 1819 and enlarged 1895, having three-bay nave with three-stage entrance tower to west, three-bay side aisle of 1913 to north, chancel to east and L-plan vestry over basement to south. Purple slate roofs, pitched to nave and chancel and lean-to to side aisle, on projecting eaves course, latter moulded to chancel and vestry, moulded coping to chancel, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Crenellated parapet to tower with pinnacles and moulded string course. Wet-dashed-rendered walls to nave and tower, latter having moulded string courses between stages, and with recessed lozenge-shaped plaque to front face of middle stage of tower inscribed 'This church built in 1819 by the Revd Richard Homan Rector/Geo. Grier Archt./Church of St Columba/Restored AD 1895'. Coursed rubble sandstone with strap pointing to side aisle, chancel and vestry over projecting plinth, with clasping buttresses to corners of side aisle and buttresses to chancel, with ashlar quoins. Pointed-arch openings to nave and chancel, triple-light to latter and featuring depiction of Saint Columba in stained glass, with stone sills, cut-stone surrounds and Y-tracery leaded quarries. Triple Tudor-arch lights to side aisle with chamfered ashlar transoms and surrounds, integral sills and cast-iron quarries. Rusticated pointed relieving arch to chancel window. Shouldered openings to vestry with chamfered ashlar surrounds, cast-iron windows and timber battened door. Pointed-arch timber battened door to tower with Y-tracery fanlight. Set on elevated site within graveyard and having rendered and rubble stone boundary walls with square-plan piers having castellated caps and wrought-iron double-leaf gate.

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 Church Hill, 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.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Church Hill · Mín an Lábáin

Area

1,069,787 m² (106.98 ha, 264.35 acres)

Civil parish

Gartan, and its townlands

Barony

Kilmacrenan

Electoral division

Church Hill, the unit of the census

Census 2022

400 people lived in 141 households in the Church Hill electoral division. 79% of households owned their home. 38% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Curraghavogy, Falbane, Keeloges, Mountpleasure, Tully Beg, Tully More

Placenames

Church Hill 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.