Castletown

28 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Castletown, from 138 m² to 373,700 m² (37.37 ha, 92.34 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 20 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 Castletown 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.

• 15 May 2025Conditional

  (1) DOMESTIC SHED AND PERMISSION FOR (2) (A) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING DUE TO DEFECTIVE BLOCKS; PLANNING REF: 07/40143, (B) ERECTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING WITH CHANGE OF HOUSE TYPE, (C) CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS

  Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2560781

• 29 Jun 2023Conditional

  (A) GAS TANK AND ASSOCIATED FENCING AND (B) RELOCATION OF TREATMENT SYSTEM AND POLISHING FILTER AND PERMISSION FOR EXTENSION TO THE PLAYGROUND TO COMPRISE OF A BALL COURT AND ERECTION OF PERIMETER FENCING TO SCHOOL BOUNDARY AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2350935

• 7 Aug 2020Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO EXISTING SCHOOL PREMISES. THE EXTENSION WILL COMPRISE OF AN ADDITIONAL CLASSROOM, SET ROOM AND NEW ENTRANCE WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2051084

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 Castletown.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Castletown.

Architectural heritage

• Castletown Old, farm house, 1740–1780 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey vernacular house with attic level, built c. 1760, having single-bay single-storey flat-roofed entrance porch to the north elevation, and with single-bay single-storey extension to the west gable end. Formerly a four-bay structure (bay to east end demolished in recent years). Now disused. Pitched flax thatched roof with raised rendered coping to gable ends (east and west) and with three cement rendered red brick chimneystacks (one to either gable end and one to centre). Mono-pitched artificial slate roof to addition to west gable end and mono-pitched corrugated-sheeted roof to porch to north. Roughcast rendered rubble stone walls; smooth rendered plinth course; cement rendered walls to the west gable end. Square-headed window openings having smooth rendered reveals, some stone sills, and with two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows to front elevation (north) and six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows to rear (south). Square-headed window openings to porch having timber casement window. Square-headed doorway to the west side of porch having battened timber door. Interior has tongue and groove boarded ceilings and cast-iron Art Nouveau fireplace, c. 1900. Set back from road in mature grounds in an elevated site in the rural countryside to the south-west of Saint Johnstown. Mature trees to site. Flagstones to front of house and gravel forecourt to the north. Garden to north-east of house bounded to the east by rubble stone boundary wall. Pedestrian gateway to the north-east of site comprising a pair of rendered gate piers (on square-plan) having wrought-iron flat bar gate. Site is approached along a short lane to the west lined with mature trees .Multiple-bay terrace of single-storey outbuildings to the north-west, c. 1820, having pitched natural slate and corrugated-metal roofs with cast-iron rainwater goods, roof vents to central block, roughcast rendered rubble stone walls, round window openings to block to the south with cast-iron swiveling windows, square-headed doorways with battened timber fittings, and with square-headed carriage-arch having sliding metal door.

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 Castletown, 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 Castletown.

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.

• Castletown, Dunkineely5 sales

Name

Castletown

Area

1,554,684 m² (155.47 ha, 384.17 acres)

Civil parish

Taughboyne, and its townlands

Barony

Raphoe North

Electoral division

St. Johnstown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,396 people lived in 537 households in the St. Johnstown electoral division. 69% of households owned their home. 40% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Altaskin, Drumenan, Kinnacally, Legnatraw, Moness, Rockfield, Saintjohnstown, Treansallagh, Treantagh

Placenames

Castletown 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.