Cullion

45 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cullion, from 207 m² to 189,311 m² (18.93 ha, 46.78 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 13 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 Cullion 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.

• 16 Feb 2026Conditional

  (1) RESTORATION AND CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSION TO EXISTING FARM HOUSE DWELLING, (2) CONVERSION OF EXISTING ASSOCIATED FARM OUTBUILDING (FORMERLY FARM RESIDENTIAL COTTAGE) INTO 'GRANNY FLAT' DWELLING, (3) DEMOLITION OF 3 NO. LOW QUALITY AGRICULTURAL BUILDINGS AND (4) INSTALLATION OF NEW SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2660208

• 21 Aug 2025Conditional

  (1) EXTENSION TO COMMUNITY DWELLING FOR THE PURPOSE OF A SELF CONTAINED APARTMENT FOR USE AS COMMUNITY RESIDENTIAL ACCOMMODATION, (2) CHANGE OF USE AND EXTERNAL MODIFICATIONS OF AN OUTBUILDING TO A COMMUNITY RESIDENTIAL APARTMENT AND (3) UPGRADE OF THE SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2561452

• 26 Mar 2025Conditional

  ERECTION OF A NEW SHED WITH ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS WITHIN EXISTING COMPLEX

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2560439

• 14 Jun 2024Conditional

  DOMESTIC GARAGE/STORE AND DOMESTIC SHED WITH ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2450157

• 23 May 2024Conditional

  DECOMMISSIONING OF EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA AND INSTALLATION OF NEW WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH PERCOLATION AREA

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2450140

• 8 Mar 2024Conditional

  EXTENSION OF EXISTING STORAGE YARD TO INCREASE PRODUCT STORAGE AND PARKING AREAS WITH ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2460295

• 4 Mar 2024N/a

  EXTENSION OF EXISTING STORAGE YARD TO INCREASE PRODUCT STORAGE AND PARKING AREAS WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2460265

• 20 Feb 2023Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2350188

• 18 Aug 2021Conditional

  ERECTION OF NEW SHED FOR THE PURPOSES OF REPAIR, MAINTENANCE AND STORAGE OF VINTAGE TRACTORS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2151663

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 Cullion.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Cullion.

Architectural heritage

• Holly Vale, house, 1840–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1860, with single-bay flat-roof porch extension to front, single-bay two-storey corrugated iron extension to rear. Pitched natural slate roof with redbrick chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows to ground floor and first floor, and replacement timber casement windows to rear, c. 1970. Square-headed door opening to porch with timber panelled door. Outbuildings to rear, comprising two-bay stone building to east, with pitched corrugated iron roof, coursed rubble sandstone walls with square-headed window and door openings, with fixed timber window and timber battened door. Set within own grounds. Complex to south, comprising four-bay two-storey outbuilding with pitched natural slate roof, coursed rubble sandstone walls and square-headed window openings with some fixed timber windows and one timber bared window. Square-headed door openings with replacement timber battened door to first floor accessed by stone steps. Single-bay extensions to either side with pitched corrugated iron roofs. Adjoining perpendicular multiple-bay single-storey building to north, with pitched corrugated iron roof and stone coping to gables, rubble limestone walls and square-headed window and door openings.

• Cullion Bridge, bridge, 1790–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arched bridge carrying road over small unnamed stream flowing into the River Swilly to the north, built 1800 and altered\rebuilt c. 1860. Segmental-headed arch with roughly dressed stone voussoirs; squared rubble stone construction to arch barrel. Squared and rubble stone construction to spandrels and abutments. Side elevations largely obscured by vegetation. Rubble stone construction to parapets with rubble stone coping over; modern repairs in places. Tarmacadam deck with grass verges. Located in the rural countryside to the south-east of Letterkenny.

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 Cullion, 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 Cullion.

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

Name

Cullion

Area

572,512 m² (57.25 ha, 141.47 acres)

Civil parish

Leck, and its townlands

Barony

Raphoe North

Electoral division

Corravaddy, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,739 people lived in 603 households in the Corravaddy electoral division. 70% of households owned their home. 62% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bunnagee, Carrygally, Coaghmill, Drumnahoagh, Fycorranagh, Scribly

Placenames

Cullion 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.