Kirkneedy

68 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kirkneedy, from 625 m² to 330,526 m² (33.05 ha, 81.67 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 39 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 Kirkneedy 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.

• 1 Oct 2025Conditional

  ALTERATIONS TO DWELLING HOUSE INCLUDING: (1) 2 NO. 2 STOREY BAY WINDOWS AND (2) FIRST FLOOR VERANDA WITH SUPPORTING PILLARS TO THE FRONT (EAST FACING) ELEVATION AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2561706

• 19 Sept 2024Conditional

  ELEMENTS OF WIND FARM INFRASTRUCTURE AND RECTIFICATION OF ASSOCIATED RED LINE BOUNDARY

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2461480

• 20 Jan 2023Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND DOMESTIC GARAGE INCLUDING ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2350050

• 1 Jun 2022Refused

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND DOMESTIC GARAGE

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2250954

• 15 Jun 2021Conditional

  RETENTION AND COMPLETION OF EXTENSION UNDER CONSTRUCTION TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2151176

• 26 Jun 2020Conditional

  REVISIONS TO THE LAYOUT OF LENELEA WIND FARM (PLANNING REF:09/50116), 200M OF NEW SECTION OF TRACK AND MINOR ROAD IMPROVEMENTS WITHIN THE ADJACENT OPERATIONAL CARK (PLANNING REF: 02/8328), MEENTYCAT (01/8038) AND MEENALABAN (02/8008) WIND FARMS TO FACILITATE DELIVERY OF TURBINE COMPONENTS TO LENALEA. THE DEVELOPMENT WILL CONSIST OF THE FOLLOWING REVISIONS (1) OMMISSION OF PREVIOUSLY PERMITTED PERMANENT MET MAST AND ACCESS TRACK (2) OMMISSION OF PREVIOUSLY PERMITTED TURBINE T1 AND T4 AND ASSOCIATED TRACK (3) OMMISSION OF PREVIOUSLY PERMITTED TEMPORARY CONTRACTORS COMPOUND (4) OMMISSION OF PREVIOUSLY PERMITTED BORROW PIT (5) PROVISION OF PERMANENT MET MAST AND ACCESS TRACK AT A REVISED LOCATION (6) PROVISION OF A NEW MATERIAL STORAGE AREA (7) PROVISION OF TWO NEW EXCAVATED BORROW PITS (8) PROVISION OF A NEW TEMPORARY CONSTRUCTION COMPOUND (9) REVISED SUBSTATION LAYOUT TO MEET EIRGRID SPECIFICATION FOR 110 KV SUBSTATIONS (10) ADJUSTMENT TO ALIGNMENT OF PREVIOUSLY PERMITTED INTERNAL WIND FARM ROADS (11) ALL ASSOCIATED DRAINAGE AND CABLING (12) UPGRADING OF EXISTING ACCESS TRACK FROM OPERATIONAL CARK WIND FARM (PLANNING REF: 02/8328) TO THE PERMITTED SOUTHERN SITE ENTRANCE (13) LOCALISED WIDENING OF THE MAIN ACCESS ROAD THROUGH THE OPERATIONAL CARK (PLANNING REF: 02/8328), MEENTYCAT (01/8038) AND MEENALABAN (02/8008) WIND FARMS TO FACILITATE TURBINE COMPONENT DELIVERY TO LENALEA WIND FARM

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2050835

• 28 Jan 2020Refused

  RETENTION AND COMPLETION OF EXTENSION UNDER CONSTRUCTION TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2050064

• 9 Oct 2019Unconditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF WIND FARM, CONSISTING OF 9 WIND TURBINES OF UP TO 85M HUB HEIGHT AND UP TO 100M BLADE DIAMETER WITH A TOTAL HEIGHT NOT EXCEEDING 135M, A PERMANENT METEROLOGICAL LATTICE MAST 85M HIGH, A SUBSTATION AND ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT, A BORROW PIT, INTERNAL SITE TRACKS, DRAINAGE AND ASSOCIATED WORKS

  Extension of duration · Donegal County Council, 1951521

• 10 Apr 2019N/a

  RETENTION AND COMPLETION OF EXTENSION UNDER CONSTRUCTION TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 1950513

• 1 Feb 2019N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF WIND FARM, CONSISTING OF 9 WIND TURBINES OF UP TO 85M HUB HEIGHT AND UP TO 100M BLADE DIAMETER WITH A TOTAL HEIGHT NOT EXCEEDING 135M, A PERMANENT METEROLOGICAL LATTICE MAST 85M HIGH, A SUBSTATION AND ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT, A BORROW PIT, INTERNAL SITE TRACKS, DRAINAGE AND ASSOCIATED WORKS

  Extension of duration · Donegal County Council, 1950121

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 Kirkneedy.

Recorded monuments

• DG060-012 Souterrain
  Description

  This 'cave' in Piliad is now closed up. Situated in pasture land. 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 Kirkneedy.

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 Kirkneedy, 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 Kirkneedy.

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

Name

Kirkneedy · Tír Chinnéide

Area

3,620,848 m² (362.08 ha, 894.73 acres)

Civil parish

Conwal, and its townlands

Barony

Raphoe South

Electoral division

Killymasny, the unit of the census

Census 2022

512 people lived in 166 households in the Killymasny electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 42% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballystrang, Brownhall, Cark, Drumanaught, Lenalea, Letterleague, Milltown, Rareagh, Roughan

Placenames

Kirkneedy 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.