Blairstown

27 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Blairstown, from 1,092 m² to 191,798 m² (19.18 ha, 47.39 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 21 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 Blairstown 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.

• 24 Mar 2026Conditional

  (1) ATTIC CONVERSION WORKS INCLUDING ROOFLIGHTS TO PITCHED ROOF AND (2) DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE / STORAGE SHED AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2660485

• 20 Feb 2025Conditional

  (1) REFURBISHMENT AND CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSION TO EXISTING DERELICT COTTAGE DWELLING, (2) UPGRADE OF EXISTING SITE ENTRANCE AND (3) REPLACEMENT OF EXISTING SEPTIC TANK WITH WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT WHICH WAS PREVIOUSLY APPROVED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 10/60069

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2560216

• 6 Mar 2024Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING TO INCLUDE RENOVATION WORKS & MINOR ELEVATIONAL CHANGES TO SAME AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2460279

• 12 Dec 2023Conditional

  (1) CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING TO INCLUDE RENOVATION WORKS AND MINOR ELEVATIONAL CHANGES, (2) INSTALLATION OF A NEW SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM, (3) PROVISION OF A NEW VEHICULAR ENTRANCE AND (4) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2351909

• 30 Jan 2023Conditional

  DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE AND PERMISSION FOR (1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING ATTACHED STORAGE SHED AND (2) CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSIONS TO THE FRONT AND SIDES OF DWELLING HOUSE INCLUDING AMENDMENTS TO EXISTING WINDOW OPENINGS AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2350088

• 3 Jan 2023Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A TWO STOREY DETACHED DWELLING HOUSE, DETACHED GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2350001

• 14 Apr 2021Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSION TO THE FRONT, SIDE AND REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND ASSOCAITED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2150664

• 25 May 2020Conditional

  ERECTION OF A 2 STOREY DWELLING, DETACHED GARAGE, INSTALLATION OF WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM & PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2050664

• 29 Jun 2017Conditional

  EXISTING REED BED FILTRATION SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS FOR TREATMENT OF STORM/SURFACE WATER RUN-OFF FROM FARMYARD

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 1751016

• 31 May 2017N/a

  EXISTING REED BED FILTRATION SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS FOR TREATMENT OF STORM/SURFACE WATER RUNOFF FROM FARMYARD

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 1750835

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 Blairstown.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Blairstown.

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Blairstown.

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 Blairstown, 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 Blairstown.

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

Name

Blairstown

Area

1,173,387 m² (117.34 ha, 289.95 acres)

Civil parish

Donaghmore, and its townlands

Barony

Raphoe South

Electoral division

Killygordon, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,146 people lived in 451 households in the Killygordon electoral division. 70% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrick, Carricknashane, Leaght, Magheraboy, Meenahoney, Scotland

Placenames

Blairstown 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.