Oldtown

253 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Oldtown, from 11 m² to 53,770 m² (5.38 ha, 13.29 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 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 Oldtown 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.

• 17 Sept 2026N/a

  (1) SUNROOM EXTENSION AND MINOR ALTERATIONS TO THE FRONT OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND (2) FLAT ROOF STRUCTURE TO DETACHED GARAGE IN LIEU OF A PITCHED ROOF DESIGN AS ORIGINALLY PERMITTED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. T.81/78 AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2661728

• 13 Jun 2025Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF 3 STOREY APARTMENT BLOCK ‘A’ CONTAINING 6 NO. APARTMENTS, AND A 4 STOREY APARTMENT BLOCK ‘B’ CONTAINING 14 NO. APARTMENTS INCLUDING SHARED ROOF TERRACES (20 NO. APARTMENTS IN TOTAL) WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS TO INCLUDE CONNECTION TO EXISTING PUBLIC SERVICES, PROPOSED NEW ENTRANCE AND SPEED TABLE, ASSOCIATED CAR PARKING, AMENITY SPACE, BICYCLE PARKING, BIN COMPOUNDS AND STORM WATER DISCHARGE TO EXISTING STREAM

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2560998

• 14 Apr 2025Conditional

  DEMOLITION OF EXISTING SHED AND CONSTRUCTION OF NEW EXTENSION TO DWELLING INCLUDING CONNECTION TO PUBLIC SEWER AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2560564

• 17 Dec 2024Conditional

  ALTERATIONS AND CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW EXTENSION TO THE FRONT (NORTH EASTERN) ELEVATION OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2462090

• 15 Aug 2024Conditional

  2 NO. STUDIO APARTMENTS WITH LEAN TO DOMESTIC GARAGE TO THE REAR OF EXISTING MILLVIEW B&B PREMISES INCLUDING ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2461251

• 13 May 2024Conditional

  (1) OPEN COVERED STORAGE AREA AS CONSTRUCTED AT OLDTOWN STORES AND PERMISSION FOR (2) CHANGE OF USE OF PART OF EXISTING RETAIL PREMISES FROM RETAIL USE TO USE AS RETAIL OFF-LICENCE

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2460696

• 18 Mar 2024Conditional

  ALTERATIONS AND EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2460350

• 23 Nov 2023Conditional

  CONVERSION OF 2 NO. APARTMENTS WITH MINOR ELEVATIONAL ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING PROPERTY

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2351795

• 10 Oct 2023Conditional

  EXTENSION AND ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AS BUILT INCLUDING ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2351529

• 21 Jan 2022Refused

  (1) CONVERSION OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE TO 4 NO. APARTMENTS (2) DEVELOPMENT OF NEW FRONT ENTRANCE AND MINOR ELEVATIONAL ALTERATIONS (3) CONSTRUCTION OF A SMALL STORE TO THE REAR AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 4 homes · Donegal County Council, 2250060

• 12 May 2021Conditional

  ERECTION OF AN APARTMENT BUILDING CONSISTING OF 3 NO. GROUND FLOOR APARTMENTS & 3 NO. FIRST FLOOR APARTMENTS (6 NO. APARTMENTS IN TOTAL) WITH CONNECTION TO PUBLIC SEWER AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) ACCOMPANIES THIS APPLICATION

  Permission, 6 homes · Donegal County Council, 2150908

• 21 Aug 2020Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO SIDE OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS INCLUDING CONNECTION TO PUBLIC SEWER

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2051151

• 18 Mar 2020N/a

  ERECTION OF AN APARTMENT BUILDING CONSISTING OF 3 NO. GROUND FLOOR APARTMENTS AND 3 NO. FIRST FLOOR APARTMENTS (6 NO. APARTMENTS IN TOTAL) WITH CONNECTION TO PUBLIC SEWER AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 6 homes · Donegal County Council, 2050356

• 8 Nov 2018Conditional

  (A) REMOVAL OF EXISTING REDUNDANT COMMUNAL SEPTIC TANK, (B) ERECTION OF FOUR NO. DWELLINGS CONSISTING TWO NO. BLOCKS OF SEMI-DETACHED HOUSES WITH COVERED ACCESS CONNECTING EACH BLOCK AND (C) CONNECTION TO EXISTING PUBLIC STORM AND FOUL DRAINAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS AND SITE WORKS

  Permission, 4 homes · Donegal County Council, 1851726

• 20 Jan 2017Conditional

  ERECTION OF AN EXTENSION AND ALTERATIONS TO DWELLING WITH ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1750057

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 Oldtown.

Recorded monuments

• DG053-032 Standing stone
  Description

  Marked as 'Standing Stone' on the 1st and 2nd editions of the OS 6-inch map and as 'Gallan (site of)' on the 3rd edition. There are no visible remains. Situated on low-lying land beside the River Swilly. 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

• DG053-033001 Church
  Description

  Leek Old Church: The ivy-covered ruins are essentially a 17th century alteration of a medieval church. This was carried out c. 1622 (Royal Commission, 212). Further repairs were carried out 1729-33 and it continued in use until a new parish church was built c. 1840 (Leslie 1940, 103). The slated roof was still intact when Fagan described the ruins in 1845 (Bk 6, 1-2). The rectangular rubble-built church, c. 18.9m by 5.45m internally, has punch-dressed ashlar quoins. The walls stand to full height and the W gable is surmounted by a bellcote. The splayed ingoings and rear-arch of the large E window are ivy-covered. There is a wall-press at the E end of the S wall. In the exterior face are the chamfered E jamb and sill of a narrow medieval single-light window. The W jamb was removed when a larger window with splayed ingoings was broken through the wall; it is now blocked up. The surviving lower sections of splayed ingoings indicate that the two other windows in the S wall were of a similar size, but were subsequently enlarged to their present size; the heads and rear-arches have fallen away. The door at the W end of the S wall has a segment-headed rear-arch and the jambs are set back for a timber frame. The window in the W gable had a rectangular wooden frame; it has a segment-headed rear-arch. The two eastern-most of the three windows in the N wall are blocked up; all are missing their heads and rear-arches. Traces of two coats of plaster survive on the interior wall- faces of the church and the exterior was harled. A rubble block at the foot of the exterior face of the W gable retains the grooved outline of three crosses (DG053-033005-). The church (DG053-033001-) is situated inside a graveyard (DG053-033004-), which is still in use. Outside the E wall of the graveyard beside a stream, is a boulder (DG053-033003-) .75m × 0.5m × 0.35m. This has a basin .2m in diameter and 0.13m deep. A thorn tree beside the boulder was decorated with rags when the site was visited. There is no trace of the 'holy well' (DG053-033002-) marked near the boulder on the OS 6-inch maps. The site is located on good land close to a sharp bend in the River Swilly. 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

• DG053-033003 Bullaun stone
  Description

  The church (DG053-033001-) is situated inside a graveyard (DG053-033004-), which is still in use. Outside the E wall of the graveyard beside a stream, is a boulder (DG053-033003-) .75m × 0.5m × 0.35m. This has a basin .2m in diameter and 0.13m deep. A thorn tree beside the boulder was decorated with rags when the site was visited. There is no trace of the 'holy well' (DG053-033002-) marked near the boulder on the OS 6-inch maps. The site is located on good land close to a sharp bend in the River Swilly. 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

• DG053-033004 Graveyard
  Description

  The church (DG053-033001-) is situated inside a graveyard (DG053-033004-), which is still in use. Outside the E wall of the graveyard beside a stream, is a boulder (DG053-033003-) .75m × 0.5m × 0.35m. This has a basin .2m in diameter and 0.13m deep. A thorn tree beside the boulder was decorated with rags when the site was visited. There is no trace of the 'holy well' (DG053-033002-) marked near the boulder on the OS 6-inch maps. The site is located on good land close to a sharp bend in the River Swilly. 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

• DG053-033005 Cross-inscribed stone
  Description

  Leek Old Church: The ivy-covered ruins are essentially a 17th century alteration of a medieval church (DG053-033001-). This was carried out c. 1622 (Royal Commission, 212). Further repairs were carried out 1729-33 and it continued in use until a new parish church was built c. 1840 (Leslie 1940, 103). The slated roof was still intact when Fagan described the ruins in 1845 (Bk 6, 1-2). A rubble block (H 0.39m; L 0.60m) at about 0.3m high above the surface of the graveyard in the exterior face of the W gable and in 1.5m from the NW angle of the church retains the grooved outline of three incised crosses (DG053-033005-), this may be an example of an early-christian cross-slab reused as building fabric for the medieval church. The church (DG053-033001-) is situated inside a graveyard (DG053-033004-), which is still in use. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload/revision: : 19 July 2010

Architectural heritage

• Old Leck Church, church/chapel, 1500–1750 · Regional interest
  Description

  Remains of three-bay single-storey former Catholic church, built c. 1500, having bellcote over the west gable end. Later in use as a Church of Ireland church and altered c. 1622 and 1729-33. Now ruinous (out of use since c. 1840). Pitched roof, now collapsed\removed. Coursed rubble limestone walls with flush roughly tooled (punch dressed) cut limestone quoins to corners; formerly roughcast rendered. Segmental-headed window openings to east and west elevations. Remains of former window, c. 1500, to the south Segmental-headed door opening to south elevation. Some lime render remaining to interior. Wall press at the east end of the south elevation. Cross-inscribed stone (RMP DG053-033005-) built into church wall. Graveyard to site (on rectangular-plan) having mainly nineteenth and twentieth century memorials. Site bounded by rubble stone boundary walls. Gateway to south-east corner of site having a pair of coursed rubble stone gate piers (on square-plan) with double-leaf wrought-iron gates to south. Located close to a bend in River Swilly, and to the south-east of Letterkenny. Yew trees to site. Modern cemetery adjacent to the west.

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 Oldtown, 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 low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are made ground and water.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Oldtown · An Seanbhaile

Area

407,450 m² (40.75 ha, 100.68 acres)

Civil parish

Leck, and its townlands

Barony

Raphoe North

Electoral division

Letterkenny Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

12,191 people lived in 4,494 households in the Letterkenny Rural electoral division. 48% of households owned their home. 37% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Creeve (Smith), Drumnahoagh, Lismonaghan, Scribly

Placenames

Oldtown 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.