Killygarvan Upper

23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Killygarvan Upper, from 165 m² to 162,814 m² (16.28 ha, 40.23 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 11 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 Killygarvan Upper 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.

• 9 Jun 2026Conditional

  (1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING MARQUEE AND BACK OF HOUSE FACILITIES, (2) PART DEMOLITION OF EXISTING STONE AND BRICK WALL, (3) CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW TWO STOREY STRUCTURE TO INCLUDE (A) A NEW FUNCTION HALL AND ASSOCIATED BACK OF HOUSE TO REPLACE EXISTING MARQUEE AND BACK OF HOUSE FACILITIES AND (B) 9 NO. NEW BEDROOMS AS AN EXTENSION OF EXISTING ANCILLARY WEDDING VENUE ACCOMMODATION, (4) DECOMMISSIONING OF EXISTING WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND INSTALLATION OF REPLACEMENT WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND SECONDARY / TERTIARY POLISHING PERCOLATION FACILITY AND (5) ALL ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2661052

• 7 Oct 2025Conditional

  AMENDMENT TO CONDITION NO. 2 (B) OF A PREVIOUS GRANT OF PERMISSION (PLANNING REF. NO. 17/50839 REFERS) TO EXTEND THE USE OF THE FACILITIES TO YEAR ROUND USE

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2561751

• 31 Jul 2025Conditional

  (1) MODIFICATIONS TO THE SITE ENTRANCE (2) THE DEMOLITION OF AN EXISTING PORCH TO HOUSE AND REPLACEMENT WITH NEW PORTICO STRUCTURE (3) NEW SUNROOM EXTENSION TO HOUSE (4) INTERNAL MODIFICATIONS TO HOUSE AND (5) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2561314

• 23 Oct 2024Conditional

  ERECTION OF NEW STORAGE SHED TO SIDE AND REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2461681

• 21 Feb 2023Conditional

  MEETING ROOM BUILDING

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2350191

• 22 Jul 2019Conditional

  EXTENSIONS AND ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING DWELLING AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1951125

• 30 May 2017Conditional

  ERECTION OF A MARQUEE. ALSO RETENTION PERMISSION FOR THE FOLLOWING (1) ADDITIONAL COVERED ENTRANCE AND COVERED LINK TO MARQUEE, (2) ANCILLARY TOILET BLOCK, KITCHEN AND STORE AND ASSOCIATED WORKS INCLUDING CONNECTION TO EXISTING APPROVED TREATMENT SYSTEM SEVING DRUMHALLA HOUSE

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1750839

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Lough Swilly SAC 002287
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Swilly Including Big Isle, Blanket Nook & Inch Lake 000166

Recorded monuments

• DG028-025 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  OS 28 (Precise location not discovered) 54 (Ó Muirgheasa No. 64) 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

• DG028-032 Souterrain
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Killygarvan Upper, 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 high, 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 Killygarvan Upper.

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

Name

Killygarvan Upper · Cill Gharbháin Uachtarach

Area

588,068 m² (58.81 ha, 145.31 acres)

Civil parish

Killygarvan, and its townlands

Barony

Kilmacrenan

Electoral division

Rathmullan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

965 people lived in 357 households in the Rathmullan electoral division. 75% of households owned their home. 32% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 47% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Clondallan, Glebe, Gortflugh, Killygarvan Lower, Saltpans

Placenames

Killygarvan Upper 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.