Monreagh or Barr of Kilmackilvenny

77 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Monreagh or Barr of Kilmackilvenny, from 30 m² to 501,299 m² (50.13 ha, 123.87 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 24 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 Monreagh or Barr of Kilmackilvenny 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.

• 6 Feb 2026Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW SINGLE STOREY DOMESTIC GARAGE ALONG WITH ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS AND CONNECTION TO SERVICES

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2660149

• 29 Jan 2026N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW SINGLE STOREY DOMESTIC GARAGE ALONG WITH ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS AND CONNECTION TO SERVICES

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2660118

• 8 Jul 2025Conditional

  RETENTION AND COMPLETION OF REVISED ENTRANCE LOCATION AND DRIVEWAY LAYOUT TO THAT PREVIOUSLY APPROVED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 24/60739

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2561167

• 21 May 2024Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW SINGLE STOREY DWELLING, PROPOSED NEW WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT AND PERCOLATION AREA, TOGETHER WITH ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS AND CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2460739

• 6 Nov 2023Conditional

  ERECTION OF A SINGLE STOREY DWELLING HOUSE, TOGETHER WITH ONSITE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2351673

• 17 Sept 2021Conditional

  (1) CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW SINGLE STOREY BEDROOM EXTENSION (11.31M) TO THE FRONT (SOUTH) OF THE EXISTING DWELLING (2) INSTALLATION OF NEW EN-SUITE WINDOW TO EAST ELEVATION ALONG WITH ASSOCIATED INTERNAL REFURBISHMENT WORKS AND CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2151848

• 19 Aug 2019N/a

  WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT AND PERCOLATION, AND THE CONTINUATION OF ITS USE

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 1951263

• 20 Dec 2018Conditional

  (1) RETENTION OF AN EXISTING GO-KART TRACK AND (2) DEVELOPMENT OF A SURFACE DRAINAGE SYSTEM AND SILT TRAP AND PETROL INTERCEPTOR

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1851956

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 Monreagh or Barr of Kilmackilvenny.

Recorded monuments

• DG038-028 Cairn - unclassified
  Description

  A low, widely-spread mound of stones c. 15m in diameter. It is much disturbed by the erection of a field boundary across it and by the digging of two pits in it. There are possible indications of a kerb on the NW side and one stone 1.5m × 0.75m now recumbent may have been formerly upright. It is situated on a fairly level ridge on the S slope of Asdevlin Hill. In 1942, pieces of white quartz, burnt bone and a plano-convex flint knife were found at the cairn (M.R. Colhoun). 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

• DG038-029 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.

• DG038-056 Burnt spread
  Description

  The proposed development would involve the construction of 75 dwellings at Kilmackilvenny, Burnfoot. Development would also involve the provision of treatment works, a percolation area, landscape areas and associated site development works. The excavation by Dermot Nelis, under licence No. 08E0468 of twelve test-trenches located throughout the proposed development area revealed the presence of four previously unidentified spreads of burnt stone in the north-eastern end of the site. Two spreads of burnt stone were identified in Trench 5 and three additional trenches, Trenches 10–12, were excavated to help define their extent, character and condition. Spreads of burnt stone were revealed in two of these test-trenches and it is suggested that they form two individual though contemporaneous and directly associated features. These features are interpreted as the ploughed-out remains of probably Bronze Age burnt spreads. No evidence of troughs was revealed as a result of the testing. Test-trenching revealed one of the spreads over a distance of 9.1m north–south. It had a maximum exposed width of 6m. The second burnt spread was revealed over a distance of 6.6m north–south and it is suggested it may extend for an additional 1–2m to the south. It had a maximum exposed width of 2.3m. Excavation of the remainder of the trenches failed to reveal either archaeological features or artefacts. In total, 1,854m2 of test-trenches were excavated within the 37,050m2 site, giving an approximate 5% test-trenching sample of the proposed development area (Bennett 2011, 84). Compiled by Caimin O'Brien Date of upload/revision: 21 November 2011

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Monreagh or Barr of Kilmackilvenny.

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 Monreagh or Barr of Kilmackilvenny, about 1 in 5 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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2043 (ZIP).

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 Monreagh or Barr of Kilmackilvenny with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Monreagh or Barr of Kilmackilvenny

Area

3,759,074 m² (375.91 ha, 928.89 acres)

Civil parish

Upper Fahan, and its townlands

Barony

Inishowen West

Electoral division

Fahan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,634 people lived in 546 households in the Fahan electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 42% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 20% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Annaslee, Ballyederowen, Carnashannagh, Crislaghkeel, Crislaghmore, Garvary, Gortnaskea

Placenames

Monreagh or Barr of Kilmackilvenny 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.