Kilpheak

40 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilpheak, from 214 m² to 219,908 m² (21.99 ha, 54.34 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 23 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 Kilpheak 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.

• 10 May 2023Conditional

  DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH LEAN TO ANNEX

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2350640

• 26 Jan 2022Conditional

  REFURBISHMENT AND EXTENSION TO AN EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE WITH INSTALLATION OF A NEW WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2250084

• 20 Jun 2019N/a

  (1) SITE WORKS/ REDUCED LEVELS ON-SITE, PREVIOSULY APPROVED UNDER PL REF. 07/50767 AND PERMISSION FOR ERECTION OF A NEW SPLIT-LEVEL DWELLING HOUSE TOGETHER WITH DOMESTIC GARAGE, ON-SITE TREATMENT SYSTEM, POLISHING FILTER, INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1950931

• 7 Jun 2019N/a

  (1) SITE WORKS/ REDUCED LEVELS ON-SITE, PREVIOSULY APPROVED UNDER PL REF. 07/50767 AND PERMISSION FOR (2) ERECTION OF A NEW SPLIT-LEVEL DWELLING HOUSE TOGETHER WITH DOMESTIC GARAGE, ON-SITE TREATMENT SYSTEM, POLISHING FILTER, INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1950862

• 2 May 2018Conditional

  ERECTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL SLATTED SHED WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1850703

• 24 Apr 2017Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND DOMESTIC GARAGE

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1750613

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 Kilpheak.

Recorded monuments

• DG052-026 Enclosure
  Description

  There is no sign of the single-ringed enclosure shown on the 1st and 2nd editions of the OS 6-inch maps. Situated in a valley of good farming 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

• Saint Columba's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1840–1895 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding Catholic church, built c.1841 and altered c.1890, having seven-bay nave, and lower three-bay sacristy added c.1890 to middle of south elevation. Building re-roofed c.1890 and renovated 1994. Pitched slate roof with blue clay ridge tiles, ventilator to middle of nave roof, projecting eaves course, rendered cross finials to nave gables, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Pitched slate roof to sacristy with rendered chimneystack. Painted roughcast rendered walls, with smooth rendered sill course to nave. Pointed-arch window openings to south elevation of nave and to west gable, with painted stone sills and replacement twelve-over-twelve pane timber sliding sash windows with intersecting tracery to fanlights. Pointed-arch opening to east gable (lighting gallery to interior) with fixed-pane timber window having intersecting tracery to head; square-headed window opening below with render surround and fixed-pane window. Pointed-arch and square-headed window openings to sacristy with replacement fittings. Pointed-arch doorways to each end of south elevation of nave, having smooth rendered reveals, overlights with intersecting tracery, battened timber double-leaf door to east and replacement glazed double-leaf door to west. Square-headed replacement timber doors to sacristy. Interior has timber sheeted ceiling with exposed queen-post truss roof; choir balcony to east supported on cast-iron columns and having decorative timber balustrade; pointed-arch statue niche with statue of Virgin Mary; and timber pews. Set on elevated site sloping down to River Swilly, with lawns to south and low roughcast rendered boundary wall to north having gateway with roughcast rendered square-plan piers with cross finials and wrought-iron double-leaf gate. Inscribed stone slab to west gable of church inscribed 'St Colmcille' and 'St Columba's', and with depiction of south elevation of church. Marian grotto to west side of grounds, and parochial house adjacent to east.

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 Kilpheak, about 1 in 20 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 Kilpheak.

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

Name

Kilpheak

Area

2,003,202 m² (200.32 ha, 495 acres)

Civil parish

Conwal, and its townlands

Barony

Kilmacrenan

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

Ballygawley, Barrack or Ballymagig, Cashelreagh, Drumenan, Procklis, Seacor, Tullychullion

Placenames

Kilpheak 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.