Kinnegar

8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kinnegar, from 935 m² to 64,258 m² (6.43 ha, 15.88 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 17 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Kinnegar 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.

• 23 Jan 2026Conditional

  ERECTION OF NEW AGRICULTURAL STORAGE SHED AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2660078

• 13 Jan 2026N/a

  ERECTION OF NEW AGRICULTURAL STORAGE SHED AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2660029

• 18 Dec 2025Conditional

  (1) SINGLE STOREY DOMESTIC GARAGE, (2) DORMER WINDOWS, (3) SUNROOM AND (4) ELEVATIONAL CHANGES TO WINDOWS AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS TO DWELLING HOUSE PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 99/2310

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2562294

• 9 Jun 2025Refused

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH TREATMENT SYSTEM AND POLISHING FILTER

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2560952

• 5 May 2022Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A STOREY AND A HALF EXTENSION TO THE EXISTING DWELLING FOR PROVISION OF A GARAGE, UTILITY, STORAGE AND DINING AREA ON GROUND FLOOR WITH ADDITIONAL LIVING SPACE ABOVE IN AN ATTIC STYLE ROOFED AREA WITH A COVERED GABLE BALCONY

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2250787

• 28 Oct 2020Refused

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH DOMESTIC GARAGE, WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2051602

• 26 Aug 2020N/a

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH DOMESTIC GARAGE, WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2051169

• 19 Nov 2018Conditional

  CHANGE OF HOUSE TYPE FROM PREVIOUSLY GRANTED PLANNING PERMISSION REF: 16/50030 & REF.NO:17/51504

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1851763

• 3 Oct 2017Conditional

  CHANGE OF HOUSE TYPE FROM A ONE & ONE-HALF STOREY DWELLING HOUSE PREVIOUSLY GRANTED PLANNING PERMISSION REF: 16/50030 TO A SINGLE STOREY DWELLING HOUSE, FOR THE OMISSION OF THE DOMESTIC GARAGE PREVIOUSLY GRANTED, AND FOR ALL THE ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1751504

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
• Special Protection Area: Lough Swilly SPA 004075
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Swilly Including Big Isle, Blanket Nook & Inch Lake 000166

Recorded monuments

• DG028-027 Cairn - burial cairn
  Description

  A cist covered by a flagstone 2' × 3' in a cairn partially destroyed by sea erosion was reported here in 1935 (McCallien 1935, 329-33). Skeletal material of a cremated individual was associated with the cist and a green staining of some of the bone fragments suggest that they had been in contact with a bronze or copper object. The cairn was located on the shore at the N end of Kinnegar Strand on the W side of Lough Swilly. Nothing now survives except perhaps some large stones strewn in the sand. The beach is unfortunately quarried for sand. Recently a ringed-pin of possible Viking/Irish type has been found here on the beach (Richard Warner per. comm.). McCallien suggested that there was probably 'more of archaeological interest buried beneath the sand dunes' behind the strand. Although the cist was originally assigned to the Bronze Age, there was no specific evidence to support this. The site has been recently inspected by Richard Warner of the Ulster Museum who now believes it may possibly be the location of a Viking cemetery (Warner forthcoming). 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

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

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

The EPA radon map gives no estimate at the centre of the townland of Kinnegar.

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1889 (ZIP).

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Kinnegar with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Kinnegar

Area

202,403 m² (20.24 ha, 50.01 acres)

Civil parish

Killygarvan, and its townlands

Barony

Kilmacrenan

Electoral division

Rathmullan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

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

Neighbouring townlands

Aghavannan Far, Aghavannan Near, Gortflugh, Kintale, Rathmullan and Ballyboe

Placenames

Kinnegar 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.