Woodhill

62 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Woodhill, from 56 m² to 57,164 m² (5.72 ha, 14.13 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 31 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 Woodhill 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.

• 27 Jun 2025Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH ASSOCIATED SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2561086

• 23 Nov 2023Conditional

  REMOVAL OF AN EXISTING 15 METRES TELECOMMUNICATIONS POLE TOGETHER WITH ANTENNAS, DISHES, FENCE AND SUPPORTING FIXTURES AND REPLACEMENT WITH A NEW 18 METRES TELECOMMUNICATIONS POLE TOGETHER WITH ANTENNAS, DISHES, SUPPORTING FIXTURES, REMOTE RADIO UNITS (RRU'S) LIGHTING, CONCRETE PLINTH, EXTENSION OF AN EXISTING FENCE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS TO PROVIDE FOR HIGH-SPEED WIRELESS DATA AND BROADBAND SERVICES

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2351793

• 10 Nov 2021Unconditional

  ERECTION OF A TWO STOREY DWELLING HOUSE, CONNECTION INTO PUBLIC SEWER AND CONSTRUCTION OF CAR PARKING SPACE AND A TYPE 113A ENTRANCE ACROSS THE ROAD FROM THE DEVELOPMENT.

  Extension of duration, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2152228

• 22 Dec 2020Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING PUBLIC SEWERAGE SYSTEM, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2052007

• 6 Aug 2020Conditional

  SERVICE DOOR TO SIDE OF THE EXISTING BUILDING AND PERMISSION FOR (1) CHANGE OF USE FROM EXISTING FORMER PARISH HALL PREMISES TO PROVIDE A NEW TECHNOLOGY HUB CENTRE WITHIN THE EXISTING BUILDING, EXTENDING TO 2NO FLOORS WITH OFFICE CAPACITY, MEETING ROOM FACILITIES, WELFARE FACILITIES, RECEPTION AREAS ETC. (2) CONSTRUCTION OF 1ST FLOOR LEVEL TO PROVIDE FOR ADDITIONAL OFFICE SPACE (3) CONSTRUCTION OF NEW FEATURES GLAZED ENTRANCE LOBBY TO THE SIDE ELEVATION & FIRE DOOR TO THE REAR OF THE EXISTING BUILDING (4) PROVISION OF ADDITIONAL CAR PARKING AREAS, BICYCLE STANDS, PATHWAYS WITHIN THE OPEN SPACE AND BIN STORAGE (5) ERECTION OF SITE SIGNAGE AND CONNECTION TO ALL EXISTING ON SITE SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCITED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2051080

• 24 May 2020Unconditional

  ERECTION OF A TWO STOREY DWELLING HOUSE, CONNECTION INTO PUBLIC SEWER AND CONSTRUCTION OF CAR PARKING SPACE AND A TYPE 113A ENTRANCE ACROSS THE ROAD FROM THE DEVELOPMENT.

  Extension of duration, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2050525

• 17 Apr 2019Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DISTILLERY COMPLEX CONSISTING OF THE FOLLOWING: (1) A NEW WHISKEY & GIN DISTILLERY BUILDING WITH VISITOR CENTRE AND ASSOCIATED OFFICES, LABS, BOTTLING HALL, BAR TASTING & SHOP AREAS TOGETHER WITH STAFF FACILITIES, (2) EXTERNAL ESB SUB STATION , (3) EXTERNAL COOLING TOWER AND SILO STORAGE TANKS, (4) A NEW VEHICULAR ENTRANCE WITH ASSOCIATED FILTER LANE OFF THE MAIN COUNTY ROAD, WITH INTERNAL ACCESS ROADS AND INTERNAL FOOTPATHS, CAR PARKING AREAS ETC, (5) COOLING AND SURFACE WATER FIRE RETENTION PONDS WITHIN THE SITE AREA, (6) 4 NO. SEPARATE BARREL STORAGE SHEDS, (7) CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW PEDESTRIAN BRIDGE LINKING THE SITE TO THE ARDARA TOWN CAR PARK WITH ASSOCIATED WALKWAYS FROM BRIDGE TO THE DISTILLERY, (8) REDUCTION OF GROUND LEVEL TO LOWER PART OF SITE BY 1M IN DEPTH, (9) REDUCTION OF GROUND LEVEL ALONG THE NORTHERN BOUNDARY, (10) CONNECTION TO EXISTING PUBLIC FOUL SEWER ON SITE, (11) BORE 4 NO. BORED LINED WATER WELLS, WITH AN ASSOCIATED CONNECTION TO THE EXISTING PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY, (12) ERECTION OF ROAD SIDE SIGNAGE AND ASSOCIATED SIGNAGE TO THE DISTILLERY BUILDINGS AND (13) CONSTRUCTION OF 2M HIGH PERIMETER FENCING TO SECURE SITE. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) WILL FORM PART OF THIS APPLICATION AND IS SUBMIITED TOGETHER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPEMENT & LANDSCAPING WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1950542

• 11 Mar 2019Conditional

  AN EXTENSION TO EXISTING AGRICULTURAL BUILDING CONSISTING OF: (1) MACHINE STORAGE SHED, (2) STORAGE SHED AND (3) PROPOSED MANURE PIT/DUNGSTEAD, WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1950317

• 29 Sept 2017Conditional

  INSTALLATION OF AN ATM MACHINE TO THE EXISTING SHOP FRONT TO THE WEST (FRONT) ELEVATION

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1751470

• 16 Jun 2017Unconditional

  ERECTION OF A TWO STOREY DWELLING HOUSE, CONNECTION INTO PUBLIC SEWER AND CONSTRUCTION OF CAR PARKING SPACE AND A TYPE 113A ENTRANCE ACROSS THE ROAD FROM THE DEVELOPMENT

  Extension of duration, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1750967

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 Woodhill.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Woodhill.

Architectural heritage

• The Ardara Parish Hall Limited, church hall/parish hall, 1910–1930 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached nine-bay single- (double-height) and two-storey former parish hall, built c. 1943, having three-bay front elevation (west) with central advanced gable-fronted entrance bay, and with single-storey flat-roofed blocks to the north and south sides to the rear elevation (east). Flight of external cement rendered stairs with cement rendered retaining wall to the north elevation giving access to doorway at first floor level. Later apparently in use as a knitwear factory. Now out of use. Pitched natural purple slate roof having projecting smooth rendered eaves course, raised rendered verge to the east gable end having smooth rendered chimneystack with cornice coping over to gable apex and with smooth rendered kneeler stone detailing at eaves level having gable-fronted finials over, raised rendered verge to the west gable end of main body of building smooth rendered kneeler stone detailing at eaves level having gable-fronted finial over, and with smooth rendered verge to the west gable end of entrance bay to the west having rendered pyramidal finial with ball finial over to gable apex, and smooth rendered kneeler stone detailing at eaves level having gable-fronted finial over. Stucco Normanesque detailing to gable-fronted entrance bay to west. Roughcast rendered walls over smooth rendered plinth course to main body of building with smooth rendered pilasters between bays to side elevations (north and south); two stepped smooth rendered clasping buttresses to the north and south elevations. Roughcast rendered walls over projecting smooth rendered plinth course to entrance front to east having smooth rendered ruled-and-lined pilaster strips to corners\margins. Rectangular name panel over main doorway to west reading ‘The Ardara Parish Hall Limited’ Square-headed window openings to side elevations (north and south), to east gable end, and to the north and south elevations of entrance bay having splayed smooth rendered sills, and with multi-pane timber casement windows. Square-headed window openings to west end bay to two-storey section to both the north and south elevations of main body of building having two-over-two pane timber casement windows. Square-headed window openings to flat-roofed wings to north-east and south-east elevations having timber casement windows. Three round-headed window openings to the entrance front (to west end of main hall and to the front of entrance bay) having smooth rendered reveals, smooth rendered sills, multi-pane timber casement or fixed-pane windows, and with stucco hoodmouldings over with decorative label stops. Square-headed doorway to the west elevation of entrance bay to west having smooth rendered reveal, timber double-doors, radial fanlight, and with stucco hoodmoulding over with decorative label stops; doorway reached up smooth rendered ramp with smooth rendered wall to the north. Set back from road in own grounds to the south-east of the centre of Ardara; building aligned along with road-alignment. Overgrown grounds to site. Rendered blockwork boundary walls to site.

• Wood Hill, walled garden, 1770–1800 · Regional interest
  Description

  Ornamental walled garden on irregular circular-plan associated with Woodhill (altered\rebuilt and not in survey), laid out c. 1780. Rubble stone boundary walls to site with modern repairs in places. Raised platform\bedding (on circular-plan) to interior having four flagstone pathways (north, south, east and west) meeting to centre; rubble stone coping to platform. Flight of stone steps at start of each pathway. Mature trees to site. Integral pedestrian arch-way to the west comprising a pointed-arch doorway with rubble stone voussoirs and wrought-iron flat bar gate; gateway built into section of rubble stone walling with crenellated rubble stone parapet over. Rectangular recess over gateway, formerly with crest of the Nesbitt family (now in house); stepped rubble stone piers flanking gateway. Set adjacent to west of Woodhill (not in survey) with altered former two-storey coach house abutting to the south. Remains of former kitchen garden to the east of house having partial remains of rubble stone boundary walls. Located in the rural countryside to the east of Ardara town centre.

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

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, 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_1155 (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 Woodhill with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Woodhill · Cnoc na Coille

Area

336,183 m² (33.62 ha, 83.07 acres)

Civil parish

Lower Killybegs, and its townlands

Barony

Banagh

Electoral division

Ardara, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ardara electoral division: 1,280 people in 509 households; 65% of households own their home; 39% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 14% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardara, Ardvally, Drumbaran, Lurganboy, Mogumna, Monargan Glebe, Moy

Placenames

Woodhill 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.