Kiltown

14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kiltown, from 732 m² to 251,898 m² (25.19 ha, 62.25 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 14 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 Kiltown 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.

• 30 Jun 2023Conditional

  EXTENSION AND RENOVATION OF EXISTING DWELLING

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2350947

• 22 Jun 2020Conditional

  RETENTION AND COMPLETION OF A DOMESTIC GARAGE AND STORE WITH ATTACHED LEAN TO STRUCTURE INCORPORATING A HORSE STABLE AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2050804

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: River Finn SAC 002301

Recorded monuments

• DG078-022 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  A well, said to cure eye ailments, situated under bushes in pasture. 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

• Kiltown House, house, 1880–1910 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey house with half-dormer attic level with gable-fronted dormers, built c. 1890, having central single-bay single-storey lean-to service return to rear (north). Pitched natural slate roof (purple slate\Bangor blue) having terracotta ridge tiles, cast-iron rainwater goods, decorative timber bargeboards to gables and gabled-fronted dormers, terracotta finials to gabled-fronted dormers, and with yellow brick chimneystacks to the gable ends (east and west). Painted roughcast rendered walls over projecting roughcast rendered plinth. Shallow segmental-headed window openings to main elevation at ground floor level (south) having smooth rendered reveals, and with two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows; round-headed windows to gabled dormer openings to main elevation having smooth rendered reveals, and with one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows; square-headed window openings to rear (north) having smooth rendered reveals and mainly two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows, and some replacement timber casement windows at ground floor level; square-headed window opening to the centre of the rear elevation at first floor level, lighting stair hall, having smooth rendered reveal and with one-over-one pane timber sliding sash window having margin glazing bars with coloured glass to outer panels; square-headed and single segmental-headed window openings to side elevations (east and west) having smooth rendered reveals, and with two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows. Central segmental-headed doorway to the main elevation (south) having replacement timber door with glazed upper panel, replacement sidelights, replacement overlight, and with flight of concrete steps. Set back from road in own grounds to the north-east of Killygordon with garden to front (south) and yard to rear (north) with complex of single-storey outbuildings. Detached seven-bay single-storey outbuilding to the north side of yard to rear of house having pitched corrugated-metal roof with raised rendered verges to the gable ends, whitewashed rubble stone walls, square-headed doorways with battened timber and corrugated-metal doors, and with square-headed window openings blocked with corrugated-metal sheeting. Detached three-bay single-storey outbuilding to the east side of yard having pitched corrugated-metal roof, rubble stone walls with sections of timber boarding to front (west), and with square-headed openings having battened timber and corrugated metal sheeted doors. Detached single-bay single-storey outbuilding to the west side of yard having pitched corrugated-metal roof with raised rendered verges to the gable ends and with rooflight, whitewashed roughcast rendered rubble stone walls, and with square-headed carriage-arch. Gateway to the south-west of site comprising a pair of rendered gate piers (on square-plan) having projecting plinths and pyramidal coping over, and with hooped wrought-iron gates. Rendered walls to site.

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 Kiltown, 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Kiltown.

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

Name

Kiltown

Area

836,464 m² (83.65 ha, 206.69 acres)

Civil parish

Donaghmore, and its townlands

Barony

Raphoe South

Electoral division

Killygordon, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,146 people lived in 451 households in the Killygordon electoral division. 70% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardnagannagh, Ballyarrell, Killygordon, Liscooly, Magheraboy, Mullingar

Placenames

Kiltown 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.