Castlequarter

20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Castlequarter, from 841 m² to 86,719 m² (8.67 ha, 21.43 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 35 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 Castlequarter 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.

• 3 Jun 2025Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A TWO STOREY DWELLING WITH CONNECTION TO ON-SITE WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2560911

• 12 Sept 2022Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH CONNECTION TO PROPOSED SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2251522

• 21 Mar 2022N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH CONNECTION TO PROPOSED SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2250494

• 29 Nov 2021N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH CONNECTION TO PROPOSED SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2152376

• 1 Aug 2018Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A SLATTED SHED TOGETHER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1851193

• 20 Feb 2017Conditional

  IMPORTATION OF ADDITIONAL EARTH FILL TO THIS SITE IN ORDER TO IMPROVE THE LAND FOR AGRICULTURAL USE AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND RETENTION PERMISSION FOR EXISTING EARTH FILL

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1750244

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 Castlequarter.

Recorded monuments

• DG038-021 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  There is no sign of the 'Fort' shown on the 1st and 2nd editions of the OS 6-inch maps. The site is occupied in part by a graveyard believed locally to have been the site 'of an ancient monastery with associations with Fahan Mura across the channel. it was situated overlooking a W flowing river to the S. 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

• Fahan Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1820–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding gable-fronted five-bay nave Catholic church, built in 1833 or c. 1860, with two-bay single-storey sacristy to east, and breakfront to north gable. Modified c. 1970 and c. 2000. Pitched natural slate roof with grey clayware ridge tiles, smooth rendered eaves course, cast-iron rainwater goods, and cross finial to north. Smooth rendered walls and plinth course. Pointed-arch headed window openings with Y-tracery mullions, with leaded coloured glass windows, and sloping ashlar sills. Triangular-headed door opening with smooth rendered chamfered surround and replacement timber double doors with glazed sidelights and overlights. Modernised interior with plaster walls and ceiling with exposed timber trusses, timber altar with and timber panelling to rear of altar. Set within own grounds with graveyard with eighteenth and nineteenth century headstones, some with cast-iron and wrought-iron surrounds. Cast-iron gateway with squared-rubble piers with ashlar pyramidal coping; random rubble boundary wall with smooth rendered saddle-back coping. Detached three-bay two-storey Parochial House to south-west , dated 1860, comprising pitched natural slate roof and smooth rendered ruled-and-lined walls, with date stone inscribed ‘ ERECTED BY THE REVD BMcELDOWNY AD 1860’.

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 Castlequarter, 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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2016 (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 Castlequarter with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Castlequarter

Area

446,124 m² (44.61 ha, 110.24 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

Crislaghkeel, Crislaghmore, Glebe Large, Letter, Magherabeg

Placenames

Castlequarter 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.