# Alt Lower, Co. Donegal: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Urney, barony of Raphoe South, Co. Donegal; in Irish An tAllt Íochtarach. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 753,690 m² (75.37 ha, 186.24 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 29 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,869 m² (0.29 ha, 0.71 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Urney, https://everytownland.com/donegal/parish/urney.md - Barony: Raphoe South - Electoral division: Urney West, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 640 people lived in 217 households in the Urney West electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 39% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Donegal, https://everytownland.com/donegal.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/16582 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 50038 - Centre: latitude 54.770386, longitude -7.585694 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 29 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Alt Lower, from 438 m² to 240,365 m² (24.04 ha, 59.4 acres); 17 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1348695: 240,365 m² (24.04 ha, 59.4 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1348695.md - Parcel 1348694: 145,849 m² (14.58 ha, 36.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1348694.md - Parcel 5909163: 106,905 m² (10.69 ha, 26.42 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5909163.md - Parcel 1313612: 74,010 m² (7.4 ha, 18.29 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1313612.md - Parcel 1313622: 58,374 m² (5.84 ha, 14.42 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1313622.md - Parcel 1348696: 34,770 m² (3.48 ha, 8.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1348696.md - Parcel 1348679: 21,651 m² (2.17 ha, 5.35 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1348679.md - Parcel 1321366: 11,942 m² (1.19 ha, 2.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1321366.md - Parcel 1373908: 8,364 m² (0.84 ha, 2.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1373908.md - Parcel 1408816: 4,827 m² (0.48 ha, 1.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1408816.md - Parcel 1367159: 3,724 m² (0.37 ha, 0.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1367159.md - Parcel 4935390: 3,456 m² (0.35 ha, 0.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4935390.md - Parcel 1399308: 3,061 m² (0.31 ha, 0.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1399308.md - Parcel 1406642: 3,041 m² (0.3 ha, 0.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1406642.md - Parcel 2727227: 2,869 m² (0.29 ha, 0.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2727227.md - Parcel 2727232: 2,858 m² (0.29 ha, 0.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2727232.md - Parcel 1393053: 2,574 m² (0.26 ha, 0.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1393053.md - Parcel 1422189: 2,564 m² (0.26 ha, 0.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1422189.md - Parcel 5247106: 2,340 m² (0.23 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5247106.md - Parcel 1376582: 2,304 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1376582.md - Parcel 3111095: 2,294 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3111095.md - Parcel 1421688: 2,270 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1421688.md - Parcel 1380469: 2,068 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1380469.md - Parcel 1399052: 2,052 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1399052.md - Parcel 1309785: 2,009 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1309785.md - Parcel 1301394: 1,820 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1301394.md - Parcel 1371891: 1,729 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1371891.md - Parcel 1313621: 1,503 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1313621.md - Parcel 1346975: 438 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1346975.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Alt Lower in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 2 applications, newest first. - 27 Jan 2021, Donegal County Council 2150101: Conditional. Permission. CONSTRUCTION OF A SUNROOM TO EXISTING HOUSE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2150101/0 - 21 Dec 2017, Donegal County Council 1751933: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE/STORE & SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1751933/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Alt Lower. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Alt Lower. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Alt National School, school, 1930–1940, Regional interest, registry number 40907936, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=DG®no=40907936. Detached four-bay single-storey former national school on T-shaped plan, dated 1934, having advanced gable-fronted two-bay breakfront\projection to the centre of the front elevation (east). Later projecting single-bay single-storey flat-roofed entrance porch to the north side of front projection. Now out of use and derelict. Pitched natural slate roofs having clay ridge tiles, red brick chimneystacks to the gable ends (north and south) with chimneybreasts projecting from gable walls, central metal roof vent, and having cast-iron rainwater goods. . Smooth cement rendered walls with inscribed cut stone date and name plaque to the front projection dated 1934. Square-headed window openings to main body of building having six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows and stone sills, square-headed window openings to front face of breakfront (east) having four-over-four pane timber sliding sash windows and stone sills; squared-headed window openings to the gable ends having six-over-nine pane timber sliding sash windows and stone sills. Square-headed doorways to the side elevations of breakfront (south, and to porch to north) having battened timber doors. Plastered walls and timber boarded ceilings to classrooms. Set back from road in own grounds to the south-east of Castlefinn with overgrown playgrounds to site. Detached single-storey open playshed to the south-west of site. Single-storey former toilet block to the south of site, now demolished. Rubble stone and rendered boundary walls to road-frontage to the east. Gateway to the east having a pair of rendered gate piers (on square-plan), and with a pair of wrought-iron flat bar gates. New Alt school located to south-west, dated 1960. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Alt Lower, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as 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 Alt Lower. - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/donegal/alt-lower.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/donegal/alt-lower.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/donegal/alt-lower.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Alt Lower with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal: https://everytownland.com/donegal.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Alt Upper: https://everytownland.com/donegal/alt-upper.md - Calhame: https://everytownland.com/donegal/calhame-50418.md - Cormakilly: https://everytownland.com/donegal/cormakilly.md - Drumdoit: https://everytownland.com/donegal/drumdoit.md - Gortnagrace: https://everytownland.com/donegal/gortnagrace.md - Gortnamuck: https://everytownland.com/donegal/gortnamuck.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/donegal/alt-lower - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/donegal/alt-lower