Altilow

45 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Altilow, from 83 m² to 703,661 m² (70.37 ha, 173.88 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 38 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 Altilow 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.

• 25 Apr 2023Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO THE FRONT OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2350546

• 17 Nov 2022Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A STOREY AND HALF TYPE DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE INCORPORATING A WASTEWATER SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2251864

• 7 Oct 2022N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A STOREY AND HALF TYPE DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE INCORPORATING A WASTEWATER SEWAGE TREATEMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2251689

• 20 Sept 2022Unconditional

  ERECTION OF A SINGLE ELECTRICITY GENERATING WIND TURBINE OF HUB HEIGHT UP TO 45M AND ROTOR DIAMETER UP TO 44M, A HARDSTANDING, CONTROL BUILDING, ASSOCIATED SITE ROADS, DRAINAGE AND SITE WORKS

  Extension of duration · Donegal County Council, 2251568

• 24 May 2022N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A STOREY AND HALF TYPE DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE INCORPORATING A WASTEWATER SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2250899

• 4 Apr 2022N/a

  ERECTION OF A SINGLE ELECTRICITY GENERATING WIND TURBINE OF HUB HEIGHT UP TO 45M AND ROTOR DIAMETER UP TO 44M, A HARDSTANDING, CONTROL BUILDING, ASSOCIATED SITE ROADS, DRAINAGE AND SITE WORKS

  Extension of duration, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2250566

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 Altilow.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Altilow.

Architectural heritage

• Struell Bridge, bridge, 1850–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Double-arched bridge carrying road over the Eglish River, built c. 1860, having dressed rock-faced stone cutwater to central pier and splayed wing walls terminating parapets. Round-headed arches having dressed stone voussoirs; squared rubble stone construction to arch barrels. Roughly coursed rubble stone construction to parapets and spandrels with rock-faced cut stone coping over parapets. Squared and coursed stone masonry to wing walls; wing walls slightly battered to base. Tarmacadam deck. Located in the rural landscape to the north of Mountcharles.

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 Altilow, about 1 in 5 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Altilow

Area

4,419,081 m² (441.91 ha, 1,091.98 acres)

Civil parish

Killymard, and its townlands

Barony

Banagh

Electoral division

Haugh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

235 people lived in 76 households in the Haugh electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Burns Mountain, Eglish, Greenan, Heneys, Lackcrom, Lougheask Demesne, Meenataggart, Meenawilderg

Placenames

Altilow 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.