# Altilow, Co. Donegal: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Killymard, barony of Banagh, Co. Donegal. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 4,419,081 m² (441.91 ha, 1,091.98 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 45 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 20,517 m² (2.05 ha, 5.07 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 6 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Killymard, https://everytownland.com/donegal/parish/killymard.md - Barony: Banagh - Electoral division: Haugh, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Donegal, https://everytownland.com/donegal.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/14093 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 50049 - Centre: latitude 54.70327, longitude -8.099625 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 45 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Altilow, from 83 m² to 703,661 m² (70.37 ha, 173.88 acres); 38 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1390952: 703,661 m² (70.37 ha, 173.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1390952.md - Parcel 1426269: 692,599 m² (69.26 ha, 171.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1426269.md - Parcel 1395973: 536,871 m² (53.69 ha, 132.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1395973.md - Parcel 1353028: 308,575 m² (30.86 ha, 76.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1353028.md - Parcel 1423024: 287,661 m² (28.77 ha, 71.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1423024.md - Parcel 1340580: 268,784 m² (26.88 ha, 66.42 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1340580.md - Parcel 1390951: 189,779 m² (18.98 ha, 46.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1390951.md - Parcel 1363051: 166,036 m² (16.6 ha, 41.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1363051.md - Parcel 1390954: 127,152 m² (12.72 ha, 31.42 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1390954.md - Parcel 1426270: 126,281 m² (12.63 ha, 31.2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1426270.md - Parcel 1426272: 110,189 m² (11.02 ha, 27.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1426272.md - Parcel 1390953: 84,342 m² (8.43 ha, 20.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1390953.md - Parcel 3662390: 83,608 m² (8.36 ha, 20.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3662390.md - Parcel 1330090: 70,449 m² (7.04 ha, 17.41 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1330090.md - Parcel 1426268: 63,383 m² (6.34 ha, 15.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1426268.md - Parcel 1390958: 63,379 m² (6.34 ha, 15.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1390958.md - Parcel 1395996: 53,460 m² (5.35 ha, 13.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1395996.md - Parcel 1390956: 47,741 m² (4.77 ha, 11.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1390956.md - Parcel 3662387: 38,897 m² (3.89 ha, 9.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3662387.md - Parcel 1426276: 34,124 m² (3.41 ha, 8.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1426276.md - Parcel 1414800: 33,253 m² (3.33 ha, 8.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1414800.md - Parcel 1426275: 28,919 m² (2.89 ha, 7.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1426275.md - Parcel 3662388: 20,517 m² (2.05 ha, 5.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3662388.md - Parcel 1395993: 20,086 m² (2.01 ha, 4.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1395993.md - Parcel 1390957: 19,864 m² (1.99 ha, 4.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1390957.md - Parcel 1324594: 12,657 m² (1.27 ha, 3.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1324594.md - Parcel 1388744: 6,958 m² (0.7 ha, 1.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1388744.md - Parcel 1376525: 6,371 m² (0.64 ha, 1.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1376525.md - Parcel 1363080: 5,011 m² (0.5 ha, 1.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1363080.md - Parcel 1318628: 4,956 m² (0.5 ha, 1.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1318628.md - Parcel 1305263: 4,345 m² (0.43 ha, 1.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1305263.md - Parcel 1343670: 4,288 m² (0.43 ha, 1.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1343670.md - Parcel 1363079: 3,810 m² (0.38 ha, 0.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1363079.md - Parcel 1421648: 3,142 m² (0.31 ha, 0.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1421648.md - Parcel 1341265: 3,046 m² (0.3 ha, 0.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1341265.md - Parcel 4356705: 2,777 m² (0.28 ha, 0.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4356705.md - Parcel 1337955: 2,432 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1337955.md - Parcel 1365729: 2,358 m² (0.24 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1365729.md - Parcel 1373845: 2,050 m² (0.2 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1373845.md - Parcel 1363081: 1,418 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1363081.md - Parcel 1395995: 1,142 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1395995.md - Parcel 1395994: 575 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1395994.md - Parcel 1426277: 525 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1426277.md - Parcel 3662389: 425 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3662389.md - Parcel 1323943: 83 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1323943.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 6 applications, newest first. - 25 Apr 2023, Donegal County Council 2350546: Conditional. Permission. CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO THE FRONT OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2350546/0 - 17 Nov 2022, Donegal County Council 2251864: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. CONSTRUCTION OF A STOREY AND HALF TYPE DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE INCORPORATING A WASTEWATER SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2251864/0 - 7 Oct 2022, Donegal County Council 2251689: N/a. Permission, 1 home. CONSTRUCTION OF A STOREY AND HALF TYPE DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE INCORPORATING A WASTEWATER SEWAGE TREATEMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2251689/0 - 20 Sept 2022, Donegal County Council 2251568: Unconditional. Extension of duration. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2251568/0 - 24 May 2022, Donegal County Council 2250899: N/a. Permission, 1 home. CONSTRUCTION OF A STOREY AND HALF TYPE DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE INCORPORATING A WASTEWATER SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2250899/0 - 4 Apr 2022, Donegal County Council 2250566: N/a. Extension of duration, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2250566/0 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 Altilow. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Altilow. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Struell Bridge, bridge, 1850–1870, Regional interest, registry number 40908401, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=DG®no=40908401. 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. ## 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 Altilow, about 1 in 5 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 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 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/altilow.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/donegal/altilow.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/donegal/altilow.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Altilow 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) - Burns Mountain: https://everytownland.com/donegal/burns-mountain.md - Eglish: https://everytownland.com/donegal/eglish.md - Greenan: https://everytownland.com/donegal/greenan.md - Heneys: https://everytownland.com/donegal/heneys.md - Lackcrom: https://everytownland.com/donegal/lackcrom.md - Lougheask Demesne: https://everytownland.com/donegal/lougheask-demesne.md - Meenataggart: https://everytownland.com/donegal/meenataggart.md - Meenawilderg: https://everytownland.com/donegal/meenawilderg.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/altilow - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/donegal/altilow