# Ardeelan Upper, Co. Donegal: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Drumhome, barony of Tirhugh, Co. Donegal. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 525,034 m² (52.5 ha, 129.74 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 4,869 m² (0.49 ha, 1.2 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 9 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Drumhome, https://everytownland.com/donegal/parish/drumhome.md - Barony: Tirhugh - Electoral division: Ballintra, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Ballintra electoral division: 755 people in 290 households; 81% of households own their home; 25% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 41% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Donegal, https://everytownland.com/donegal.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/13774 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 50079 - Centre: latitude 54.545872, longitude -8.19273 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ardeelan Upper, from 558 m² to 81,097 m² (8.11 ha, 20.04 acres); 18 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1429020: 81,097 m² (8.11 ha, 20.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1429020.md - Parcel 1346060: 78,659 m² (7.87 ha, 19.44 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1346060.md - Parcel 1351987: 76,454 m² (7.65 ha, 18.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1351987.md - Parcel 1340299: 65,724 m² (6.57 ha, 16.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1340299.md - Parcel 1382343: 46,793 m² (4.68 ha, 11.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1382343.md - Parcel 1428558: 40,948 m² (4.09 ha, 10.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1428558.md - Parcel 1347171: 35,693 m² (3.57 ha, 8.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1347171.md - Parcel 1380349: 33,174 m² (3.32 ha, 8.2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1380349.md - Parcel 4869884: 13,152 m² (1.32 ha, 3.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4869884.md - Parcel 1393592: 12,998 m² (1.3 ha, 3.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1393592.md - Parcel 1423777: 6,782 m² (0.68 ha, 1.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1423777.md - Parcel 4869887: 4,869 m² (0.49 ha, 1.2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4869887.md - Parcel 1310473: 4,777 m² (0.48 ha, 1.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1310473.md - Parcel 4189524: 3,389 m² (0.34 ha, 0.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4189524.md - Parcel 3098133: 3,258 m² (0.33 ha, 0.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3098133.md - Parcel 1419297: 2,796 m² (0.28 ha, 0.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1419297.md - Parcel 2706247: 2,596 m² (0.26 ha, 0.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2706247.md - Parcel 5169991: 2,528 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5169991.md - Parcel 1399809: 2,034 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1399809.md - Parcel 1374917: 1,748 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1374917.md - Parcel 1399687: 1,705 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1399687.md - Parcel 1378489: 991 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1378489.md - Parcel 4869882: 558 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4869882.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Ardeelan Upper 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) 9 applications, newest first. - 10 Sept 2025, Donegal County Council 2561553: Conditional. Retention, 2 homes. MOBILE HOME ON HARDSTAND ALONG WITH EXISTING SEPTIC TANK SYSTEM FOR A PERIOD OF 2 YEARS AND PERMISSION FOR (1) ERECTION OF DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE AND EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH INFILTRATION AREA AND (2) ALTERATIONS AND WIDENING OF EXISTING ENTRANCE. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2561553/0 - 1 Jun 2022, Donegal County Council 2250951: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. CHANGE OF HOUSE DESIGN FROM THAT GRANTED PREVIOUSLY UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 21/51607. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2250951/0 - 25 Apr 2022, Donegal County Council 2250715: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE & CONNECTION TO EXISTING SEWER. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2250715/0 - 10 Aug 2021, Donegal County Council 2151607: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND CONNECTION TO PUBLIC SEWER ALONG WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2151607/0 - 22 Mar 2021, Donegal County Council 2150491: Conditional. Retention, 1 home. REVISED LOCATION OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2150491/0 - 29 Jan 2021, Donegal County Council 2150110: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND CONNECTION TO PUBLIC SEWER ALONG WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2150110/0 - 24 Apr 2019, Donegal County Council 1950582: Refused. Permission, 1 home. ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE INCORPORATING THE CREATION OF A NEW ACCESS ROAD AND CONNECTION TO PUBLIC SEWER ALONG WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1950582/0 - 24 Apr 2019, Donegal County Council 1950583: Refused. Permission, 1 home. ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE INCORPORATING THE CREATION OF A NEW ACCESS ROAD AND CONNECTION TO PUBLIC SEWER ALONG WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1950583/0 - 6 Dec 2017, Donegal County Council 1751830: Conditional. Retention. THE INCREASE OF RIDGE HEIGHT AND ADDITION OF A MEZZANINE FLOOR TO EXISTING SHED. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1751830/0 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 Ardeelan Upper. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ardeelan Upper. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ardeelan Upper. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: About 1 in 20 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: Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ardeelan Upper. - 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/ardeelan-upper.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/donegal/ardeelan-upper.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/donegal/ardeelan-upper.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Ardeelan Upper 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) - Ardeelan Lower: https://everytownland.com/donegal/ardeelan-lower.md - Cashel: https://everytownland.com/donegal/cashel-50541.md - Cool Beg: https://everytownland.com/donegal/cool-beg.md - Rosscat: https://everytownland.com/donegal/rosscat.md - Rossnowlagh Upper or Crockahany: https://everytownland.com/donegal/rossnowlagh-upper-or-crockahany.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/ardeelan-upper - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/donegal/ardeelan-upper