Blacks Glen

26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Blacks Glen, from 933 m² to 156,264 m² (15.63 ha, 38.61 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 21 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Blacks Glen 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.

• 15 Apr 2026N/a

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND DOMESTIC GARAGE INCLUDING ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2660650

• 18 Oct 2017Refused

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC SHED AND INSTALLATION OF A WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1751580

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 Blacks Glen.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Blacks Glen.

Architectural heritage

• House, 1850–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay T-plan single-storey house with attic, built c.1860, with two-storey extension to rear. Pitched slate roof with three rendered chimneystacks, and having flat-headed dormer window to rear and one roof-light to front. Roughcast rendered walls with smooth-render plinth. Square-headed openings with six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows to front, eight-over-eight pane to attic, and various timber sash and casement windows to side and rear, with stone sills. Replacement timber battened door with sidelights to front. Segmental-arch door and window to extension. Three-bay two-storey outbuilding of c.1830 to rear, with seven-bay single-storey outbuilding to side, having pitched slate roofs with projecting eaves course, two roof-lights and cast-iron rainwater goods, and remains of render to rubble stone walls. Building has square-headed openings with red brick voussoirs to some openings, and having replacement timber battened doors and timber casement windows with concrete sills. Detached three-bay single-storey outbuilding to rear with pitched slate roof, rubble stone walls and square-headed openings with red brick surrounds and heads and sliding timber doors. Rubble stone walls with rounded rendered coping to boundaries and courtyard to rear. Metal pedestrian gates. Square stone piers to front. House set back from road in private garden. Outbuildings and stone walls form informal courtyard to rear. Mature grounds to site.

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

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1788 (ZIP).

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Blacks Glen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Blacks Glen

Area

699,686 m² (69.97 ha, 172.9 acres)

Civil parish

Tullyfern, and its townlands

Barony

Kilmacrenan

Electoral division

Rathmelton, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Rathmelton electoral division: 2,494 people in 938 households; 71% of households own their home; 42% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bridge End or Drummonaghan, Clooney, Glen Lower, Glen Upper, Roughan

Placenames

Blacks Glen 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.