# Blacks Glen, Co. Donegal: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Tullyfern, barony of Kilmacrenan, Co. Donegal. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 699,686 m² (69.97 ha, 172.9 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 7,204 m² (0.72 ha, 1.78 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Tullyfern, https://everytownland.com/donegal/parish/tullyfern.md - Barony: Kilmacrenan - Electoral division: Rathmelton, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Donegal, https://everytownland.com/donegal.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/16005 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 50347 - Centre: latitude 55.049465, longitude -7.662453 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Blacks Glen, from 933 m² to 156,264 m² (15.63 ha, 38.61 acres); 21 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1426821: 156,264 m² (15.63 ha, 38.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1426821.md - Parcel 1331948: 93,172 m² (9.32 ha, 23.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1331948.md - Parcel 1357530: 86,244 m² (8.62 ha, 21.31 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1357530.md - Parcel 1410860: 74,313 m² (7.43 ha, 18.36 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1410860.md - Parcel 1402759: 46,054 m² (4.61 ha, 11.38 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1402759.md - Parcel 1315299: 42,047 m² (4.2 ha, 10.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1315299.md - Parcel 1405802: 31,991 m² (3.2 ha, 7.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1405802.md - Parcel 1333642: 31,896 m² (3.19 ha, 7.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1333642.md - Parcel 1361772: 25,649 m² (2.56 ha, 6.34 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1361772.md - Parcel 1424180: 23,538 m² (2.35 ha, 5.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1424180.md - Parcel 1321636: 23,303 m² (2.33 ha, 5.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1321636.md - Parcel 1310779: 15,637 m² (1.56 ha, 3.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1310779.md - Parcel 1400498: 7,641 m² (0.76 ha, 1.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1400498.md - Parcel 1330632: 6,767 m² (0.68 ha, 1.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1330632.md - Parcel 1361136: 6,319 m² (0.63 ha, 1.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1361136.md - Parcel 1336233: 4,722 m² (0.47 ha, 1.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1336233.md - Parcel 1326373: 4,529 m² (0.45 ha, 1.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1326373.md - Parcel 1352696: 3,885 m² (0.39 ha, 0.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1352696.md - Parcel 1329905: 3,155 m² (0.32 ha, 0.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1329905.md - Parcel 4937556: 3,008 m² (0.3 ha, 0.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4937556.md - Parcel 4787317: 2,706 m² (0.27 ha, 0.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4787317.md - Parcel 1422018: 2,502 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1422018.md - Parcel 1378820: 1,533 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1378820.md - Parcel 4937549: 1,151 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4937549.md - Parcel 4936557: 1,090 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4936557.md - Parcel 4909374: 933 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4909374.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 2 applications, newest first. - 15 Apr 2026, Donegal County Council 2660650: N/a. Permission, 1 home. ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND DOMESTIC GARAGE INCLUDING ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660650/0 - 18 Oct 2017, Donegal County Council 1751580: Refused. Permission, 1 home. CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC SHED AND INSTALLATION OF A WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1751580/0 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 Blacks Glen. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Blacks Glen. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - House, 1850–1870, Regional interest, registry number 40903629, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=DG®no=40903629. 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. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: 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: 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, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_1788.zip (ZIP). - 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/blacks-glen.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/donegal/blacks-glen.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/donegal/blacks-glen.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) 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: https://everytownland.com/donegal.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Bridge End or Drummonaghan: https://everytownland.com/donegal/bridge-end-or-drummonaghan.md - Clooney: https://everytownland.com/donegal/clooney-50668.md - Glen Lower: https://everytownland.com/donegal/glen-lower.md - Glen Upper: https://everytownland.com/donegal/glen-upper.md - Roughan: https://everytownland.com/donegal/roughan-52329.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/blacks-glen - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/donegal/blacks-glen