Cloghglass
Cloghglass is a townland in the civil parish of Templecrone, barony of Boylagh, Co. Donegal. Its name in Irish is An Chloch Ghlas.
- Area
- 51.9 ha
- 128 acres
- Land parcels
- 96
- registered freehold, median 2,207 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
96 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cloghglass, from 15 m² to 35,612 m² (3.56 ha, 8.8 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 5 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Cloghglass 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
4 Feb 2026Conditional
RENOVATION AND CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSION TO DWELLING HOUSE, DECOMMISSIONING OF EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND INSTALLATION OF A NEW WASTEWATER TREATMENT UNIT, 15SQM SAND FILTER AND 150SQM INFILTRATION SYSTEM INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2650011
22 Nov 2021Refused
CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE AND INSTALLATION OF A SEPTIC TANK TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH ASSOCIATED DRAINAGE POLISHING FILTER TOGETHER WITH NECESSARY SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2152329
4 Nov 2021N/a
CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE AND INSTALLATION OF A SEPTIC TANK TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH ASSOCIATED DRAINAGE POLISHING FILTER TOGETHER WITH NECESSARY SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2152190
26 Oct 2021N/a
CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE AND INSTALLATION OF A SEPTIC TANK TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH ASSOCIATED DRAINAGE POLISHING FILTER AND ALL SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2152101
16 Jun 2017Conditional
EXTENSION TO THE FRONT OF EXISTING DWELLING, AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1750958
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
- Special Area of Conservation: Rutland Island and Sound SAC 002283
- Special Area of Conservation: Gweedore Bay and Islands SAC 001141
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Gweedore Bay And Islands 001141
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Cloghglass.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Cloghglass.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Cloghglass, 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 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 Cloghglass.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Cloghglass with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Cloghglass · An Chloch Ghlas
- Area
- 518,949 m² (51.89 ha, 128.24 acres)
- Civil parish
- Templecrone, and its townlands
- Barony
- Boylagh
- Electoral division
- Rutland, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,496 people lived in 635 households in the Rutland electoral division. 80% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 37% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Arlands, Meenagowna, Mellamore, Tullyillan
- Gaeltacht
- In an Irish-speaking area
- Placenames
- Cloghglass 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.