Copany
Copany is a townland in the civil parish of Drumhome, barony of Tirhugh, Co. Donegal.
- Area
- 65.8 ha
- 163 acres
- Land parcels
- 32
- registered freehold, median 6,415 m² (0.64 ha, 1.59 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 8
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
32 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Copany, from 407 m² to 76,326 m² (7.63 ha, 18.86 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 24 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 Copany 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
11 Feb 2025Conditional
(1) DOMESTIC GARAGE ANCILLARY TO THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, (2) SINGLE STOREY PORCH EXTENSION TO THE FRONT OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND (3) SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO THE SIDE OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND PERMISSION FOR CONSTRUCTION OF (1) CARPORT BETWEEN THE DOMESTIC GARAGE AND DWELLING HOUSE AND (2) SINGLE STOREY STORE TO THE REAR OF THE EXISTING GARAGE, AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2560167
14 Aug 2024Conditional
(1) PLACING OF A MOBILE HOME AS A TEMPORARY STRUCTURE FOR THE DURATION OF DEVELOPMENT WORKS AND PERMISSION FOR (2) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DETACHED STOREY AND HALF (DEFECTIVE/MICA) DWELLING HOUSE, (3) RECONSTRUCTION OF A NEW REPLACEMENT STOREY AND HALF DWELLING HOUSE AND CONNECTION TO EXISTING SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM ON SITE AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2461247
8 May 2024Conditional
ERECTION OF DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEWERAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2460670
1 Apr 2022Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, PROPRIETARY SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2250558
18 Aug 2021Refused
ERECTION OF NEW DWELLING HOUSE, PROPRIETARY SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM & PERCOLATION AREA AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2151653
6 May 2021Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY SUN-ROOM EXTENSION TO DWELLING HOUSE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2150847
28 Aug 2020Conditional
(1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING PARTIALLY DEMOLISHED DWELLING HOUSE & OUTBUILDINGS, (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE & DOMESTIC GARAGE, (3) CONSTRUCTION OF MECHANICAL TREATMENT SYSTEM/SOIL POLISHING FILTER AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2051193
9 Mar 2017Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY GRANNY FLAT, AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1750351
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Copany.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Copany.
Architectural heritage
- Post box, 1930–1950 · Regional interest
Description
Wall-mounted cast-iron post box, erected c. 1940, having raised 'P&T' monogram in Gaelic script to head and with foundry mark to base reading ‘Jessop Davis, Enniscorthy’. Still in use. Set into rubble stone gate pier at gateway serving the former Fourmasters National School (see 40909429) at Copany. Located adjacent to road in the rural landscape to the east of Donegal Town.
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
- About 1 in 20 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, low (inferred).
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1475 (ZIP).
- 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 Copany with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Copany
- Area
- 657,686 m² (65.77 ha, 162.52 acres)
- Civil parish
- Drumhome, and its townlands
- Barony
- Tirhugh
- Electoral division
- Tullynaught, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 657 people lived in 206 households in the Tullynaught electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 9% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Aghlem, Ardnagassan, Cuilly, Druminardagh, Meenadreen
- Placenames
- Copany 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.