Culdaff Glebe
Townland in the civil parish of Culdaff, barony of Inishowen East, Co. Donegal
- Area
- 65.1 ha
- 161 acres
- Land parcels
- 70
- registered freehold, median 2,955 m² (0.3 ha, 0.73 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 24
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
70 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Culdaff Glebe, from 161 m² to 53,693 m² (5.37 ha, 13.27 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 15 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Culdaff Glebe 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 Jul 2026Conditional
CHANGE OF HOUSE TYPE, PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 23/50503 AND CONSTRUCTION OF DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2661238
25 Nov 2025Conditional
MINOR AMENDMENT TO PLANS PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 25/60836 TO INCLUDE (1) REVISED WINDOW TO SNUG AREA AND BATHROOM LAYOUT, (2) REVISED UPPER GABLE WINDOWS TO BACK ELEVATION AND REVISED KITCHEN WINDOW LAYOUT, (3) REVISED UTILITY / BOOT ROOM / ENSUITE AND (4) VELUX ROOFLIGHTS TO FIRST FLOOR STORE AREA WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2562070
22 Nov 2025N/a
MINOR AMENDMENTS TO PLANS PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 25/60836 AS FOLLOWS: (1) REVISED WINDOW TO SNUG AREA AND BATHROOM LAYOUT, (2) REVISED UPPER GABLE WINDOWS TO BACK ELEVATION AND REVISED KITCHEN WINDOW LAYOUT, (3) REVISED UTILITY / BOOT ROOM / ENSUITE AND (4) VELUX ROOFLIGHTS TO FIRST FLOOR STORE AREA WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2562047
25 May 2025Conditional
CHANGE OF HOUSE TYPE FROM THAT PREVIOUSLY GRANTED (PLANNING REF. NO. 23/50503 REFERS) WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2560836
11 Dec 2024Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING WITH ATTACHED GARAGE AND CONNECTION TO NEW ONSITE EFFLUENT TREATMENT PLANT AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) ACCOMPANIES THIS APPLICATION
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2462049
17 Apr 2024Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING, TREATMENT PLANT AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2460538
13 Apr 2024N/a
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING WITH ATTACHED GARAGE AND CONNECTION TO NEW ONSITE EFFLUENT TREATMENT PLANT AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2460509
25 Mar 2024N/a
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING WITH ATTACHED GARAGE AND CONNECTION TO NEW ONSITE EFFLUENT TREATMENT PLANT AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2460386
1 Mar 2024Conditional
EXTENSION TO AN EXISTING AGRICULTURAL SHED WITH EFFLUENT STORAGE UNDER AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2460258
5 May 2023Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY DWELLING HOUSE AND A DETACHED GARAGE, TOGETHER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS AND ONSITE SEWAGE SYSTEM
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2350615
2 May 2023Conditional
CHANGE OF HOUSE TYPE AND RELOCATION OF SAME PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 21/50183 AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2350586
14 Apr 2023Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH A SEPARATE DOMESTIC GARAGE, WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT AND ALL ASSOCIATED SERVICES. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) ACCOMPANIES THIS APPLICATION
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2350503
2 Mar 2022Refused
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH ATTACHED GARAGE AND WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT AND ALL ASSOCIATED SERVICES
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2250362
8 Feb 2021Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) ACCOMPANIES THIS APPLICATION
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2150183
14 Oct 2019Conditional
2 NO. MOBILE HOMES AND 2 NO. DOMESTIC GARAGE/STORES ON SITE PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REFERENCE 05/4041 AND PERMISSION FOR (1)RELOCATION OF EXISTING VAN NO.1 & DOMESTIC GARAGE/STORE IN A SOUTH EASTERN DIRECTION (2) DECOMMISSIONING OF EXISTING SEPTIC TANK SYSTEM AND (3) INSTALLATION OF A NEW EFFLUENT TREATMENT PLANT AND POLISHING FILTER TO SERVE 2 NO. MOBILE HOMES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT ACCOMPANIES THIS APPLICATION
Retention · Donegal County Council, 1951568
2 Oct 2019Refused
CONSTRUCTION OF A TWO STOREY DWELLING WITH CONNECTION TO ON-SITE WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1951495
1 Oct 2019N/a
2 NO. MOBILE HOMES AND 2 NO. DOMESTIC GARAGE/STORES ON SITE PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REFERENCE 05/4041 AND PERMISSION FOR (1)RELOCATION OF EXISTING VAN NO.1 & DOMESTIC GARAGE/STORE IN A SOUTH EASTERN DIRECTION (2) DECOMMISSIONING OF EXISTING SEPTIC TANK SYSTEM AND (3) INSTALLATION OF A NEW EFFLUENT TREATMENT PLANT AND POLISHING FILTER TO SERVE 2 NO. MOBILE HOMES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT ACCOMPANIES THIS APPLICATION
Retention · Donegal County Council, 1951500
23 Sept 2019N/a
2 NO. MOBILE HOMES AND 2 NO. DOMESTIC GARAGE/STORES ON SITE PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REFERENCE 05/4041 AND PERMISSION FOR (1)RELOCATION OF EXISTING VAN NO.1 & DOMESTIC GARAGE/STORE IN A SOUTH EASTERN DIRECTION (2) DECOMMISSIONING OF EXISTING SEPTIC TANK SYSTEM AND (3) INSTALLATION OF A NEW EFFLUENT TREATMENT PLANT AND POLISHING FILTER TO SERVE 2 NO. MOBILE HOMES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT ACCOMPANIES THIS APPLICATION
Retention · Donegal County Council, 1951443
1 Jul 2019Conditional
HOLIDAY ACCOMMODATION FOR PEOPLE RELYING ON A HOIST AND OTHER SPECIALISED EQUIPMENT AND UPGRADING OF EXISTING ON-SITE SEWERAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM TO CATER FOR EXTRA CAPACITY AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1951014
23 May 2019N/a
(A) RETENTION OF 2 NO. EXISTING MOBILE HOMES ON SITE PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER PLANNING PERMISSION REFERENCE 05/4041, (B) RELOCATION OF EXISTING VAN NO. 1 IN A SOUTH EASTERN DIRECTION AND (C) DECOMMISSIONING OF EXISTING SEPTIC TANK SYSTEM AND INSTALLATION OF EFFLUENT TREATMENT PLANT AND POLISHING FILTER TO SERVE 2 NO. MOBILE HOMES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 2 homes · Donegal County Council, 1950774
7 Nov 2017Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING WITH WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA, CONNECTION TO PUBLIC SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1751692
26 Jul 2017Refused
ERECTION OF A NEW SINGLE STOREY STATIC CARAVAN/MOBILE HOLIDAY HOME (52M2); ALONG WITH ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS, CONNECTION TO EXISTING FOUL DRAINAGE SYSTEM AND CONNECTION TO ASSOCIATED SERVICES
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1751189
10 Jul 2017Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A ONE AND A HALF STOREY DWELLING AND TREATMENT PLANT
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1751083
26 May 2017N/a
CONSTRUCTION OF A ONE AND HALF STOREY DWELLING AND TREATMENT PLANT.
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1750806
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: North Inishowen Coast SAC 002012
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: North Inishowen Coast 002012
Recorded monuments
- DG005-015 Hut site
Description
A small circular earthen-banked enclosure. The interior is lower than the exterior. It is probably the remains of a hut site. It is situated on a gorse-covered hillside. The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated. Date of upload: 22 September 2008
- DG005-016 Ritual site - holy well
Description
A holy well called Craignasol is now covered by a modern pump. The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated. Date of upload: 22 September 2008
Architectural heritage
- Glebe House, rectory/glebe/vicarage/curate's house, 1870–1880 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay two-storey former Church of Ireland rectory, built c. 1875, with advanced gabled porch and dormer windows to front. Half-hipped replacement slate roof with overhanging eaves, clayware ridge tiles, paired roughcast rendered shouldered chimneystacks with rendered coping and terracotta pots, pyramidal roof to dormers, replacement gutters and cast-iron downpipes. Roughcast rendered walls with smooth rendered plinth course. Square-headed paired window openings with chamfered smooth rendered block-and-start surrounds with one-over-one timber sash windows to ground floor; square-headed window openings with replacement windows with smooth rendered surrounds and platband sill course to first floor. Square-headed door opening with half-glazed timber door and overlight. Set within own grounds with the remains of a walled garden to the north and several single and two-storey outbuildings with half hipped slate and pitched corrugated tin roofs. Site bounded by rubble stone wall and hedge to south and west. Wrought-iron double gate mounted on roughcast rendered piers with rendered pyramidal coping to driveway.
- House, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
Description
Semi-detached three-bay single-storey house, built c. 1820, now disused. Pitched artificial slate roof with clayware ridge tiles, gable ended red brick chimneystacks and replacement down pipes. Square-headed window openings with tripartite timber windows partly boarded up, and painted sills. Square-headed door opening, with timber door with glazed overlight. Bounded by a low rubble stone wall with smooth rendered coping surmounted with hoop-topped wrought-iron railings, and rubble stone gate piers with stepped pyramidal smooth rendered coping.
- Water pump, 1880–1900 · Regional interest
Description
Freestanding cast-iron water pump, erected c. 1890, now disused. Cylindrical horizontally-banded shaft, fluted head with circular spout, cow-tail handle and fluted ogee-domed cap. Located at the side of the road on a concrete plinth with a rubble stone wall and cast-iron cauldron to the rear.
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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility high, moderately high, 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 Culdaff Glebe.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Culdaff Glebe with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Culdaff Glebe
- Area
- 651,133 m² (65.11 ha, 160.9 acres)
- Civil parish
- Culdaff, and its townlands
- Barony
- Inishowen East
- Electoral division
- Culdaff, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Culdaff electoral division: 1,027 people in 366 households; 76% of households own their home; 38% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 32% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Glackadrumman, Knock, Redford Glebe
- Placenames
- Culdaff Glebe 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.