Derrylahan

1 registered freehold parcel lies mostly in Derrylahan, from 4,917 m² (0.49 ha, 1.22 acres) to 4,917 m² (0.49 ha, 1.22 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 6 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 Derrylahan 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 May 2026Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSION TO THE VISITORS CENTRE BUILDING TO ACCOMMODATE AN ADMINISTRATION OFFICE AND STAFF WELFARE ACCOMMODATION WITH ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) ACCOMPANIES THIS APPLICATION

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2660881

• 8 May 2026Conditional

  REFURBISHMENT OF EXISTING 2 NO. PEDESTRIAN BRIDGES AND CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW PEDESTRIAN PATH. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) ACCOMPANIES THIS APPLICATION

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2660822

• 17 Sept 2024Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF AN OPEN SIDED TENT AND STAGE FOR USE AS AN OUTDOOR EDUCATIONAL FACILITY ANCILLARY TO THE PARK COMPLEX

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2461467

• 18 Jul 2022Conditional

  DEVELOPMENT OF A TEMPORARY OVERFLOW CAR PARK INCLUDING ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS ADJACENT TO EXISTING VISITOR CENTRE CAR PARK. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) ACCOMPANIES THIS APPLICATION

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2251224

• 10 May 2021Conditional

  CONSOLIDATION & REPAIR OF THE EXISTING RUIN OF BROGAN'S COTTAGE, AN HISTORIC MASONRY STRUCTURE, AND RECONSTRUCTION OF SECTION OF ROOF TO FORM A SHELTER FOR WALKERS USING THE PARK. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) HAS BEEN SUBMITTED AS PART OF THIS APPLICATION

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2150874

• 4 Nov 2019Conditional

  12M HIGH SUPPORT POLE, WITH 3NO. 2.8M HIGH RADIO AERIALS (THESE EXTEND TO A TOTAL HEIGHT OF 14.8M AGL) FOR USE BY THE EMERGENCY SERVICES (GARDA, AMBULANCE, FIRE BRIGADE) TOGETHER WITH ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT, EQUIPMENT CABINET AND ASSOCIATED FENCING, CABLE LADDER AND GPS TIMING ANTENNA FOR THE NATIONAL DIGITAL RADIO SERVICE

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 1951675

• 7 Oct 2019N/a

  ERECTION OF A 12M HIGH SUPPORT POLE, WITH 3NO. 2.8M HIGH RADIO AERIALS (THESE EXTEND TO A TOTAL HEIGHT OF 14.8M AGL) FOR USE BY THE EMERGENCY SERVICES (GARDA, AMBULANCE, FIRE BRIGADE) TOGETHER WITH ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT, EQUIPMENT CABINET AND ASSOCIATED FENCING, CABLE LADDER AND GPS TIMING ANTENNA FOR THE NATIONAL DIGITAL RADIO SERVICE

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 1951504

• 17 Jan 2019Conditional

  (1) THE REPAIR AND REHABILITATION OF THE GLENVEAGH BRIDGE (AREA 0.03HA), (2) A NEW LANDSCAPING SCHEME FOR THE GARDEN OF THE BRIDGE HOUSE AT GLENVEAGH BRIDGE (AREA 0.23 HA) AND (3) THE REMOVAL OF NON- NATIVE TREES FROM THE BANKS OF THE OWENCARROW RIVER, FROM LOUGH BEAGH TO THE BRIDGE DL-R251-008.00 (AREA 2.62HA). A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT HAS BEEN SUBMITTED WITH THIS APPLICATION.

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1950025

• 20 Dec 2018Conditional

  INSTALLATION OF APPROXIMATELY 900M OF RISING MAINS. PLANNING PERMISSION FOR THESE RISING MAINS WAS PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REFERENCE 17/51586. THE FOLLOWING MODIFICATIONS TO THE PIPLINE ROUTES, INCLUDED IN PLANNING REFERENCE 17/51586 ARE PROPOSED UNDER THIS APPLICATION: (1) MODIFICATION OF THE ROUTE OF THE FOUL RISING MAIN BETWEEN THE UNDERGROUND WASTEWATER PUMPING STATION AT GLENVEAGH CASTLE AND THE GLENVEAGH CASTLE WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM (WWTS) APPROXIMATELY 400M IN LENGHT, (2) MODIFICATION OF THE ROUTE OF THE FOUL RISING MAIN BEWTEEN THE UNDERGROUND WASTEWATER PUMPING STATION AT THE GLENVEAGH CAR PARK AND CAR PARK VISITOR CENTRE, WWTS, APPROXIMATELY 345M IN LENGTH, (3) MODIFICATION OF THE ROUTE OF THE FOUL RISING MAIN BETWEEN THE UNDERGROUND WASTEWATER PUMPING STATION ADJACENT TO THE GLENVEAGH ADMINISTRATION BUILDING AND THE EXISTING ADMINISTRATION BUILDING WWTS, APPROXIMATELY 155M IN LENGTH. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT WILL BE SUBMITTED WITH THIS PLANNING APPLICATION

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1851932

• 20 Oct 2017Conditional

  UPGRADING OF THE WASTEWATER TREATMENT FACILITIES AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS. THE DEVELOPMENT WILL CONSIST OF UPGRADE WORKS TO THE NATIONAL PARKS WASTEWATER TREATMENT FACILITIES INCLUDING THE CONSTRUCTION OF FIVE NEW WASTE WATER PUMPING STATIONS AND ASSOCIATED RISING MAINS, TWO NEW WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANTS AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS, INCLUDING FENCING AND ACCESS ROUTES. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT WILL BE SUBMITTED TO THE PLANNING AUTHORITY

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1751586

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Cloghernagore Bog and Glenveagh National Park SAC 002047
• Special Protection Area: Derryveagh And Glendowan Mountains SPA 004039
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Cloghernagore Bog And Glenveagh National Park 002047

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Derrylahan.

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Derrylahan.

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 20 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; parts are water.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Derrylahan.

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 Derrylahan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Derrylahan · Doire Leathan

Area

9,386,992 m² (938.7 ha, 2,319.58 acres)

Civil parish

Gartan, and its townlands

Barony

Kilmacrenan

Electoral division

Cross Roads, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Cross Roads electoral division: 2,071 people in 867 households; 74% of households own their home; 29% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 20% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Brockagh, Bunnatreesruhan, Creenary, Derrybeg, Devlin, Gartan Mountain, Glenbeagh, Mullangore, Skeagh

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Derrylahan 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.