Doobally

46 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Doobally, from 729 m² to 176,227 m² (17.62 ha, 43.55 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 20 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Doobally 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.

• 23 Jun 2023Conditional

  (1) A 38KV UNDERGROUND CABLE GRID CONNECTION APPROXIMATELY 9KM IN LENGTH FROM THE CONSENTED DERRYKILLEW COMMUNITY WIND FARM (AN BORD PLEANÁLA REF. NO. 307520, DONEGAL COUNTY COUNCIL REF. NO. 19/51750) TO LANDS AT TOWNPARKS, NORTH OF THE EXISTING CATHALEEN'S FALL 110KV SUBSTATION IN BALLYSHANNON, (2) A PARTIAL SECTION OF A 38KV OVERHEAD LINE GRID CONNECTION CROSSING 130M OVER THE RIVER ERNE AT CATHALEEN'S FALL, BALLYSHANNON, AND (3) THE DERRYKILLEW COMMUNITY WIND FARM 38KV SUBSTATION AND A BATTERY ENERGY STORAGE SYSTEM. AN ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT REPORT (EIAR) ACCOMPANIES THIS APPLICATION

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2350892

• 27 Aug 2019Conditional

  (A) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING FOOTINGS AND FOUNDATIONS OF DWELLING HOUSE DESTROYED BY FIRE & FOR CONSTRUCTION OF REPLACEMENT DWELLING HOUSE ON PORTION OF EXISTING FOOTPRINT (B) ERECTION OF A SINGLE STOREY DOMESTIC GARAGE (C) DECOMMISSIONING OF EXISTING SEPTIC TANK SYSTEM AND INSTALLATION OF A SECONDARY AND TERTIARY TREATMENT SYSTEM AND DISCHARGE TO A DISPOSAL/DISTRIBUTION PAD AND ALTERATION AND WIDENING OF EXISTING SITE ENTRANCE ONTO THE PUBLIC ROAD, INCLUSIVE OF ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1951309

• 12 Aug 2019N/a

  (A) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING FOOTINGS AND FOUNDATIONS OF DWELLING HOUSE DESTROYED BY FIRE AND FOR A REPLACEMENT DWELLING HOUSE ON PORTION OF EXISTING FOOTPRINT (B) ERECTION OF A SINGLE STOREY DOMESTIC GARAGE (C) DECOMMISSIONING OF EXISTING SEPTIC TANK SYSTEM AND PERMISSION FOR THE INSTALLATION OF A SECONDARY AND TERTIARY TREATMENT SYSTEM AND DISCHARGE TO A DISPOSAL/DISTRIBUTION PAD (D) TO ALTER AND WIDEN THE EXISTING SITE ENTRANCE ONTO THE PUBLIC ROAD, INCLUSIVE OF ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1951221

• 15 Nov 2018Refused

  A TEN-YEAR PLANNING PERMISSION FOR A WIND FARM WITH A 30-YEAR OPERATIONAL LIFE (FROM THE DATE OF COMMISSIONING) CONSISTING OF (A) UP TO 7 NO. WIND TURBINES WITH A TIP HEIGHT OF UP TO 150 METRES AND ALL ASSOCIATED FOUNDATIONS AND HARDSTANDING AREAS, (B) 1 NO. ON-SITE ELECTRICAL SUB-STATION, (C) 1 NO. TEMPORARY CONSTRUCTION COMPOUND, (D) 1 NO. ANEMOMETRY MAST WITH A HEIGHT OF UP TO 100 METRES, (E) RECREATIONAL AMENITY TRAIL AND ASSOCIATED SIGNAGE, PARKING AND RECREATIONAL FACILITIES, (F) ALL ASSOCIATED UNDERGROUND ELECTRICAL AND COMMUNICATIONS CABLING CONNECTING THE TURBINES TO THE PROPOSED ON-SITE SUBSTATION, (G) UPGRADING OF EXISTING ACCESS TRACKS AND PROVISION OF ANY NEW SITE ACCESS ROADS REQUIRED INCLUDING NEW SITE ACCESS ONTO THE LOCAL ROAD NETWORK IN THE TOWNLAND OF TULLYHORKY AND ASSOCIATED DRAINAGE, (H) EXCAVATION OF 1 NO. BORROW PIT AND (I) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS (INCLUDING TREE FEELING). AN ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT REPORT (EIAR) AND A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) HAS BEEN SUBMITTED

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1851741

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

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Doobally.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Doobally.

Architectural heritage

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

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

At the centre of the townland of Doobally, 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 high, 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 Doobally.

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.

No address of the register names Doobally with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Doobally

Area

2,023,179 m² (202.32 ha, 499.94 acres)

Civil parish

Kilbarron, and its townlands

Barony

Tirhugh

Electoral division

Ballyshannon Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,738 people lived in 624 households in the Ballyshannon Rural electoral division. 80% of households owned their home. 37% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 16% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Behy, Cashelard, Corlea, Knader, Mullans

Placenames

Doobally 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.