Doorian
Townland in the civil parish of Inishkeel, barony of Boylagh, Co. Donegal; in Irish Dúrian
- Area
- 119.5 ha
- 295 acres
- Land parcels
- 24
- registered freehold, median 12,792 m² (1.28 ha, 3.16 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Doorian, from 1,285 m² to 172,043 m² (17.2 ha, 42.51 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 12 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 Doorian 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 Sept 2025Conditional
DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGES, CONNECTION TO ALL EXISTING SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2561559
21 Dec 2022Conditional
ERECTION OF (1) A TREATMENT BUILDING (2) 1 NO. WASTEWATER / BACKWASH / RECYCLE WATER TANK (3) 1 NO. NEUTRALISATION TANK (4) 2 NO. CHEMICAL STORAGE KIOSKS (5) 4 NO. PRESSURE FILTER TANKS AND PRESSURE FILTER PLATFORM (6) 4 NO. MEMBRANE FILTERS (7) 3 NO. CHEMICAL STORAGE BUNDED TANKS (8) 2 NO. WASH WATER TREATMENT TANKS (9) 1 NO. PORTABLE WATER STORAGE TANK (10) SURFACE WATER ATTENUATION TANK AND PETROL INTERCEPTOR (11) 3 NO. EQUIPMENT STORAGE KIOSKS (12) ANCILLARY WORKS INCLUDING ADDITIONAL IMPERMEABLE AREA AND CARPARK AREA, RETAINING STRUCTURES AND FENCING ASSOCIATED WITH THE DEVELOPMENT. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) ACCOMPANIES THIS APPLICATION
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2252062
11 Apr 2018Conditional
AMENDMENT TO ELEVATIONS AND REDUCE THE FINISHED FLOOR LEVEL BY 900MM OF PROPOSED BUILDING PREVIOUSLY PERMITTED ON PLANNING APPLICATION REFERENCE NUMBER 17/51233
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1850561
4 Aug 2017Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A BUILDING (142 M2) IN PLACE OF THE EXISTING PORTAL SHED AND CONTAINER, TO HOUSE A VOLATILISATION SYSTEM, AN ULTRA VIOLET DISINFECTION SYSTEM AND THE EXISTING CHLORINATION SYSTEM AND STRAINERS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1751233
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: West of Ardara/Maas Road SAC 000197
- Special Area of Conservation: Lough Nillan Bog (Carrickatlieve) SAC 000165
- Special Protection Area: Lough Nillan Bog SPA 004110
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: West Of Ardara/Maas Road 000197
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Nillan Bog (Carrickatlieve) 000165
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Doorian.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Doorian.
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
- Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1297 (ZIP).
- 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 Doorian with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Doorian · Dúrian
- Area
- 1,195,388 m² (119.54 ha, 295.39 acres)
- Civil parish
- Inishkeel, and its townlands
- Barony
- Boylagh
- Electoral division
- Glenties, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Glenties electoral division: 1,475 people in 593 households; 74% of households own their home; 30% of homes were built since 2001; 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 15% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Doobin, Drumnasillagh, Meenachallow, Meenakilwirra, Meenanall
- Gaeltacht
- In an Irish-speaking area
- Placenames
- Doorian 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.