# Doorian, Co. Donegal: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Inishkeel, barony of Boylagh, Co. Donegal; in Irish Dúrian. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,195,388 m² (119.54 ha, 295.39 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 12,792 m² (1.28 ha, 3.16 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 4 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Inishkeel, https://everytownland.com/donegal/parish/inishkeel.md - Barony: Boylagh - Electoral division: Glenties, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Donegal, https://everytownland.com/donegal.md - Gaeltacht: in an Irish-speaking area - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/14720 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 50948 - Centre: latitude 54.778966, longitude -8.254616 (WGS 84) ## 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); 12 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1381545: 172,043 m² (17.2 ha, 42.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1381545.md - Parcel 1416023: 171,496 m² (17.15 ha, 42.38 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1416023.md - Parcel 1524989: 145,147 m² (14.51 ha, 35.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1524989.md - Parcel 1416020: 118,692 m² (11.87 ha, 29.33 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1416020.md - Parcel 1375999: 117,342 m² (11.73 ha, 29 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1375999.md - Parcel 1416024: 103,609 m² (10.36 ha, 25.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1416024.md - Parcel 3662793: 89,251 m² (8.93 ha, 22.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3662793.md - Parcel 2604295: 82,121 m² (8.21 ha, 20.29 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2604295.md - Parcel 1416022: 52,700 m² (5.27 ha, 13.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1416022.md - Parcel 1416021: 40,336 m² (4.03 ha, 9.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1416021.md - Parcel 1305357: 28,530 m² (2.85 ha, 7.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1305357.md - Parcel 5082727: 13,351 m² (1.34 ha, 3.3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5082727.md - Parcel 5082729: 12,234 m² (1.22 ha, 3.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5082729.md - Parcel 1381544: 11,979 m² (1.2 ha, 2.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1381544.md - Parcel 1381543: 8,616 m² (0.86 ha, 2.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1381543.md - Parcel 1362027: 5,255 m² (0.53 ha, 1.3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1362027.md - Parcel 5082721: 5,106 m² (0.51 ha, 1.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5082721.md - Parcel 1340036: 4,760 m² (0.48 ha, 1.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1340036.md - Parcel 5082738: 4,644 m² (0.46 ha, 1.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5082738.md - Parcel 5082733: 3,069 m² (0.31 ha, 0.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5082733.md - Parcel 5082731: 2,706 m² (0.27 ha, 0.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5082731.md - Parcel 4827844: 2,037 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4827844.md - Parcel 1315178: 1,759 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1315178.md - Parcel 1352963: 1,285 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1352963.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 4 applications, newest first. - 11 Sept 2025, Donegal County Council 2561559: Conditional. Retention, 1 home. DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGES, CONNECTION TO ALL EXISTING SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2561559/0 - 21 Dec 2022, Donegal County Council 2252062: Conditional. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2252062/0 - 11 Apr 2018, Donegal County Council 1850561: Conditional. Permission. AMENDMENT TO ELEVATIONS AND REDUCE THE FINISHED FLOOR LEVEL BY 900MM OF PROPOSED BUILDING PREVIOUSLY PERMITTED ON PLANNING APPLICATION REFERENCE NUMBER 17/51233. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1850561/0 - 4 Aug 2017, Donegal County Council 1751233: Conditional. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1751233/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: West of Ardara/Maas Road SAC, site code 000197, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/000197 - Special Area of Conservation: Lough Nillan Bog (Carrickatlieve) SAC, site code 000165, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/000165 - Special Protection Area: Lough Nillan Bog SPA, site code 004110, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/spa/004110 - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: West Of Ardara/Maas Road, site code 000197 - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Nillan Bog (Carrickatlieve), site code 000165 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Doorian. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Doorian. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_1297.zip (ZIP). - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/donegal/doorian.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/donegal/doorian.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/donegal/doorian.kml ## Homes sold (Residential 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: https://everytownland.com/donegal.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Doobin: https://everytownland.com/donegal/doobin.md - Drumnasillagh: https://everytownland.com/donegal/drumnasillagh.md - Meenachallow: https://everytownland.com/donegal/meenachallow.md - Meenakilwirra: https://everytownland.com/donegal/meenakilwirra.md - Meenanall: https://everytownland.com/donegal/meenanall.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/donegal/doorian - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/donegal/doorian