Dundooan Upper
Townland in the civil parish of Mevagh, barony of Kilmacrenan, Co. Donegal; in Irish Dún Dubháin Uachtarach
- Area
- 56.8 ha
- 140 acres
- Land parcels
- 52
- registered freehold, median 1,905 m²
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
52 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Dundooan Upper, from 92 m² to 181,413 m² (18.14 ha, 44.83 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 35 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 Dundooan Upper 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
5 Sept 2024Conditional
ERECTION OF A PERMANENT DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2461374
28 Sept 2022Refused
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2251630
23 Dec 2019Conditional
BOAT HOUSE, EXTERNAL DECKING, PONTOON, ACCESS ROAD AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Retention · Donegal County Council, 1952017
11 Oct 2017N/a
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING WITH ON-SITE SEWAGE TREATMENT
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1751538
1 Sept 2017N/a
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING WITH ON-SITE SEWAGE TREATMENT
Outline permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1751338
23 Aug 2017N/a
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING WITH ON-SITE SEWAGE TREATMENT
Outline permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1751290
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: Mulroy Bay SAC 002159
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Tranarossan And Melmore Lough 000194
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Dundooan Upper.
Architectural heritage
- Scoil Náisiúnta Míobhaigh [Meevagh National School], school, 1920–1925 · Regional interest
Description
Detached four-bay single-storey T-plan former national school, dated 1923, having, with projecting gable-fronted porch to front. Now in use as private house. Pitched slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles, exposed rafters with timber sheeted eaves, rendered chimneystacks to gable ends of main block, and replacement rainwater goods. Square-headed openings with timber sliding sash windows, four-over-four pane to porch, six-over-six pane to bays flanking porch and six-over-nine pane to main gables, with painted stone sills. Timber battened door. Plaque to porch inscribed "MEEVAGH/NATIONAL SCHOOL/1923". Rubble stone boundary wall to front with decorative cast-iron metal gate to northeast.
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 5 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_1685 (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 Dundooan Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Dundooan Upper · Dún Dubháin Uachtarach
- Area
- 567,738 m² (56.77 ha, 140.29 acres)
- Civil parish
- Mevagh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kilmacrenan
- Electoral division
- Rosguill, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Rosguill electoral division: 856 people in 321 households; 77% of households own their home; 31% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 58% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ardbane, Clontallagh, Doagh, Dundooan Lower, Glebe
- Gaeltacht
- In an Irish-speaking area
- Placenames
- Dundooan Upper 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.