# Eglish, Co. Donegal: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Killymard, barony of Banagh, Co. Donegal; in Irish An Eaglais. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 10,308,492 m² (1,030.85 ha, 2,547.28 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 478,052 m² (47.81 ha, 118.13 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Killymard, https://everytownland.com/donegal/parish/killymard.md - Barony: Banagh - Electoral division: Lough Eask, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 350 people lived in 66 households in the Lough Eask electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 17% 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/14167 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 51197 - Centre: latitude 54.731946, longitude -8.090894 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Eglish, from 1,464 m² to 2,460,315 m² (246.03 ha, 607.96 acres); 11 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 3661804: 2,460,315 m² (246.03 ha, 607.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3661804.md - Parcel 1305313: 1,965,420 m² (196.54 ha, 485.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1305313.md - Parcel 1406655: 736,118 m² (73.61 ha, 181.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1406655.md - Parcel 1340006: 725,586 m² (72.56 ha, 179.3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1340006.md - Parcel 1373917: 718,196 m² (71.82 ha, 177.47 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1373917.md - Parcel 1421709: 635,900 m² (63.59 ha, 157.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1421709.md - Parcel 1405474: 495,495 m² (49.55 ha, 122.44 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1405474.md - Parcel 1362073: 495,319 m² (49.53 ha, 122.4 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1362073.md - Parcel 1315037: 478,052 m² (47.81 ha, 118.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1315037.md - Parcel 1362708: 432,310 m² (43.23 ha, 106.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1362708.md - Parcel 1429004: 409,510 m² (40.95 ha, 101.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1429004.md - Parcel 1393702: 362,552 m² (36.26 ha, 89.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1393702.md - Parcel 1369074: 317,367 m² (31.74 ha, 78.42 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1369074.md - Parcel 1399559: 10,591 m² (1.06 ha, 2.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1399559.md - Parcel 1353029: 2,298 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1353029.md - Parcel 1414876: 1,871 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1414876.md - Parcel 5669889: 1,464 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5669889.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Eglish 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) No planning application touches the townland of Eglish in the national file, which goes back to 2010. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Eglish. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - DG094-002: Church, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDG094-002----. It is believed that this was the site of a church (O. Davies). There is no trace of any structure. The site is located on the N side of Banagher Lough high up on rocky boggy land. The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated. Date of upload: 22 September 2008 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Eglish. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Eglish, 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: 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 Eglish. - 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/eglish.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/donegal/eglish.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/donegal/eglish.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Eglish 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) - Altilow: https://everytownland.com/donegal/altilow.md - Edergole: https://everytownland.com/donegal/edergole-51194.md - Greenan: https://everytownland.com/donegal/greenan.md - Meenataggart: https://everytownland.com/donegal/meenataggart.md - Owenboy: https://everytownland.com/donegal/owenboy-52172.md - Sruell: https://everytownland.com/donegal/sruell.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/eglish - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/donegal/eglish