Elly
Townland in the civil parish of Killygarvan, barony of Kilmacrenan, Co. Donegal
- Area
- 196.4 ha
- 485 acres
- Land parcels
- 63
- registered freehold, median 6,944 m² (0.69 ha, 1.72 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
63 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Elly, from 108 m² to 428,143 m² (42.81 ha, 105.8 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 34 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 Elly 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
4 Dec 2024Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND INSTALLATION OF A SEPTIC TANK
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2461998
17 Nov 2021Conditional
AGRICULTURAL SHED AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2152288
31 Jan 2017Unconditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW TWO STOREY DWELLING , SINGLE STOREY DOMESTIC GARAGE, SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Extension of duration, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1750107
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Elly.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Elly.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Elly.
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
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Elly.
- 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 Elly with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Elly
- Area
- 1,963,886 m² (196.39 ha, 485.29 acres)
- Civil parish
- Killygarvan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kilmacrenan
- Electoral division
- Killygarvan, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Killygarvan electoral division: 120 people in 45 households; 93% of households own their home; 39% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 21% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Creeveoughter, Drumatrumman, Drumhallagh Upper, Gortcally, Legland, Lurganboy
- Placenames
- Elly 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.