# Freehold, Co. Donegal: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Culdaff, barony of Inishowen East, Co. Donegal.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 885,653 m² (88.57 ha, 218.85 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 6,013 m² (0.6 ha, 1.49 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 3 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Culdaff, https://everytownland.com/donegal/parish/culdaff.md
- Barony: Inishowen East
- Electoral division: Gleneely, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Gleneely electoral division: 859 people in 293 households; 84% of households own their home; 43% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 12% were holiday homes.
- County: Co. Donegal, https://everytownland.com/donegal.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/15214
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 51260
- Centre: latitude 55.254267, longitude -7.176644 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Freehold, from 1,178 m² to 446,346 m² (44.63 ha, 110.29 acres); 15 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 1332120: 446,346 m² (44.63 ha, 110.29 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1332120.md
- Parcel 1330811: 154,809 m² (15.48 ha, 38.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1330811.md
- Parcel 1406960: 142,738 m² (14.27 ha, 35.27 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1406960.md
- Parcel 1410991: 36,404 m² (3.64 ha, 9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1410991.md
- Parcel 4595222: 23,052 m² (2.31 ha, 5.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4595222.md
- Parcel 1357280: 21,314 m² (2.13 ha, 5.27 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1357280.md
- Parcel 3662961: 19,339 m² (1.93 ha, 4.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3662961.md
- Parcel 1393449: 13,027 m² (1.3 ha, 3.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1393449.md
- Parcel 1338892: 6,013 m² (0.6 ha, 1.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1338892.md
- Parcel 1321875: 4,844 m² (0.48 ha, 1.2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1321875.md
- Parcel 4753187: 3,611 m² (0.36 ha, 0.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4753187.md
- Parcel 1374173: 3,604 m² (0.36 ha, 0.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1374173.md
- Parcel 3662962: 2,716 m² (0.27 ha, 0.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3662962.md
- Parcel 1352456: 2,624 m² (0.26 ha, 0.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1352456.md
- Parcel 4094938: 2,494 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4094938.md
- Parcel 1315545: 1,497 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1315545.md
- Parcel 5072429: 1,178 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5072429.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

No zone of a development plan covers Freehold 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)

3 applications, newest first.

- 15 Sept 2025, Donegal County Council 2561583: Conditional. Retention. (1)SINGLE STOREY SUNROOM EXTENSION (2) CONVERSION OF ATTIC SPACE CONSISTING OF DWELLING ACCOMMODATION WITH ADDITIONAL WINDOWS (3) DESIGN MODIFICATIONS TO THAT APPROVED UNDER PLANNING REF: T99/2803 INCLUDING, INCREASED GROUND FLOOR AREA, INCREASED RIDGE HEIGHT AND MODIFIED FENESTRATION. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2561583/0
- 7 Aug 2025, Donegal County Council 2561355: N/a. Retention. (1) SINGLE STOREY SUNROOM EXTENSION (2) CONVERSION OF ATTIC SPACE FOR DWELLING ACCOMMODATION WITH ADDITIONAL WINDOWS (3) DESIGN MODIFICATIONS TO THAT APPROVED UNDER PLANNING REF: T99/2803 INCLUDING, INCREASED GROUND FLOOR AREA AND RIDGE HEIGHT AND MODIFIED FENESTRATION. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2561355/0
- 8 Jul 2025, Donegal County Council 2561164: N/a. Retention. (1) SINGLE STORY SUNROOM EXTENSION, (2) CONVERSION OF ATTIC SPACE CONSISTING OF DWELLING ACCOMMODATION WITH ADDITIONAL WINDOWS AND (3) DESIGN MODIFICATIONS TO THAT APPROVED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. T.99/2803 INCLUDING INCREASED GROUND FLOOR AREA, INCREASED RIDGE HEIGHT AND MODIFIED FENESTRATION. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2561164/0

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## 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 Freehold.

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- DG012-025: Ringfort - unclassified, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDG012-025----. There is no trace of the oval single-ringed 'Fort' shown on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map. It was situated on the N slope of Benniwee on currently cultivated 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 Freehold.

## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland)

- Radon: About 1 in 10 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: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Freehold.
- 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/freehold.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/donegal/freehold.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/donegal/freehold.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Freehold 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)

- Aghatubbrid: https://everytownland.com/donegal/aghatubbrid.md
- Baskill: https://everytownland.com/donegal/baskill.md
- Laraghirril: https://everytownland.com/donegal/laraghirril.md
- Oort: https://everytownland.com/donegal/oort.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.

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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/freehold
- In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/donegal/freehold