Garrisonhill
Townland in the civil parish of Donaghmore, barony of Raphoe South, Co. Donegal
- Area
- 79.6 ha
- 197 acres
- Land parcels
- 29
- registered freehold, median 12,495 m² (1.25 ha, 3.09 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
29 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Garrisonhill, from 1,029 m² to 136,048 m² (13.6 ha, 33.62 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 24 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 Garrisonhill 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
16 Apr 2025Conditional
DETACHED BUNGALOW HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE AND PERMISSION FOR (1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DETACHED BUNGALOW HOUSE DAMAGED DUE TO DEFECTIVE (MICA) PRECAST CONCRETE BLOCKS AND (2) CONSTRUCTION OF REPLACEMENT DETACHED BUNGALOW HOUSE WITH ALTERATIONS FROM THAT OF THE EXISTING HOUSE AND THE RELEVANT ASSOCIATED REPLACEMENT WORKS TO BE CONNECTED TO EXISTING SITE SERVICES
Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2560583
11 Nov 2024Conditional
DOMESTIC SHED AND PERMISSION FOR CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSION TO REAR OF DWELLING AND PROVISION OF FIRST FLOOR EXTENSION BY THE REPLACEMENT OF ROOF AT A HIGHER LEVEL, PROVISION OF CANOPY AT FRONT DOOR AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2461806
29 Oct 2024N/a
DOMESTIC SHED AND PERMISSION FOR EXTENSION TO DWELLING INCLUDING REAR EXTENSION AND PROVISION OF FIRST FLOOR EXTENSION BY THE REPLACEMENT OF ROOF AT A HIGHER LEVEL, PROVISION OF CANOPY AT FRONT DOOR AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2461727
27 Apr 2022Conditional
RETENTION AND COMPLETION OF AN EXTERNAL COVERED CANOPY AND PERGOLA STRUCTURE TO FACILITATE OUTDOOR SEATING AND PERMISSION FOR CONSTRUCTION OF A CANOPY STRUCTURE TO FACILITATE AN EXTERNAL SERVERY AREA AND PROPOSED STAGE / BAND STAND AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2250752
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: River Finn SAC 002301
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Garrisonhill.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Garrisonhill.
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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility 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 Garrisonhill.
- 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 Garrisonhill with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Garrisonhill
- Area
- 795,845 m² (79.58 ha, 196.66 acres)
- Civil parish
- Donaghmore, and its townlands
- Barony
- Raphoe South
- Electoral division
- Gleneely, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Gleneely electoral division: 1,672 people in 557 households; 89% of households own their home; 41% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballynacor, Carricknamanna, Dromore, Kilcaddan, Killygordon
- Placenames
- Garrisonhill 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.