Garvegort Glebe

33 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Garvegort Glebe, from 220 m² to 308,194 m² (30.82 ha, 76.16 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 36 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Garvegort Glebe 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.

• 31 Mar 2023Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH CONNECTION TO PROPOSED TREATMENT SYSTEM AND POLISHING FILTERS

  Outline permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2350423

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: West of Ardara/Maas Road SAC 000197
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: West Of Ardara/Maas Road 000197

Recorded monuments

• DG074-013 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  There is no trace of a 'Fort' destroyed here in the last century. It was located in fair pasture to the S of the Owentocker river. 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

• DG074-017 Megalithic tomb - unclassified
  Description

  A feature shown on the 1848-50 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a small rectangle, without a name, is named 'Giant's Grave (Site of)' on the pre-publication field map. It is described in an accompanying Name Book as follows: 'The site of an old grave roughly formed with large stones but now removed from the spot where they stood'. There is no trace of any remains here now. The nature of the supposed grave must remain uncertain. OS Revision Name Book, sheet 74 (1848-50), 6. The above description was published in the 'Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume VI, County Donegal.' Compiled by: Eamon Cody (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). Date of upload: 22 September 2008

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Garvegort Glebe.

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).

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_1179 (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.

No address of the register names Garvegort Glebe with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Garvegort Glebe · Garbhghort

Area

1,669,278 m² (166.93 ha, 412.49 acres)

Civil parish

Lower Killybegs, and its townlands

Barony

Banagh

Electoral division

Ardara, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ardara electoral division: 1,280 people in 509 households; 65% of households own their home; 39% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 14% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Clonconwal, Doochill North, Gortnacart Glebe, Kilrean Lower, Tullycleave More

Placenames

Garvegort Glebe 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.