# Glar, Co. Donegal: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Allsaints, barony of Raphoe North, Co. Donegal. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 466,005 m² (46.6 ha, 115.15 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 9,451 m² (0.95 ha, 2.34 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Allsaints, https://everytownland.com/donegal/parish/allsaints.md - Barony: Raphoe North - Electoral division: Newtown Cunningham, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 1,028 people lived in 372 households in the Newtown Cunningham electoral division. 66% of households owned their home. 49% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Donegal, https://everytownland.com/donegal.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/15342 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 51291 - Centre: latitude 55.003965, longitude -7.529239 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Glar, from 480 m² to 206,578 m² (20.66 ha, 51.05 acres); 16 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1339768: 206,578 m² (20.66 ha, 51.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1339768.md - Parcel 1316120: 91,570 m² (9.16 ha, 22.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1316120.md - Parcel 1338874: 73,541 m² (7.35 ha, 18.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1338874.md - Parcel 1330587: 59,863 m² (5.99 ha, 14.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1330587.md - Parcel 4620050: 15,602 m² (1.56 ha, 3.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4620050.md - Parcel 4646708: 3,299 m² (0.33 ha, 0.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4646708.md - Parcel 1331913: 1,971 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1331913.md - Parcel 3657565: 1,721 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3657565.md - Parcel 5323274: 856 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5323274.md - Parcel 1346220: 480 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1346220.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Glar 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) 1 application, newest first. - 9 Oct 2017, Donegal County Council 1751529: Unconditional. Extension of duration, 1 home. CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH TREATMENT SYSTEM AND POLISHING FILTER. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1751529/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Protection Area: Lough Swilly SPA, site code 004075, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/spa/004075 - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Swilly Including Big Isle, Blanket Nook & Inch Lake, site code 000166 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Glar. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Glar. ## 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 Glar, 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: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1922, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_1922.zip (ZIP). - 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/glar.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/donegal/glar.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/donegal/glar.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Glar 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) - Blanket Nook: https://everytownland.com/donegal/blanket-nook-50349.md - Moneygreggan: https://everytownland.com/donegal/moneygreggan.md - Moyle: https://everytownland.com/donegal/moyle-52092.md - Moylemoss: https://everytownland.com/donegal/moylemoss.md - Murlough: https://everytownland.com/donegal/murlough-52146.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/glar - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/donegal/glar