Glashbeggan
Glashbeggan is a townland in the civil parish of Templecrone, barony of Boylagh, Co. Donegal. Its name in Irish is Glais Bheagáin.
- Area
- 58.6 ha
- 145 acres
- Land parcels
- 118
- registered freehold, median 2,506 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 16
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
118 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Glashbeggan, from 9 m² to 64,551 m² (6.46 ha, 15.95 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 11 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Glashbeggan 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
18 Mar 2026Conditional
(1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING SHEDS, (2) REFURBISHMENT, CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSION AND ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING DWELLING ALONG WITH A DOMESTIC GARAGE INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2660435
27 Feb 2026Unconditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH PROPRIETARY WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Extension of duration, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2650029
26 Feb 2026Unconditional
(1) RETENTION OF FOUNDATION AND SUBFLOOR, (2) COMPLETION OF THE DWELLING HOUSE AND WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AS GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 20/51738 AND (3) CONSTRUCTION OF A SUNROOM EXTENSION TO THE PREVIOUSLY GRANTED HOUSE ALONG WITH ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Extension of duration, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2650026
17 Feb 2025Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A BOAT STORAGE SHED AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2560190
11 Feb 2025N/a
CONSTRUCTION OF A BOAT STORAGE SHED AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2560164
16 Jan 2025Conditional
FOUNDATION AND SUBFLOOR AND PERMISSION FOR (1) COMPLETION OF THE DWELLING HOUSE AND WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AS GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 20/51738 AND (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A SUNROOM EXTENSION TO THE PREVIOUSLY GRANTED HOUSE ALONG WITH ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2560036
12 Dec 2024Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A GARAGE TO THE SOUTH SIDE OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2450258
27 Nov 2024N/a
CONSTRUCTION OF A GARAGE/STORE WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2450250
16 Sept 2024Conditional
(1) RE-POSITIONING AND RE-ORIENTATION OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AS CONSTRUCTED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 98/1887, (2) REVISIONS TO THE EXTENSION BUILT TO DWELLING HOUSE UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 14/50034, (3) DOMESTIC GARAGE ANCILLARY TO DWELLING HOUSE AND (4) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2461451
22 Jul 2024Conditional
DWELLING HOUSE AND WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 20/51738 AND PERMISSION FOR THE ADDITION OF A SUNROOM ON THE PREVIOUSLY GRANTED PERMISSION WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2461114
7 May 2021Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH ASSOCIATED SAND POLISHING FILTER AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS (OUTLINE PLANNING PERMISSION REF NO 19/50242 REFERS)
Permission consequent, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2150855
19 Apr 2021N/a
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND ASSOCIATED WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH ALL REQUIRED SITEWORKS (OUTLINE PLANNING PERMISSION REF NO 19/50242 REFERS)
Permission consequent, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2150715
16 Nov 2020Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH PROPRIETARY WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2051738
26 Feb 2019Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, A WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SAND POLISHING FILTER AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Outline permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1950242
2 Feb 2018Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A GARAGE /FUEL STORE WITH ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1850157
25 Jan 2018Conditional
COMPLETION OF CONSTRUCTION OF DWELLING PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF. 11/30304 & 14/51254 TOGETHER WITH AN ONSITE SEPTIC TANK & PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1850070
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: Rutland Island and Sound SAC 002283
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Glashbeggan.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Glashbeggan.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Glashbeggan, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Glashbeggan.
- Flooding
- The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Glashbeggan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Glashbeggan · Glais Bheagáin
- Area
- 586,191 m² (58.62 ha, 144.85 acres)
- Civil parish
- Templecrone, and its townlands
- Barony
- Boylagh
- Electoral division
- Rutland, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,496 people lived in 635 households in the Rutland electoral division. 80% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 37% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cruickaghmore, Leckenagh, Meenmore
- Gaeltacht
- In an Irish-speaking area
- Placenames
- Glashbeggan 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.