# Glassan, Co. Donegal: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Clondahorky, barony of Kilmacrenan, Co. Donegal; in Irish Glasán. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 2,587,372 m² (258.74 ha, 639.35 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 35,464 m² (3.55 ha, 8.76 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Clondahorky, https://everytownland.com/donegal/parish/clondahorky.md - Barony: Kilmacrenan - Electoral division: Creenasmear, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Creenasmear electoral division: 314 people in 109 households; 92% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 15% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Donegal, https://everytownland.com/donegal.md - Gaeltacht: in an Irish-speaking area - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/14333 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 51304 - Centre: latitude 55.08822, longitude -7.944276 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Glassan, from 1,009 m² to 1,744,807 m² (174.48 ha, 431.15 acres); 29 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1382678: 1,744,807 m² (174.48 ha, 431.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1382678.md - Parcel 1389096: 168,835 m² (16.88 ha, 41.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1389096.md - Parcel 1330613: 162,606 m² (16.26 ha, 40.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1330613.md - Parcel 1405854: 82,795 m² (8.28 ha, 20.46 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1405854.md - Parcel 1369429: 76,063 m² (7.61 ha, 18.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1369429.md - Parcel 1357566: 74,777 m² (7.48 ha, 18.48 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1357566.md - Parcel 1310008: 67,265 m² (6.73 ha, 16.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1310008.md - Parcel 1321782: 65,076 m² (6.51 ha, 16.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1321782.md - Parcel 5288973: 43,045 m² (4.3 ha, 10.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5288973.md - Parcel 1315447: 36,575 m² (3.66 ha, 9.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1315447.md - Parcel 1395630: 34,353 m² (3.44 ha, 8.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1395630.md - Parcel 1328883: 19,194 m² (1.92 ha, 4.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1328883.md - Parcel 1329896: 4,117 m² (0.41 ha, 1.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1329896.md - Parcel 1406807: 2,445 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1406807.md - Parcel 1391499: 2,219 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1391499.md - Parcel 1407930: 1,911 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1407930.md - Parcel 1525872: 1,699 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1525872.md - Parcel 1525891: 1,372 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1525891.md - Parcel 1415520: 1,095 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1415520.md - Parcel 5189131: 1,009 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5189131.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Glassan 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) 2 applications, newest first. - 18 Mar 2026, Donegal County Council 2660439: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND DOMESTIC GARAGE INCLUDING ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660439/0 - 1 May 2024, Donegal County Council 2460624: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH SEPTIC TANK INCLUDING ALL OTHER SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460624/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: Cloghernagore Bog and Glenveagh National Park SAC, site code 002047, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/002047 - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Cloghernagore Bog And Glenveagh National Park, site code 002047 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - DG035-001: Burial ground, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDG035-001----. It was not possible to identify any specific area as the 'Calluragh Burial Ground' marked on the 2nd and 3rd editions of the OS 6-inch maps. There is good pasture with some scrubland. 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 Glassan. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: About 1 in 20 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; parts are water. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Glassan. - 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/glassan.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/donegal/glassan.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/donegal/glassan.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Glassan 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) - Brockagh: https://everytownland.com/donegal/brockagh-50390.md - Creenary: https://everytownland.com/donegal/creenary.md - Glack: https://everytownland.com/donegal/glack.md - Gortnaleck: https://everytownland.com/donegal/gortnaleck.md - Kilmackilloo: https://everytownland.com/donegal/kilmackilloo.md - Roosky: https://everytownland.com/donegal/roosky-52292.md - Skeagh: https://everytownland.com/donegal/skeagh.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/glassan - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/donegal/glassan