Glen
Townland in the civil parish of Killymard, barony of Banagh, Co. Donegal
- Area
- 26.5 ha
- 66 acres
- Land parcels
- 29
- registered freehold, median 3,182 m² (0.32 ha, 0.79 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
29 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Glen, from 23 m² to 75,541 m² (7.55 ha, 18.67 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 17 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 Glen 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
8 Oct 2024Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND POLISHING FILTER
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2461580
18 Feb 2022Conditional
SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2250276
10 Dec 2021Conditional
(1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING COTTAGE (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING HOUSE WITH WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) ACCOMPANIES THIS APPLICATION
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2152460
1 Sept 2021Conditional
CHANGE OF USE OF EXISTING GARAGE AND ANCILLARY STRUCTURES FROM DOMESTIC USE TO COMMERCIAL USE ASSOCIATED TO EXISTING STONE MASONRY BUSINESS AND FOR ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS AND PERMISSION FOR CONSTRUCTION OF A STORAGE SHED
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2151747
22 Apr 2021N/a
CONSTRUCTION OF A STORAGE SHED AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2150725
24 Aug 2018Conditional
ERECTION OF A DOMESTIC GARAGE ADJACENT TO EXISTING DWELLING AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1851320
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: Donegal Bay (Murvagh) SAC 000133
- Special Protection Area: Donegal Bay SPA 004151
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Donegal Bay (Murvagh) 000133
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Glen.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Glen.
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 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately low, low, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Glen.
- 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
- Glen, Carrigart6 sales
The townland
- Name
- Glen
- Area
- 265,343 m² (26.53 ha, 65.57 acres)
- Civil parish
- Killymard, and its townlands
- Barony
- Banagh
- Electoral division
- Tantallon, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Tantallon electoral division: 1,745 people in 670 households; 80% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 11% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Beefpark, Dromore, Hall Demesne, Mountcharles, Scrawhill
- Placenames
- Glen 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.