Glen Lower

23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Glen Lower, from 508 m² to 360,009 m² (36 ha, 88.96 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 23 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 Glen Lower 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.

• 16 Jun 2026Conditional

  (1) RENOVATION, REFURBISHMENT AND EXTENSION OF EXISTING DERELICT BARN INTO LIVING ACCOMMODATION AND (2) ATTACHMENT OF EXISTING DERELICT STONE BARN TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND (3) CONNECTION TO EXISTING SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT AND PERCOLATION AREA

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2661109

• 5 Mar 2026Conditional

  DEMOLITION OF EXISTING MICA DEFECTIVE DWELLING HOUSE AND ERECTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING HOUSE AND NEW DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2660343

• 25 Feb 2026N/a

  DEMOLITION OF EXISTING MICA DEFECTIVE DWELLING HOUSE AND ERECTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING HOUSE AND NEW DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2660285

• 5 Jul 2018Conditional

  ERECTION OF AN EXTENSION AND ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING DWELLING, PARTIAL DEMOLITION OF ADJACENT OUTBUILDINGS AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1851040

• 5 Jul 2017Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH PROPRIETARY WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1751061

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: Leannan River SAC 002176
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Fern 001162

Recorded monuments

• DG045-005 Standing stone
  Description

  A standing stone c. 1.5m high × 1.3m wide × 0.3m thick; N-S. Situated in an area of fairly good land, on level ground overlooking lower ground to the S. 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

• DG045-006001 Church
  Description

  Local tradition records this as the site of a holy well (DG045-006002-), graveyard (DG045-006003-) and a church (DG045-006001-) known as Cill an Leabhair (Church of the Book). The farm is known as Church Farm but no features survive. Bones have been found during ploughing. The site is located in a rocky wooded area sloping from N to S. 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

• DG045-006002 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  Local tradition records this as the site of a holy well (DG045-006002-), graveyard (DG045-006003-) and a church (DG045-006001-) known as Cill an Leabhair (Church of the Book). The farm is known as Church Farm but no features survive. Bones have been found during ploughing. The site is located in a rocky wooded area sloping from N to S. May be the same holy well as that listed by Ó Muirgheasa in 1936 as well no. 65 (Ó Muirgheasa 1936, 154). Described by Ó Muirgheasa in 1936 as, 'Manus O'Donnell's Betha Colmcille (p. 175) mentions a Colmcille Well in Glen Fanad, near a hill called Druim na Leabhar, or" Ridge of the Books." "And a spring burst forth in that place, and it is called the Well of Colmcille to-day. And it hath a great stone station (or monument) in sign of those marvels." I have no personal knowledge of this Holy Well' (Ó Muirgheasa 1936, 154). 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/revision: 05 January 2012

• DG045-006003 Graveyard
  Description

  Local tradition records this as the site of a holy well (DG045-006002-), graveyard (DG045-006003-) and a church (DG045-006001-) known as Cill an Leabhair (Church of the Book). The farm is known as Church Farm but no features survive. Bones have been found during ploughing. The site is located in a rocky wooded area sloping from N to S. 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

• DG045-007 Bullaun stone
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Glen Lower.

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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1788 (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 Glen Lower with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Glen Lower

Area

1,443,025 m² (144.3 ha, 356.58 acres)

Civil parish

Tullyfern, and its townlands

Barony

Kilmacrenan

Electoral division

Rathmelton, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Rathmelton electoral division: 2,494 people in 938 households; 71% of households own their home; 42% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Blacks Glen, Bridge End or Drummonaghan, Carnisk, Claragh, Glen Upper, Gortin, Magheradrumman, Tully Beg, Tully Mountain

Placenames

Glen Lower 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.