# Glen Upper, Co. Donegal: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Tullyfern, barony of Kilmacrenan, Co. Donegal. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,075,173 m² (107.52 ha, 265.68 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 21,415 m² (2.14 ha, 5.29 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Tullyfern, https://everytownland.com/donegal/parish/tullyfern.md - Barony: Kilmacrenan - Electoral division: Rathmelton, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 2,494 people lived in 938 households in the Rathmelton electoral division. 71% of households owned their home. 42% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Donegal, https://everytownland.com/donegal.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/16013 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 51330 - Centre: latitude 55.054948, longitude -7.670587 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Glen Upper, from 384 m² to 258,610 m² (25.86 ha, 63.9 acres); 11 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1346618: 258,610 m² (25.86 ha, 63.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1346618.md - Parcel 6108641: 222,064 m² (22.21 ha, 54.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6108641.md - Parcel 1310022: 208,298 m² (20.83 ha, 51.47 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1310022.md - Parcel 1357474: 102,303 m² (10.23 ha, 25.28 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1357474.md - Parcel 6082632: 45,173 m² (4.52 ha, 11.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6082632.md - Parcel 1426897: 43,038 m² (4.3 ha, 10.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1426897.md - Parcel 1338865: 36,377 m² (3.64 ha, 8.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1338865.md - Parcel 1330577: 29,335 m² (2.93 ha, 7.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1330577.md - Parcel 1369445: 28,028 m² (2.8 ha, 6.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1369445.md - Parcel 1395465: 26,984 m² (2.7 ha, 6.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1395465.md - Parcel 1394603: 15,847 m² (1.58 ha, 3.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1394603.md - Parcel 1339250: 12,793 m² (1.28 ha, 3.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1339250.md - Parcel 1339135: 8,879 m² (0.89 ha, 2.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1339135.md - Parcel 1365977: 6,978 m² (0.7 ha, 1.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1365977.md - Parcel 1361624: 6,666 m² (0.67 ha, 1.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1361624.md - Parcel 1331585: 3,719 m² (0.37 ha, 0.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1331585.md - Parcel 4268708: 2,795 m² (0.28 ha, 0.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4268708.md - Parcel 1331276: 2,181 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1331276.md - Parcel 1339214: 1,131 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1339214.md - Parcel 6082636: 384 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6082636.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Glen Upper 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. - 20 Aug 2021, Donegal County Council 2151667: Conditional. Retention, 1 home. (1) RETENTION OF DOMESTIC SHED, (2) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND ERECTION OF REPLACEMENT DWELLING HOUSE WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPEMNT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2151667/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Glen Upper. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Glen Upper. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Glen Upper. ## 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 Glen Upper, about 1 in 5 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water. - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1788, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_1788.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/glen-upper.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/donegal/glen-upper.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/donegal/glen-upper.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Glen Upper 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) - Blacks Glen: https://everytownland.com/donegal/blacks-glen.md - Clooney: https://everytownland.com/donegal/clooney-50668.md - Fawninoughan: https://everytownland.com/donegal/fawninoughan.md - Glen Lower: https://everytownland.com/donegal/glen-lower.md - Magheradrumman: https://everytownland.com/donegal/magheradrumman-51841.md - Tully Beg: https://everytownland.com/donegal/tully-beg-52587.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/glen-upper - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/donegal/glen-upper