Glenalla
Townland in the civil parish of Aughnish, barony of Kilmacrenan, Co. Donegal; in Irish Gleann Eala
Parcel 1336879
- Area
- 12,349 m² (1.23 ha, 3.05 acres)
- Buildings
- 2 buildings touch it, 228 m² on the ground
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Glenalla
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. 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).
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. 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.
- Area
- 527 ha
- 1,302 acres
- Land parcels
- 161
- registered freehold, median 7,101 m² (0.71 ha, 1.75 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 10
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
161 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Glenalla, from 16 m² to 451,106 m² (45.11 ha, 111.47 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 23 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Glenalla 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
10 Aug 2026N/a
(1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DERELICT SHED, (2) REFURBISHMENT AND EXTENSION OF EXISTING DERELICT DWELLING HOUSE, (3) INSTALLATION OF A NEW WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM (WWTS), AND (4) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2661490
20 Mar 2024Conditional
ALTERATIONS AND EXTENSION TO DWELLING HOUSE PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER PLANNING PERMISSION REF. NO. 23/51336
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2450088
6 Sept 2023Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE WITH A DOMESTIC GARAGE AND AN ON-SITE SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2351337
6 Sept 2023Conditional
DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE WITH A DOMESTIC GARAGE AND CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2351336
6 Nov 2019Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1951720
17 Apr 2019Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO SIDE OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1950566
11 Apr 2018Conditional
DEMOLITION OF EXISTING RUINS AND REPLACEMENT WITH A NEW DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1850556
8 Feb 2018Conditional
(1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING FRONT PORCH AND CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW PITCH ROOF FRONT PORCH TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, (2) REMOVAL OF EXISTING LEAN TO ROOF TO SIDE OF DWELLING 3) CONSTRUCTION OF NEW 2 STOREY EXTENSION TO SIDE OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE WITH PITCH ROOF, (4) CONSTRUCTION OF DOMESTIC GARAGE TO REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING, (5) NEW VEHICULAR ENTRANCE AND ACCESS ROAD TO SITE AND EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND CONNECTION TO EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLCATION AREA
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1850168
30 Jan 2018Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF DOMESTIC DWELLING HOUSE WITH ATTACHED REAR DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1850102
29 Sept 2017N/a
CONSTRUCTION OF DOMESTIC DWELLING HOUSE WITH ATTACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1751496
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Glenalla.
Recorded monuments
- DG037-004 Standing stone
Description
A standing stone 1.4m high × 1.2m wide at base × 0.66m wide on W edge and 0.42m wide on E edge; E-W. Situated on rough pasture land on the NW edge of an extent of high ground. 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
- DG037-005 Standing stone
Description
A standing stone 2m high × 0.72m wide at base × 0.4m thick; E-W. There is an artificially bored hole, 4cms in diameter and 8cms deep, on the S face. On the N face two sets of initials have been incised. Situated on level ground in a wood. 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
- DG037-024 Penal Mass station
Description
This feature has been listed as a 'dolmen' (Borlase 1897). According to the OS Memoir (1834), it was an altar used as a place of worship by the local population. There is now no trace of it. OS Memoirs, Tullyaughnish parish (1834), 37; Kinahan 1889, 282; Borlase 1897, 233, Kilmacrenan no. 21; RMP 1995, 37:24. The above description was published in the 'Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume VI, County Donegal.' Compiled by: Eamon Cody (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). Date of upload: 22 September 2008
Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. 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).
Homes sold
Property Price Register
- Glenalla, Ray5 sales
The townland
- Name
- Glenalla · Gleann Eala
- Area
- 5,270,050 m² (527.01 ha, 1,302.26 acres)
- Civil parish
- Aughnish, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kilmacrenan
- Electoral division
- Glenalla, the unit of the census
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyconnelly, Dunmore, Garrygort, Garrymore, Glentidaly, Glentidaly Glebe, Gortnavern, Kinletteragh, Lurganboy, Oughterlin, Ray
- Placenames
- Glenalla on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland
Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, 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.