Glenalla

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.

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 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.

• 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.

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

Architectural heritage

• Glenalla House, farmyard complex, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Complex of outbuildings associated with Glenalla House, built c.1820, comprising U-plan yard with multiple-bay ranges, single-storey to southwest and northwest and two-storey to northeast, latter having two-bay single-storey outbuilding at right angles to northeast. Lean-to slate roofs to southwest and northwest, lean-to scalloped slate to two-bay building, and pitched banded purple and grey slate roof to northeast, latter also having crow-stepped southwest gable. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Rubble sandstone walls. Northeast range has external double-sided stone steps to front (northeast) elevation, external steps to southwest gable, and splayed buttresses to rear. Two round-headed openings to front elevation of northeast building with stone voussoirs, square-headed elsewhere to same elevation with concrete or stone heads, and square-headed elsewhere to all buildings, with concrete sills, some brick reveals, and with brick head to window in smallest building. Replacement timber casement windows, timber battened doors, and glazed timber to first floor of main facade of two-storey range. Flanking rubble stone boundary wall to southwest, enclosing courtyard with Glenalla House, having squared rubble stone piers at angle to entrance. Single-storey gable-fronted outbuilding set adjacent to northeast having pitched purple slate roof, rubble stone walls and square-headed opening with cast-iron bell.

• Glenalla House, walled garden, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Walled garden on sub-rectangular plan, laid out c.1820, enclosed by rubble stone boundary walls with rendered coping to northeast, square rubble stone piers to northeast set at angle with stepped stone coping, and replacement timber entrance gates adjacent to single-storey gardener's building of c.1830 and renovated c.2003. Square-plan rubble stone piers to southeast, with square-headed opening to laneway having curved parapet and flanked by hedgerows, with series of pathways.

• Glenalla National School, school, 1860–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey T-plan former national school building with attic and basement, built c.1870. Projecting gabled bay to south end of front elevation. Pitched scalloped and squared slate roof with stone ridge tiles, exposed rafter ends, decorative bargeboards, replacement rainwater goods, and with stepped-profile rendered chimneystack to southeast side elevation. Painted limewashed rubble stone walls with raised basement plinth course. Square-headed openings with painted stone sills and timber casement windows with lattice cast-iron quarries. Timber battened door to gable, and timber panelled door to north end of facade, both with stone steps. Set parallel to road, with small yard to front, and low rendered boundary wall having square-plan piers. Former schoolmaster's house to northwest, now in use as private dwelling.

• Saint Columbkille's Church (Aughnish), church/chapel, 1840–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding Church of Ireland church, built c.1850, having slightly lower chancel to east, projecting porch to north elevation, and vestry to south elevation, with bellcote with spire to roof at junction of nave and chancel. Pitched banded purple and grey slate roof having scalloped and squared slates, decorative stone ridge tiles, ashlar copings with kneeler stones, stone cross finial to chancel gable, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Square-plan diagonally set cut-stone bellcote, supported on corbelling, with shouldered-arch open sides with alternate piers and columns, housing bell, and surmounted by cut-stone spire with chamfered corners. Coursed rubble stone walls with stepped corner buttresses having ashlar skews, and rendered plinth course. Squared and snecked stonework to porch. Double-light trefoil-headed openings with quatrefoils over to two bays of front elevation of nave, single-lights elsewhere, within chamfered stone surrounds and flush sills and moulded heads, and leaded glass. East window to chancel is three-light with trefoil heads, having quatrefoil and cinquefoils over, cut-stone tracery and hood-moulding with carved stops. Pointed-arch window opening to vestry with margined timber fixed window and render surround. Pointed-arch outer opening to porch with metal grille inset, leading to timber battened door. Set on elevated site within graveyard, approached by laneway to northeast having rubble stone boundary wall with round-plan piers, rubble stone coping and replacement decorative metal gate. Mature trees and hedgerows to east and north.

• The Vicarage, rectory/glebe/vicarage/curate's house, 1860–1910 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey T-plan former Church of Ireland rectory with attic, built c.1870, possibly incorporating fabric from earlier single-storey building, having projecting porch to front (northeast), two-storey block to northwest, full-height canted bay of c.1900 to southeast gable, and single-storey block to northwest gable. Pitched scalloped and squared banded slate roof, with overhanging eaves and decoratively carved timber fascia and brackets, decoratively carved bargeboards to gables and porch, cast-iron and replacement aluminium rainwater goods, and rendered chimneystack. Hipped slate roof and horizontal timber cladding over rendered base to canted bay. Coursed rubble stone walls on rendered plinth course, with smooth render to northwest gable and to northwest block. Square-headed openings with red brick reveals and headers, painted stone sills and four-over-four pane timber sliding sash windows to ground floor, and two-over-two pane to first floor and to porch. Timber casement gable window to attic. Square-headed door opening to porch, having red brick reveals and headers, and timber panelled door. Set back from road and surrounded by mature private gardens, with Glenalla River to west. Two-bay two-storey outbuilding to northwest, laneway to east flanked by hedgerows, and having square-plan piers to entrance with wrought-iron vehicular gate.

• Glenalla House, country house, 1780–1800 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached seven-bay two-storey L-plan house with attic, built c.1790, front elevation having wide canted end-bays and recent open porch, five-bay return with canted-bay window and having single-bay two-storey addition to gable, and single-storey addition to rear elevation. Hipped slate roof with timber soffits and replacement rainwater goods, gabled roof to attic window over southeast canted bay to front elevation, and three wide rendered chimneystacks. Lean-to slate roof to additions, and hipped slate roofs to canted bay and porch. Roughcast-rendered walls with smooth plinth course. Square-headed window openings with concrete sills and range of timber sliding sash and mullioned-and-transomed casement windows, front elevation first floor being mainly two-over-two pane sash with some casements and ground floor being the opposite, and first floor of northwest canted bay having six-over-six pane windows. Rear elevation of front block has nine-over-nine pane to first floor and six-over-six pane to ground floor, one window sharing infilled former segmental archway with doorway. Rear elevation of return has six-over-six pane windows, and oriel to first floor has double sash window with hipped slate roof and rendered base. Replacement timber panelled door to porch, with overlight. Situated on elevated site, with mature gardens, formal lawn to front, avenue and walled garden to west, and single-storey gate lodge with attic to south, having pitched purple slate roof with overhanging eaves and red brick chimneystack, and rubble stone walls.

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 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 Glenalla.

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.

• Glenalla, Ray5 sales

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

Census 2022

Glenalla electoral division: 530 people in 178 households; 92% of households own their home; 45% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.

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. 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.