Glencash
Glencash is a townland in the civil parish of Clonleigh, barony of Raphoe North, Co. Donegal.
- Area
- 48.2 ha
- 119 acres
- Land parcels
- 22
- registered freehold, median 1,819 m²
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Glencash, from 37 m² to 231,370 m² (23.14 ha, 57.17 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 12 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Glencash 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
23 Jul 2026Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL SLATTED SHED, WITH ASSOCIATED UNDERGROUND EFFLUENT TANK AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2661378
12 Jul 2023Conditional
(A) CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO THE REAR OF THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, (B) CONSTRUCTION OF A DOMESTIC GARAGE, (C) DECOMMISSIONING OF EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND CONSTRUCTION OF A REPLACEMENT SEPTIC TANK / SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND (D) CLOSING OF EXISTING VEHICULAR ENTRANCE AND CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW REPOSITIONED VEHICULAR ENTRANCE AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2351026
27 May 2020Conditional
RETENTION AND COMPLETION OF A DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH FIRST FLOOR STORAGE SPACE, ATTACHED COVERED CAR PORT AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2050683
25 Feb 2020Conditional
(1) CONSTRUCTION OF (A) AN EXTENSION TO THE SIDE OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND (B) DOMESTIC GARAGE, (2) DE-COMMISSIONING OF EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND CONSTRUCTION OF A REPLACEMENT SEPTIC TANK/SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND (3) CLOSING OF EXISTING VEHICULAR ENTRANCE, CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW REPOSITIONED VEHICULAR ENTRANCE AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2050208
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 Glencash.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Glencash.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Glencash.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Glencash, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1957 (ZIP).
- Flooding
- The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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
No address of the register names Glencash with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Glencash
- Area
- 482,108 m² (48.21 ha, 119.13 acres)
- Civil parish
- Clonleigh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Raphoe North
- Electoral division
- Clonleigh North, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,429 people lived in 520 households in the Clonleigh North electoral division. 84% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Placenames
- Glencash 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.