Glencoagh
Townland in the civil parish of Inver, barony of Banagh, Co. Donegal; in Irish Gleann Chuach
- Area
- 187.5 ha
- 463 acres
- Land parcels
- 123
- registered freehold, median 2,492 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 12
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
123 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Glencoagh, from 20 m² to 153,666 m² (15.37 ha, 37.97 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 52 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Glencoagh 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
11 Dec 2025Conditional
(1) REFURBISHMENT OF EXISTING DERELICT DWELLING HOUSE, INCLUDING PARTIAL DEMOLITION OF THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, (2) CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSIONS TO THE FRONT, REAR AND SIDE OF EXISTING DWELLING, (3) REMOVAL OF EXISTING PITCHED ROOF AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF A RAISED ROOF INCORPORATING USEABLE FIRST FLOOR AREA, (4) DECOMMISSIONING OF EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND CONSTRUCTION OF A REPLACEMENT SEPTIC TANK/SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND (5) ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2562200
1 Dec 2025N/a
(1) CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSION AND RENOVATION WORKS TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, (2) DECOMMISSIONING OF EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND CONSTRUCTION OF A REPLACEMENT SEPTIC TANK/SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND (3) ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2562106
19 Jul 2022N/a
ERECTION OF A SINGLE DWELLING HOUSE WITH CONNECTION TO PUBLIC SEWER AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Outline permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2251226
14 Jun 2022Conditional
ALTERATIONS AND RENOVATION OF EXISTING SINGLE-STOREY DWELLING AND CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO THE REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING INCLUDING CHANGES TO ALL ELEVATIONS AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2251028
28 Oct 2021Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK/SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2152139
12 Oct 2021Conditional
ERECTION OF A DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2152024
21 Dec 2020Conditional
CHANGE OF HOUSE AND GARAGE DESIGN FROM THAT PREVIOUSLY APPROVED UNDER PLANNING REF: 12/20098 AND EXTENTION OF DURATION REF: 16/51399
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2052005
18 Sept 2020Conditional
DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND FOR THE CHANGE OF USE OF EXISTING DOMESTIC GARAGE TO A GRANNY FLAT INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2051314
29 Aug 2018Conditional
RETENTION OF A PARTIALLY COMPLETED FRONT PORCH TO AN EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND COMPLETION OF THE FRONT PORCH AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1851352
9 Aug 2017Refused
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEWERAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1751245
28 Jul 2017Conditional
ERECTION OF AN EXTENSION TO EXISTING AGRICULTURAL SHED AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1751203
31 May 2017N/a
ERECTION OF AN EXTENSION TO EXISTING AGRICULTUAL SHED AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1750844
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 Glencoagh.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Glencoagh.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Glencoagh.
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
- About 1 in 20 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
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Glencoagh.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Glencoagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Glencoagh · Gleann Chuach
- Area
- 1,874,916 m² (187.49 ha, 463.3 acres)
- Civil parish
- Inver, and its townlands
- Barony
- Banagh
- Electoral division
- Tantallon, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Tantallon electoral division: 1,745 people in 670 households; 80% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 11% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Dromore, Drumbeagh, Drumkeelan, Mountcharles, Scrawhill
- Placenames
- Glencoagh 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.