Glencovet
Townland in the civil parish of Donaghmore, barony of Raphoe South, Co. Donegal
- Area
- 68.4 ha
- 169 acres
- Land parcels
- 53
- registered freehold, median 2,053 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 11
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
53 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Glencovet, from 48 m² to 141,130 m² (14.11 ha, 34.87 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 25 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 Glencovet 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
1 Mar 2024Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2450070
23 Feb 2024N/a
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2450061
4 Sept 2023Conditional
(A) CONSTRUCTION OF A FOOTBALL PITCH MEASURING 100 METRES X 60 METRES WITH BALL STOP FENCING TO EAST AND WEST BOUNDARIES, (B) CONSTRUCTION OF AN ALL-WEATHER PLAYING PITCH MEASURING 60 METRES X 40 METRES WHICH INCLUDES PERIMETER FENCING AND FLOOD LIGHTING, (C) CONSTRUCTION OF A VEHICULAR ENTRANCE WITH CAR PARKING AND TURNING AREA TO SERVICE THE PROPOSED ALL-WEATHER PLAYING PITCH AND (D) EXTENSION OF INTERNAL ACCESS ROADWAY FROM EXISTING CAR PARK TO PROPOSED NEW FOOTBALL PITCH INCLUDING ALL ANCILLARY AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2351313
5 Oct 2022Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DOMESTIC GARAGE/STORE INCORPORATING A GYM AREA AND HOME OFFICE AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2251675
24 May 2020Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK/SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2050449
30 May 2019Conditional
RETENTION AND COMPLETION OF BOUNDARY WALLS, PILLARS AND RAILINGS AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1950807
15 Jan 2018Conditional
(1) CHANGE OF DESIGN AND RE-LOCATION OF CLUBHOUSE BUILDING AND (2) REVISED CAR PARKING LAYOUT AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS FROM THAT PREVIOUSLY APPROVED UNDER PLANNING REF: 16/50738
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1850028
20 Dec 2017N/a
(1) CHANGE OF DESIGN AND RE-LOCATION OF CLUBHOUSE BUILDING AND (2) REVISED CAR PARKING LAYOUT AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS FROM THAT PREVIOUSLY APPROVED UNDER PLANNING REF: 16/50738 AND RETENTION PERMISSION FOR A TEMPORARY CLUBHOUSE BUILDING
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1751934
6 Oct 2017N/a
(A) DEVELOPMENT OF A CAR SALES YARD AND ASSOCIATED LIGHTING (B)CONSTRUCTION OF A CAR SALES OFFICE, STORAGE AREA AND SPACE TO COMPLETE LIGHT REPAIR WORKS AND VALETING WORKS (C) PORTACABIN STRUCTURE USED AS ANCILLARY SALES OFFICE AND (D) WORKS RELATED TO STRIPPING TOPSOIL OF LANDS, DEVELOPMENT OF A SOIL BERM AND PLACING OF HARDCORE SURFACING TO LANDS. PLANNING PERMISSION FOR (A) COMPLETION OF HARDCORE AND GRAVEL SURFACING WORKS TO PROVIDE OPEN STORAGE FOR PARKING OF CARS (B) PROVISION OF FENCING TO SITE BOUNDARY, DRAINAGE WORKS, SURFACE WATER INTERCEPTOR AND (C) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT AND ANCILLARY WORKS
Retention · Donegal County Council, 1751535
6 Oct 2017Conditional
(A) A DWELLING HOUSE AND DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE (B) VEHICULAR ENTRANCE ONTO THE ADJOINING PUBLIC ROAD, BOUNDARY WALLS, PILLARS AND RAILINGS (C) SEPTIC TANK AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1751534
7 Jun 2017Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO EXISTING SCHOOL BUILDING COMPRISING OF A MAINSTREAM CLASSROOM WITH ANCILLARY ACCOMMODATION AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1750878
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 Glencovet.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Glencovet.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Glencovet.
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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately low, low, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Glencovet.
- 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 Glencovet with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Glencovet
- Area
- 683,637 m² (68.36 ha, 168.93 acres)
- Civil parish
- Donaghmore, and its townlands
- Barony
- Raphoe South
- Electoral division
- Knock, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Knock electoral division: 1,922 people in 665 households; 76% of households own their home; 53% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Placenames
- Glencovet 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.