Gleneely

61 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gleneely, from 251 m² to 212,564 m² (21.26 ha, 52.53 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 23 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Gleneely 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.

• 16 Mar 2026Conditional

  USE OF PART OF EXISTING SCHOOL PREMISES FOR FULL TIME PRE-SCHOOL CARE SERVICES (8AM - 6PM) AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2660431

• 5 Jun 2025Conditional

  (1) CHANGE OF USE OF EXISTING FARM BUILDING TO THAT OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH ASSOCIATED ALTERATION AND RENOVATION WORKS INCLUDING RAISING THE EXISTING PERIMETER WALLS AND ROOF HEIGHT TO PROVIDE A USEABLE FIRST FLOOR ACCOMMODATION SPACE AND (2) INSTALLATION OF A SEPTIC TANK / SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2560935

• 7 Apr 2025N/a

  (1) ALTERATION AND RENOVATION WORKS TO EXISTING DERELICT DWELLING HOUSE WITH WORKS PROPOSED TO INCLUDE RAISING EXISTING PERIMETER WALLS AND ROOF HEIGHT TO PROVIDE USEABLE FIRST FLOOR ACCOMMODATION AND (2) INSTALLATION OF A NEW SEPTIC TANK / SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2560515

• 4 Apr 2025Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF DWELLING HOUSE AND DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH SEPTIC TANK / SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2560501

• 21 Apr 2022Conditional

  (1) DEMOLITION OF ORIGINAL DWELLING AND (2) REPLACEMENT DWELLING TOGETHER WITH ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2250699

• 8 Feb 2022N/a

  (1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING (2) RETENTION OF PLANNING PERMISSION TO RETAIN THE NEW BUILDING WORKS AND ALL OTHER EXTERNAL AESTHETIC CHANGES TO THE NEW EXTENSION AS PER THE PARENTAL PLANNING APPLICATION AND (3) ALL OTHER SITE WORKS.

  Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2250192

• 26 Nov 2021N/a

  (1) DEMOLITION OF THE EXISTING COTTAGE DWELLING AND (2) NEW BUILDING WORKS AND ALL OTHER EXTERNAL AESTHETIC CHANGES TO NEW EXTENSION AS PASSED UNDER PARENTAL PLANNING & ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS INCLUDING FOUL & STORM WATER PROVISIONS

  Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2152369

• 15 Oct 2021N/a

  NEW EXTERNAL ELEVATION COTTAGE CAVITY WALLS AND WINDOW / DOOR OPENINGS IN REPLACEMENT OF ORIGINAL DEFECTIVE STRUTURAL EXTERNAL WALLS, RAISED RIDGELINE & PITCH OF THE EXISTING COTTAGE ROOF, AND ALL OTHER MINOR EXTERNAL AESTHETIC CHANGES TO NEW EXTENSION AS PASSED UNDER PARENTAL PLANNING & ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS INCLUDING FOUL & STORM WATER PROVISIONS

  Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2152047

• 24 May 2020Conditional

  (1) ERECTION OF A NEW TWO STOREY EXTENSION TO THE SIDE OF EXISTING COTTAGE, (2) DEMOLITION OF 2 EXISTING ROOMS TO THE REAR AND RENOVATIONS AND UPGRADING OF EXISTING COTTAGE DWELLING (3) INSTALLATION OF A NEW FOUL SEWAGE WASTEWATER TREATMENT TANK & PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2050506

• 19 Dec 2018Conditional

  (A) RETENTION AND COMPLETION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS AND (B) CONSTRUCTION OF A DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE AND SEPTIC TANK/SEWAGAE TREATMENT SYSTEM

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1851925

• 27 Jul 2017Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH ATTACHED GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK/SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS INCLUDING DEVELOPMENT OF SITE ACCESS ROAD

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1751197

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 Gleneely.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Gleneely.

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Gleneely.

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

At the centre of the townland of Gleneely, about 1 in 10 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

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Gleneely.

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.

No address of the register names Gleneely with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Gleneely · Gleann Aola

Area

1,186,251 m² (118.63 ha, 293.13 acres)

Civil parish

Donaghmore, and its townlands

Barony

Raphoe South

Electoral division

Gleneely, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,672 people lived in 557 households in the Gleneely electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 41% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cornabrogue, Drumcannon, Drumfergus, Mounthall, Rushyhill

Placenames

Gleneely 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.