Glenieraragh
Townland in the civil parish of Mevagh, barony of Kilmacrenan, Co. Donegal; in Irish Gleann Iartharach
- Area
- 472.2 ha
- 1,167 acres
- Land parcels
- 152
- registered freehold, median 3,526 m² (0.35 ha, 0.87 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 21
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
152 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Glenieraragh, from 16 m² to 2,513,866 m² (251.39 ha, 621.19 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 22 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 Glenieraragh 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
4 Mar 2026Conditional
(1) RETENTION OF DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS AND (2) INSTALLATION OF WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM INCLUDING ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2660336
5 Nov 2025Conditional
RETENTION AND COMPLETION OF A DWELLING HOUSE UNDER CONSTRUCTION AND INSTALLATION OF A WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM ALONG WITH ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2561929
23 Sept 2025Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH ON-SITE SEWERAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2550132
8 Aug 2025N/a
A REPLACEMENT DWELLING HOUSE UNDER CONSTRUCTION AND PERMISSION FOR (1) COMPLETION OF PARTIALLY CONSTRUCTED DWELLING WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND (2) REMOVAL OF EXISTING DEMOUNTABLE DWELLING INCLUDING ALL OTHER SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2561364
28 Jul 2025N/a
RETENTION AND COMPLETION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING HOUSE UNDER CONSTRUCTION WITH CONNECTION TO AN EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AS WELL AS REMOVAL OF AN EXISTING DEMOUTABLE DWELLING INCLUDING ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2561292
16 Sept 2024Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A PART SINGLE STOREY, PART TWO-STOREY DWELLING HOUSE WITH INTEGRATED DOMESTIC GARAGE, WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM, NEW VEHICULAR ENTRANCE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2461450
6 Nov 2023Conditional
(1) CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW EXTENSION TO THE SIDE OF THE EXISTING HOUSE, (2) AMENDMENTS TO THE EXISTING HOUSE EXTERNALLY INCLUDING NEW GLAZED DORMER WINDOWS AT FIRST FLOOR LEVEL AND AN EXTERNAL COVERED SPACE AT THE FRONT OF THE EXISTING HOUSE, (3) INTERNAL AMENDMENTS TO THE EXISTING HOUSE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2351683
27 Oct 2023Conditional
ALTERATION WORKS TO EXISTING DWELLING INCLUDING: (A) PROVISION OF A CORNER WINDOW TO THE LIVING ROOM WITH CONTEMPORARY SURROUND CLADDING AND A CHANGE OF FENESTRATION DESIGN OF THE EXISTING WINDOW TO THE WEST AND SOUTH ELEVATIONS AND (B) PROVISION OF 2 NO. ROOF LIGHTS TO THE WEST FACING ATTIC BEDROOM
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2351642
11 Oct 2023Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO THE SIDE OF THE EXISTING DWELLING, TOGETHER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2351534
12 Apr 2023Conditional
(1) RAISING THE MAIN ROOF TO PROVIDE ATTIC ACCOMMODATION INCLUDING THE ADDITION OF DORMERS, (2) DEMOLITION OF THE FRONT OUTSHOT AND ERECTION OF A NEW ONE, (3) ALTERATIONS TO THE REAR PORCH TO PROVIDE STAIRS TO THE NEW ATTIC SPACE, (4) ALTERATIONS TO THE FRONT WINDOWS AND (5) UPGRADING EXISTING SEPTIC TANK WITH ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2350491
3 Aug 2022Conditional
CHANGE OF HOUSE TYPE FROM THAT PREVIOUSLY APPROVED UNDER PLANNING REFERENCE 13/50056 & 17/51921
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2251325
23 Dec 2021Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK INCLUDING ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2152619
22 Sept 2021N/a
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC SHED AND SEPTIC TANK. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) ACCOMPANIES THIS APPLICATION
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2151894
31 Aug 2021N/a
RELOCATION OF DWELLING HOUSE & DOMESTIC SHED ON SITE PREVIOUSLY APPROVED UNDER PLANNING REF 19/50148
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2151733
11 Aug 2021N/a
CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE AND SEPTIC TANK
Outline permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2151615
27 Jan 2021Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC SHED & SEPTIC TANK
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2150090
5 Aug 2020Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2051066
6 Aug 2019Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO SIDE AND REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND RETENTION PERMISSION FOR PART OF ACCESS ROAD AND CONNECTION ONTO THE L-1192 ROAD
Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1951193
7 Mar 2019Unconditional
COMPLETION OF DWELLING HOUSE AND SEPTIC TANK PREVIOUSLY APPROVED UNDER PLANNING REFERENCE 07/50927
Extension of duration, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1950307
6 Feb 2019Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC SHED AND SEPTIC TANK
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1950148
18 Dec 2017Unconditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE AND SEPTIC TANK
Extension of duration, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1751921
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Cloghernagore Bog and Glenveagh National Park SAC 002047
- Special Protection Area: Derryveagh And Glendowan Mountains SPA 004039
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Derriscligh Bog 001114
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Glenieraragh.
Architectural heritage
- House, 1840–1860 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c.1850, having shallow windbreak entrance, and single-storey extensions to east and west ends. Pitched thatched roof with decorative scalloped raised ridge and scolloped eaves, mesh over and secured to cast-iron pegs to eaves. Rendered copings and smooth-rendered chimneystacks. Pitched slate roof to extensions. Smooth limewashed and rendered walls with base plinth. Square-headed openings with two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows, stone sills, and replacement timber battened door. Sited off road, with square-plan rendered piers with replacement decorative metal gate. Outbuildings to west.
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 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 Glenieraragh.
- 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 Glenieraragh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Glenieraragh · Gleann Iartharach
- Area
- 4,722,358 m² (472.24 ha, 1,166.92 acres)
- Civil parish
- Mevagh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kilmacrenan
- Electoral division
- Glen, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Glen electoral division: 262 people in 108 households; 83% of households own their home; 31% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 48% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cashel, Derriscligh, Derryfad, Drumeasan, Drumlackagh, Glenineeny, Glenmenagh, Meenformal, Meenlaragh, Toragh
- Gaeltacht
- In an Irish-speaking area
- Placenames
- Glenieraragh 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.