Glenleary
Townland in the civil parish of Aughnish, barony of Kilmacrenan, Co. Donegal
- Area
- 131.3 ha
- 324 acres
- Land parcels
- 66
- registered freehold, median 2,913 m² (0.29 ha, 0.72 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 21
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
66 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Glenleary, from 46 m² to 218,069 m² (21.81 ha, 53.89 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 26 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 Glenleary 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
24 Mar 2026Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A SLATTED CATTLE / CUBICLE SHED WITH INTEGRATED UNDERGROUND SLURRY STORAGE TANKS AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS WITHIN THE EXISTING FARMYARD COMPLEX
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2660482
30 Apr 2025Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO AN EXISTING SLATTED AGRICULTURAL CUBICLE SHED, WITH ADDITIONAL ASSOCIATED UNDERGROUND EFFLUENT TANK, AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2560676
12 Mar 2025Conditional
CHANGE OF USE FROM AN EXISTING TWO-STOREY RESIDENTIAL HOSTEL, PREVIOUSLY PERMITTED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 13/50339 AND EXTENDED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 17/51616, TO A PRIVATE RESIDENTIAL DWELLING
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2560350
18 Dec 2024Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY DWELLING, DETACHED GARAGE, NEW ENTRANCE ON THE PUBLIC ROAD, ENTRANCE GATES AND PIERS, ACCESS LANE, RETAINING WALLS, INSTALLATION OF A WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2462117
25 Nov 2024Conditional
(1) SIGNIFICANT REFURBISHMENTS, ALTERATIONS AND CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSION TO EXISTING ABANDONED BUILDING AND (2) INSTALLATION OF WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH PERCOLATION AREA
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2450248
4 Oct 2024N/a
ERECTION OF EXTENSION ONTO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND INSTALLATION OF WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2450217
29 May 2023Conditional
DOMESTIC GARAGE AND PERMISSION FOR ERECTION OF A NEW AGRICULTURAL STORAGE SHED WITH ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2350752
17 Jun 2022Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DOMESTIC GARAGE
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2251053
16 Feb 2022Conditional
RETENTION AND COMPLETION OF EXTENSION TO THE REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE CURRENTLY UNDER CONSTRUCTION
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2250246
9 Feb 2022Conditional
ERECTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL SLATTED SHED WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2250208
22 Dec 2021Conditional
VEHICULAR ENTRANCE AS CONSTRUCTED INCLUDING ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2152589
20 Jan 2021Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2150058
4 Oct 2019Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY DWELLING HOUSE, DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1951498
19 Dec 2018Conditional
ERECTION OF NEW AGRICULTURAL SHED INCLUDING MILKING PARLOUR, COLLECTING YARD, CONCRETE FEED PASSAGE, SLATTED PENS, CUBICLES, UNDERGROUND STORAGE TANKS AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1851915
24 Oct 2018Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY DWELLING HOUSE, DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1851627
3 Jul 2018Conditional
EXISTING DWELLING, GARAGE AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1851021
11 Apr 2018Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1850557
1 Feb 2018Refused
CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING, SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ANCILLARY SITE WORKS AS PREVIOUSLY APPLIED FOR UNDER PLANNING REFS: 07/50162, 12/40191 AND 17/50809
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1850125
26 Oct 2017Unconditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A TWO STOREY RESIDENTIAL BUILDING FOR THE PURPOSES OF SHORT STAY ACCOMMODATION ANCILLARY TO THE EXISTING RIDING STABLES WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND SERVICES. INSTALLATION OF A SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND SAND/ SOIL POLISHING FILTER. THE DEVELOPMENT WILL BE ACCESSED VIA A NEW ENTRANCE LOCATED ALONG THE EXISTING ADJOINING LANEWAY.
Extension of duration, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1751616
26 Oct 2017Unconditional
(1) THE REMOVAL OF A SMALL STABLE STRUCTURE AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF A BUILDING FOR THE PURPOSES OF AN INDOOR SAND ARENA WITH ANCILLARY STABLES, FEED STORE, TIMBER HORSE JUMP STORE, OFFICE, BOOT/HAT ROOM, COFEE/TEA ROOM, WC AND STORE WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS, SERVICES, YARD AREA AND PARKING FACILITIES. (2) DECOMMISSIONING OF THE EXISTING SEPTIC TANK SYSTEM AND THE INSTALLATION OF A REPLACEMENT SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND SAND/SOIL POLISHING FILTER. THE DEVELOPMENT WILL BE ACCESSED VIA A NEW ENTRANCE LOCATED ALONG THE EXISTING ADJOINING LANEWAY
Extension of duration · Donegal County Council, 1751615
26 May 2017Refused
CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING, SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM & ANCILLARY SITE WORKS AS PREVIOUSLY APPLIED FOR UNDER PLANNING REFS 07/50162 & 12/40191
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1750809
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 Glenleary.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Glenleary.
Architectural heritage
- House, 1870–1890 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c.1880, with two-storey extension to rear and garage extension to southeast gable. Pitched replacement slate roof with overhanging eaves, cast-iron rainwater goods and rendered gable chimneystacks. Roughcast-rendered walls with projecting smooth plinth course. Square-headed openings with stone sills and replacement six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows to first floor and widened timber casements to ground floor. Square-headed timber panelled door with paned overlight. Set in mature gardens bounded by field-stone wall having round-plan piers with conical stone caps and decorative wrought-iron gate. Detached three-bay two-storey outbuilding to southeast, built c.1820, having single-bay single-storey addition to northeast, and external stone steps at front giving access to first floor, pitched slate roof on projecting eaves course with cast-iron rainwater goods, rubble stone walls and square-headed openings with timber lintels and replacement timber casement windows and half-glazed timber battened doors.
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, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1811 (ZIP).
- 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
- Glenleary, Ramelton5 sales
The townland
- Name
- Glenleary
- Area
- 1,313,069 m² (131.31 ha, 324.47 acres)
- Civil parish
- Aughnish, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kilmacrenan
- Electoral division
- Rathmelton, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Rathmelton electoral division: 2,494 people in 938 households; 71% of households own their home; 42% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Aghangaddy Glebe, Ardrumman, Carrowcashel, Cashelshanaghan, Newmill, Prablin, Roughpark
- Placenames
- Glenleary 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.