Glenoory
Glenoory is a townland in the civil parish of Mevagh, barony of Kilmacrenan, Co. Donegal. Its name in Irish is Gleann Úraí.
- Area
- 117 ha
- 289 acres
- Land parcels
- 30
- registered freehold, median 12,302 m² (1.23 ha, 3.04 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Glenoory, from 6 m² to 218,488 m² (21.85 ha, 53.99 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 10 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Glenoory 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
15 Nov 2024Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF NEW EXTENSIONS AND ALTERATIONS TO THE EXISTING DWELLING, NEW SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) ACCOMPANIES THIS APPLICATION
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2461845
18 Oct 2024N/a
CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSIONS AND ALTERATIONS TO THE EXISTING DWELLING, INSTALLATION OF A NEW SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA, AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) ACCOMPANIES THIS APPLICATION
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2461658
23 Nov 2022N/a
CLADDING OF ALL OF THE EXTERIOR WALLS OF EXISTING COTTAGE WITH NATURAL STONE
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2251892
1 Mar 2017Conditional
REFURBISHMENT OF EXISTING BUILDING TO PROVIDE FOR DWELLING HOUSE AND INSTALLATION OF A WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM - CARRY OUT UPGRADE WORKS TO EXISTING ENTRANCE AT JUNCTION WITH COUNTY ROAD WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT WILL BE SUBMITTED WITH THE APPLICATION
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1750307
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: Tranarossan and Melmore Lough SAC 000194
- Special Protection Area: Horn Head to Fanad Head SPA 004194
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Tranarossan And Melmore Lough 000194
Recorded monuments
- DG007-006 Promontory fort - coastal
Description
The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Glenoory.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Glenoory, about 1 in 5 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Glenoory.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Glenoory with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Glenoory · Gleann Úraí
- Area
- 1,170,008 m² (117 ha, 289.12 acres)
- Civil parish
- Mevagh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kilmacrenan
- Electoral division
- Rosguill, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 856 people lived in 321 households in the Rosguill electoral division. 77% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 58% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Doagh, Dundooan Lower, Glebe
- Gaeltacht
- In an Irish-speaking area
- Placenames
- Glenoory 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.