# Glenoory, Co. Donegal: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Mevagh, barony of Kilmacrenan, Co. Donegal; in Irish Gleann Úraí. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,170,008 m² (117 ha, 289.12 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 12,302 m² (1.23 ha, 3.04 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 4 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Mevagh, https://everytownland.com/donegal/parish/mevagh.md - Barony: Kilmacrenan - Electoral division: Rosguill, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Donegal, https://everytownland.com/donegal.md - Gaeltacht: in an Irish-speaking area - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/16059 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 51366 - Centre: latitude 55.225454, longitude -7.836373 (WGS 84) ## 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); 10 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1395793: 218,488 m² (21.85 ha, 53.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1395793.md - Parcel 1346389: 177,185 m² (17.72 ha, 43.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1346389.md - Parcel 1321839: 141,962 m² (14.2 ha, 35.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1321839.md - Parcel 1302333: 126,301 m² (12.63 ha, 31.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1302333.md - Parcel 1301847: 121,725 m² (12.17 ha, 30.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1301847.md - Parcel 3658504: 95,815 m² (9.58 ha, 23.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3658504.md - Parcel 1373250: 49,000 m² (4.9 ha, 12.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1373250.md - Parcel 1391678: 44,794 m² (4.48 ha, 11.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1391678.md - Parcel 1305735: 43,837 m² (4.38 ha, 10.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1305735.md - Parcel 5918413: 38,015 m² (3.8 ha, 9.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5918413.md - Parcel 5976728: 24,937 m² (2.49 ha, 6.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5976728.md - Parcel 5078978: 19,007 m² (1.9 ha, 4.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5078978.md - Parcel 3658503: 14,117 m² (1.41 ha, 3.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3658503.md - Parcel 1333578: 13,850 m² (1.39 ha, 3.42 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1333578.md - Parcel 1389193: 13,656 m² (1.37 ha, 3.37 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1389193.md - Parcel 5976729: 10,947 m² (1.09 ha, 2.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5976729.md - Parcel 5891568: 3,752 m² (0.38 ha, 0.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5891568.md - Parcel 1387171: 3,752 m² (0.38 ha, 0.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1387171.md - Parcel 1419379: 3,427 m² (0.34 ha, 0.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1419379.md - Parcel 1376902: 2,176 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1376902.md - Parcel 4862068: 1,934 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4862068.md - Parcel 1407960: 1,802 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1407960.md - Parcel 1392337: 541 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1392337.md - Parcel 1415252: 470 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1415252.md - Parcel 5976720: 294 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5976720.md - Parcel 5891590: 194 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5891590.md - Parcel 5891543: 144 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5891543.md - Parcel 1393463: 80 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1393463.md - Parcel 1382809: 44 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1382809.md - Parcel 5891593: 6 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5891593.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 4 applications, newest first. - 15 Nov 2024, Donegal County Council 2461845: Conditional. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2461845/0 - 18 Oct 2024, Donegal County Council 2461658: N/a. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2461658/0 - 23 Nov 2022, Donegal County Council 2251892: N/a. Permission, 1 home. CLADDING OF ALL OF THE EXTERIOR WALLS OF EXISTING COTTAGE WITH NATURAL STONE. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2251892/0 - 1 Mar 2017, Donegal County Council 1750307: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1750307/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: Tranarossan and Melmore Lough SAC, site code 000194, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/000194 - Special Protection Area: Horn Head to Fanad Head SPA, site code 004194, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/spa/004194 - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Tranarossan And Melmore Lough, site code 000194 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - DG007-006: Promontory fort - coastal, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDG007-006----. 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. 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Glenoory. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - 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: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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 flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/donegal/glenoory.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/donegal/glenoory.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/donegal/glenoory.kml ## Homes sold (Residential 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: https://everytownland.com/donegal.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Doagh: https://everytownland.com/donegal/doagh.md - Dundooan Lower: https://everytownland.com/donegal/dundooan-lower.md - Glebe: https://everytownland.com/donegal/glebe-51322.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/donegal/glenoory - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/donegal/glenoory