Glentown

34 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Glentown, from 173 m² to 352,127 m² (35.21 ha, 87.01 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 17 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 Glentown 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.

• 14 Jun 2025Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A SLATTED CATTLE SHED WITHIN FARMYARD WITH CONNECTION TO ALL EXISTING SERVICES

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2561003

• 30 Sept 2024Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY DWELLING INCLUDING SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2461531

• 29 Oct 2021Conditional

  (1) DOMESTIC GARAGE LOCATED AT THE REAR OF DWELLING (2) ENTRANCE AND DRIVEWAY

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2152148

• 15 Jul 2020Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND SEPTIC TANK WITH PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2050940

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 Glentown.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Glentown.

Architectural heritage

• McCoo's Shop, office, house, 1900–1920 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached two-bay single-storey house or office\outbuilding, built c. 1910, having projecting gabled entrance porch to south-east, and single-storey lean-to addition to the north-east. Later in use as a shop. Pitched corrugated-metal roof with timber eaves course, and having no rainwater goods. Pitched corrugated-metal roof to porch with timber finial to gable apex, and mono-pitched corrugated-metal roof to lean-to addition. Corrugated-metal sheeting to walls with rubble stone walls to lean-to. Square-headed window openings with slate sills and timber casement windows. Square-headed doorway to porch with timber sheeted door. Set at corner of road and private laneway with single-storey nissan hut to the north-west, timber post fence to east and surrounded by mature trees to north and south. Located adjacent to Glentown slate quarries, and to the west of Saint Johnstown.

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 Glentown, 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 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 Glentown.

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 Glentown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Glentown

Area

996,093 m² (99.61 ha, 246.14 acres)

Civil parish

Taughboyne, and its townlands

Barony

Raphoe North

Electoral division

Treantaghmucklagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

860 people lived in 282 households in the Treantaghmucklagh electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 44% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Clashygowan, Kilgort, Kinnacally, Treantagh, Treantaghmucklagh

Placenames

Glentown 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.