# Glentown, Co. Donegal: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Taughboyne, barony of Raphoe North, Co. Donegal.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 996,093 m² (99.61 ha, 246.14 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 34 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 3,147 m² (0.31 ha, 0.78 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 4 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Taughboyne, https://everytownland.com/donegal/parish/taughboyne.md
- Barony: Raphoe North
- Electoral division: Treantaghmucklagh, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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.
- County: Co. Donegal, https://everytownland.com/donegal.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/16577
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 51374
- Centre: latitude 54.93638, longitude -7.510236 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

34 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Glentown, from 173 m² to 352,127 m² (35.21 ha, 87.01 acres); 17 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 1343720: 352,127 m² (35.21 ha, 87.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1343720.md
- Parcel 1326245: 338,013 m² (33.8 ha, 83.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1326245.md
- Parcel 1393207: 70,086 m² (7.01 ha, 17.32 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1393207.md
- Parcel 1378630: 58,499 m² (5.85 ha, 14.46 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1378630.md
- Parcel 4855129: 33,194 m² (3.32 ha, 8.2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4855129.md
- Parcel 1336392: 22,156 m² (2.22 ha, 5.47 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1336392.md
- Parcel 1361923: 14,997 m² (1.5 ha, 3.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1361923.md
- Parcel 1330394: 13,246 m² (1.32 ha, 3.27 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1330394.md
- Parcel 1332860: 13,001 m² (1.3 ha, 3.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1332860.md
- Parcel 1375075: 12,293 m² (1.23 ha, 3.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1375075.md
- Parcel 1324056: 7,950 m² (0.8 ha, 1.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1324056.md
- Parcel 1331716: 7,484 m² (0.75 ha, 1.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1331716.md
- Parcel 1315208: 6,215 m² (0.62 ha, 1.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1315208.md
- Parcel 1340487: 5,430 m² (0.54 ha, 1.34 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1340487.md
- Parcel 1316056: 4,379 m² (0.44 ha, 1.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1316056.md
- Parcel 1392067: 4,187 m² (0.42 ha, 1.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1392067.md
- Parcel 6105795: 3,592 m² (0.36 ha, 0.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6105795.md
- Parcel 1320415: 2,702 m² (0.27 ha, 0.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1320415.md
- Parcel 1369278: 2,208 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1369278.md
- Parcel 1352808: 2,181 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1352808.md
- Parcel 1305491: 2,160 m² (0.22 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1305491.md
- Parcel 4063457: 2,106 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4063457.md
- Parcel 1388925: 2,078 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1388925.md
- Parcel 1391350: 2,053 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1391350.md
- Parcel 1335541: 1,970 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1335541.md
- Parcel 5356793: 1,920 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5356793.md
- Parcel 1372109: 1,856 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1372109.md
- Parcel 1321560: 1,788 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1321560.md
- Parcel 1421808: 1,574 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1421808.md
- Parcel 1323481: 1,466 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1323481.md
- Parcel 1376611: 1,161 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1376611.md
- Parcel 5945823: 593 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5945823.md
- Parcel 3004502: 331 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3004502.md
- Parcel 5356814: 173 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5356814.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

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.

## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)

4 applications, newest first.

- 14 Jun 2025, Donegal County Council 2561003: Conditional. Permission. CONSTRUCTION OF A SLATTED CATTLE SHED WITHIN FARMYARD WITH CONNECTION TO ALL EXISTING SERVICES. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2561003/0
- 30 Sept 2024, Donegal County Council 2461531: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY DWELLING INCLUDING SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2461531/0
- 29 Oct 2021, Donegal County Council 2152148: Conditional. Retention. (1) DOMESTIC GARAGE LOCATED AT THE REAR OF DWELLING (2) ENTRANCE AND DRIVEWAY. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2152148/0
- 15 Jul 2020, Donegal County Council 2050940: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND SEPTIC TANK WITH PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2050940/0

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## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Glentown.

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Glentown.

## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage)

- McCoo's Shop, office, house, 1900–1920, Regional interest, registry number 40906250, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=DG&regno=40906250. 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.

## 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 Glentown, about 1 in 10 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 Glentown.
- 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/glentown.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/donegal/glentown.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/donegal/glentown.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Glentown 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)

- Clashygowan: https://everytownland.com/donegal/clashygowan.md
- Kilgort: https://everytownland.com/donegal/kilgort.md
- Kinnacally: https://everytownland.com/donegal/kinnacally.md
- Treantagh: https://everytownland.com/donegal/treantagh.md
- Treantaghmucklagh: https://everytownland.com/donegal/treantaghmucklagh.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.

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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/glentown
- In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/donegal/glentown