Golan

75 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Golan, from 109 m² to 1,754,957 m² (175.5 ha, 433.66 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 24 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 Golan 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.

• 10 Sept 2025Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY DETACHED DWELLING (CHANGE OF HOUSE DESIGN TO THAT PREVIOUSLY APPROVED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 21/52057) WITH THE PROVISION OF A SEPARATE ON-SITE WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM TOGETHER WITH ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2561552

• 29 Nov 2021Conditional

  DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND ERECTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING SEPTIC TANK SYSTEM AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2152374

• 18 Oct 2021Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A TWO STOREY DETACHED DWELLING AND SINGLE STOREY DETACHED GARAGE, PROVISION OF SEPARATE ON-SITE WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM TOGETHER WITH ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2152057

• 29 Sept 2021N/a

  (1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING (2) ERECTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE AND CONNECTION TO AN EXISTING SEPTIC TANK SYSTEM WITH ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2151946

• 19 Apr 2021Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, GARAGE AND INSTALLATION OF A WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH PERCOLATION AREA

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2150691

• 10 Jul 2020N/a

  DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, ERECTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE AND CONNECTION TO EXISTING SEPTIC TANK WITH ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2050914

• 10 Jun 2020N/a

  DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING AND ERECTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE AND CONNECTION TO EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2050745

• 4 Mar 2020Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC SHED AND SEPTIC TANK

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2050276

• 8 Aug 2018Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH A SEPTIC TANK, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1851233

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 Golan.

Recorded monuments

• DG036-015 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  The single-ringed enclosure shown on the 2nd edition of the OS 6-inch map is now represented by an oval area c. 10m N-S and c. 20m E-W defined by an earthen bank, .5m high on the NW, field boundaries on the W and NE and a scarped edge .3m high on the S. The site is located on a gentle NW to SE slope in good pasture. The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated. Date of upload: 22 September 2008

Architectural heritage

• Presbytery/parochial/curate's house, 1860–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey presbytery with attic floor, built c.1870, having lean-to extension to side. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystacks, overhanging eaves with decorative exposed rafter ends, two gabled dormer windows to front with plain bargeboards, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Rendered walls with raised rendered plinth. Front and southeast side elevations have square-headed windows to ground floor and round-headed to first floor, with double four-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows, and rear and northwest side elevations have one-over-two pane windows, all with concrete sills. Pointed segmental-arch doorway with timber panelled door, plain fanlight and single step. Four-bay single-storey outbuilding to rear with two-bay addition to one side and lean-to open shed to other, having pitched slate roof with render copings, rubble stone walls, square-headed openings with segmental relieving arches, timber battened doors and sliding door; windows boarded up. Building stands at right angle to road, with garden to front, and square-plan piers with decorative metal gate. Rendered boundary walls to front with round coping, and rubble stone boundary wall to rear. Mature trees to site. Located close to Saint Brigid's Church.

• Saint Brigid's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1860–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding Catholic church, built c.1870, having four-bay nave and single-storey extension. Pitched slate roof with render copings, kneeler stones with inset trefoil motif, stone cross finials to apexes, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls with smooth-render raised quoins and plinth. Pointed-arch window openings, double to nave, with raised render surrounds and timber sliding sash windows. Round-arch stained-glass window to gable. Decorative pointed-arch fixed timber window over entrance. Pointed-arch doorway with timber battened door; square-headed doorway to extension. Small pitched-roof canopy above bell, fixed to wall beside main entrance. Building set back from road, enclosed within rendered boundary wall with square-plan rendered piers having decorative metal gate, with stepped approach. Interior has suspended timber panelled ceiling with exposed timber purlins, raised altar with decorative timber balustrade, timber panelled confessionals beside altar with decorative timber cornice, one stained-glass window above altar, simple timber pews, internal porch with glazing, and raised area with timber balustrade for organ inside entrance.

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 Golan, about 1 in 20 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. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Golan.

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

Name

Golan · An Gabhlán

Area

4,761,967 m² (476.2 ha, 1,176.71 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmacrenan, and its townlands

Barony

Kilmacrenan

Electoral division

Millford, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,633 people lived in 608 households in the Millford electoral division. 72% of households owned their home. 40% of homes were built since 2001. 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrickybressil, Carrownaganonagh, Court, Cratlagh, Highglen, Meenformal

Placenames

Golan 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.