Golard

66 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Golard, from 25 m² to 184,915 m² (18.49 ha, 45.69 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 36 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Golard 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.

• 22 Jul 2024Conditional

  (1) ERECTION OF 2 NO. GLAMPING PODS, (2) ERECTION OF SMALL POD TO INCLUDE WELFARE FACILITIES INCLUDING KITCHEN AND TOILET/SHOWER FACILITIES, (3) PROVISION OF EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM, PERCOLATION AREA, (4) PROVISION OF ON SITE CAR PARKING, UPGRADE OF EXISTING ACCESS LANEWAY AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2450187

• 21 Aug 2023Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF (1) A TWO-STOREY DETACHED DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE, (2) SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA, (3) VEHICULAR ACCESS ONTO THE PUBLIC ROAD AND (4) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2351241

• 30 Nov 2020Conditional

  DOMESTIC STORE

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2051814

• 20 Feb 2020N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A TWO-STOREY DETACHED DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK AND CONSTRUCTION OF A PERCOLATION AREA, VEHICULAR ACCESS ONTO THE PUBLIC ROAD AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2050188

• 12 Mar 2019Conditional

  (1) CHANGE TO ORIENTATION OF DWELLING AND ELEVATIONAL CHANGES FROM APPROVED UNDER PLANNING REFERENCE 02/771, (2) SUNROOM TO AN EXISTING DWELLING AND (3) DOMESTIC GARAGE

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 1950328

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 Golard.

Recorded monuments

• DG100-010 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Internal diam. c. 35m. Only the S section of this enclosure survives. It was originally bounded by an earthen bank, a fosse and an outer bank. It is situated on rising ground to the N of a large stream. Much of the surrounding land is wet and boggy. There is a wide but silted-up fosse. It is situated on top of a drumlin in fairly good land. It is located close to another rignfort (DG100-009-). 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

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Golard.

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

About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.

Terrain model

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

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Golard with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Golard

Area

2,087,230 m² (208.72 ha, 515.77 acres)

Civil parish

Drumhome, and its townlands

Barony

Tirhugh

Electoral division

Laghy, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Laghy electoral division: 799 people in 290 households; 81% of households own their home; 32% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 15% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballykillowen, Cormullin, Moyne, Raneany East

Placenames

Golard 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.