# Guystown, Co. Donegal: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Clonleigh, barony of Raphoe North, Co. Donegal. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 458,728 m² (45.87 ha, 113.35 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 1,982 m² - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 4 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Clonleigh, https://everytownland.com/donegal/parish/clonleigh.md - Barony: Raphoe North - Electoral division: Clonleigh North, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Clonleigh North electoral division: 1,429 people in 520 households; 84% of households own their home; 29% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Donegal, https://everytownland.com/donegal.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/16228 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 51472 - Centre: latitude 54.848551, longitude -7.534728 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Guystown, from 33 m² to 200,336 m² (20.03 ha, 49.5 acres); 15 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1522711: 200,336 m² (20.03 ha, 49.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1522711.md - Parcel 1327021: 200,095 m² (20.01 ha, 49.44 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1327021.md - Parcel 1362003: 37,450 m² (3.75 ha, 9.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1362003.md - Parcel 1393820: 3,201 m² (0.32 ha, 0.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1393820.md - Parcel 1367201: 2,903 m² (0.29 ha, 0.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1367201.md - Parcel 1321402: 2,478 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1321402.md - Parcel 1408885: 2,388 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1408885.md - Parcel 1315156: 2,210 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1315156.md - Parcel 1428067: 1,982 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1428067.md - Parcel 1400152: 1,956 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1400152.md - Parcel 1407739: 1,485 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1407739.md - Parcel 1382524: 1,352 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1382524.md - Parcel 1391297: 1,248 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1391297.md - Parcel 1352857: 510 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1352857.md - Parcel 1522712: 215 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1522712.md - Parcel 5464033: 171 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5464033.md - Parcel 5463991: 33 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5463991.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Guystown 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. - 18 Aug 2026, Donegal County Council 2661533: N/a. Permission. CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW UNDERGROUND AGRICULTURAL EFFLUENT TANK, AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2661533/0 - 13 Apr 2026, Donegal County Council 2660615: N/a. Permission. (1) RETENTION AND COMPLETION OF A HARDCORE COVERED TURNING AND PARKING AREA WHICH INCLUDES AN ACCESS ROAD, SURFACE WATER DRAINAGE AND PROVISION OF A VEHICULAR ENTRANCE FOR A HEAVY GOODS VEHICLE AND TRAILERS AND (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A DETACHED STORAGE SHED AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660615/0 - 24 May 2020, Donegal County Council 2050433: Conditional. Outline permission, 1 home. CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE DOMESTIC DWELLING HOUSE & DETACHED GARAGE/STORE & ON SITE FOUL SEWAGE WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM & PERCOLATION AREA, ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2050433/0 - 2 Feb 2017, Donegal County Council 1750144: Conditional. Permission. EXTENSION TO EXISTING SILAGE PIT. THE EXTENSION WILL INCORPORATE AN ADDITIONAL SILAGE PIT AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1750144/0 Applicants are not shown. ## 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 Guystown. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Guystown. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Guystown, house, 1700–1740, Regional interest, registry number 40907049, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=DG®no=40907049. Detached nine-bay single-storey with attic level vernacular house, built c. 1720 and extended on a number of occasions. Pitched artificial slate or tiled roof having eaves course, and with four smooth rendered chimneystacks with copings and clay ware pots; render failing to chimneystack to the north-west gable end exposing brick construction. Roughcast rendered rubble stone walls. Square-headed window openings with painted timber reveals, painted stone sill, and having one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows with horns. Square-headed doorway, offset to the east side of the centre of the main elevation (north-east), having timber panelled door with glazed panel to upper half, cut stone plinth blocks to base, and with decorative doorcase comprising fluted pilasters (on semi-circular plan) with decorative lintel over having fluted panels and circular motifs. Cut stone threshold to doorway. Set back from road in mature grounds in the rural countryside to the north-west of Ballindrait. Complex of two two-storey outbuildings to the rear (south-west), forming L-shaped plan, comprising seven-bay two-storey building parallel to south-west, built c. 1840, with five-bay two-storey building to the west, built c. 1750. External flight of rubble stone steps to the north-east elevation of outbuilding to the south-west giving access to doorway at first floor level. Single-bay single-storey red brick structure to the north-east end of outbuilding to the west having metal water tank over. Pitched and hipped natural slate roof with projecting eaves course, some surviving sections of cast-iron rainwater goods, and with raised rendered copings to the gable ends. Randomly coursed rubble stone walls with ashlar block and start quoins to the south-east end of outbuilding to the south-west. Roughcast rendered walls to the west elevation of outbuilding to the west. Square-headed window openings with remains of timber windows and battened timber shutters. Square-headed doorways and loading bays having timber lintels and battened timber doors. Square-headed carriage-arches. Gravelled yard between outbuildings and rear of house. Rubble stone boundary wall to road-frontage to the north having fieldstone coping over. Gateway to the north comprising a pair of decorative cast0iron gate posts having hooped wrought-iron gates. Gateway flanked to either side by sections of smooth rendered boundary wall with hooped wrought-iron railings over and with terminating smooth rendered piers (on square-plan). ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: 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: Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map. - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1896, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_1896.zip (ZIP). - 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/guystown.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/donegal/guystown.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/donegal/guystown.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Guystown 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) - Ballindrait: https://everytownland.com/donegal/ballindrait.md - Drumnaha: https://everytownland.com/donegal/drumnaha-51113.md - Gortin North: https://everytownland.com/donegal/gortin-north.md - Sheercloon: https://everytownland.com/donegal/sheercloon.md - Tamnawood: https://everytownland.com/donegal/tamnawood.md - Tieveboy: https://everytownland.com/donegal/tieveboy.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/guystown - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/donegal/guystown