# Highglen, Co. Donegal: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Mevagh, barony of Kilmacrenan, Co. Donegal. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 3,237,134 m² (323.71 ha, 799.91 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 2 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 1,594,866 m² (159.49 ha, 394.1 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Mevagh, https://everytownland.com/donegal/parish/mevagh.md - Barony: Kilmacrenan - Electoral division: Glen, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Glen electoral division: 262 people in 108 households; 83% of households own their home; 31% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 48% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Donegal, https://everytownland.com/donegal.md - Gaeltacht: in an Irish-speaking area - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/15844 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 51481 - Centre: latitude 55.111439, longitude -7.771464 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 2 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Highglen, from 191,408 m² (19.14 ha, 47.3 acres) to 2,998,324 m² (299.83 ha, 740.9 acres); 17 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1391661: 2,998,324 m² (299.83 ha, 740.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1391661.md - Parcel 1394168: 191,408 m² (19.14 ha, 47.3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1394168.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Highglen 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) No planning application touches the townland of Highglen in the national file, which goes back to 2010. ## 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 Highglen. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - DG027-029: Ringfort - cashel, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDG027-029----. Internal diam. 14.5m NW-SE, 17m NE-SW An oval area enclosed by heather-covered, and in part bog-covered, stone wall. The wall is only occa-sionally visible but seems to be built of massive stone blocks. It is c. 2.05m wide and from .5m to 1m in height. A 2.15m gap to the SE is possibly the original entrance. A partly collapsed stone wall runs N-S across the site dividing it into an E 1/3 and a W 2/3. The wall is .8m wide and 0.5m high. The site is located on a W-facing slope in poor boggy land with some rock outcrop. 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 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Highglen. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: About 1 in 20 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 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 Highglen. - 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/highglen.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/donegal/highglen.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/donegal/highglen.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Highglen 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) - Cool Lower: https://everytownland.com/donegal/cool-lower.md - Cratlagh: https://everytownland.com/donegal/cratlagh.md - Glengillagrana High: https://everytownland.com/donegal/glengillagrana-high.md - Glenkeo: https://everytownland.com/donegal/glenkeo-51354.md - Glenmenagh: https://everytownland.com/donegal/glenmenagh.md - Golan: https://everytownland.com/donegal/golan.md - Islandroy Barr or Drumfin: https://everytownland.com/donegal/islandroy-barr-or-drumfin.md - Meenformal: https://everytownland.com/donegal/meenformal.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/highglen - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/donegal/highglen