Illies

119 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Illies, from 124 m² to 1,033,809 m² (103.38 ha, 255.46 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 51 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Illies 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 2026N/a

  A PERIOD OF 10 YEARS FOR UPGRADES TO THE EXISTING ILLIES WATER TREATMENT PLANT CONSISTING OF: (1) NEW DISSOLVED AIR FLOTATION BUILDING TO BE CONSTRUCTED ADJACENT TO THE EXISTING DISSOLVED AIR FLOTATION BUILDING, HOUSING A FOURTH DISSOLVED AIR FLOTATION STREAM OF SIMILAR HEIGHT BUT WITH A SMALLER FOOTPRINT THAN THE EXISTING DISSOLVED AIR FLOTATION BUILDING, (2) TWO NEW FIRST STAGE RAPID GRAVITY FILTERS TO BE CONSTRUCTED AS AN EXTENSION TO THE EXISTING SIX RAPID GRAVITY FILTERS, (3) UPGRADE OF THE EXISTING SECOND STAGE RAPID GRAVITY FILTERS TO DUAL-MEDIA CONFIGURATION, INCLUDING MODIFICATIONS TO WEIRS, UNDERDRAINS, AND AIR SYSTEMS, (4) NEW SLUDGE CONCENTRATOR TANK (258M³) TO BE INSTALLED ADJACENT TO THE EXISTING SLUDGE CONCENTRATORS, (5) UPGRADE OF THE EXISTING SLUDGE DEWATERING SYSTEM, INCLUDING PROVISION OF A HIGH-CAPACITY FILTER PRESS, AUTOMATED CONVEYOR SYSTEM, AND A COVERED TRAILER LOADING BAY, (6) DEMOLITION OF THE EXISTING WORKSHOP, AND CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW WORKSHOP AT AN ALTERNATE LOCATION WITHIN THE SITE, (7) NEW EXTERNAL ALUMINIUM SULPHATE (ALUM) BULK STORAGE, COMPRISING TWO 86M³ BUNDED TANKS, (8) MODIFICATION OF THE EXISTING ALUM STORAGE BUILDING TO HOUSE A NEW SODA ASH SILO. BUILDING HEIGHT WILL BE INCREASED TO MATCH THE EXISTING ADJACENT STRUCTURE HOUSING SODA ASH SILOS, (9) INTERNAL MODIFICATIONS TO EXISTING BUILDINGS (I.E., REMOVAL OF WALL) TO ACCOMMODATE NEW AND UPGRADED SYSTEMS, INCLUDING DOSING ARRANGEMENTS, BACKWASH PUMPS, AND AIR BLOWERS, (10) ELECTRICAL, INSTRUMENTATION, CONTROL AND AUTOMATION SYSTEM UPGRADES, INCLUDING A NEW SUPERVISORY CONTROL AND DATA ACQUISITION SYSTEM, NEW PANELS, AND INPUT AND OUTPUT SIGNAL MODIFICATIONS TO SUPPORT ADDITIONAL EQUIPMENT, (11) SOLAR PHOTOVOLTAIC PANELS TO BE INSTALLED ON ROOF AREAS TO SUPPORT ENERGY EFFICIENCY AND RENEWABLE ENERGY TARGETS, (12) IMPROVEMENT OF INTERNAL ROAD LAYOUT AND ACCESS ROUTES TO FACILITATE OPERATIONAL EFFICIENCY AND SITE DELIVERIES, (13) NEW FENCING AND GATES TO BE INSTALLED WHERE REQUIRED (MAXIMUM HEIGHT 2.4M), (14) LANDSCAPING, SCREENING, PLANTING AND BIODIVERSITY IMPROVEMENT MEASURES AND (15) ALL ANCILLARY SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2661681

• 3 Jul 2026Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING, INSTALLATION OF TREATMENT PLANT AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2661237

• 21 Jan 2025Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION AND OPERATION OF 2 NO. WIND TURBINES COMPRISING OF A STEEL TOWER, NACELLES, AND COMPOSITE FIBRE ROTOR BLADES WITH A HUB HEIGHT OF UP TO 85 METRES, A ROTOR BLADE DIAMETER OF UP TO 82 METRES, AND THUS A BLADE TIP HEIGHT OF UP TO 126 METRES. THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT INCLUDES: EXTERNAL WIND TURBINE TRANSFORMERS, TURBINE HARDSTANDS, NEW ACCESS TRACKS, UPGRADING OF EXISTING TRACKS, NEW SITE ENTRANCE, DRAINAGE WORKS INCLUDING DRAINAGE CHANNELS AND SILT TRAPS ALONG THE ACCESS TRACKS, UNDERGROUND ELECTRICAL CABLES, AND ALL ANCILLARY DEVELOPMENT AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2560056

• 17 Aug 2023Refused

  CONSTRUCTION OF TWO WIND TURBINES COMPRISING A STEEL TOWER, NACELLES AND COMPOSITE FIBRE ROTOR BLADES WITH A HUB HEIGHT OF UP TO 85 METRES, A ROTOR BLADE DIAMETER OF UP TO 82 METRES, AND THUS A BLADE TIP HEIGHT OF UP TO 126 METRES. THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT ALSO INCLUDES EXTERNAL WIND TURBINE TRANSFORMERS; TURBINE HARDSTANDS; NEW ACCESS TRACKS, UPGRADE OF EXISTING TRACKS, NEW SITE ENTRANCE; DRAINAGE WORKS INCLUDING DRAINAGE CHANNELS AND SILT TRAPS ALONG THE ACCESS TRACKS; UNDERGROUND ELECTRICAL CABLES; AND ALL ANCILLARY DEVELOPMENT AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Extension of duration · Donegal County Council, 2351218

• 21 Jun 2021Conditional

  ERECTION OF DWELLING WITH EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2151219

• 2 Feb 2021Conditional

  (1) DOMESTIC SHED (208.2M2) WITH COVERED CLOTHES DRYING/STORAGE AREA (42.9M2) TO THE REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING AND (2) AGRICULTURAL SHED (486.5M2)

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2150134

• 3 May 2019Refused

  CONSTRUCTION OF TWO WIND TURBINES COMPRISING A STEEL TOWER, NACELLES AND COMPOSITE FIBRE ROTOR BLADES WITH A HUB HEIGHT OF UP TO 85 METRES, A ROTOR BLADE DIAMETER OF UP TO 82 METRES, AND THUS A BLADE TIP HEIGHT OF UP TO 126 METRES. THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT ALSO INCLUDES EXTERNAL WIND TURBINE TRANSFORMERS; TURBINE HARDSTANDS; NEW ACCESS TRACKS, UPGRADE OF EXISTING TRACKS, NEW SITE ENTRANCE; DRAINAGE WORKS INCLUDING DRAINAGE CHANNELS AND SILT TRAPS ALONG THE ACCESS TRACKS; UNDERGROUND ELECTRICAL CABLES; AND ALL ANCILLARY DEVELOPMEMENT AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Extension of duration · Donegal County Council, 1950660

• 10 Aug 2018Refused

  10 YEAR DURATION FOR A PROPOSED WIND ENERGY AND GRID CONNECTION PROJECT WITH A 30-YEAR OPERATIONAL LIFE FROM THE DATE OF COMMISSIONING. THE PROPOSED WIND ENERGY SITE WILL BE LOCATED WITHIN THE TOWNLAND OF CARROWMORE OR GLENTOGHER, QUIGLEY'S POINT, INISHOWEN, CO DONEGAL. THE PROPOSED WIND ENERGY SITE WILL CONSIST OF 6 NO. THREE BLADED WIND TURBINES WITH A MAXIMUM BASE TO BLADE TIP HEIGHT OF UP TO 124.9 METRES AND WILL INCLUDE TURBINE TRANSFORMERS; TURBINE BASES AND FOUNDATIONS, TURBINE HARDSTANDS AND TEMPORARY SET-DOWN AREAS; 1 NO. PERMANENT LATTICE ANEMOMETER "MET" MAST OF 80 METRES HEIGHT WITH FOUNDATIONS AND HARDSTANDING AREA; WIDENING AND STRENGTHENING OF EXISTING ACCESS TRACKS AND CONSTRUCTION OF NEW FLOATED AND EXCAVATED ACCESS TRACKS, JUNCTIONS AND TURNING AREAS; 1 NO. ELECTRICAL 38KV SUBSTATION WITH CONTROL BUILDING, CAR PARKING AND COMPOUND AREA WITH RELATED COMMUNICATIONS AND ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT/PLANT WITH UNDERGROUNDED ELECTRICAL FEEDER CABLES AND COMMUNICATIONS LINES CONNECTING WIND TURBINES TO THE SWITCH ROOM CONTROL BUILDING; 2 NO. SPOIL DEPOSITION AREAS; DEDICATED HABITATE MANAGEMENT AREA; ON-SITE DRAINAGE MANAGEMENT WORKS; UPGRADE OF 3 NO. EXISTING SITE ENTRANCES; 2 NO. TEMPORARY CONSTRUCTION COMPOUNDS; 2 NO. TEMPORARY BORROW PITS AND WITH ALL OTHER ANCILLARY AND ASSOCIATED DEVELOPMENT AND INFRASTRUCTURE INCLUDING GENERAL AND EXACAVATION WORKS. THE PROPOSED UNDERGROUNDED GRID CONNECTION ROUTE WILL FACILITATE CONNECTION TO THE NATIONAL GRID AND WILL CONSIST OF THE LAYING OF A 38KV UNDERGROUND ELECTRICAL CABLE INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED INFRASTRUCTURE, UP-GRADING OF EXISTING TRACKS, CONSTRUCTION OF NEW ACCESS TRACKS, DRAINAGE, EXCAVATIONS, JOINT BAYS, JUNCTION BOXES/CHAMBERS, MARKER POSTS/PLATES AND ALL RELATED ACCOMMODATION WORKS, EXTENDING CIRCA. 17,620 METRES IN LENGTH, FROM THE WIND ENERGY SITE CONTROL BUILDING/ELECTRICAL COMPOUND TO THE EXISTING ESB OWNED 110KV TRILLICK SUBSTATION, IN BALLYNAHONE TOWNLAND, BUNCRANA. THE GRID ROUTE WILL PASS ALONG EXISTING PUBLIC ROADS AND PRIVATE ACCESS TRACKS WITHIN THE TOWNLANDS OF CARROWMORE OR GLENTOGHER, ILLIES, CONNAGHKINNAGOE, BALLYNAKEELOGE, FOFFENAGH, MEENAMULLAGAN, STRANACLEA, MEENKEERAGH, SORNE, OWENAKILLEW AND BARNAHONE, TULLYDUSH UPPER, ANNASLEE AND BALLYNAHONE ALL INISHOWEN, CO. DONEGAL. THE PLANNING APPLICATION IS ACCOMPANIED BY AN ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT REPORT (EIAR) AND BY A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS).

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1851230

• 29 Jan 2018Conditional

  ALTERATION OF PREVIOUSLY GRANTED DWELLING UNDER PLANNING REF:16/50951

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1850096

• 14 Aug 2017Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY CONTROL BUILDING/20KV SUBSTATION TO FACILITATE 2 NO. APPROVED WIND TURBINES (PLANNING REFERENCE: 14/51149) USING THE APPROVED SITE ENTRANCE AND ACCESS TRACKS. THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT WILL ALSO INCLUDE ADDITIONAL DRAINAGE WORKS TO CONNECT TO APPROVED DRAINAGE CHANNELS; UNDERGROUND ELECTRICAL CABLES; AND ALL ANCILLARY DEVELOPMENT AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1751265

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Natural Heritage Area: Illies Hill Bog NHA 001127

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Illies.

Architectural heritage

• Glashagh Bridge, bridge, 1840–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Three-arch humpback road bridge over Glashagh River, built c. 1860. Elliptical-headed arches with dressed squared stone voussoirs, cement rendered soffit, V-shaped squared rubble stone cutwaters with rubble stone cap, semi-circular rubble stone pier with domed rubble stone cap to abutments. Concrete underpinning. Random rubble stone spandrels and parapets, stepped parapet walls to south and north ends to bridge; soldier coursed squared rubble stone coping to parapets with some concrete repairs. Tarmacadam double carriageway.

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 Illies, about 1 in 10 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.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Illies · Na hUillí

Area

9,301,268 m² (930.13 ha, 2,298.39 acres)

Civil parish

Lower Fahan, and its townlands

Barony

Inishowen West

Electoral division

Illies, the unit of the census

Census 2022

945 people lived in 304 households in the Illies electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 40% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrowmore or Glentogher, Connaghkinnagoe, Evishbreedy, Glenard, Meendacalliagh, Meenkeeragh, Meenyanly, Sorne, Stranaclea

Placenames

Illies 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.