# Lower Maymore, Co. Donegal: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Taughboyne, barony of Raphoe North, Co. Donegal. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 450,264 m² (45.03 ha, 111.26 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,637 m² (0.26 ha, 0.65 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 5 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Taughboyne, https://everytownland.com/donegal/parish/taughboyne.md - Barony: Raphoe North - Electoral division: St. Johnstown, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 1,396 people lived in 537 households in the St. Johnstown electoral division. 69% of households owned their home. 40% of homes were built since 2001. 7% 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/16522 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 51804 - Centre: latitude 54.911818, longitude -7.457222 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lower Maymore, from 158 m² to 123,394 m² (12.34 ha, 30.49 acres); 20 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1373035: 123,394 m² (12.34 ha, 30.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1373035.md - Parcel 2446813: 109,307 m² (10.93 ha, 27.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2446813.md - Parcel 1393871: 55,480 m² (5.55 ha, 13.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1393871.md - Parcel 1331728: 47,774 m² (4.78 ha, 11.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1331728.md - Parcel 1428427: 30,327 m² (3.03 ha, 7.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1428427.md - Parcel 1391361: 16,888 m² (1.69 ha, 4.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1391361.md - Parcel 1388931: 10,890 m² (1.09 ha, 2.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1388931.md - Parcel 1328792: 3,815 m² (0.38 ha, 0.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1328792.md - Parcel 2488104: 3,381 m² (0.34 ha, 0.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2488104.md - Parcel 5870251: 2,924 m² (0.29 ha, 0.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5870251.md - Parcel 3659726: 2,920 m² (0.29 ha, 0.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3659726.md - Parcel 2488103: 2,869 m² (0.29 ha, 0.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2488103.md - Parcel 3659724: 2,815 m² (0.28 ha, 0.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3659724.md - Parcel 1329807: 2,788 m² (0.28 ha, 0.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1329807.md - Parcel 5894495: 2,656 m² (0.27 ha, 0.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5894495.md - Parcel 1373951: 2,618 m² (0.26 ha, 0.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1373951.md - Parcel 5062317: 2,576 m² (0.26 ha, 0.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5062317.md - Parcel 3659725: 2,523 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3659725.md - Parcel 1375082: 2,395 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1375082.md - Parcel 3659264: 2,177 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3659264.md - Parcel 1309894: 2,058 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1309894.md - Parcel 1375692: 1,926 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1375692.md - Parcel 1346878: 1,514 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1346878.md - Parcel 1369286: 1,243 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1369286.md - Parcel 1410650: 1,131 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1410650.md - Parcel 5870253: 871 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5870253.md - Parcel 1378636: 852 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1378636.md - Parcel 4893603: 499 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4893603.md - Parcel 1305401: 438 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1305401.md - Parcel 5894588: 158 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5894588.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Lower Maymore 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) 5 applications, newest first. - 25 Mar 2026, Donegal County Council 2660506: N/a. Permission, 1 home. CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING WITH CONNECTION TO PROPOSED SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ANCILLARY WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660506/0 - 22 Sept 2021, Donegal County Council 2151905: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. (1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE (2) CONSTRUCTION OF NEW DWELLING HOUSE (3) ALL ANCILLARY SERVICES ASSOCIATED WITH THE DEVELOPMENT. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2151905/0 - 26 Feb 2021, Donegal County Council 2150327: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH CONNECTION TO PROPOSED SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2150327/0 - 10 Feb 2021, Donegal County Council 2150201: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK / SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2150201/0 - 14 Oct 2020, Donegal County Council 2051505: Refused. Permission, 1 home. CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK / SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2051505/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: River Finn SAC, site code 002301, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/002301 - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: River Foyle, Mongavlin To Carrigans, site code 002067 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Lower Maymore. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Lower Maymore. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Lower Maymore, about 1 in 5 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: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as 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 Lower Maymore. - 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/lower-maymore.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/donegal/lower-maymore.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/donegal/lower-maymore.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Lower Maymore 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) - Mongavlin: https://everytownland.com/donegal/mongavlin.md - Upper Maymore: https://everytownland.com/donegal/upper-maymore.md - Whitehill: https://everytownland.com/donegal/whitehill-52669.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/lower-maymore - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/donegal/lower-maymore