Maas
Maas is a townland in the civil parish of Inishkeel, barony of Boylagh, Co. Donegal. Its name in Irish is An Más.
- Area
- 260 ha
- 643 acres
- Land parcels
- 195
- registered freehold, median 3,150 m² (0.32 ha, 0.78 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 11
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
195 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Maas, from 28 m² to 256,568 m² (25.66 ha, 63.4 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 28 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Maas 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
19 Feb 2025Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DOMESTIC ENTRANCE TO ACCESS EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2560208
7 Dec 2022Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A TWO STOREY EXTENSION TO REPLACE A SINGLE STOREY ROOM
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2251955
19 Aug 2022Refused
A TEN YEAR PLANNING PERMISSION FOR A RENEWABLE ENERGY DEVELOPMENT WITH A 40-YEAR OPERATIONAL LIFE FROM THE DATE OF COMMISSIONING. THE DEVELOPMENT WILL CONSISTS OF (1) CONSTRUCTION OF 3 WIND TURBINE GENERATORS AND ASSOCIATED HARDSTANDS AREAS WITHIN THE FOLLOWING PARAMETERS (A) A TOTAL TIP HEIGHT IN THE RANGE OF 145 METRES MINIMUM TO 150 METRES MAXIMUM (B) HUB HEIGHT IN THE RANGE OF 82 METRES MINIMUM TO 87 METRES MAXIMUM (C) ROTOR DIAMETER IN THE RANGE OF 121 METRES MINIMUM TO 126 METRES MAXIMUM (2) UPGRADING OF EXISTING SITE ACCESS TRACKS AND ROADS AND PROVISION OF NEW SITE ACCESS TRACK AND ROADS (3) WIDENING OF 3 NO. EXISTING SITE ENTRANCES AND PROVISION OF A NEW SITE ENTRANCE (4) WIDENING OF 4 NO. BENDS AND 1 NO. JUNCTION ALONG THE PUBLIC ROAD L2563 (5) CONSTRUCTION OF (A) A CONTROL BUILDING / SUBSTATION WITH A FENCED COMPOUND PREVIOUSLY PERMITTED UNDER PLANNING REFERENCE 14/50553 AND EXTENDED UNDER PLANNING APPLICATION REFERENCE 19/51227 (B) A NEW TEMPORARY SITE COMPOUND FOR USE DURING CONSTRUCTION (6) SITE DRAINAGE NETWORK (7) INSTALLATION OF INTERNAL WIND FARM UNDERGROUND POWER AND COMMUNICATIONS CABLING (7) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT AND ANCILLARY WORKS. A ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ACCESSMENT REPORT (EIAR) AND NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT ACCOMPANY THIS APPLICATION
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2251393
19 Apr 2022Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE/STORE AND SEPTIC TANK WITH PERCOLATION AREA AND ANY ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2250672
11 Mar 2022Conditional
AMENDMENTS TO PREVIOUSLY GRANTED PERMISSION (REF. NO. 18/50349 REFERS) CONSISTING OF (1) DEMOLITION OF AN EXISTING SEMI-HEXAGONAL BAY WINDOW TO THE FRONT ELEVATION OF THE DWELLING AND CONSTRUCTION OF A REPLACEMENT BOX TYPE BAY WINDOW WITH ZINC CLADDING, (2) CHANGES TO FENESTRATION ON THE FRONT ELEVATION OF THE EXISTING DWELLING, (3) ERECTION OF A SMALL TERRACE AREA TO THE FRONT ELEVATION OF THE EXISTING DWELLING, (4) EXTENSION TO THE REAR EXTENSION BY A FURTHER 3.2M, (5) FORMATION OF A NEW REAR ACCESS TO THE EXISTING BASEMENT, (6) AMENDMENTS TO THE INTERNAL LAYOUT AND (7) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2250421
13 Dec 2021Conditional
ERECTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL SHED INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2152466
13 Dec 2021Conditional
ERECTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL SHED INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2152467
15 Oct 2019Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND SECONDARY TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1951547
11 Apr 2018Conditional
ERECTION OF A DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1850549
9 Mar 2018Conditional
DEMOLITION OF AN EXISTING SHED; THE CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION AND ATTACHED 'GRANNY FLAT' TO THE REAR OF DWELLING; CHANGES TO WINDOW OPES ON EXISTING ELEVATIONS; UPGRADING OF EXISTING SEPTIC TANK TO A NEW WASTE-WATER TREATMENT UNIT WITH SOIL POLISHING FILTER AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1850349
21 Jul 2017Refused
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND SECONDRY TREATMENT SYSTEM PLUS ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS TO SAFELY COMPLETE THE PROJECT
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1751155
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
- Special Area of Conservation: West of Ardara/Maas Road SAC 000197
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: West Of Ardara/Maas Road 000197
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Maas.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Maas.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Maas, about 1 in 5 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. Parts of the land are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Maas.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Maas with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Maas · An Más
- Area
- 2,600,130 m² (260.01 ha, 642.51 acres)
- Civil parish
- Inishkeel, and its townlands
- Barony
- Boylagh
- Electoral division
- Maas, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 272 people lived in 104 households in the Maas electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 39% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyiriston, Gortnasillagh, Kilkenny, Lackaghatermon, Letterilly, Loughderryduff
- Placenames
- Maas 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.