Monglass

33 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Monglass, from 683 m² to 346,230 m² (34.62 ha, 85.56 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 13 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Monglass 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.

• 25 Jul 2025Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DRY BED AGRICULTURAL SHED TO REAR OF PERMITTED SLATTED AGRICULTURAL SHED GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF: 21/52528 AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS WITHIN EXISTING FARM YARD

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2561284

• 18 Jul 2025N/a

  ERECT A DRY BED AGRICULTURAL SHED TO REAR OF PERMITTED SLATTED AGRICULTURAL SHED GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF: 21/52528 AND WITH ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS WITHIN EXISTING FARM YARD

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2561234

• 30 May 2025N/a

  ERECTION OF A DRY BED AGRICULTURAL SHED TO ABUT EXISTING SLATTED AGRICULTURAL SHED PERMITTED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 21/52528 AND WITH ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS WITHIN EXISTING FARM YARD

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2560897

• 30 Jan 2023Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND SEPTIC TANK SYSTEM WITH PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2350096

• 17 Dec 2021Conditional

  ERECTION OF A SLATTED AGRICULTURAL SHED TO ABUT EXISTING SLATTED AGRICULTURAL SHED AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2152528

• 3 May 2017Conditional

  (1) CHANGE OF USE FROM VACANT PUBLIC HOUSE TO PRE-SCHOOL FACILITY. (2) ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING SITE ENTRANCE TO PROVIDE 2 WAY ACCESS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1750654

• 19 Apr 2017Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE AND SEPTIC TANK SYSTEM WITH PERCOLATION AREA

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1750584

• 13 Apr 2017N/a

  (1)CHANGE OF USE FROM VACANT PUBLIC HOUSE TO PRE-SCHOOL FACILITY. (2)ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING SITE ENTRANCE TO PROVIDE 2 WAY ACCESS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1750550

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

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Monglass.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Monglass.

Architectural heritage

• Monglass, house, 1880–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1890, with advanced open pedimented front to north bay, advanced open portico style porch to projecting central hallway, angled single-storey canted bay window to south and two single-storey canted bay windows to north elevation. Hipped slate roof with gable-fronted projections to front and side elevations, hipped slate roofs to canted bays, corniced red brick chimneystacks with clay pots, profiled cast-iron rainwater goods over modillion eaves course. Roughcast rendered walls over projecting roughly dressed ashlar plinth; projecting porch with half walls and Doric columns supporting hipped roof over. Square-headed window openings, raised plaster block-and-start reveals, painted chamfered sills, various windows including paired timber one-over-one, six-over-one and four-over-one horned timber sash windows; fixed tripartite leaded Art Nouveau influenced coloured glass windows with stone mullions and transoms; fixed tripartite frosted glass windows with stone mullions. Square-headed door opening with leaded coloured top and sidelights, timber glazed and panelled door with leaded coloured glass, cut stone steps to portico. Set in own grounds fronted by double gates, sandstone ashlar capped piers with projecting plinths and railings to flanking walls. Farmyard complex to south around yard including three-bay two-storey outbuilding to north of yard, four-bay two-storey outbuilding to west, single-bay, and single-storey outbuilding to east with pitched slate roofs, limewashed rubble stone walls, and square-headed door and window openings with depressed red brick arches, some with block-and-start reveals.

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

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Monglass with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Monglass

Area

1,503,773 m² (150.38 ha, 371.59 acres)

Civil parish

Allsaints, and its townlands

Barony

Raphoe North

Electoral division

Castleforward, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Castleforward electoral division: 1,345 people in 444 households; 77% of households own their home; 47% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cloon, Corncamble, Creeve, Garshooey, Leitrim, Tirroddy

Placenames

Monglass 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.