# Monglass, Co. Donegal: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Allsaints, barony of Raphoe North, Co. Donegal. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,503,773 m² (150.38 ha, 371.59 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 33 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 5,494 m² (0.55 ha, 1.36 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 8 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Allsaints, https://everytownland.com/donegal/parish/allsaints.md - Barony: Raphoe North - Electoral division: Castleforward, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Donegal, https://everytownland.com/donegal.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/15143 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 52074 - Centre: latitude 54.980306, longitude -7.452265 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 33 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Monglass, from 683 m² to 346,230 m² (34.62 ha, 85.56 acres); 13 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1391877: 346,230 m² (34.62 ha, 85.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1391877.md - Parcel 1328863: 277,938 m² (27.79 ha, 68.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1328863.md - Parcel 5217099: 187,194 m² (18.72 ha, 46.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5217099.md - Parcel 1328604: 177,224 m² (17.72 ha, 43.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1328604.md - Parcel 1333783: 161,957 m² (16.2 ha, 40.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1333783.md - Parcel 4538854: 68,785 m² (6.88 ha, 17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4538854.md - Parcel 1328339: 56,015 m² (5.6 ha, 13.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1328339.md - Parcel 1329779: 34,767 m² (3.48 ha, 8.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1329779.md - Parcel 1336294: 25,617 m² (2.56 ha, 6.33 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1336294.md - Parcel 2734148: 15,672 m² (1.57 ha, 3.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2734148.md - Parcel 1309946: 9,360 m² (0.94 ha, 2.31 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1309946.md - Parcel 1327899: 8,489 m² (0.85 ha, 2.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1327899.md - Parcel 1407797: 7,108 m² (0.71 ha, 1.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1407797.md - Parcel 5217095: 6,474 m² (0.65 ha, 1.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5217095.md - Parcel 1393925: 6,386 m² (0.64 ha, 1.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1393925.md - Parcel 1391878: 6,115 m² (0.61 ha, 1.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1391878.md - Parcel 1315276: 5,494 m² (0.55 ha, 1.36 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1315276.md - Parcel 1321516: 4,068 m² (0.41 ha, 1.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1321516.md - Parcel 5367467: 3,801 m² (0.38 ha, 0.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5367467.md - Parcel 1350903: 3,052 m² (0.31 ha, 0.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1350903.md - Parcel 2734213: 2,840 m² (0.28 ha, 0.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2734213.md - Parcel 1406660: 2,715 m² (0.27 ha, 0.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1406660.md - Parcel 2734201: 2,588 m² (0.26 ha, 0.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2734201.md - Parcel 1369239: 2,092 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1369239.md - Parcel 1391310: 2,082 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1391310.md - Parcel 2734180: 2,065 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2734180.md - Parcel 1398931: 2,027 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1398931.md - Parcel 1320306: 2,011 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1320306.md - Parcel 1318764: 1,986 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1318764.md - Parcel 1319262: 1,940 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1319262.md - Parcel 4638991: 1,295 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4638991.md - Parcel 1301560: 1,267 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1301560.md - Parcel 1326328: 683 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1326328.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 8 applications, newest first. - 25 Jul 2025, Donegal County Council 2561284: Conditional. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2561284/0 - 18 Jul 2025, Donegal County Council 2561234: N/a. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2561234/0 - 30 May 2025, Donegal County Council 2560897: N/a. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560897/0 - 30 Jan 2023, Donegal County Council 2350096: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND SEPTIC TANK SYSTEM WITH PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2350096/0 - 17 Dec 2021, Donegal County Council 2152528: Conditional. Permission. ERECTION OF A SLATTED AGRICULTURAL SHED TO ABUT EXISTING SLATTED AGRICULTURAL SHED AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2152528/0 - 3 May 2017, Donegal County Council 1750654: Conditional. Permission. (1) CHANGE OF USE FROM VACANT PUBLIC HOUSE TO PRE-SCHOOL FACILITY. (2) ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING SITE ENTRANCE TO PROVIDE 2 WAY ACCESS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1750654/0 - 19 Apr 2017, Donegal County Council 1750584: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE AND SEPTIC TANK SYSTEM WITH PERCOLATION AREA. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1750584/0 - 13 Apr 2017, Donegal County Council 1750550: N/a. Permission. (1)CHANGE OF USE FROM VACANT PUBLIC HOUSE TO PRE-SCHOOL FACILITY. (2)ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING SITE ENTRANCE TO PROVIDE 2 WAY ACCESS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1750550/0 Applicants are not shown. ## 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 Monglass. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Monglass. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Monglass, house, 1880–1900, Regional interest, registry number 40905526, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=DG®no=40905526. 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. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: About 1 in 10 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 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, 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/monglass.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/donegal/monglass.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/donegal/monglass.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Monglass 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) - Cloon: https://everytownland.com/donegal/cloon.md - Corncamble: https://everytownland.com/donegal/corncamble.md - Creeve: https://everytownland.com/donegal/creeve.md - Garshooey: https://everytownland.com/donegal/garshooey.md - Leitrim: https://everytownland.com/donegal/leitrim-51706.md - Tirroddy: https://everytownland.com/donegal/tirroddy-52525.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/monglass - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/donegal/monglass