Mossy Glen

202 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Mossy Glen, from 28 m² to 1,045,671 m² (104.57 ha, 258.39 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 Mossy Glen 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.

• 8 Nov 2025N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING WITH EFFLUENT TREATMENT PLANT, ACCESS VIA AN EXISTING ESTABLISHED LANE WAY AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2561947

• 30 Sept 2025Conditional

  SHED AND PERMISSION FOR (1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING DUE TO DEFECTIVE BLOCKS (PLANNING REF. NO. 07/71768 REFERS) AND (2) ERECTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING WITH CHANGE OF HOUSE TYPE, CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS

  Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2561689

• 1 Aug 2024Conditional

  DWELLING HOUSE AND PERMISSION FOR DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, CONSTRUCTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING HOUSE AND CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES TOGETHER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS

  Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2461182

• 18 Nov 2022Unconditional

  ERECTION OF A SEMI SUBTERRANEAN ECO - HOME WITH GREEN ROOF SYSTEM AND INTEGRATED DOMESTIC GARAGE

  Extension of duration, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2251867

• 28 Feb 2022Refused

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING WITH ATTACHED CARPORT AND GARAGE, EFFLUENT TREATMENT PLANT AND ACCESS VIA AN EXISTING ESTABLISHED LANEWAY AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2250336

• 18 May 2021Conditional

  ERECTION OF AN EXTENSION TO EXISTING AGRICULTURAL SHED CONSISTING OF 2NO. ADDITIONAL BAYS WITH AN UNDERGROUND SLURRY TANK AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2150935

• 4 Jun 2019Unconditional

  THE REFURBISHMENT OF AND EXTENSION TO AN EXISTING OUTBUILDING TO FORM 2 NO. ADDITIONAL BEDROOMS, BATHROOM AND A GAMES ROOM LOUNGE

  Extension of duration · Donegal County Council, 1950831

• 16 May 2019Refused

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC OUTBUILDING, AND INSTALLATION OF AN ON-SITE SEWERAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM TOGETHER WITH ASSOCIATED WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1950678

• 8 Apr 2019N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC BUILDING, AND INSTALLATION OF AN ON-SITE SEWERAGE SYSTEM TOGETHER WITH ASSOCIATED WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1950468

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: North Inishowen Coast SAC 002012
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: North Inishowen Coast 002012

Recorded monuments

• DG013-001 Children's burial ground
  Description

  On sloping ground with fine views overlooking Kinnagoe Bay to SE. Remains comprise an oval raised mound (10m E-W by 8m N-S and estimated 1.5m in height on S side) with a slight oval depression in interior. There is evidence for the removal of vegetation (fushia) which appears to have been snapped or broken at the base as opposed to roots pulled out. The ground surface is in good condition and there are a number of boulders evident: these may be burial markers. There is some slight ground disturbance on the W slope. (Lacy et al. 1983, 317, no. 1837) Compiled by: Pauline Gleeson Date of upload: 10 December 2012

Architectural heritage

• House, 1770–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c. 1800, with contemporary single-storey extension to rear. Pitched thatch roof with cross-stitch ridge detail, with smooth rendered chimneystacks with terracotta pots to south-west gable and to roof ridge. Roughcast rendered walls with smooth rendered plinth course. Square-headed window openings with one-over-one horned timber sash windows. Square-headed door opening with battened timber door. Fronts directly onto road, set within own grounds overlooking Kinnagoe Bay. Single-storey rubble outbuildings with pitched corrugated-metal roofs to the north-east.

• House, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c. 1800, with single-cell toilet block to rear. Pitched felt roof with rendered chimneystacks to ridge of roof. Whitewashed rubble walls. Square-headed window openings with two-over-two horned timber sash windows with painted stone sills. Square-headed door opening with battened timber door and stone threshold. Set back from roadside, within own grounds.

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 high, moderately high, moderately low, 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 Mossy Glen.

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

Name

Mossy Glen

Area

3,260,217 m² (326.02 ha, 805.62 acres)

Civil parish

Lower Moville, and its townlands

Barony

Inishowen East

Electoral division

Greencastle, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Greencastle electoral division: 1,140 people in 417 households; 80% of households own their home; 44% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 33% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballybrack, Ballymagaraghy, Ballynally, Carnagarve, Glennagiveny, Meenletterbale

Placenames

Mossy Glen 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.