Mounthall

35 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Mounthall, from 654 m² to 192,104 m² (19.21 ha, 47.47 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 30 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Mounthall 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.

• 20 May 2026N/a

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND DOMESTIC GARAGE INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2660910

• 4 Apr 2025Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF DWELLING HOUSE AND DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH SEPTIC TANK / SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2560501

• 2 Dec 2024Conditional

  (1) CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE AND SEPTIC TANK / SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM, (2) CONSTRUCTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL STORAGE SHED AND (3) ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2461967

• 29 Apr 2024Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE/STORE AND SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2450120

• 9 Oct 2023Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE, DETACHED HOME OFFICE AND STORAGE SPACE, SEPTIC TANK / SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2351513

• 29 Jun 2023Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND DOMESTIC GARAGE INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2350941

• 5 Oct 2022Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE AND STORE INCORPORATING PLANT ROOM AND HOME OFFICE, SEPTIC TANK/SEWAGE SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2251674

• 13 Dec 2021Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL STORAGE SHED AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2152476

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 Mounthall.

Recorded monuments

• DG087-003 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  Internal diam. 10m-16.8m. An oval area enclosed by a much collapsed stone wall. There is a .7m gap in the E sector. At the NE, E and SE sides are circular foundations which would appear to be a later reuse of the site. It is situated on the N slope of a hill of rough pasture. The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated. Date of upload: 22 September 2008

Architectural heritage

• Outbuilding, 1780–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Complex of single-storey outbuildings on U-shape plan surrounding courtyard to rear (south) of Mounthall House (now ruinous and converted into an outbuilding), dated 1840. Attached nine-bay single-storey outbuilding to the east of site. Pitched natural slate roof with surviving sections of cast-iron rainwater goods, rubble stone walls, square-headed window with red brick voussoirs wand remains of timber and metal window fittings, square-headed doorways with red brick voussoirs and with remains of battened timber doors, three segmental-headed carriage-arches to the north end of the front elevation (west) having red brick voussoirs, and blocked former segmental-headed carriage-arch to the south end of main elevation having red brick voussoirs. Attached nine-bay single-storey outbuilding on L-shaped plan to the south having single-bay block to the north end of the north elevation having pitched natural slate roof, cast-iron rainwater goods, and with rendered rubble stone chimneystack and raised rendered coping to the north gable end of short block to the north (north-west), rendered rubble stone walls, and square-headed window openings with timber fittings, square-headed doorways with battened timber doors and half-doors, and with blocked former segmental-headed carriage-arch to the short block to the north-west. Attached two-bay single-storey outbuilding to the west side of yard having hipped and pitched corrugated-metal roof, rubble stone walls, and with two square-headed carriage-arches having corrugated-metal sheeted doors. Remains of limewash to some of the outbuildings. Cut stone date plaque (on rectangular-plan) to eastern block reading ‘WY AD 1840’. Rubble stone gate piers (on square-plan) to the south. Former walled garden (on rectangular-plan) to the south-east of site having partially rendered rubble stone walls. Modern outbuildings and sheds to north incorporating remains of Mounthall House with rubble stone walls having ashlar quoins to corners, and with square-headed window and door openings, now blocked. Former entrance gateway to house to the west comprising a pair of rubble stone gate piers (on square-plan) having ashlar pyramidal coping over, and with a pair of wrought-iron gates. Gateway flanked to either side by curved sections of rubble stone boundary walls. Rubble stone estate boundary walls to road-frontage to the west and south. Set back from road to the south of Killygordon.

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

At the centre of the townland of Mounthall, about 1 in 10 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 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 Mounthall.

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.

No address of the register names Mounthall with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Mounthall

Area

2,132,993 m² (213.3 ha, 527.07 acres)

Civil parish

Donaghmore, and its townlands

Barony

Raphoe South

Electoral division

Gleneely, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,672 people lived in 557 households in the Gleneely electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 41% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Avaltygort, Corlea, Cornabrogue, Corradooey, Drumfergus, Edenamoghil, Gleneely, Monellan

Placenames

Mounthall 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.