# Mounthall, Co. Donegal: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Donaghmore, barony of Raphoe South, Co. Donegal. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 2,132,993 m² (213.3 ha, 527.07 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 35 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 3,810 m² (0.38 ha, 0.94 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 8 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Donaghmore, https://everytownland.com/donegal/parish/donaghmore.md - Barony: Raphoe South - Electoral division: Gleneely, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Donegal, https://everytownland.com/donegal.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/16415 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 52087 - Centre: latitude 54.762214, longitude -7.69665 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 35 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Mounthall, from 654 m² to 192,104 m² (19.21 ha, 47.47 acres); 30 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1412163: 192,104 m² (19.21 ha, 47.47 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1412163.md - Parcel 1331645: 168,192 m² (16.82 ha, 41.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1331645.md - Parcel 1378019: 123,559 m² (12.36 ha, 30.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1378019.md - Parcel 1421716: 94,192 m² (9.42 ha, 23.28 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1421716.md - Parcel 1393768: 66,122 m² (6.61 ha, 16.34 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1393768.md - Parcel 1365133: 53,749 m² (5.37 ha, 13.28 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1365133.md - Parcel 1385185: 36,738 m² (3.67 ha, 9.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1385185.md - Parcel 3657359: 35,759 m² (3.58 ha, 8.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3657359.md - Parcel 1304066: 34,208 m² (3.42 ha, 8.45 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1304066.md - Parcel 1303956: 32,895 m² (3.29 ha, 8.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1303956.md - Parcel 1383763: 20,959 m² (2.1 ha, 5.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1383763.md - Parcel 1424508: 15,755 m² (1.58 ha, 3.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1424508.md - Parcel 1422242: 7,356 m² (0.74 ha, 1.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1422242.md - Parcel 1422209: 6,560 m² (0.66 ha, 1.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1422209.md - Parcel 1424650: 5,735 m² (0.57 ha, 1.42 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1424650.md - Parcel 1303957: 4,684 m² (0.47 ha, 1.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1303957.md - Parcel 1422433: 3,917 m² (0.39 ha, 0.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1422433.md - Parcel 4766100: 3,810 m² (0.38 ha, 0.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4766100.md - Parcel 1412811: 3,062 m² (0.31 ha, 0.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1412811.md - Parcel 1329661: 3,034 m² (0.3 ha, 0.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1329661.md - Parcel 5763920: 3,027 m² (0.3 ha, 0.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5763920.md - Parcel 1406632: 2,717 m² (0.27 ha, 0.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1406632.md - Parcel 1389284: 2,637 m² (0.26 ha, 0.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1389284.md - Parcel 1428888: 2,372 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1428888.md - Parcel 4801222: 2,184 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4801222.md - Parcel 1336594: 2,057 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1336594.md - Parcel 1374930: 2,028 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1374930.md - Parcel 1309707: 1,814 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1309707.md - Parcel 1407650: 1,805 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1407650.md - Parcel 1301378: 1,728 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1301378.md - Parcel 1417013: 1,588 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1417013.md - Parcel 5649252: 1,264 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5649252.md - Parcel 1388788: 1,209 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1388788.md - Parcel 1391234: 1,045 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1391234.md - Parcel 1321345: 654 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1321345.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 8 applications, newest first. - 20 May 2026, Donegal County Council 2660910: N/a. Permission, 1 home. ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND DOMESTIC GARAGE INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660910/0 - 4 Apr 2025, Donegal County Council 2560501: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. CONSTRUCTION OF DWELLING HOUSE AND DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH SEPTIC TANK / SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560501/0 - 2 Dec 2024, Donegal County Council 2461967: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. (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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2461967/0 - 29 Apr 2024, Donegal County Council 2450120: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE/STORE AND SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2450120/0 - 9 Oct 2023, Donegal County Council 2351513: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE, DETACHED HOME OFFICE AND STORAGE SPACE, SEPTIC TANK / SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2351513/0 - 29 Jun 2023, Donegal County Council 2350941: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND DOMESTIC GARAGE INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2350941/0 - 5 Oct 2022, Donegal County Council 2251674: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2251674/0 - 13 Dec 2021, Donegal County Council 2152476: Conditional. Permission. CONSTRUCTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL STORAGE SHED AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2152476/0 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 Mounthall. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - DG087-003: Ringfort - cashel, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDG087-003----. 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 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Outbuilding, 1780–1840, Regional interest, registry number 40907849, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=DG®no=40907849. 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. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - 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: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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 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/mounthall.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/donegal/mounthall.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/donegal/mounthall.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Mounthall 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) - Avaltygort: https://everytownland.com/donegal/avaltygort.md - Corlea: https://everytownland.com/donegal/corlea-50723.md - Cornabrogue: https://everytownland.com/donegal/cornabrogue.md - Corradooey: https://everytownland.com/donegal/corradooey-50738.md - Drumfergus: https://everytownland.com/donegal/drumfergus.md - Edenamoghil: https://everytownland.com/donegal/edenamoghil.md - Gleneely: https://everytownland.com/donegal/gleneely.md - Monellan: https://everytownland.com/donegal/monellan.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/mounthall - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/donegal/mounthall