# Murvagh Upper Glebe, Co. Donegal: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Drumhome, barony of Tirhugh, Co. Donegal. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,189,110 m² (118.91 ha, 293.84 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 32 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 9,172 m² (0.92 ha, 2.27 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 13 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Drumhome, https://everytownland.com/donegal/parish/drumhome.md - Barony: Tirhugh - Electoral division: Ballintra, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Ballintra electoral division: 772 people in 281 households; 80% of households own their home; 39% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 9% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Donegal, https://everytownland.com/donegal.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/13909 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 52149 - Centre: latitude 54.598181, longitude -8.155602 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 32 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Murvagh Upper Glebe, from 226 m² to 513,492 m² (51.35 ha, 126.89 acres); 16 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1526490: 513,492 m² (51.35 ha, 126.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1526490.md - Parcel 1428330: 50,616 m² (5.06 ha, 12.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1428330.md - Parcel 4738116: 30,983 m² (3.1 ha, 7.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4738116.md - Parcel 1333178: 28,878 m² (2.89 ha, 7.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1333178.md - Parcel 5962768: 25,267 m² (2.53 ha, 6.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5962768.md - Parcel 1401868: 25,082 m² (2.51 ha, 6.2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1401868.md - Parcel 6001798: 23,361 m² (2.34 ha, 5.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6001798.md - Parcel 1526491: 22,651 m² (2.27 ha, 5.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1526491.md - Parcel 1319437: 17,119 m² (1.71 ha, 4.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1319437.md - Parcel 1333182: 14,191 m² (1.42 ha, 3.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1333182.md - Parcel 1319466: 14,004 m² (1.4 ha, 3.46 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1319466.md - Parcel 1333179: 13,574 m² (1.36 ha, 3.35 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1333179.md - Parcel 3623338: 12,639 m² (1.26 ha, 3.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3623338.md - Parcel 5536811: 11,994 m² (1.2 ha, 2.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5536811.md - Parcel 1301286: 11,057 m² (1.11 ha, 2.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1301286.md - Parcel 1319433: 9,819 m² (0.98 ha, 2.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1319433.md - Parcel 1526684: 8,524 m² (0.85 ha, 2.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1526684.md - Parcel 1319431: 8,436 m² (0.84 ha, 2.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1319431.md - Parcel 1333180: 7,051 m² (0.71 ha, 1.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1333180.md - Parcel 4268692: 6,764 m² (0.68 ha, 1.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4268692.md - Parcel 1327650: 6,224 m² (0.62 ha, 1.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1327650.md - Parcel 1319536: 5,961 m² (0.6 ha, 1.47 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1319536.md - Parcel 1342063: 4,571 m² (0.46 ha, 1.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1342063.md - Parcel 1405381: 3,939 m² (0.39 ha, 0.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1405381.md - Parcel 1327652: 3,840 m² (0.38 ha, 0.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1327652.md - Parcel 1353092: 2,667 m² (0.27 ha, 0.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1353092.md - Parcel 5038036: 2,378 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5038036.md - Parcel 4738112: 2,120 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4738112.md - Parcel 5137216: 1,800 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5137216.md - Parcel 4738107: 1,031 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4738107.md - Parcel 1330129: 580 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1330129.md - Parcel 4738104: 226 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4738104.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Murvagh Upper Glebe 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) 13 applications, newest first. - 2 Oct 2024, Donegal County Council 2461549: Refused. Permission, 1 home. ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) ACCOMPANIES THIS APPLICATION. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2461549/0 - 6 Feb 2024, Donegal County Council 2460090: Conditional. Permission. CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460090/0 - 21 Dec 2023, Donegal County Council 2352006: Refused. Permission, 1 home. ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK. A NATURA IMPACT ASSESSMENT (NIS) ACCOMPANIES THIS APPLICATION. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2352006/0 - 13 Jul 2022, Donegal County Council 2251210: Refused. Permission, 1 home. ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) ACCOMPANIES THIS APPLICATION. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2251210/0 - 5 May 2022, Donegal County Council 2250786: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. ERECTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE, PROPRIETARY WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM, PERCOLATION AREA AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2250786/0 - 12 Apr 2022, Donegal County Council 2250636: Conditional. Retention. DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2250636/0 - 15 Dec 2021, Donegal County Council 2152507: Refused. Retention, 1 home. ANCILLARY BUILDING FOR THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE ON THE SITE OF A FORMER DWELLING AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2152507/0 - 14 Jul 2021, Donegal County Council 2151411: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) ACCOMPANIES THIS APPLICATION. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2151411/0 - 13 Jul 2021, Donegal County Council 2151395: Refused. Retention, 1 home. REPLACEMENT DWELLING HOUSE ON THE SITE OF A FORMER DWELLING HOUSE AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2151395/0 - 27 Nov 2020, Donegal County Council 2051808: Refused. Permission, 1 home. ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2051808/0 - 9 Sept 2020, Donegal County Council 2051267: N/a. Permission, 1 home. ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2051267/0 - 18 Nov 2019, Donegal County Council 1951783: Refused. Permission, 1 home. ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1951783/0 - 18 Nov 2019, Donegal County Council 1951784: Refused. Permission, 1 home. ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1951784/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: Donegal Bay (Murvagh) SAC, site code 000133, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/000133 - Special Protection Area: Donegal Bay SPA, site code 004151, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/spa/004151 - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Donegal Bay (Murvagh), site code 000133 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Murvagh Upper Glebe. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Murvagh Upper Glebe. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: About 1 in 5 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 Murvagh Upper Glebe. - 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/murvagh-upper-glebe.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/donegal/murvagh-upper-glebe.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/donegal/murvagh-upper-glebe.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Murvagh Upper Glebe 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) - Drumbristan Glebe: https://everytownland.com/donegal/drumbristan-glebe.md - Drumchory Glebe: https://everytownland.com/donegal/drumchory-glebe.md - Mullanacross: https://everytownland.com/donegal/mullanacross.md - Murvagh Lower: https://everytownland.com/donegal/murvagh-lower.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/murvagh-upper-glebe - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/donegal/murvagh-upper-glebe