Ryelands

29 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ryelands, from 1,488 m² to 255,368 m² (25.54 ha, 63.1 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 18 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 Ryelands 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.

• 3 Aug 2022Conditional

  (1) CONVERSION, RENOVATION AND RESTORATION OF THE EXISTING FORMER COACHHOUSE TO PROVIDE A DWELLING HOUSE, WORKS TO INCLUDE PROVISION OF A NEW ROOF, NEW WINDOWS AND DOORS TO THE BUILDING (2) DEVELOPMENT OF NEW SITE ENTRANCE FROM THE EXISTING PUBLIC ROAD (3) INSTALLATION OF A NEW SEPTIC TANK / SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2251321

• 4 Jul 2022N/a

  (1) CONVERSION, RENOVATIONS AND RESTORATION OF EXISTING COACHHOUSE TO PROVIDE A DWELLING HOUSE, WORKS TO INCLUDE A NEW ROOF, NEW WINDOWS AND DOORS TO THE BUILDING (2) DEVELOPMENT OF A NEW SITE ENTRANCE FROM THE EXISTING PUBLIC ROAD (3) INSTALLATION OF A NEW SEPTIC TANK/SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2251141

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 Ryelands.

Recorded monuments

• DG054-028 Standing stone
  Description

  Marked as 'Standing Stone' on the 2nd edition of the OS 6-inch map and as 'Standing Stone (site of)' on the 3rd edition. There are no visible remains. Situated on the NW slope of Dooish mountain. 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

• DG054-051 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  Described by Ó Muirgheasa in 1936 as ' "Tobar Slan, in the townland of Ryelands", near Manorcunningham, is mentioned in O'Donovan's Survey Letters. He believed it was the same as a historic well called Tobar Cobharthach, as it means the Well of Healing' (Ó Muirgheasa 1936, 155). (Ó Muirgheasa No. 79) Compiled by Caimin O'Brien Date of upload/revision : 04 November 2011

Architectural heritage

• Woodtown, house, 1760–1800 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey vernacular house, built c. 1780. Now out of use. Pitched natural slate or Roshin stone slab roof with overhanging eaves, projecting eaves course, remains of cast-iron rainwater goods, and with rendered chimneystacks to the gable ends to north and south. Roughcast rendered walls over smooth recessed plinth course; render removed to north (attached outbuilding demolished) exposing coursed narrow slate or Roshin stone construction. Square-headed window openings with concrete sills, and having replacement timber casement windows; windows at first floor level rise to eaves. Central square-headed doorway with replacement glazed timber door. Set parallel to and back from road with yard to the east. Bounded on road-frontage to the east by hedgerow. Altered outbuilding to the south having pitched corrugated-metal roof, rubble stone walls, and square-headed openings. Remains of single-storey rubble stone outbuilding to the north formerly with pitched roof and segmental-headed carriage-arch to the east elevation. Located in the rural countryside to the east of Manorcunningham.

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 Ryelands, 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 high, 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 Ryelands.

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

Name

Ryelands

Area

1,775,473 m² (177.55 ha, 438.73 acres)

Civil parish

Raymoghy, and its townlands

Barony

Raphoe North

Electoral division

Treantaghmucklagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

860 people lived in 282 households in the Treantaghmucklagh electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 44% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Castleblaugh, Dooish, Dunduffsfort, Galdonagh, Lismoghry

Placenames

Ryelands 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.