# Ryelands, Co. Donegal: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Raymoghy, barony of Raphoe North, Co. Donegal. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,775,473 m² (177.55 ha, 438.73 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 29 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 12,243 m² (1.22 ha, 3.03 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Raymoghy, https://everytownland.com/donegal/parish/raymoghy.md - Barony: Raphoe North - Electoral division: Treantaghmucklagh, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Donegal, https://everytownland.com/donegal.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/16572 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 52338 - Centre: latitude 54.953151, longitude -7.548129 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 29 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ryelands, from 1,488 m² to 255,368 m² (25.54 ha, 63.1 acres); 18 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1375039: 255,368 m² (25.54 ha, 63.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1375039.md - Parcel 1393920: 194,789 m² (19.48 ha, 48.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1393920.md - Parcel 1318442: 192,787 m² (19.28 ha, 47.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1318442.md - Parcel 1318444: 178,047 m² (17.8 ha, 44 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1318444.md - Parcel 1395341: 171,798 m² (17.18 ha, 42.45 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1395341.md - Parcel 5218099: 148,519 m² (14.85 ha, 36.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5218099.md - Parcel 1397429: 141,826 m² (14.18 ha, 35.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1397429.md - Parcel 1372075: 135,743 m² (13.57 ha, 33.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1372075.md - Parcel 1386939: 93,448 m² (9.34 ha, 23.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1386939.md - Parcel 1301559: 66,689 m² (6.67 ha, 16.48 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1301559.md - Parcel 1426793: 39,759 m² (3.98 ha, 9.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1426793.md - Parcel 1331515: 36,239 m² (3.62 ha, 8.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1331515.md - Parcel 1369237: 28,809 m² (2.88 ha, 7.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1369237.md - Parcel 1318443: 16,099 m² (1.61 ha, 3.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1318443.md - Parcel 1414963: 12,243 m² (1.22 ha, 3.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1414963.md - Parcel 3658665: 5,811 m² (0.58 ha, 1.44 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3658665.md - Parcel 4291995: 5,356 m² (0.54 ha, 1.32 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4291995.md - Parcel 1350847: 4,505 m² (0.45 ha, 1.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1350847.md - Parcel 4739433: 3,812 m² (0.38 ha, 0.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4739433.md - Parcel 1407796: 3,566 m² (0.36 ha, 0.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1407796.md - Parcel 4739423: 3,311 m² (0.33 ha, 0.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4739423.md - Parcel 3658666: 2,698 m² (0.27 ha, 0.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3658666.md - Parcel 4748972: 2,437 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4748972.md - Parcel 4707844: 2,215 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4707844.md - Parcel 4707873: 2,206 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4707873.md - Parcel 1397430: 2,161 m² (0.22 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1397430.md - Parcel 1400381: 2,132 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1400381.md - Parcel 4749024: 2,048 m² (0.2 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4749024.md - Parcel 1373007: 1,488 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1373007.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 2 applications, newest first. - 3 Aug 2022, Donegal County Council 2251321: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. (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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2251321/0 - 4 Jul 2022, Donegal County Council 2251141: N/a. Permission, 1 home. (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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2251141/0 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 Ryelands. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - DG054-028: Standing stone, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDG054-028----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDG054-051----. 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 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) - Woodtown, house, 1760–1800, Regional interest, registry number 40905441, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=DG®no=40905441. 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. ## 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 Ryelands, 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 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 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/ryelands.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/donegal/ryelands.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/donegal/ryelands.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Ryelands 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) - Castleblaugh: https://everytownland.com/donegal/castleblaugh.md - Dooish: https://everytownland.com/donegal/dooish-50942.md - Dunduffsfort: https://everytownland.com/donegal/dunduffsfort.md - Galdonagh: https://everytownland.com/donegal/galdonagh.md - Lismoghry: https://everytownland.com/donegal/lismoghry.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/ryelands - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/donegal/ryelands