Scotland
Townland in the civil parish of Donaghmore, barony of Raphoe South, Co. Donegal
- Area
- 38.3 ha
- 95 acres
- Land parcels
- 3
- registered freehold, median 190,276 m² (19.03 ha, 47.02 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
3 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Scotland, from 2,527 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres) to 191,269 m² (19.13 ha, 47.26 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 7 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Scotland 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
6 Jul 2026N/a
CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY DWELLING WITH FOUL WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM, ACCESS DRIVE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND SERVICES
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2661243
3 Jan 2023Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A TWO STOREY DETACHED DWELLING HOUSE, DETACHED GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2350001
11 Nov 2020Conditional
(1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING FARM BUILDING CONTAINING DRY BED/STORES AREA, CUBICLE AREA/ROOFED SILAGE PIT AND A DISUSED DAIRY BUILDING (2) CONSTRUCTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL SLATTED UNIT BUILDING, WITH UNDERGROUND EFFLUENT COLLECTION TANK, DAIRY AND CUBICLE/FEED AREA AND A MEAL BIN AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2051706
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Scotland.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Scotland.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Scotland.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1815 (ZIP).
- Flooding
- The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Scotland with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Scotland
- Area
- 383,306 m² (38.33 ha, 94.72 acres)
- Civil parish
- Donaghmore, and its townlands
- Barony
- Raphoe South
- Electoral division
- Killygordon, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Killygordon electoral division: 1,146 people in 451 households; 70% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Blairstown, Carnowen, Leaght, Meenahoney
- Placenames
- Scotland 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.