# Stormhill, Co. Donegal: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Lower Killybegs, barony of Banagh, Co. Donegal. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 274,862 m² (27.49 ha, 67.92 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 6,171 m² (0.62 ha, 1.52 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Lower Killybegs, https://everytownland.com/donegal/parish/lower-killybegs.md - Barony: Banagh - Electoral division: Ardara, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 1,280 people lived in 509 households in the Ardara electoral division. 65% of households owned their home. 39% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 14% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Donegal, https://everytownland.com/donegal.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/14559 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 52419 - Centre: latitude 54.759263, longitude -8.384295 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Stormhill, from 81 m² to 114,892 m² (11.49 ha, 28.39 acres); 14 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1386027: 114,892 m² (11.49 ha, 28.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1386027.md - Parcel 1347079: 112,717 m² (11.27 ha, 27.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1347079.md - Parcel 3659786: 47,535 m² (4.75 ha, 11.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3659786.md - Parcel 1362697: 34,699 m² (3.47 ha, 8.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1362697.md - Parcel 1410371: 22,413 m² (2.24 ha, 5.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1410371.md - Parcel 1330239: 21,793 m² (2.18 ha, 5.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1330239.md - Parcel 1357857: 21,071 m² (2.11 ha, 5.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1357857.md - Parcel 5153060: 8,779 m² (0.88 ha, 2.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5153060.md - Parcel 5089771: 3,564 m² (0.36 ha, 0.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5089771.md - Parcel 3659787: 1,075 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3659787.md - Parcel 6140865: 752 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6140865.md - Parcel 5644681: 668 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5644681.md - Parcel 5010318: 549 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5010318.md - Parcel 6140872: 305 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6140872.md - Parcel 6145882: 93 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6145882.md - Parcel 6140868: 81 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6140868.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Stormhill 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) No planning application touches the townland of Stormhill in the national file, which goes back to 2010. ## 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 Stormhill. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - DG083-003: Ringfort - cashel, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDG083-003----. Internal diam. c. 26m. Originally a roughly circular area which is now truncated by a laneway at the N end. The enclosing wall is barely visible. It is situated in fair pasture to the S of the Owentocker river basin. 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) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Stormhill. ## 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 Stormhill, 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: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1179, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_1179.zip (ZIP). - 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/stormhill.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/donegal/stormhill.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/donegal/stormhill.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Stormhill 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) - Doochill North: https://everytownland.com/donegal/doochill-north.md - Doochill South: https://everytownland.com/donegal/doochill-south.md - Lurganboy: https://everytownland.com/donegal/lurganboy-51813.md - Monargan Glebe: https://everytownland.com/donegal/monargan-glebe.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/stormhill - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/donegal/stormhill