# Taughboy, Co. Donegal: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Donaghmore, barony of Raphoe South, Co. Donegal. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 2,057,920 m² (205.79 ha, 508.52 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 33,026 m² (3.3 ha, 8.16 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Donaghmore, https://everytownland.com/donegal/parish/donaghmore.md - Barony: Raphoe South - Electoral division: Goland, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 359 people lived in 123 households in the Goland electoral division. 97% of households owned their home. 37% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Donegal, https://everytownland.com/donegal.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/16424 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 52470 - Centre: latitude 54.749817, longitude -7.832671 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Taughboy, from 68 m² to 435,722 m² (43.57 ha, 107.67 acres); 18 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1406657: 435,722 m² (43.57 ha, 107.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1406657.md - Parcel 1391161: 434,918 m² (43.49 ha, 107.47 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1391161.md - Parcel 1388482: 280,960 m² (28.1 ha, 69.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1388482.md - Parcel 1371922: 135,581 m² (13.56 ha, 33.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1371922.md - Parcel 1423560: 120,776 m² (12.08 ha, 29.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1423560.md - Parcel 1301413: 95,572 m² (9.56 ha, 23.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1301413.md - Parcel 4866356: 95,239 m² (9.52 ha, 23.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4866356.md - Parcel 1305316: 87,971 m² (8.8 ha, 21.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1305316.md - Parcel 1423929: 66,682 m² (6.67 ha, 16.48 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1423929.md - Parcel 1393074: 54,930 m² (5.49 ha, 13.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1393074.md - Parcel 1361191: 46,975 m² (4.7 ha, 11.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1361191.md - Parcel 1369752: 39,931 m² (3.99 ha, 9.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1369752.md - Parcel 1408832: 33,056 m² (3.31 ha, 8.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1408832.md - Parcel 1384874: 32,997 m² (3.3 ha, 8.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1384874.md - Parcel 1327785: 24,989 m² (2.5 ha, 6.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1327785.md - Parcel 1403269: 19,219 m² (1.92 ha, 4.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1403269.md - Parcel 1392045: 18,595 m² (1.86 ha, 4.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1392045.md - Parcel 1340009: 10,734 m² (1.07 ha, 2.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1340009.md - Parcel 1419766: 6,317 m² (0.63 ha, 1.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1419766.md - Parcel 1386782: 5,319 m² (0.53 ha, 1.31 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1386782.md - Parcel 4668227: 2,718 m² (0.27 ha, 0.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4668227.md - Parcel 1326952: 2,681 m² (0.27 ha, 0.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1326952.md - Parcel 1385063: 2,449 m² (0.24 ha, 0.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1385063.md - Parcel 1367537: 2,328 m² (0.23 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1367537.md - Parcel 1369078: 755 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1369078.md - Parcel 1382478: 68 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1382478.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Taughboy 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 Taughboy in the national file, which goes back to 2010. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: River Finn SAC, site code 002301, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/002301 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Taughboy. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Taughboy. ## 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 Taughboy, about 1 in 20 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 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 Taughboy. - 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/taughboy.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/donegal/taughboy.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/donegal/taughboy.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Taughboy 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) - Carrickmagrath: https://everytownland.com/donegal/carrickmagrath.md - Meenbog: https://everytownland.com/donegal/meenbog-51985.md - Trusk: https://everytownland.com/donegal/trusk.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/taughboy - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/donegal/taughboy