Tullaghobegly Scotch

43 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Tullaghobegly Scotch, from 119 m² to 3,912,323 m² (391.23 ha, 966.76 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 52 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Tullaghobegly Scotch 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.

• 18 Dec 2025Conditional

  ERECTION OF EXTENSION TO THE SIDE OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND DEMOLITION OF EXISTING STORAGE SHED INCLUDING ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2562288

• 31 May 2023Conditional

  A MOBILE HOME FOR THE PROVISION OF TEMPORARY ACCOMMODATION FOR THE DURATION OF REFURBISHMENTS TO EXISTING DWELLING AND PERMISSION FOR THE INSTALLATION OF A NEW WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM TO FACILITATE AN EXISTING DWELLING

  Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2350763

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Cloghernagore Bog and Glenveagh National Park SAC 002047
• Special Protection Area: Derryveagh And Glendowan Mountains SPA 004039
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Cloghernagore Bog And Glenveagh National Park 002047

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Tullaghobegly Scotch.

Architectural heritage

• Bridge, 1900–1905 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch bridge, built c.1903, carrying road over former Letterkenny-Burtonport railway line. Coursed sandstone rubble walls, with dressed voussoirs to arch, and rendered chamfered copings to parapets. Splayed cut-stone granite piers flanking rendered arch. Bridge arch at southwest side recently closed up with blockwork.

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

About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Tullaghobegly Scotch.

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.

No address of the register names Tullaghobegly Scotch with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Tullaghobegly Scotch · Tulacha Beigile Thoir

Area

5,750,332 m² (575.03 ha, 1,420.94 acres)

Civil parish

Tullaghobegly, and its townlands

Barony

Kilmacrenan

Electoral division

Cross Roads, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Cross Roads electoral division: 2,071 people in 867 households; 74% of households own their home; 29% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 20% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballintemple, Ballyness Mountain, Clonbara, Craigtown, Drumnatinny Barr, Dunmore, Meenagoppoge, Tullaghobegly Irish

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Tullaghobegly Scotch 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.