Tullygallan
Townland in the civil parish of Drumhome, barony of Tirhugh, Co. Donegal; in Irish Tulaigh Dhalláin
- Area
- 68.2 ha
- 169 acres
- Land parcels
- 57
- registered freehold, median 4,001 m² (0.4 ha, 0.99 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
57 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Tullygallan, from 105 m² to 77,295 m² (7.73 ha, 19.1 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 26 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 Tullygallan 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
29 Jul 2021Unconditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A BRIDGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS
Extension of duration · Donegal County Council, 2151515
24 May 2020Conditional
(1) CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, (2) INSTALLATION OF A SECONDARY AND TERITIARY EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND DISCHARGE TO A DISPOSAL/DISTRIBUTION PAD, (3) ERECTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL BUILDING WITH SLATTED TANK TO ACCOMMODATE SHEEP AND (4) ALTERATIONS AND WIDEN THE EXISTING SITE ENTRANCE ONTO THE PUBLIC ROAD, INCLUSIVE OF ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS (SITE ACCESS IS VIA A PROPOSED BRIDGE AS GRANTED PERMISSION UNDER 17/50114). A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) ACCOMPANIES THIS APPLICATION
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2050447
16 Jul 2018Refused
(1) ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, INSTALLATION OF A SECONDARY AND TERTIARY EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM,DISCHARGE TO A DISPOSAL/DISTRIBUTION PAD, SITE ACCESS IS VIA A PROPOSED BRIDGE AS GRANTED PERMISSION UNDER 17/50114 AND (2) ALTERATION AND WIDENING OF THE EXISTING SITE ENTRANCE ONTO THE PUBLIC ROAD, INCLUSIVE OF ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1851093
31 Jan 2017Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A BRIDGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT WILL BE SUBMIITED WITH THIS APPLICATION
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1750114
4 Jan 2017N/a
CONSTRUCTION OF A BRIDGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT WILL BE SUBMIITED WITH THIS APPLICATION
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1750003
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 Tullygallan.
Recorded monuments
- DG100-005 Ringfort - rath
Description
Internal diam. 28.5m. A circular area enclosed by an earthen bank. The builders seem to have raised the E side of the site to compensate for the hill-slope. The bank is more substantial on the E side also. A gap to the NE may indicate the entrance. The site is located on the shoulder of a hill where it falls away steeply to the E. The site is very close to (DG100-007-). 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
- DG100-006 Ringfort - rath
Description
Internal diam. 30m. A circular area enclosed by a partially worn earthen bank. There are indications of lazy bed cultivation in the interior which is now rush-covered. It is situated on the shoulder of a hill overlooking Donegal Bay close to the site above (DG100-005-) in poor land. 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
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Tullygallan.
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 low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Tullygallan.
- 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 Tullygallan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Tullygallan · Tulaigh Dhalláin
- Area
- 682,469 m² (68.25 ha, 168.64 acres)
- Civil parish
- Drumhome, and its townlands
- Barony
- Tirhugh
- Electoral division
- Laghy, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Laghy electoral division: 799 people in 290 households; 81% of households own their home; 32% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 15% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Raneany West, Rossmore, Rossyvolan, Tullyearl, Tullyleague or Tullybrook, Tullymornin, Tullywee
- Placenames
- Tullygallan 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.