Tullyhonwar
Townland in the civil parish of Lower Killybegs, barony of Boylagh, Co. Donegal; in Irish Tulaigh Thónmhar
- Area
- 100.3 ha
- 248 acres
- Land parcels
- 59
- registered freehold, median 3,180 m² (0.32 ha, 0.79 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
59 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Tullyhonwar, from 6 m² to 223,516 m² (22.35 ha, 55.23 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 15 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 Tullyhonwar 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
9 Aug 2024Conditional
ERECTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY STORAGE SHED AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2461225
29 Sept 2020Conditional
REFURBISHMENT AND UPGRADING OF EXISTING 38K V OVERHEAD LINE (C. 7.4KM) FROM THE EXISTING BINBANE 110K V SUBSTATION TO THE EXISTING GLENTIES 38K V SUBSTATION KILRAINE GLENTIES. THE LINE CROSSES THE TOWNLANDS OF MEENACAHAN, MEENTANAKILL, TULLYNAGLAGGAN, TULLYHONWAR, DRUMNACROSS AND KILREAN UPPER. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT ACCOMPANIES THIS APPLICATION
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2051388
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Lough Nillan Bog (Carrickatlieve) SAC 000165
- Special Protection Area: Lough Nillan Bog SPA 004110
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Nillan Bog (Carrickatlieve) 000165
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Tullyhonwar.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Tullyhonwar.
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 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.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Tullyhonwar.
- 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 Tullyhonwar with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Tullyhonwar · Tulaigh Thónmhar
- Area
- 1,003,242 m² (100.32 ha, 247.91 acres)
- Civil parish
- Lower Killybegs, and its townlands
- Barony
- Boylagh
- Electoral division
- Ardara, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Ardara electoral division: 1,280 people in 509 households; 65% of households own their home; 39% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 14% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Drumnacross, Kilrean Upper, Strawoaghter Glebe, Tullynaglaggan
- Gaeltacht
- In an Irish-speaking area
- Placenames
- Tullyhonwar 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.