Ture
Ture is a townland in the civil parish of Muff, barony of Inishowen West, Co. Donegal. Its name in Irish is An tIúr.
- Area
- 458.6 ha
- 1,133 acres
- Land parcels
- 107
- registered freehold, median 2,764 m² (0.28 ha, 0.68 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 39
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
107 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ture, from 75 m² to 1,456,888 m² (145.69 ha, 360 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 45 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Ture 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
4 Nov 2025Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND DETACHED GARAGE AND INSTALLATION OF WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2561917
11 Jun 2025Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH ON-SITE SEWERAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2550082
17 Dec 2024Conditional
ERECTION OF FLOODLIGHTING TO EXISTING PLAYING FIELD AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2462103
11 Dec 2024N/a
ERECTION OF FLOODLIGHTING TO EXISTING CARPARKING AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2462042
2 Dec 2024N/a
ERECTION OF FLOODLIGHTING TO EXISTING PLAYING FIELD AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2461969
22 Feb 2024Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A CONSERVATORY TO THE SIDE OF EXISTING DWELLING INCLUDING LOWER GROUND FLOOR ACCESS UNDERBUILDING AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2460198
7 Feb 2024Conditional
(1) ONE-STOREY DOMESTIC SHED/GARAGE AND (2) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING ONE STOREY DOMESTIC SHED AND ANY OTHER ASSOCIATED EXTERNAL WORKS
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2460102
17 Jan 2024Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF (A) 2 NO. CHANGING ROOMS, STORE AND MEETING ROOM AND (B) BUILDING CONTAINING GYM WITH CONNECTION TO ALL EXISTING SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2450013
19 Dec 2023N/a
(1) CONSTRUCTION OF 2 NO. CHANGING ROOMS, STORE AND MEETING ROOM AND (2) CONSTRUCTION OF BUILDING CONTAINING A GYM WITH CONNECTION TO ALL EXISTING SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2351944
27 Jul 2023Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A TWO STOREY PITCH ROOF EXTENSION TO THE SIDE OF THE EXISTING DETACTED BUNGALOW WITH PATIO, TERRACE AND 1 NO. DORMER ON THE ROOF, CONVERSION OF ATTIC OF THE EXISTING BUNGALOW WITH NO. 2 VELUXES AND 3 NO. DORMERS INCLUDING NEW REPLACEMENT WINDOWS AND ANY OTHER ASSOCIATED RENOVATION/BUILDING FABRIC WORKS/EXTERNAL WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2351117
28 Mar 2023Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT AND CONNECTION TO ALL PUBLIC SERVICES
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2350396
15 Nov 2022Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2251852
22 Jul 2022Conditional
(1) FOUR FAIRY ECO PODS (2) EXTENSION TO DOMESTIC GARAGE CONSISTING OF A KITCHEN, STORE, TOILETS AND SHOWER FACILITIES (3) TWO COMMUNAL AREAS WITH CONNECTION PROPOSED UPGRADED TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) ACCOMPANIES THIS APPLICATION
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2251254
13 Jun 2022Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH CONNECTION TO PROPOSED TREATMENT SYSTEM AND POLISHING FILTER ON SITE
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2251019
16 May 2022N/a
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH CONNECTION TO PROPOSED TREATMENT SYSTEM AND POLISHING FILTER
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2250840
22 Feb 2022Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF REBOUND WALL AT CLUB FACILITIES
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2250299
20 Jan 2022Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2250057
24 Jun 2021Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A SLATTED AGRICULTURAL SHED AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2151248
31 May 2021N/a
CONSTRUCTION OF A SLATTED AGRICULTURAL SHED AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2151062
17 May 2021Conditional
RECONTOURING OF AGRICULTURAL LANDS. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) ACCOMPANIES THIS APPLICATION
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2150932
26 Apr 2021Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING WITH CONNECTION TO SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA ALONG WITH ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2150739
15 Apr 2021N/a
ERECTION OF A DWELLING WITH CONNECTION TO SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA ALONG WITH ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2150678
14 Dec 2020Conditional
ERECTION OF FLOODLIGHTING TO EXISTING CARPARKING AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2051925
5 Apr 2019Conditional
CHANGE OF USE OF PART OF EXISTING PUBLIC HOUSE AND RESTAURANT TO OFFICE ACCOMMODATION WITH THE REMAINDER OF THE BUILDING TO CONTINUE ITS USE AS A PUBLIC HOUSE, CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1950485
18 Feb 2019N/a
(1) A FAIRY PARADISE RETREAT DEVELOPMENT CONSISTING OF 4 FAIRY PODS (FOR OVERNIGHT STAY) AND (2) AN EXTENSION TO DOMESTIC GARAGE, (TO PROVIDE COMMUNAL KITCHEN FACILITIES), SMALL TOILET FACILITIES AND A LOG CABIN TYPE COMMUNAL HUT WITH CONNECTION TO A PROPOSED UPGRADED SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA ALONG WITH ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT WILL BE SUBMITTED AS PART OF THIS APPLICATION
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1950194
The 25 most recent of 39 applications.
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 Protection Area: Lough Foyle SPA 004087
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ture.
Architectural heritage
- Ture House, farm house, 1850–1890 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay two-storey farm house, built c. 1870, with two-bay two-storey extension to rear, returning to attached barn. Pitched artificial slate roof, red brick gable ended chimneystacks with moulded cornice coping and replacement rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls with smooth rendered plinth course. Square-headed window openings with two-over-two horned timber sash windows and painted sills. Segmental-arch headed door opening with glazed timber panelled door and glazed overlight and sidelights. Set within own grounds at north-east side of large farmyard complex.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Ture, about 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as high, 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 Ture.
- Flooding
- The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Ture with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Ture · An tIúr
- Area
- 4,585,538 m² (458.55 ha, 1,133.11 acres)
- Civil parish
- Muff, and its townlands
- Barony
- Inishowen West
- Electoral division
- Three Trees, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 724 people lived in 254 households in the Three Trees electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 38% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Aught, Drumskellan, Eskaheen, Meenyanly
- Placenames
- Ture 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.