Umgall

106 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Umgall, from 24 m² to 177,704 m² (17.77 ha, 43.91 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 44 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Umgall 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.

• 27 Jul 2026Conditional

  (1) RETENTION OF (A) TWO STOREY FRONT PROJECTION AND (B) CHANGE FROM WINDOW TO PATIO DOOR AT NORTHERN GABLE, (2) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DEFECTIVE CONCRETE BLOCK AFFECTED HOUSE AND (3) CONSTRUCTION OF DWELLING HOUSE, CONNECTION TO EXISTING SEPTIC TANK ON SITE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2661396

• 2 Jul 2025Conditional

  ERECTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL SHED FOR MACHINERY STORAGE AND INCORPORATING A BUILDING FOR WET FEED SYSTEM TO SERVICE EXISTING FARM DEVELOPMENT AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2561117

• 18 Mar 2025Conditional

  DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS AND PERMISSION FOR DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING DUE TO DEFECTIVE BUILDING MATERIAL AND ERECTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES

  Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2560377

• 31 Jan 2025Conditional

  DEMOLITION OF AN EXISTING AGRICULTURAL SHED AND ERECTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL CATTLE SHED AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2560114

• 21 Jun 2024Conditional

  ERECTION OF A WEANER HOUSE TO REPLACE EXISTING MICA AFFECTED WEANER HOUSE FOR DEMOLITION, 3 NO. BULK STORAGE MEAL BINS AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2460935

• 7 Jun 2024N/a

  ERECTION OF A WEANER HOUSE TO REPLACE EXISTING MICA AFFECTED WEANER HOUSE, 3 NO. BULK STORAGE MEAL BINS AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2460850

• 4 Jul 2022Conditional

  ERECTION OF AN EXTENSION TO EXISTING AGRICULTURAL SHED TO INCLUDE FOR ADDITIONAL SLURRY STORAGE UNDER AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2251145

• 30 Jan 2020Conditional

  ERECTION OF AN EXTENSION TO EXISTING AGRICULTURAL SHED TO INCLUDE FOR ADDITIONAL SLURRY STORAGE UNDER, PROVISION OF SCREEN WALL AND ALL ASSSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2050087

• 5 Jul 2019Conditional

  ERECTION OF A 35.4 METRE HIGH STRUCTURE COMPRISING 30 METRE-HIGH LATTICEWORK TOWER WITH A 5.4 METRE-HIGH SPINE ABOVE WITH ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT ATTACHED INCLUDING DIGITAL BROADCAST EQUIPMENT, ANTENNAS, DISHES, AN ANTICLIMBING CAGE WITHIN ITS OWN CHAINLINK FENCE COMPOUND AND WITH CABLE GANTRY FROM THE NEW STRUCTURE TO EXISTING CONTAINER AND CABINS WITH THE SUBSEQUENT REMOVAL OF AN EXISTING 36-METRE HIGH STAYED MAST

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1951026

• 8 Oct 2018Conditional

  ERECTION OF PHOTOVOLTAIC PANELS TO THE ROOF OF EXISTING AGRICULTURAL SHED AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1851552

• 4 Sept 2017Conditional

  DEMOLITION OF 1 NO. EXISTING PIG HOUSE AND CONSTRUCTION OF 1 NO. PIG HOUSE, TOGETHER WITH ALL ANCILLARY STRUCTURES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS ARISING FROM THE ABOVE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1751348

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

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Umgall.

Recorded monuments

• DG004-001 Megalithic structure
  Description

  This feature is named 'Grave' on the 1848 edition of the OS 6-inch map. It is listed by Colhoun (1949) as a multi-chambered cairn. There is no trace of it now, unless two large stones, partly buried, are remnants. It is described as follows in an OS Revision Name Book (1848): 'The grave is about twelve feet [c. 3.65m] long and six feet [c. 1.8m] broad—the only traces which remain are some rubbish of loose stones and any which were of use being carried away for other purposes by the peasantry'. The nature of this destroyed site is uncertain. Lewis 1837, vol. 1, 352 ('Ossian's Grave'); OS Revision Name Book, sheet 4 (1848), 11; 'Maghtochair' 1867, 25 (cairn at Umgall); Doherty 1891, 60-61 ('Oscar's Grave'); A.I. Young 1929, 10; Colhoun 1949, 117; Bonner 1972, 14, 16; Lacy 1983, 62, no. 270; SMR 1987, 4:1; Colhoun 1995, 11, no. 4/13a; RMP 1995, 4:1. The above description was published in the 'Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume VI, County Donegal.' Compiled by: Eamon Cody (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). Date of upload: 22 September 2008

• DG004-009001 Enclosure
  Description

  Internal Dimensions 55m × 30m. An oval area, long axis NE-SE, enclosed by a collapsed drystone wall. There is evidence for a possible entrance at the E end and slightly to the W of this internally, a small structure is probably a modern sheep fold. There are possible traces of two outer walls. On the NW side, outside the main wall, is a holy well (DG004-009002-). It is situated SE of the summit of Crockraw in rough terrain. 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

• DG004-009002 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  There is a holy well outside the main wall on the NW side of an enclosure (DG004-009001-), known as 'Castle Fort'. It is situated SE of the summit of Crockraw in rough terrain. An oval area, long axis NE-SE, enclosed by a collapsed drystone wall. There is evidence for a possible entrance at the E end and slightly to the W of this internally, a small structure is probably a modern sheep fold. The above description was published in 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).

Architectural heritage

• House, 1870–1910 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay two-storey house, built c. 1890, with return and single-storey extension to rear and central porch to front. Pitched slate roof with clayware ridge tiles, gable ended yellow brick chimneystacks with cornice, cast-iron rainwater goods. Smooth rendered ruled-and-lined walls with block-and-start quoins, painted plinth course and continuous stone sill course to first floor. Square-headed window openings with six-over-six timber sash windows, paired sills to ground floor windows. Square-headed door opening to porch with glazed timber panelled door with sidelights and overlight. Set within own grounds with modern outbuilding to west, whitewashed rubble stone wall to front with modern gates mounted on substantial smooth rendered ruled-and-lined piers with chamfered corners and domed coping topped with spherical finials.

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

At the centre of the townland of Umgall, about 1 in 10 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 Umgall.

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.

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

Name

Umgall · Iomdhul

Area

1,869,606 m² (186.96 ha, 461.99 acres)

Civil parish

Clonca, and its townlands

Barony

Inishowen East

Electoral division

Ardmalin, the unit of the census

Census 2022

673 people lived in 237 households in the Ardmalin electoral division. 82% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 43% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballagh, Ballykenny, Bree, Keenagh, Killin, Knockglass, Tully More, Urbalreagh

Placenames

Umgall 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.