Urbal

13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Urbal, from 1,137 m² to 106,509 m² (10.65 ha, 26.32 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 30 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 Urbal 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.

• 8 Jul 2026Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF NEW DWELLING HOUSE, INSTALLATION OF PROPRIETARY SEWERAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2661264

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 Urbal.

Recorded monuments

• DG092-001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Internal diam. 24.3m NNE-SSW, 19.15m WNW-ESE. A single-banked enclosure is covered by a growth of bog which to an extent follows the form of the monument beneath. There is clear evidence of an external fosse also beneath the bog. The bog cover varies in depth from .92m in the interior, to .35m to .45m on the enclosing earthen bank, to .97m to 1.85m above the fosse, to .4m to .74m above the ground surrounding the site. The bank appears to be up to .78m in height and the fosse 2.9m in width. Probing beneath the bog revealed evidence for a possible causeway between the E and NE points where the base of the fosse appears to rise. The site is located on the crest of a NNE-SSW ridge in an area of gentle ridges with land varying from good grassland to bog. 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 Urbal.

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 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 Urbal.

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 Urbal with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Urbal · An Ruball

Area

594,410 m² (59.44 ha, 146.88 acres)

Civil parish

Killaghtee, and its townlands

Barony

Banagh

Electoral division

Corkermore, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Corkermore electoral division: 339 people in 120 households; 94% of households own their home; 43% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 12% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Balwoges, Corker More, Gilbertstown, Loughmuilt, Multins, Tullinteane

Placenames

Urbal 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.