Tullydonnell Upper

34 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Tullydonnell Upper, from 255 m² to 105,618 m² (10.56 ha, 26.1 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 22 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 Tullydonnell Upper 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.

• 19 Dec 2025N/a

  A 10-YEAR PLANNING PERMISSION FOR CONSTRUCTION OF A PHOTOVOLTAIC SOLAR FARM DEVELOPMENT AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. THE DEVELOPMENT WILL CONSIST OF LINEAR ARRAYS OF SOLAR PHOTOVOLTAIC PANELS ON GROUND MOUNTED FRAMES OVER TWO ADJACENT PLOTS OF CA. 13.88 HECTARES OVERALL AREA, INCLUDING: ASSOCIATED CABLING & DUCTING; A 20KV ELECTRICAL CONTROL BUILDING; SITE ENTRANCES AND ACCESS TRACKS; TRANSFORMERS AND INVERTERS; PERIMETER FENCING UP TO 2.5 METRES HIGH; POLE MOUNTED CCTV CAMERAS UP TO 3 METRES HIGH; UNDERGROUNDED ELECTRICAL CABLE TO CONNECT THE TWO SEPARATE SOLAR FARM PLOTS; TEMPORARY CONTRACTOR’S COMPOUND AND TEMPORARY STORAGE AREA; AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT AND ANCILLARY WORKS. THE PROPOSED UNDERGROUND GRID CONNECTION CABLE OF CA. 607 METRES LENGTH WILL BE INSTALLED ALONG THE L-5754 AND L-1074 LOCAL ROADS FROM THE PROPOSED ON-SITE ELECTRICAL CONTROL BUILDING INTO THE EXISTING CONVOY ESB SUBSTATION. THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT WILL HAVE A 40-YEAR OPERATIONAL LIFESPAN FROM THE DATE OF COMMISSIONING. THE DEVELOPMENT IS COVERED BY THE PROVISIONS OF THE (RED III) RENEWABLE ENERGY DIRECTIVE III (DIRECTIVE (EU) 2023/2413)

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2562310

• 28 Apr 2025Conditional

  MOBILE HOME TO BE USED AS TEMPORARY ACCOMMODATION FOR THE DURATION OF THE PROPOSED EXTENSION AND DEVELOPMENT WORKS SOUGHT HEREIN AND PERMISSION FOR (1) CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO THE REAR ELEVATION OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, (2) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING ENTRANCE PORCH AND MINOR ALTERATION WORKS TO DOOR AND WINDOW OPENINGS AND (3) DECOMMISSIONING OF EXISTING COMMUNAL SEPTIC TANK SYSTEM AND INSTALLATION OF 2 NO. NEW SEPTIC TANK / SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEMS AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2560659

• 11 Apr 2025Conditional

  SINGLE STOREY DETACHED HOUSE AND GARAGE, CURRENT EXTERNAL AESTHETICS AND FINISHES AND GARAGE LOCATION AND PERMISSION FOR RELOCATION OF SITE ENTRANCE, ENLARGEMENT OF PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2560556

• 7 Apr 2025N/a

  MOBILE HOME AS TEMPORARY ACCOMMODATION FOR THE DURATION OF THE PROPOSED EXTENSION AND DEVELOPMENT WORKS SOUGHT HEREIN AND PERMISSION FOR (1) CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO THE REAR ELEVATION OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, (2) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING ENTRANCE PORCH AND MINOR ALTERATION WORKS TO DOOR AND WINDOW OPENINGS AND (3) DECOMMISSIONING OF EXISTING COMMUNAL SEPTIC TANK SYSTEM AND INSTALLATION OF 2 NO. NEW SEPTIC TANK / SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEMS AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2560516

• 11 Apr 2023Conditional

  REPOSITIONING A SECTION OF THE EXISTING 38KV LINE KNOWN AS THE LETTERKENNY-CONVOY 38KV LINE

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2350477

• 13 Mar 2023N/a

  REPOSITIONING OF A SECTION OF THE EXISTING 38KV LINE KNOWN AS THE LETTERKENNY-CONVOY 38KV LINE. RELOCATION IS REQUIRED DUE TO A BUILDING CONFLICT. THE ALTERATION CONSISTS OF THE INSTALLATION OF THREE NEW STRUCTURES AND THE AFFECTED LINE SECTION IS 250M

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2350310

• 25 Mar 2022Refused

  ERECTION OF A SINGLE TWO STOREY DETACHED DORMER TYPE HOUSE, WASTE WATER TREATMENT TANK, PERCOATION AREA AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2250510

• 3 Sept 2020Refused

  SINGLE STOREY DETACHED HOUSE & GARAGE, CURRENT EXTERNAL AESTHETICS & FINISHES, HOUSE AND GARAGE LOCATION, EXISTING ENTRANCE LOCATION & ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2051235

• 18 Jan 2018Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK/SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1850055

• 28 Dec 2017Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW TWO STOREY DWELLING HOUSE WITH A DOMESTIC GARAGE TOGETHER WITH AN ONSITE SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Outline permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1751961

• 27 Sept 2017N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK/SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1751481

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 Tullydonnell Upper.

Recorded monuments

• DG069-003 Souterrain
  Description

  Marked on the 1st and 2nd editions of the OS 6-inch maps. No trace of this 'Cave' could be found. It was situated in an area where the bedrock comes close to the surface on the edge of a plateau overlooking a vast area to the S and W. 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 Tullydonnell Upper.

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 Tullydonnell Upper, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The Geological Survey did not answer.

Terrain model

The Geological Survey did not answer.

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

Name

Tullydonnell Upper

Area

868,460 m² (86.85 ha, 214.6 acres)

Civil parish

Raphoe, and its townlands

Barony

Raphoe North

Electoral division

Figart, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,131 people lived in 384 households in the Figart electoral division. 79% of households owned their home. 49% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardvarnock Glebe, Calhame or Montgomery's Fort, Convoy Townparks, Deerpark, Flemingstown, Tullydonnell Lower

Placenames

Tullydonnell Upper 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.