Alt Lower

29 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Alt Lower, from 438 m² to 240,365 m² (24.04 ha, 59.4 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 17 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 Alt Lower 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 Jan 2021Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A SUNROOM TO EXISTING HOUSE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2150101

• 21 Dec 2017Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE/STORE & SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1751933

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 Alt Lower.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Alt Lower.

Architectural heritage

• Alt National School, school, 1930–1940 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey former national school on T-shaped plan, dated 1934, having advanced gable-fronted two-bay breakfront\projection to the centre of the front elevation (east). Later projecting single-bay single-storey flat-roofed entrance porch to the north side of front projection. Now out of use and derelict. Pitched natural slate roofs having clay ridge tiles, red brick chimneystacks to the gable ends (north and south) with chimneybreasts projecting from gable walls, central metal roof vent, and having cast-iron rainwater goods. . Smooth cement rendered walls with inscribed cut stone date and name plaque to the front projection dated 1934. Square-headed window openings to main body of building having six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows and stone sills, square-headed window openings to front face of breakfront (east) having four-over-four pane timber sliding sash windows and stone sills; squared-headed window openings to the gable ends having six-over-nine pane timber sliding sash windows and stone sills. Square-headed doorways to the side elevations of breakfront (south, and to porch to north) having battened timber doors. Plastered walls and timber boarded ceilings to classrooms. Set back from road in own grounds to the south-east of Castlefinn with overgrown playgrounds to site. Detached single-storey open playshed to the south-west of site. Single-storey former toilet block to the south of site, now demolished. Rubble stone and rendered boundary walls to road-frontage to the east. Gateway to the east having a pair of rendered gate piers (on square-plan), and with a pair of wrought-iron flat bar gates. New Alt school located to south-west, dated 1960.

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 Alt Lower, 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 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 Alt Lower.

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

Name

Alt Lower · An tAllt Íochtarach

Area

753,690 m² (75.37 ha, 186.24 acres)

Civil parish

Urney, and its townlands

Barony

Raphoe South

Electoral division

Urney West, the unit of the census

Census 2022

640 people lived in 217 households in the Urney West electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 39% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Alt Upper, Calhame, Cormakilly, Drumdoit, Gortnagrace, Gortnamuck

Placenames

Alt Lower 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.