Woodlands

29 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Woodlands, from 548 m² to 159,733 m² (15.97 ha, 39.47 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 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 Woodlands 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 Aug 2025Conditional

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

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2561430

• 17 Feb 2025Refused

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

  Extension of duration, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2550009

• 8 Apr 2024Conditional

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

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2460476

• 1 Feb 2021Conditional

  (1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING AGRICULTURAL STORAGE SHED AND ERECTION OF A REPLACEMENT SLATTED COW SHED WITH UNDERGROUND EFFLUENT STORAGE TANKS (2) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING OPEN SIDE ROUND BALE STORAGE SHED AND CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DRY BED CALVING SHED AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2150128

• 18 Dec 2020Unconditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW ELECTRICITY OVERHEAD POWER LINE WITH ASSOCIATED POLES, MASTS, UNDERGROUND CABLING, SITE WORKS AND ALL ANCILLARY DEVELOPMENT, FOR A 38KV GRID CONNECTION TO LINK THE CONSENTED LETTERGULL WIND FARM, MOMEEN AND LETTERGULL TOWNLANDS, RAPHOE WITH THE EXISTING LETTERKENNY 110KV SUBSTATION IN LISTILLION TOWNLAND, LETTERKENNY. THE POWER LINE WILL BE APPROXIMATELY 10.16 KILOMETRES LONG. ALL STRUCTURES RANGE IN HEIGHT FROM 12 METRES TO 19 METRES. THE MAJORITY OF THE OVERHEAD LINE STRUCTURES ARE WOODEN POLE SETS; INCLUDING 5 STEEL MAST STRUCTURES. THE ELECTRICITY POWER LINE WILL BE OVERHEAD EXCEPT FOR SHORT SECTIONS ALONG THE FOLLOWING ROAD SECTIONS; N13-8 LISTILLION TOWNLAND (TD.), L-5794-1 LISTILLION TD., L-5634-2 KINCRAIGY TD., L-5644-1 ROOSKEY TD. AND L-5664-1 ROOSKEY TD. WHERE IT IS TO BE LAID UNDERGROUND. THE PROPOSED POWER CABLE WILL TRAVERSE THE FOLLOWING TOWNLANDS (FROM SUBSTATION TO CONSENTED WIND FARM SITE); LISTILLION TD, LURGY TD, KNOCKBRACK TD, AGHLEHARD TD, TREANAVINNY TD, GLENMAQUIN LOWER TD (PART UNDERGROUND) KINCRAIGY TD (PART UNDERGROUND), ROOSKEY TD (PART UNDERGROUND), LISCLAMERTY TD, CARRICKNAMART TD, MONDOOEY UPPER TD, MONDOOEY MIDDLE TD, BALLYHOLEY FAR TD, DRUMATOLAND TD, SHESKINAPOLL TD, CARRICKADAWSON TD, WOODLAND TD AND MOMEEN TD (PART UNDERGROUND)

  Extension of duration · Donegal County Council, 2051961

• 13 Mar 2020Conditional

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

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2050328

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 Woodlands.

Recorded monuments

• DG062-022 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  There is no trace of the single-ringed 'Fort' marked on the 1st and 2nd editions of the OS 6-inch maps. It was located on good level ground. 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 Woodlands.

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 Woodlands, 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 Woodlands.

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.

• Woodlands, Letterkenny9 sales
• Woodlands, Carndonagh7 sales

Name

Woodlands

Area

1,165,900 m² (116.59 ha, 288.1 acres)

Civil parish

Taughboyne, and its townlands

Barony

Raphoe North

Electoral division

Feddyglass, the unit of the census

Census 2022

456 people lived in 164 households in the Feddyglass electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carnshannagh, Carrickadawson, Drummucklagh, Lettergull, Momeen

Placenames

Woodlands 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.