Galwolie

103 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Galwolie, from 48 m² to 3,927,266 m² (392.73 ha, 970.45 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 18 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 Galwolie 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.

• 13 Sept 2024Conditional

  ERECTION AN EXTENSION TO AN EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE WITH INSTALLATION OF A NEW WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2461441

• 28 Jul 2023Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW AGRICULTURAL ENTRANCE

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2351125

• 25 May 2021Conditional

  EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING AS CONSTRUCTED AND REPLACEMENT SEPTIC TANK AND PERMISSION FOR INSTALLATION OF A PERCOLATION AREA INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2151029

• 29 Mar 2021Conditional

  MOBILE HOME, TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH POLISHING FILTER INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2150548

• 4 Mar 2020N/a

  MOBILE HOME, TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH POLISHING FILTER INCLUDING ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2050271

• 10 Oct 2018Conditional

  A SEPTIC TANK WITH PERCOLATION AREA INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 1851582

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Gannivegil Bog SAC 000142
• Special Area of Conservation: West of Ardara/Maas Road SAC 000197
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: West Of Ardara/Maas Road 000197
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Galwolie Bog 001132

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Galwolie.

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Galwolie.

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 Galwolie, about 1 in 5 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. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Galwolie.

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

Name

Galwolie · An Ghallbhuaile

Area

5,932,034 m² (593.2 ha, 1,465.84 acres)

Civil parish

Lettermacaward, and its townlands

Barony

Boylagh

Electoral division

Lettermacaward, the unit of the census

Census 2022

727 people lived in 301 households in the Lettermacaward electoral division. 83% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 17% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 27% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Boyoughter, Cloghbolie, Derryleconnell Near, Meenacarn

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Galwolie 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.