Glencross

42 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Glencross, from 137 m² to 631,638 m² (63.16 ha, 156.08 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 22 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 Glencross 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 May 2026Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH DOMESTIC GARAGE AND WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2660856

• 14 Mar 2022Conditional

  (1) COMPLETION OF RETAINED CONSERVATORY (2) ERECTION OF (A) SIDE EXTENSION TO THE EXISTING 1.5 STOREY DWELLING HOUSE (PLANNING APPLICATION REGISTER REF: 00/7138 & 21/50370 (B) 1.5 STOREY DOUBLE GARAGE (3) ALL ANCILLARY DEVELOPMENT AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2250433

• 18 Mar 2021Conditional

  (1) CONSTRUCTION OF A PART SINGLE STOREY, PART ONE AND A HALF STOREY DWELLING HOUSE WITH DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE, (2) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DERELICT STONE BUILDINGS (3) PROVISION OF A SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2150480

• 10 Mar 2021N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A PART SINGLE STOREY, PART ONE AND A HALF STOREY DWELLING HOUSE WITH DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE, TO INCLUDE THE DEMOLTION OF EXISTING DERELICT STONE BUILDINGS, PROVISION OF A SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2150427

• 3 Mar 2021Conditional

  DWELLING HOUSE, PERCOLATION AREA,SEPTIC TANK AND RELOCATION OF SITE ENTRANCE ALL ORIGINALLY APPROVED UNDER PLANNING PERMISSION REF: 00/7138

  Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2150370

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: Lough Swilly SAC 002287
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Swilly Including Big Isle, Blanket Nook & Inch Lake 000166

Recorded monuments

• DG037-001 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  An uneven mound of rock seems to be the site shown as a single-ringed 'Fort' on the 1st and 2nd editions of the OS 6-inch maps. The location is good pasture land. 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 Glencross.

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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1889 (ZIP).

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

Name

Glencross

Area

1,639,232 m² (163.92 ha, 405.06 acres)

Civil parish

Killygarvan, and its townlands

Barony

Kilmacrenan

Electoral division

Rathmullan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Rathmullan electoral division: 965 people in 357 households; 75% of households own their home; 32% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 47% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghavannan Far, Carnafeagh, Gortcross, Gortflugh, Legland, Magheranakilly, Meenreagh

Placenames

Glencross 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.