Tonbane Glebe

43 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Tonbane Glebe, from 28 m² to 98,464 m² (9.85 ha, 24.33 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 27 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Tonbane Glebe 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.

• 23 Nov 2021Conditional

  (1) DWELLING HOUSE, SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA (2) GARAGE (3) AGRICULTURAL SHED AND BYRE

  Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2152330

• 26 Mar 2020Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY DWELLING AND WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AS REPLACEMENT FOR EXISTING MOBILE HOME AND SEPTIC TANK

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2050408

• 23 Dec 2019N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A BUNGALOW WITH DOMESTIC GARAGE AND WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AS REPLACEMENT FOR THE EXISTING MOBILE HOME AND SEPTIC TANK

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1952022

• 10 Dec 2019N/a

  CONTRUCTION OF A BUNGALOW AND GARAGE/STORE AS A REPLACEMENT FOR THE EXISTING MOBILE HOME

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1951905

• 1 Mar 2019Conditional

  ERECTION OF A SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO EXISTING SINGLE STOREY BUNGALOW AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1950258

• 18 Dec 2018N/a

  ERECTION OF A SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO EXISTING SINGLE STOREY BUNGALOW AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1851909

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: Ballyhoorisky Point to Fanad Head SAC 001975
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Ballyhoorisky Point To Fanad Head 001975

Recorded monuments

• DG008-006 Midden
  Description

  In October 1983 quarrying of an oval sandhill c. 30 x 17m, just above the shore of the Fanad peninsula destroyed the major part of an occupation site which, apparently, had extended over the whole of the site. Disturbed human (approx. age 12-16.5 years) and animal bone (cattle, horse, sheep/goat) and several sherds of 'everted rim' cooking ware, together with part of the upper stone of a rotary quern, were revealed at the site, along with quantities of shells, burnt organic remains and burnt stones. Because of the destruction, a small rescue excavation subsequently failed to identify any features although finds matching the loose material were recovered from the remains of the single occupation layer which had survived around the rim of the site. Some of the pottery, goat bones, and the quern fragment suggest a late medieval date for the site (Lacy 1980). (Excavations Bulletins 1980).

• DG008-023 Megalithic tomb - unclassified
  Description

  This monument, not marked on any edition of the OS 6-inch map, first came to notice in 1994. It is 700m SSE of Tramore Bay and 700m E of Ballyhoorisky, at the N end of the Fanad peninsula. It stands on a slight ridge immediately W of a long shallow valley. The area provides fair pasture on uneven ground broken by outcropping rock and scattered erratics. There is a good outlook from the site, with the sea visible to the N. An unroofed chamber, open to the NW, survives here. It is c. 4m long and 1.5-1.7m wide. The structure is incorporated in a modern stone field wall, much of which is overgrown by bushes. This wall joins the E side of the front and the W side of the back of the chamber. There is no reliable trace of cairn at the site. A number of displaced slabs in the chamber, not shown on the plan, may have formed part of the structure. There is some evidence that there was a second chamber behind the extant one. Two tall longitudinally set stones, 0.75m apart, mark the entrance to the chamber, immediately in front of which is a natural dip in ground level. Each entrance stone is partly overlapped by a large sidestone. Behind the large eastern sidestone is a much smaller one. A slightly gable-topped stone stands at the back of the chamber and crosses approximately half its width. Behind this the top of a largely buried stone seems to continue the line of the W side of the structure. This stone, 0.2m thick and at least 1.75m long, is exposed to a maximum height of 0.15m at its southern end, and its opposite end is buried. Further investigation would be required to determine its status. Opposite it is another largely buried slab, almost certainly prostrate, c. 2.3m by 0.85m by 0.25m thick. The western entrance stone is 1.5m high. The top of this stone dips toward the back of the chamber. The eastern stone is 1.4m high. The top of this stone also dips toward the back of the chamber. The large sidestone at the E, though free standing, leans inward slightly. It measures 1.2m in maximum height. It reaches this height at mid-length, from where it falls gradually in both directions to 0.3m at the N and to present ground level at the S. A gap, 0.4m wide, between the front of this sidestone and the adjacent entrance stone is largely filled by a stone set on end. This stone is 1.05m high. The smaller sidestone on this side is 0.5m high. The sidestone at the W side of the chamber is 1.3m high measured at its outer face, where its base is partly exposed. The upper part of the sidestone overlaps the entrance stone by c. 0.3m but does not touch it. The transversely set stone at the back of the chamber now leans to the E. This stone appears to be more akin to a segmenting jamb than a backstone. It is 0.8m in leaning height at its inner face. A hole, 0.5m deep, has been dug at the outer face of this stone. Two stones (not on plan) lying in the hole, one wedged against the base of the set stone, appear to be of recent origin. Two displaced slabs (not on plan) protrude from grass-grown fill in the chamber, the outline of which is indicated by a pecked line on the sectional drawing. One of these leans against the inner end of the western sidestone. It measures c. 1.2m by 0.8m by 0.2m thick. The other is beside the eastern entrance stone; it extends into the chamber and, like the other, leans westward. It measures 1.9m by 1m by 0.2m thick. Beside this slab and in front of the first one are at least three smaller slabs and other lesser stones. The monument cannot reliably be classified, but the design suggests some affinity with both court tombs and portal tombs. The two tall longitudinally set entrance stones, each partly overlapped by a large sidestone, are characteristic of the portal tomb, although such an arrangement can occur in court tombs. The indications of further gallery structure, represented by what may be a segmenting jamb and beyond it a possible sidestone, if verified would point to it being the remains of a court tomb. RMP 1995, 8:23. The above description was published in the 'Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume VI, County Donegal.' Compiled by: Eamon Cody (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). Date of upload: 22 September 2008

• DG008-024 Standing stone
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

Architectural heritage

• Worker's house, 1910–1930 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terrace of six (formerly seven) single-storey corrugated-metal houses, erected c.1920, with added porch to southeastern-most house, and series of single-storey extensions to rear. Possibly originally erected as houses for workers associated with nearby quarry, later used as holiday houses and private houses. Pitched corrugated-metal roofs, with replacement rainwater goods and four low, rendered chimneystacks. Painted corrugated-metal walls, with painted rendered plinth to northeastern most house. Square-headed openings with replacement windows and doors. Situated along roadside, with concrete path to front, and private rear gardens with row of single-storey lean-to roofed concrete outbuildings to rear.

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 Tonbane Glebe, 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 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 Tonbane Glebe.

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

Name

Tonbane Glebe · An Tonn Bhán

Area

606,760 m² (60.68 ha, 149.93 acres)

Civil parish

Clondavaddog, and its townlands

Barony

Kilmacrenan

Electoral division

Fanad West, the unit of the census

Census 2022

398 people lived in 155 households in the Fanad West electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 20% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 35% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyhiernan, Ballyhoorisky, Cashel Glebe, Fallaneas, Rinboy

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Tonbane Glebe 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.