Tromaty
Tromaty is a townland in the civil parish of Upper Moville, barony of Inishowen East, Co. Donegal.
Parcel 4698341
- Area
- 475 m²
- Buildings
- 1 building touches it. Its footprint covers 105 m².
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Tromaty
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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).
Ground and risks
- Radon
- At the centre of this parcel, 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 low.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.
- 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.
Download this parcel as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program. GeoJSON, in WGS 84, suits a map, and KML opens in Google Earth.
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.
- Area
- 170.9 ha
- 422 acres
- Land parcels
- 83
- registered freehold, median 3,334 m² (0.33 ha, 0.82 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 9
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
83 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Tromaty, from 28 m² to 135,282 m² (13.53 ha, 33.43 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 51 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Tromaty 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
30 Jun 2025Conditional
REPLACEMENT OF EXISTING WINDOW WITH PATIO DOORS TO THE FRONT ELEVATION AND CONSERVATORY TO THE REAR AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2561097
11 Dec 2023Conditional
(1) DOMESTIC GARAGE AND (2) EXISTING STABLES FOR PRIVATE USE AND PERMISSION FOR (3) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING MICA DEFECTIVE DWELLING HOUSE, (4) CONSTRUCTION OF (A) A NEW REPLACEMENT DWELLING WITH CONNECTION TO ALL EXISTING SERVICES, (B) A GARAGE FOR STORAGE ALONG WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2351900
18 Jan 2023Unconditional
DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING, DECOMMISSIONING OF EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND CONSTRUCTION OF NEW REPLACEMENT DWELLING, DOMESTIC GARAGE, WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Extension of duration, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2350035
27 Apr 2022Conditional
ERECTION OF DWELLING WITH EFFLUENT TREATMENT PLANT, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2250736
20 Mar 2020Conditional
ERECTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL SLATTED SHEEP SHED WITH SHEEP HANDLING FACILITIES, AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2050362
25 Oct 2019N/a
ERECTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL SHED, INCORPORATING AN UNDERGROUND SLATTED SLURRY TANK AND DRY BEDDED AREA AND ASSOCIATED FACILITIES
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1951619
26 Aug 2019N/a
ERECTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL SHED, INCORPORATING AN UNDERGROUND SLATTED SLURRY TANK AND DRY BEDDED AREA AND ASSOCIATED FACILITIES
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1951297
4 Aug 2017Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A FRONT EXTENSION AND MINOR UPGRADES TO EXISTING DWELLING AND CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1751232
31 Jul 2017Conditional
DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING, DECOMMISSIONING OF EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND CONSTRUCTION OF NEW REPLACEMENT DWELLING, DOMESTIC GARAGE, WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1751216
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
- Special Protection Area: Lough Foyle SPA 004087
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Tromaty.
Architectural heritage
- Greenbank Presbyterian Church, church/chapel, 1860–1865 · Regional interest
Description
Detached five-bay gable-fronted Presbyterian church, dated 1862, with lean-to boiler house to rear. Pitched slate roof with ashlar sandstone gable coping and finials, stone chimneystack to rear gable, cast-iron gutters over stone brackets with replacement downpipes. Rubble stone walls, with slight battering to base, diagonal buttresses to front elevation and ashlar quoins. Pointed-arch-headed window openings with ashlar chamfered block-and-start surrounds and rubble stone relieving arch, leaded stained glass windows in cast-iron quarries. Quatrefoil window to front gable. Pointed-arch-headed door opening to front with double leaf matchboard timber doors and ashlar sandstone chamfered block-and-start surrounds. Set within grounds shared with modern lecture hall and gravemarkers to the north-east, bounded by hedge to front with modern double leaf cast-iron gates mounted on smooth rendered piers with concrete pyramidal coping.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Tromaty, 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 high, 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 Tromaty.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
- Tromaty, Quigley's Point10 sales
The townland
- Name
- Tromaty
- Area
- 1,709,126 m² (170.91 ha, 422.33 acres)
- Civil parish
- Upper Moville, and its townlands
- Barony
- Inishowen East
- Electoral division
- Whitecastle, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 977 people lived in 336 households in the Whitecastle electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 49% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 10% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Flughland, Three Trees, Tromaty
- Placenames
- Tromaty 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.