Tawnawully Mountains

150 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Tawnawully Mountains, from 171 m² to 22,456,738 m² (2,245.67 ha, 5,549.18 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 72 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 Tawnawully Mountains 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.

• 5 Jun 2025Conditional

  (1) PROVISION OF APPROXIMATELY 5.2KM OF 150MM MAXIMUM DIAMETER PIPELINE TO CONNECT THE TOWNAWILLY GROUP WATER SCHEME TO THE PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY SCHEME AND ASSOCIATED INFRASTRUCTURE, (2) RE-LAYING OF EXISTING PIPELINE WITH APPROXIMATELY 1KM OF 150MM MAXIMUM DIAMETER PIPELINE AND (3) DECOMMISSIONING OF EXISTING TOWNAWILLY WATER TREATMENT PLANT. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) ACCOMPANIES THIS APPLICATION

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2560941

• 14 May 2025N/a

  (1) PROVISION OF APPROXIMATELY 5.2KM OF 150MM MAXIMUM DIAMETER PIPELINE TO CONNECT THE TOWNAWILLY GROUP WATER SCHEME TO THE PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY SCHEME AND ASSOCIATED INFRASTRUCTURE, (2) THE RE-LAYING OF EXISTING PIPELINE WITH APPROXIMATELY 1KM OF 150MM MAXIMUM DIAMETER PIPELINE AND (3) THE DECOMMISSIONING OF THE EXISTING TOWNAWILLY WATER TREATMENT PLANT

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2560778

• 10 Apr 2024Refused

  CONSTRUCTION OF 3 NO. NEW CULVERTS TO REPLACE EXISTING CULVERTS AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS ALONG THE N15. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT ACCOMPANIES THIS APPLICATION

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2460495

• 2 Jan 2024Conditional

  RESTORATION AND CONVERSION OF EXISTING STONE OUTHOUSES TO ANCILLARY ACCOMMODATION CONSISTING OF 2 NO. BEDROOMS AND A SHOWER ROOM FOR THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2450003

• 25 Jun 2021Conditional

  EXISTING TELECOMMUNICATIONS SUPPORT STRUCTURE (PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER PLAN REF NO. 09/20422), TOGETHER WITH ASSOCIATED GROUND EQUIPMENT CABINETS WITHIN A FENCED COMPOUND

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2151256

• 9 Dec 2020Conditional

  UPGRADED WORKS TO ENTRANCE, LANEWAY & BRIDGE & PERMISSION FOR REFURBISHMENT OF EXISTING COTTAGE AND ERECTION OF AN EXTENSION TO EXISTING COTTAGE & INSTALLATION OF AN ON-SITE SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2051895

• 9 Nov 2020Refused

  CONSTRUCTION OF A ONE & HALF STOREY DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND POLISHING FILTER AND FOR ALL ASSOCIATED SITE-WORKS

  Extension of duration, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2051686

• 3 Nov 2020N/a

  REFURBISHMENT OF EXISTING COTTAGE AND ERECTION OF AN EXTENSION TO EXISTING COTTAGE & INSTALLATION OF AN ON-SITE SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2051643

• 12 Apr 2017Refused

  A 10 YEAR PLANNING PERMISSION FOR DEVELOPMENT CONSISTING OF (1) A 110KV ELECTRICITY SUBSTATION WHICH INCLUDES 2 NO. CONTROL BUILDINGS, ASSOCIATED ELECTRICAL PLANT AND EQUIPMENT, UNDERGROUND ELECTRICITY CABLING, FENCING AND ANCILLARY WORKS IN THE TOWNLAND OF CARK TO REPLACE TWO SUBSTATIONS PREVIOUSLY PERMITTED AS PART OF THE DRUMNAHOUGH WIND FARM (PL.REF.08/50687 AND EXTENDED UNDER PL. REF.13/51609) AND THE LENALEA WIND FARM (PL.REF.09/50116); (2) 33KV UNDERGROUND ELECTRICITY CABLING AND ANCILLARY WORKS FROM THE PERMITTED LENALEA WIND FARM TO THE PROPOSED SUBSTATION IN THE TOWNLAND OF CARK; (3) 110KV UNDERGROUND ELECTRICITY CABLING AND ANCILLARY WORKS FROM THE PROPOSED SUBSTATION AT CARK THROUGH THE TOWNLANDS OF CULLIAGH, MEENBOG (ED CLOGHAN), LETTERSHANBO, CORLACKY, KINNADERRY, WELCHTOWN, AGHAVEAGH, MEENAGRAUV, ALTNAPASTE, BALLYKERGAN, CARRICKMAHON, MAGHERACLOIGH, LOUGHSALLAGH, CASHELNAVEAN, CROAGHONAGH, TAWNAWULLY MOUNTAINS, KEADEW UPPER, FRIARBUSH, ARDINAWARK, KEADEW LOWER, TO THE EXISTING CLOGHER SUBSTATION IN THE TOWNLAND OF CULLIONBOY, CO. DONEGAL; (4) THE DEMOLITION OF AN EXISTING SHED AND ITS REPLACEMENT WITH A NEW SHED, BOTH IN THE TOWNLAND OF CULLIONBOY, RELOCATED TO FACILITATE THE PROPOSED UNDERGROUND CABLING WORKS. THE PLANNING APPLICATION IS ACCOMPANIED BY AN ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT (EIS) AND NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS)

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1750543

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 Eske and Ardnamona Wood SAC 000163
• Special Area of Conservation: River Finn SAC 002301
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Owendoo And Cloghervaddy Bogs 002046

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Tawnawully Mountains.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Tawnawully Mountains, about 1 in 20 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 Tawnawully Mountains.

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

Name

Tawnawully Mountains · Tamhnaigh an Mhullaigh

Area

24,312,413 m² (2,431.24 ha, 6,007.73 acres)

Civil parish

Donegal, and its townlands

Barony

Tirhugh

Electoral division

Tawnawully, the unit of the census

Census 2022

350 people lived in 123 households in the Tawnawully electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 14% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardatowel, Ardinawark, Ardnableask, Cashelnavean, Cloghervaddy, Cornaveagh, Corracramph, Croaghonagh, Cronamuck, Edergole, Friarsbush, Garvagh, Goladoo, Keadew Upper, Tawnaghgorm, Tawnaghlahan

Placenames

Tawnawully Mountains 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.