Donnybrook
Donnybrook is a townland in the civil parish of Feenagh, barony of Bunratty Lower, Co. Clare. Its name in Irish is Domhnach Broc.
- Area
- 28.9 ha
- 71 acres
- Land parcels
- 30
- registered freehold, median 3,223 m² (0.32 ha, 0.8 acres)
- Zoning
- O2
- Cluster
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Donnybrook, from 5 m² to 86,875 m² (8.69 ha, 21.47 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 17 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
- O2Cluster (General)
Deerpark / Corlack Cluster, Clare · 5 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
6 Jun 2025Conditional
of garage/store to rear of existing dwelling including ancillary site works
Retention, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2560336
2 Mar 2022Conditional
to construct a new dwelling house and garage complete with a new entrance, sewage treatment system and ancillary works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 22183
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Donnybrook.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Donnybrook.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Donnybrook.
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 Donnybrook, 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 low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_772 (ZIP).
- 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
No address of the register names Donnybrook with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.
The townland
- Name
- Donnybrook · Domhnach Broc
- Area
- 288,785 m² (28.88 ha, 71.36 acres)
- Civil parish
- Feenagh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Bunratty Lower
- Electoral division
- Sixmilebridge, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 2,887 people lived in 994 households in the Sixmilebridge electoral division. 73% of households owned their home. 45% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ardkyle, Carrownalegaun, Cloghlea, Deerpark, Seersha, Springfield
- Placenames
- Donnybrook 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.