Barnes Upper

31 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Barnes Upper, from 1,144 m² to 2,678,820 m² (267.88 ha, 661.95 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 22 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 Barnes Upper 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.

• 16 Sept 2025Conditional

  REFURBISHMENT AND EXTENSION OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, UTILISING EXISTING ON-SITE WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM INCLUDING ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2561594

• 28 Nov 2023Refused

  (1) CONSTRUCTION OF 10 NO. GLAMPING PODS, (2) 6 NO. STOPOVER CAMPERVAN PITCHES, (3) MINDFULNESS AND WELLNESS RETREAT GARDEN AREA CONSISTING OF MEDITATION, YOGA, STEAM ROOM AND SAUNA PODS AND OUTDOOR ICE BATH AREA, (4) RENOVATION, REFURBISHMENT AND EXTENSION OF EXISTING DERELICT STONE BUILDING INTO RECEPTION, LAUNDRY AND TOILET FACILITY BUILDING, (5) INSTALLATION OF A WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND (6) DEVELOPMENT OF ON-SITE CAR PARKING SPACES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2351820

• 15 Nov 2023N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A TOURISM BASED INITIATIVE CONSISTING OF: (1) CONSTRUCTION OF 10 NO. GLAMPING PODS, (2) 6 NO. STOPOVER CAMPERVAN PITCHES, (3) MINDFULNESS AND WELLNESS RETREAT GARDEN AREA CONSISTING OF MEDITATION, YOGA, STEAM ROOM AND SAUNA PODS AND OUTDOOR ICE BATH AREA, (3) RENOVATION, REFURBISHMENT AND EXTENSION OF EXISTING DERELICT STONE BUILDING INTO RECEPTION, LAUNDRY AND TOILET FACILITY BUILDING, (4) INSTALLATION OF A WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM, AND (5) ON-SITE CAR PARKING SPACES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2351742

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: Cloghernagore Bog and Glenveagh National Park SAC 002047
• Special Protection Area: Derryveagh And Glendowan Mountains SPA 004039
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Cloghernagore Bog And Glenveagh National Park 002047
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Derriscligh Bog 001114

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Barnes Upper.

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Barnes Upper.

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 Barnes Upper, 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. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Barnes Upper.

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

Name

Barnes Upper · An Bearnas Uachtarach

Area

4,376,563 m² (437.66 ha, 1,081.47 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmacrenan, and its townlands

Barony

Kilmacrenan

Electoral division

Termon, the unit of the census

Census 2022

568 people lived in 189 households in the Termon electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 41% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Barnes Lower, Currin, Derriscligh, Drumdeevin, Stragraddy

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Barnes Upper 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.