# Barnes Upper, Co. Donegal: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Kilmacrenan, barony of Kilmacrenan, Co. Donegal; in Irish An Bearnas Uachtarach. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 4,376,563 m² (437.66 ha, 1,081.47 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 31 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 41,028 m² (4.1 ha, 10.14 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 3 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Kilmacrenan, https://everytownland.com/donegal/parish/kilmacrenan.md - Barony: Kilmacrenan - Electoral division: Termon, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Donegal, https://everytownland.com/donegal.md - Gaeltacht: in an Irish-speaking area - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/16088 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 50297 - Centre: latitude 55.073697, longitude -7.845253 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 31 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Barnes Upper, from 1,144 m² to 2,678,820 m² (267.88 ha, 661.95 acres); 22 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1331928: 2,678,820 m² (267.88 ha, 661.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1331928.md - Parcel 1331561: 2,506,337 m² (250.63 ha, 619.33 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1331561.md - Parcel 1407933: 319,025 m² (31.9 ha, 78.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1407933.md - Parcel 1389099: 139,757 m² (13.98 ha, 34.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1389099.md - Parcel 1321685: 135,853 m² (13.59 ha, 33.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1321685.md - Parcel 1331368: 111,429 m² (11.14 ha, 27.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1331368.md - Parcel 1394098: 108,835 m² (10.88 ha, 26.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1394098.md - Parcel 1380689: 82,019 m² (8.2 ha, 20.27 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1380689.md - Parcel 1305631: 81,758 m² (8.18 ha, 20.2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1305631.md - Parcel 1402817: 78,791 m² (7.88 ha, 19.47 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1402817.md - Parcel 1405858: 74,010 m² (7.4 ha, 18.29 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1405858.md - Parcel 1417268: 61,088 m² (6.11 ha, 15.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1417268.md - Parcel 1387049: 51,058 m² (5.11 ha, 12.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1387049.md - Parcel 1413039: 49,837 m² (4.98 ha, 12.31 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1413039.md - Parcel 1301741: 44,771 m² (4.48 ha, 11.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1301741.md - Parcel 1377108: 41,028 m² (4.1 ha, 10.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1377108.md - Parcel 1391502: 40,286 m² (4.03 ha, 9.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1391502.md - Parcel 1409422: 32,585 m² (3.26 ha, 8.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1409422.md - Parcel 1310020: 22,511 m² (2.25 ha, 5.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1310020.md - Parcel 1408242: 21,080 m² (2.11 ha, 5.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1408242.md - Parcel 1331132: 15,974 m² (1.6 ha, 3.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1331132.md - Parcel 1408295: 14,645 m² (1.46 ha, 3.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1408295.md - Parcel 1379119: 13,201 m² (1.32 ha, 3.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1379119.md - Parcel 1381083: 6,907 m² (0.69 ha, 1.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1381083.md - Parcel 4944770: 5,827 m² (0.58 ha, 1.44 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4944770.md - Parcel 1365739: 3,683 m² (0.37 ha, 0.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1365739.md - Parcel 5308641: 2,911 m² (0.29 ha, 0.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5308641.md - Parcel 4869417: 2,531 m² (0.25 ha, 0.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4869417.md - Parcel 1383060: 2,455 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1383060.md - Parcel 1385026: 1,380 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1385026.md - Parcel 4996661: 1,144 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4996661.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 3 applications, newest first. - 16 Sept 2025, Donegal County Council 2561594: Conditional. Permission. REFURBISHMENT AND EXTENSION OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, UTILISING EXISTING ON-SITE WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM INCLUDING ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2561594/0 - 28 Nov 2023, Donegal County Council 2351820: Refused. Permission. (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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2351820/0 - 15 Nov 2023, Donegal County Council 2351742: N/a. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2351742/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: Cloghernagore Bog and Glenveagh National Park SAC, site code 002047, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/002047 - Special Protection Area: Derryveagh And Glendowan Mountains SPA, site code 004039, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/spa/004039 - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Cloghernagore Bog And Glenveagh National Park, site code 002047 - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Derriscligh Bog, site code 001114 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Barnes Upper. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Barnes Upper. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - 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: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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 flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/donegal/barnes-upper.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/donegal/barnes-upper.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/donegal/barnes-upper.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) 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: https://everytownland.com/donegal.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Barnes Lower: https://everytownland.com/donegal/barnes-lower.md - Currin: https://everytownland.com/donegal/currin.md - Derriscligh: https://everytownland.com/donegal/derriscligh.md - Drumdeevin: https://everytownland.com/donegal/drumdeevin.md - Stragraddy: https://everytownland.com/donegal/stragraddy.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. 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; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/donegal/barnes-upper - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/donegal/barnes-upper