Barrack
Townland in the civil parish of Conwal, barony of Kilmacrenan, Co. Donegal
- Area
- 28.4 ha
- 70 acres
- Land parcels
- 32
- registered freehold, median 2,994 m² (0.3 ha, 0.74 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
32 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Barrack, from 297 m² to 98,642 m² (9.86 ha, 24.37 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 14 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Barrack 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
20 Feb 2025Conditional
ERECTION OF DETACHED LIVING ACCOMMODATION TO THE REAR OF DWELLING HOUSE WITH CONNECTION TO ALL EXISTING SERVICES FOR TEMPORARY USE AND STORAGE DURING THE REMEDIAL MICA WORKS REQUIRED TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2560221
6 Mar 2024Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF NEW DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC SHED AND INSTALLATION OF WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2460283
16 Jun 2021N/a
CONSTRUCTION OF DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC SHED AND INSTALLATION OF A WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2151208
28 Jan 2019Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT AND PUMP FED SOIL POLISHING FILTER
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1950090
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 Barrack.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Barrack.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Barrack.
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
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Barrack.
- Flooding
- The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Barrack with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Barrack
- Area
- 284,369 m² (28.44 ha, 70.27 acres)
- Civil parish
- Conwal, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kilmacrenan
- Electoral division
- Gortnavern, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Gortnavern electoral division: 1,303 people in 443 households; 82% of households own their home; 42% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ards Little, Ballyarr, Bohirril Park, Gortnavern, Woodtown
- Placenames
- Barrack 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.