# Befflaght, Co. Donegal: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Lettermacaward, barony of Boylagh, Co. Donegal; in Irish Beifleacht. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 6,957,959 m² (695.8 ha, 1,719.35 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 27 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 8,736 m² (0.87 ha, 2.16 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Lettermacaward, https://everytownland.com/donegal/parish/lettermacaward.md - Barony: Boylagh - Electoral division: Doocharry, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 82 people lived in 40 households in the Doocharry electoral division. 36% of households owned their home. 39% of homes were built since 2001. 25% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 16% 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/14616 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 50313 - Centre: latitude 54.935871, longitude -8.133414 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 27 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Befflaght, from 167 m² to 1,735,171 m² (173.52 ha, 428.77 acres); 39 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1416886: 1,735,171 m² (173.52 ha, 428.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1416886.md - Parcel 1382238: 1,416,061 m² (141.61 ha, 349.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1382238.md - Parcel 1382232: 861,007 m² (86.1 ha, 212.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1382232.md - Parcel 1382139: 741,004 m² (74.1 ha, 183.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1382139.md - Parcel 1382168: 516,183 m² (51.62 ha, 127.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1382168.md - Parcel 1416809: 387,518 m² (38.75 ha, 95.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1416809.md - Parcel 1416775: 303,868 m² (30.39 ha, 75.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1416775.md - Parcel 1382262: 235,735 m² (23.57 ha, 58.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1382262.md - Parcel 1416661: 201,991 m² (20.2 ha, 49.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1416661.md - Parcel 1416788: 188,039 m² (18.8 ha, 46.47 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1416788.md - Parcel 1382166: 14,420 m² (1.44 ha, 3.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1382166.md - Parcel 1382156: 9,603 m² (0.96 ha, 2.37 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1382156.md - Parcel 1416670: 8,905 m² (0.89 ha, 2.2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1416670.md - Parcel 1416810: 8,736 m² (0.87 ha, 2.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1416810.md - Parcel 1382140: 8,354 m² (0.84 ha, 2.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1382140.md - Parcel 1382179: 7,756 m² (0.78 ha, 1.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1382179.md - Parcel 1382164: 7,729 m² (0.77 ha, 1.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1382164.md - Parcel 1416884: 5,886 m² (0.59 ha, 1.45 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1416884.md - Parcel 1416709: 5,084 m² (0.51 ha, 1.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1416709.md - Parcel 1382167: 4,456 m² (0.45 ha, 1.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1382167.md - Parcel 1382180: 4,444 m² (0.44 ha, 1.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1382180.md - Parcel 1416776: 2,807 m² (0.28 ha, 0.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1416776.md - Parcel 1397687: 2,460 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1397687.md - Parcel 1416708: 1,798 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1416708.md - Parcel 3658148: 523 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3658148.md - Parcel 3658150: 495 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3658150.md - Parcel 3658149: 167 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3658149.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Befflaght 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) No planning application touches the townland of Befflaght in the national file, which goes back to 2010. ## 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 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - DG058-003: House - vernacular house, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDG058-003----. Situated on the SE facing slope of rising ground in mountain valley overlooking valley to the S and E with higher ground to the N and W. A long bog road runs off the S side of the main road ( R254) which runs through the Glenveagh National park. Approximately 1.2km in from the R254 there are a cluster of ruinous buildings with several small fields around the ruined house defined by a low stone drystone wall. The main house consists of a two bay single storey high rectangular building built with intermittently coursed granite rubble which is covered with an external render. The main room (int. dims. 4.1m NW-SE x 6.7m NE-SW; wall T 0.6m) of this house is accessed directly from a doorway in the centre of the SE wall, a second room (int. dims. 4.1m NW-SE x 3.9m NE-SW) is accessed through a doorway in the partition wall to the NE of the main room. The front doorway of the house was protected by a projecting porch. The internal walls of the house are covered in a lime render. The main room of this building was heated by a fireplace now mainly broken out that is located in the centre of the SW gable. This fireplace has a stone chimney hood that was supported on corbels which projected into the room of the house in a manner reminiscent of medieval fireplaces. This unusual stone fireplace may suggest that this house was built as early as the 17th century as this type of fireplace construction is not found in the 18th/19th century vernacular houses of this region. Alternatively this farmhouse may have been built in the 18th century with the fireplace built in a manner similar to the houses of the medieval period. The main room was lit by a window located in the SE wall which has evidence for a drawbar slot in the embrasure of the window opening. There is evidence for a second window in the NW wall and possibly a third window in the NW wall of this room. The smaller room to the NE has evidence for only one window which is located in the centre of the SE wall. A third room which is accessed from its own doorway in the SE wall appears to have been built onto the NE gable of this house. During this time an outhouse appears to have been built to the NE of the extension now forming an L-shaped range of buildings. To the SW of the house there is a two bay single storey high building with no evidence of any fireplace which may have been built later than the main house. The fields to the S and E represent the extent of the farmstead around this farmhouse and there is no evidence of any cultivation ridges within the fields which would suggest that they were built to stock livestock. 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Befflaght. ## 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 Befflaght, about 1 in 20 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 Befflaght. - 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/befflaght.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/donegal/befflaght.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/donegal/befflaght.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Befflaght 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) - Adderwal: https://everytownland.com/donegal/adderwal.md - Bingorms: https://everytownland.com/donegal/bingorms.md - Cloghernagore: https://everytownland.com/donegal/cloghernagore.md - Commeen: https://everytownland.com/donegal/commeen-50677.md - Derrynanaspol: https://everytownland.com/donegal/derrynanaspol.md - Loughbarra or Croagheen: https://everytownland.com/donegal/loughbarra-or-croagheen.md - Meenachullion: https://everytownland.com/donegal/meenachullion.md - Stranasaggart: https://everytownland.com/donegal/stranasaggart.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/befflaght - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/donegal/befflaght