Billary
Townland in the civil parish of Templecarn, barony of Tirhugh, Co. Donegal
- Area
- 20.2 ha
- 50 acres
- Land parcels
- 31
- registered freehold, median 3,188 m² (0.32 ha, 0.79 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 10
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
31 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Billary, from 136 m² to 24,792 m² (2.48 ha, 6.13 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 Billary 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 Nov 2025Conditional
ERECTION OF 6 NO. FLOOD LIGHT STANDARDS, BASES AND DUCTING INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2562023
19 Nov 2025N/a
ERECTION OF 6 NO. FLOOD LIGHT STANDARDS, BASES AND DUCTING INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2562022
24 Apr 2024Refused
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING, INSTALLATION OF PACKAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM, PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Outline permission · Donegal County Council, 2460580
15 Mar 2021Conditional
ERECTION OF A FOUR BAY DRY BEDDED SHED WITH DRY FEED AND MACHINERY STORAGE, WITH CONCRETE APRON AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2150462
14 Dec 2020Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A SUN ROOM TO THE REAR (NORTH WEST SIDE) OF THE EXISTING DWELLING INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2051912
24 Nov 2020N/a
CONSTRUCTION OF A SUN ROOM TO THE REAR (NORTH WEST SIDE) OF THE EXISTING DWELLING INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2051778
26 Jun 2020Conditional
LANEWAY TO ACCESS FIELD BEHIND DWELLING AND PERMISSION FOR RENOVATION OF THE EXISTING DWELLING WITH EXTENSIONS TO THE REAR (NORTH) & SIDE (EAST) ELEVATIONS, INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2050834
11 May 2020N/a
RENOVATION OF THE EXISTING DWELLING WITH EXTENSIONS TO THE REAR (NORTH) & SIDE (EAST) ELEVATIONS INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2050606
19 Sept 2017Conditional
ERECTION OF EXTENSIONS TO THE REAR AND SIDE OF DWELLING HOUSE AND FRONT PORCH EXTENSION TO SAME
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1751422
1 Aug 2017Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A LEAN-TO DOMESTIC GARAGE AND FUEL STORE TO THE REAR (NORTH & EASTERN SIDE) OF THE EXISTING DWELLING INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1751214
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 Billary.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Billary.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Billary.
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 5 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 Billary.
- 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 Billary with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Billary
- Area
- 202,078 m² (20.21 ha, 49.93 acres)
- Civil parish
- Templecarn, and its townlands
- Barony
- Tirhugh
- Electoral division
- Pettigoe, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Pettigoe electoral division: 368 people in 170 households; 76% of households own their home; 19% of homes were built since 2001; 19% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Aghafoy, Drumharriff, Pettigoe
- Placenames
- Billary 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.