# Bircog, Co. Donegal: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Templecarn, barony of Tirhugh, Co. Donegal. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 386,335 m² (38.63 ha, 95.47 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 36 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,070 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Templecarn, https://everytownland.com/donegal/parish/templecarn.md - Barony: Tirhugh - Electoral division: Pettigoe, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 368 people lived in 170 households in the Pettigoe electoral division. 76% of households owned their home. 19% of homes were built since 2001. 19% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Donegal, https://everytownland.com/donegal.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/14180 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 50339 - Centre: latitude 54.556542, longitude -7.83424 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 36 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bircog, from 163 m² to 61,108 m² (6.11 ha, 15.1 acres); 11 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1357233: 61,108 m² (6.11 ha, 15.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1357233.md - Parcel 5964524: 51,739 m² (5.17 ha, 12.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5964524.md - Parcel 1310275: 51,231 m² (5.12 ha, 12.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1310275.md - Parcel 1316237: 49,045 m² (4.9 ha, 12.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1316237.md - Parcel 1346462: 34,908 m² (3.49 ha, 8.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1346462.md - Parcel 1316989: 22,997 m² (2.3 ha, 5.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1316989.md - Parcel 4621057: 21,488 m² (2.15 ha, 5.31 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4621057.md - Parcel 4768197: 18,227 m² (1.82 ha, 4.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4768197.md - Parcel 1302175: 7,644 m² (0.76 ha, 1.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1302175.md - Parcel 1340213: 4,583 m² (0.46 ha, 1.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1340213.md - Parcel 1332153: 4,578 m² (0.46 ha, 1.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1332153.md - Parcel 1393482: 4,489 m² (0.45 ha, 1.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1393482.md - Parcel 1338192: 2,642 m² (0.26 ha, 0.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1338192.md - Parcel 4722130: 2,597 m² (0.26 ha, 0.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4722130.md - Parcel 5135293: 2,488 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5135293.md - Parcel 1336872: 2,235 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1336872.md - Parcel 1340249: 2,210 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1340249.md - Parcel 1318840: 2,092 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1318840.md - Parcel 1302323: 2,049 m² (0.2 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1302323.md - Parcel 1318431: 1,784 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1318431.md - Parcel 1427056: 1,641 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1427056.md - Parcel 5964537: 1,607 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5964537.md - Parcel 1334452: 1,491 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1334452.md - Parcel 1389178: 592 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1389178.md - Parcel 1378885: 584 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1378885.md - Parcel 1380773: 454 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1380773.md - Parcel 1409279: 430 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1409279.md - Parcel 1387224: 430 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1387224.md - Parcel 1319962: 427 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1319962.md - Parcel 1376880: 426 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1376880.md - Parcel 1335261: 410 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1335261.md - Parcel 1330086: 365 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1330086.md - Parcel 1329086: 330 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1329086.md - Parcel 1343865: 318 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1343865.md - Parcel 1382866: 310 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1382866.md - Parcel 1314848: 163 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1314848.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Bircog 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) 2 applications, newest first. - 16 May 2025, Donegal County Council 2560791: Conditional. Retention. (1) REMOVAL OF THE EXISTING LEAN TO STRUCTURE, (2) ADDITIONAL YARD/SET DOWN AREA AND PERMISSION FOR (1) CONVERSION OF THE EXISTING STABLE BLOCK TO ENCLOSED CATTLE HANDLING FACILITIES AND (2) CONSTRUCTION OF ADDITIONAL EXTENSION TO INCLUDE PORTAL FRAMED BUILDING, STAND ALONE ROOFED MIDDEN AND COLLECTION TANK INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560791/0 - 17 Jan 2017, Donegal County Council 1750040: Conditional. Permission. RE-ERECTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL BUILDING OVER AN EXISTING SLATTED TANK AND FEED PASSAGE, FOLLOWING PREVIOUS DEMOLITION OF STEEL STRUCTURE, FOR PURPOSES OF ACCOMMODATING SHEEP AND FOR LAYING A CONCRETE APRON AROUND SAME. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1750040/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Bircog. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Bircog. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Bircog. ## 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 Bircog, about 1 in 5 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Bircog. - 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/bircog.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/donegal/bircog.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/donegal/bircog.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Bircog 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) - Ardnaglass: https://everytownland.com/donegal/ardnaglass-50099.md - Drumchrin: https://everytownland.com/donegal/drumchrin.md - Drumnaskea: https://everytownland.com/donegal/drumnaskea-51133.md - Kimmid: https://everytownland.com/donegal/kimmid.md - Tullycarn: https://everytownland.com/donegal/tullycarn.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/bircog - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/donegal/bircog