Birra

16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Birra, from 579 m² to 383,959 m² (38.4 ha, 94.88 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 13 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Birra 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.

• 17 Dec 2019Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND DISPOSAL PAD/PERCOLATION AREA. THE APPLICATION INCORPORATES A NATURA IMPACT ASSESSMENT (NIS)

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1951948

• 17 Jul 2018Refused

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND DISPOSAL PAD / PERCOLATION AREA

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1851096

• 27 Jun 2018N/a

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND DISPOSAL PAD/PERCOLATION AREA

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1850986

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Durnesh Lough SAC 000138
• Special Protection Area: Durnesh Lough SPA 004145
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Durnesh Lough 000138

Recorded monuments

• DG103-010 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Internal diam. 30m-33.5m. An oval space enclosed by an earthen bank surviving .5m in height. It is situated on the possibly artificially levelled, crest of a drumlin and is naturally defended. Gaps to the W and S may indicate entrances. It is partially overgrown. Located on a peninsula jutting into a small tidal lake alongside two other enclosures on similar peninsulas. The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated. Date of upload: 22 September 2008

• DG103-012 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Internal diam. 11m. A subcircular space enclosed by an earthen bank. It is naturally defended by the slope of the hill (which may have been artificially levelled) on top of which it stands. It is very overgrown and is located on a peninsula jutting into an inlet of Donegal Bay. The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated. Date of upload: 22 September 2008

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Birra.

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).

Radon

At the centre of the townland of Birra, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as 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 Birra.

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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.

No address of the register names Birra with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Birra

Area

916,024 m² (91.6 ha, 226.35 acres)

Civil parish

Drumhome, and its townlands

Barony

Tirhugh

Electoral division

Ballintra, the unit of the census

Census 2022

755 people lived in 290 households in the Ballintra electoral division. 81% of households owned their home. 25% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 41% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Dromore, Drumhome, Durnesh, Foyagh, Killinangel More, Rathfragan

Placenames

Birra 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.