# Birra, Co. Donegal: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Drumhome, barony of Tirhugh, Co. Donegal. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 916,024 m² (91.6 ha, 226.35 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 43,190 m² (4.32 ha, 10.67 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 3 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Drumhome, https://everytownland.com/donegal/parish/drumhome.md - Barony: Tirhugh - Electoral division: Ballintra, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Donegal, https://everytownland.com/donegal.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/13780 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 50342 - Centre: latitude 54.570229, longitude -8.17949 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Birra, from 579 m² to 383,959 m² (38.4 ha, 94.88 acres); 13 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1340305: 383,959 m² (38.4 ha, 94.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1340305.md - Parcel 1394297: 82,489 m² (8.25 ha, 20.38 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1394297.md - Parcel 1412432: 73,111 m² (7.31 ha, 18.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1412432.md - Parcel 1378194: 71,249 m² (7.12 ha, 17.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1378194.md - Parcel 1378297: 65,749 m² (6.57 ha, 16.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1378297.md - Parcel 1391711: 61,066 m² (6.11 ha, 15.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1391711.md - Parcel 1353120: 48,519 m² (4.85 ha, 11.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1353120.md - Parcel 1365148: 45,513 m² (4.55 ha, 11.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1365148.md - Parcel 1378260: 40,867 m² (4.09 ha, 10.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1378260.md - Parcel 1412355: 21,255 m² (2.13 ha, 5.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1412355.md - Parcel 3663377: 10,404 m² (1.04 ha, 2.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3663377.md - Parcel 1362171: 4,819 m² (0.48 ha, 1.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1362171.md - Parcel 1357964: 4,305 m² (0.43 ha, 1.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1357964.md - Parcel 1400246: 1,439 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1400246.md - Parcel 1367033: 1,063 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1367033.md - Parcel 5483300: 579 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5483300.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 3 applications, newest first. - 17 Dec 2019, Donegal County Council 1951948: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND DISPOSAL PAD/PERCOLATION AREA. THE APPLICATION INCORPORATES A NATURA IMPACT ASSESSMENT (NIS). File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1951948/0 - 17 Jul 2018, Donegal County Council 1851096: Refused. Permission, 1 home. ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND DISPOSAL PAD / PERCOLATION AREA. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1851096/0 - 27 Jun 2018, Donegal County Council 1850986: N/a. Permission, 1 home. ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND DISPOSAL PAD/PERCOLATION AREA. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1850986/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: Durnesh Lough SAC, site code 000138, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/000138 - Special Protection Area: Durnesh Lough SPA, site code 004145, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/spa/004145 - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Durnesh Lough, site code 000138 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - DG103-010: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDG103-010----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDG103-012----. 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 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 Birra. ## 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 Birra, about 1 in 10 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. 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 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/birra.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/donegal/birra.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/donegal/birra.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Birra 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) - Dromore: https://everytownland.com/donegal/dromore-50958.md - Drumhome: https://everytownland.com/donegal/drumhome.md - Durnesh: https://everytownland.com/donegal/durnesh.md - Foyagh: https://everytownland.com/donegal/foyagh.md - Killinangel More: https://everytownland.com/donegal/killinangel-more.md - Rathfragan: https://everytownland.com/donegal/rathfragan.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/birra - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/donegal/birra