Braade Upper

50 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Braade Upper, from 113 m² to 1,237,467 m² (123.75 ha, 305.78 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 22 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 Braade Upper 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.

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  ENTRANCE PORCH/SUNROOM TO FRONT ELEVATION OF DWELLING

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2151287

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

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Unna/Lough Unshagh Bogs 000167

Recorded monuments

• DG081-007 Enclosure
  Description

  A local tradition records that a 'Fort' was levelled here about the turn of the century. There is no trace of it now. It was situated on poor pasture midway up a S facing slope at the E end of Glencolumbkille valley. 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

• DG081-008 Enclosure
  Description

  There is a local tradition of a 'Danes Fort' in this vicinity although there is no visible evidence of it now. It is situated in poor pasture, halfway up a S facing slope at the E end of Glencolumbkille valley. 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 Excavation licence number 02E1738 Pre-construction testing was undertaken in the townland of Braade Upper, Glencolmcille, Co. Donegal. The works were carried out pursuant to a grant of planning permission to restore an existing ruined building, construct an extension and rebuild existing outhouse, with associated site works. The site of the proposed development is in the middle of an enclosure site, although there is no surface trace of the Recorded Monument. Four test-trenches were opened. No archaeological remains were revealed in any of them. There was a total lack of subsurface evidence of the possible enclosure or any other archaeological features. (Excavations Bulletin 2002) Mary Henry, 24 Queen Street, Clonmel, Co. Tipperary.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Braade Upper, 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 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 Braade Upper.

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 Braade Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Braade Upper · An Bhráid Uachtarach

Area

2,926,600 m² (292.66 ha, 723.18 acres)

Civil parish

Glencolumbkille, and its townlands

Barony

Banagh

Electoral division

West Donegal, the unit of the census

Census 2022

732 people lived in 273 households in the West Donegal electoral division. 75% of households owned their home. 26% of homes were built since 2001. 22% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 19% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Altclogh, Braade Lower, Kilgoly, Laghil, Meenacharvy, Meenadiff, Meenadreen, Straleel North

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Braade Upper 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.