Bracky

51 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bracky, from 309 m² to 118,826 m² (11.88 ha, 29.36 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 23 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Bracky 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.

• 2 Jul 2025Conditional

  (1) PARTIAL DEMOLITION OF AN EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND ‘LEAN TO’ EXTENSION TO AN ADJOINING DETACHED GRANNY FLAT, (2) RECONSTRUCTION, WITH EXTENSION, OF THE ORIGINAL DWELLING HOUSE REFERRED TO AT ITEM NO. 1, IN SO FAR AS WORK HAS BEEN COMPLETED AND (3) NEW RETAINING WALL TO REPLACE EXISTING UNSTABLE RETAINING WALL WITH ASSOCIATED SITE WORK AND PERMISSION FOR COMPLETION OF THE RECONSTRUCTION AND EXTENSION OF THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE (LISTED AT ITEM NO. 2 ABOVE) INCLUDING ROOF AND WALL FINISHES, WINDOWS AND THE PROVISION OF A PROPRIETARY WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM TO REPLACE THE EXISTING SEPTIC TANK WITH ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2561119

• 22 May 2023Conditional

  USE OF DEVELOPMENT PERMITTED UNDER PLANNING REF: 18/51177 AS A FUNERAL HOME INCORPORATING CHAPEL OF REST INCLUDING INFORMATION SIGNAGE AND PERMISSION FOR AMENDMENT OF CONDITION NO.4 OF PLANNING REF: 18/51177 FROM A STONE-FACED BOUNDARY WALL TO A PLASTER FINISHED BOUNDARY WALL AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2350714

• 27 Jul 2018Conditional

  RENOVATION AND EXTENSION WORKS TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND PLANNING PERMISSION FOR COMPLETION OF WORKS AND TO USE PROPERTY AS A FUNERAL HOME FOR PRIVATE REMOVALS. WORKS INCLUDE DEVELOPMENT OF A VEHICULAR ENTRANCE, PARKING AND TURNING PROVISION WITHIN THE SITE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 1851177

• 31 May 2018Conditional

  A DWELLING HOUSE, SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1850847

• 27 Apr 2018Conditional

  (A) CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING, (B) REPAIR OF AN EXISTING DERELICT DWELLING TO BE USED AS A DETACHED STORE ANCILLARY TO THE NEW DWELLING AND (C) THE INSTALLATION OF A WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1850667

• 20 Mar 2018N/a

  RENOVATION AND EXTENSION WORKS TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND PLANNING PERMISSION TO COMPLETE WORKS AND TO USE PROPERTY AS A FUNERAL HOME FOR PRIVATE REMOVALS. PROPOSED WORKS INCLUDE DEVELOPMENT OF A VEHICULAR ENTRANCE, PARKING AND TURNING PROVISION WITHIN THE SITE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 1850408

• 3 Oct 2017Refused

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING AND THE INSTALLATION OF A WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1751501

• 13 Sept 2017N/a

  CHANGE OF USE FROM DWELLING HOUSE AND FORMER SHOP TO USE AS A FUNERAL HOME. WORKS SHALL INCLUDE DEVELOPMENT OF A VEHICULAR ENTRANCE, DESIGNATED CAR PARKING AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1751390

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: Slieve Tooey/Tormore Island/Loughros Beg Bay SAC 000190
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Slieve Tooey/Tormore Island/Loughros Beg Bay 000190

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Bracky.

Architectural heritage

• House, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c.1800, with single-storey lean-to extension to rear and having recessed outbuilding attached to north end. Pitched thatched roof with mesh covering, tied to stone and metal pegs built into walls, with two rendered chimneystacks; felt roof to extension. Rendered walls with square-headed openings, windows widened and having painted concrete sills and replacement uPVC windows and door. Pitched corrugated-iron roof and rubble stone walls to attached outbuilding. Single-storey outbuildings to north and north with pitched corrugated-asbestos roofs and rubble stone walls.

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

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1156 (ZIP).

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.

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

Name

Bracky · Breacaigh

Area

1,191,512 m² (119.15 ha, 294.43 acres)

Civil parish

Inishkeel, and its townlands

Barony

Banagh

Electoral division

Glengesh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Glengesh electoral division: 694 people in 263 households; 82% of households own their home; 30% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 22% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cashel, Common, Edergole, Killasteever, Kinnoghty, Mogumna, Scaddaman

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Bracky 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.