# Bracky, Co. Donegal: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Inishkeel, barony of Banagh, Co. Donegal; in Irish Breacaigh. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,191,512 m² (119.15 ha, 294.43 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 51 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 9,449 m² (0.94 ha, 2.33 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 8 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Inishkeel, https://everytownland.com/donegal/parish/inishkeel.md - Barony: Banagh - Electoral division: Glengesh, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Donegal, https://everytownland.com/donegal.md - Gaeltacht: in an Irish-speaking area - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/14665 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 50373 - Centre: latitude 54.750596, longitude -8.427999 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 51 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bracky, from 309 m² to 118,826 m² (11.88 ha, 29.36 acres); 23 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1383662: 118,826 m² (11.88 ha, 29.36 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1383662.md - Parcel 1422797: 114,407 m² (11.44 ha, 28.27 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1422797.md - Parcel 1387618: 88,860 m² (8.89 ha, 21.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1387618.md - Parcel 1426612: 74,470 m² (7.45 ha, 18.4 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1426612.md - Parcel 1387678: 73,069 m² (7.31 ha, 18.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1387678.md - Parcel 1387681: 53,403 m² (5.34 ha, 13.2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1387681.md - Parcel 1378515: 51,651 m² (5.17 ha, 12.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1378515.md - Parcel 1387679: 48,332 m² (4.83 ha, 11.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1387679.md - Parcel 1387787: 45,115 m² (4.51 ha, 11.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1387787.md - Parcel 1413414: 39,471 m² (3.95 ha, 9.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1413414.md - Parcel 1410625: 30,549 m² (3.05 ha, 7.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1410625.md - Parcel 1422798: 27,203 m² (2.72 ha, 6.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1422798.md - Parcel 1422439: 25,381 m² (2.54 ha, 6.27 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1422439.md - Parcel 1348450: 24,978 m² (2.5 ha, 6.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1348450.md - Parcel 1414866: 24,584 m² (2.46 ha, 6.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1414866.md - Parcel 1316842: 23,815 m² (2.38 ha, 5.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1316842.md - Parcel 1337159: 22,953 m² (2.3 ha, 5.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1337159.md - Parcel 1408824: 21,912 m² (2.19 ha, 5.41 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1408824.md - Parcel 1312593: 18,239 m² (1.82 ha, 4.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1312593.md - Parcel 1423918: 18,158 m² (1.82 ha, 4.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1423918.md - Parcel 1402553: 16,437 m² (1.64 ha, 4.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1402553.md - Parcel 1417039: 15,729 m² (1.57 ha, 3.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1417039.md - Parcel 1309373: 14,124 m² (1.41 ha, 3.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1309373.md - Parcel 4725523: 13,930 m² (1.39 ha, 3.44 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4725523.md - Parcel 3662333: 11,766 m² (1.18 ha, 2.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3662333.md - Parcel 1412055: 9,449 m² (0.94 ha, 2.33 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1412055.md - Parcel 3662332: 9,359 m² (0.94 ha, 2.31 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3662332.md - Parcel 1345512: 7,000 m² (0.7 ha, 1.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1345512.md - Parcel 4725466: 5,912 m² (0.59 ha, 1.46 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4725466.md - Parcel 1353665: 4,828 m² (0.48 ha, 1.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1353665.md - Parcel 1347476: 4,788 m² (0.48 ha, 1.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1347476.md - Parcel 4664940: 3,954 m² (0.4 ha, 0.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4664940.md - Parcel 4664858: 3,451 m² (0.35 ha, 0.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4664858.md - Parcel 4863366: 3,332 m² (0.33 ha, 0.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4863366.md - Parcel 1348032: 3,253 m² (0.33 ha, 0.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1348032.md - Parcel 1393065: 2,984 m² (0.3 ha, 0.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1393065.md - Parcel 1327055: 2,749 m² (0.27 ha, 0.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1327055.md - Parcel 4863360: 2,366 m² (0.24 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4863360.md - Parcel 1422796: 2,245 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1422796.md - Parcel 1340465: 2,227 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1340465.md - Parcel 1325367: 2,130 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1325367.md - Parcel 1406649: 2,054 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1406649.md - Parcel 1362936: 2,010 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1362936.md - Parcel 1326204: 1,930 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1326204.md - Parcel 1318606: 1,551 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1318606.md - Parcel 1341990: 1,487 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1341990.md - Parcel 1344130: 1,486 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1344130.md - Parcel 1350311: 1,465 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1350311.md - Parcel 1351433: 1,349 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1351433.md - Parcel 1349393: 590 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1349393.md - Parcel 1351082: 309 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1351082.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 8 applications, newest first. - 2 Jul 2025, Donegal County Council 2561119: Conditional. Retention, 1 home. (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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2561119/0 - 22 May 2023, Donegal County Council 2350714: Conditional. Retention. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2350714/0 - 27 Jul 2018, Donegal County Council 1851177: Conditional. Retention. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1851177/0 - 31 May 2018, Donegal County Council 1850847: Conditional. Retention, 1 home. A DWELLING HOUSE, SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1850847/0 - 27 Apr 2018, Donegal County Council 1850667: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. (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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1850667/0 - 20 Mar 2018, Donegal County Council 1850408: N/a. Retention. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1850408/0 - 3 Oct 2017, Donegal County Council 1751501: Refused. Permission, 1 home. CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING AND THE INSTALLATION OF A WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1751501/0 - 13 Sept 2017, Donegal County Council 1751390: N/a. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1751390/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: Slieve Tooey/Tormore Island/Loughros Beg Bay SAC, site code 000190, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/000190 - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Slieve Tooey/Tormore Island/Loughros Beg Bay, site code 000190 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Bracky. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - House, 1780–1820, Regional interest, registry number 40908203, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=DG®no=40908203. 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. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: 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: 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, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_1156.zip (ZIP). - 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/bracky.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/donegal/bracky.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/donegal/bracky.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Bracky 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) - Cashel: https://everytownland.com/donegal/cashel-50547.md - Common: https://everytownland.com/donegal/common-50679.md - Edergole: https://everytownland.com/donegal/edergole-51193.md - Killasteever: https://everytownland.com/donegal/killasteever.md - Kinnoghty: https://everytownland.com/donegal/kinnoghty.md - Mogumna: https://everytownland.com/donegal/mogumna.md - Scaddaman: https://everytownland.com/donegal/scaddaman.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/bracky - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/donegal/bracky