# Braehead, Co. Donegal: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Raphoe, barony of Raphoe North, Co. Donegal. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 542,093 m² (54.21 ha, 133.95 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 3,454 m² (0.35 ha, 0.85 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Raphoe, https://everytownland.com/donegal/parish/raphoe.md - Barony: Raphoe North - Electoral division: Figart, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 1,131 people lived in 384 households in the Figart electoral division. 79% of households owned their home. 49% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Donegal, https://everytownland.com/donegal.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/16367 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 50374 - Centre: latitude 54.873397, longitude -7.62 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Braehead, from 91 m² to 196,087 m² (19.61 ha, 48.45 acres); 30 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1321504: 196,087 m² (19.61 ha, 48.45 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1321504.md - Parcel 1395288: 108,062 m² (10.81 ha, 26.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1395288.md - Parcel 1328815: 83,214 m² (8.32 ha, 20.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1328815.md - Parcel 1393806: 49,227 m² (4.92 ha, 12.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1393806.md - Parcel 1372947: 23,057 m² (2.31 ha, 5.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1372947.md - Parcel 1380529: 13,115 m² (1.31 ha, 3.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1380529.md - Parcel 1393120: 12,777 m² (1.28 ha, 3.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1393120.md - Parcel 1417090: 10,584 m² (1.06 ha, 2.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1417090.md - Parcel 1327019: 7,164 m² (0.72 ha, 1.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1327019.md - Parcel 1346012: 5,278 m² (0.53 ha, 1.3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1346012.md - Parcel 1399114: 4,486 m² (0.45 ha, 1.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1399114.md - Parcel 1334640: 4,057 m² (0.41 ha, 1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1334640.md - Parcel 1408880: 4,015 m² (0.4 ha, 0.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1408880.md - Parcel 1327845: 2,893 m² (0.29 ha, 0.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1327845.md - Parcel 1335650: 2,782 m² (0.28 ha, 0.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1335650.md - Parcel 1394981: 2,324 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1394981.md - Parcel 4891064: 2,285 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4891064.md - Parcel 1301442: 1,918 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1301442.md - Parcel 1407733: 1,823 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1407733.md - Parcel 1423968: 1,803 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1423968.md - Parcel 1309827: 1,526 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1309827.md - Parcel 1376640: 1,480 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1376640.md - Parcel 1365994: 1,290 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1365994.md - Parcel 1421735: 640 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1421735.md - Parcel 4891073: 113 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4891073.md - Parcel 1402587: 91 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1402587.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Braehead 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) 2 applications, newest first. - 30 Oct 2024, Donegal County Council 2461742: N/a. Permission. EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2461742/0 - 17 Oct 2024, Donegal County Council 2461643: N/a. Permission. CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2461643/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Braehead. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Braehead. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Braehead. ## 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 Braehead, 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Braehead. - 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/braehead.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/donegal/braehead.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/donegal/braehead.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Braehead 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) - Aghnakeeragh: https://everytownland.com/donegal/aghnakeeragh.md - Burnside: https://everytownland.com/donegal/burnside.md - Gort Glebe: https://everytownland.com/donegal/gort-glebe-51388.md - Habbitstown: https://everytownland.com/donegal/habbitstown.md - Lisnoble: https://everytownland.com/donegal/lisnoble.md - Muntertinny: https://everytownland.com/donegal/muntertinny.md - Winnyhaw: https://everytownland.com/donegal/winnyhaw.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/braehead - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/donegal/braehead