Breaghy

21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Breaghy, from 247 m² to 189,566 m² (18.96 ha, 46.84 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 13 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 Breaghy 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.

• 17 Apr 2025Conditional

  (1) CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSION AND RENOVATION WORKS TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, (2) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING SINGLE STOREY FLAT ROOF EXTENSION TO THE REAR OF THE DWELLING HOUSE AND (3) INSTALLATION OF NEW SEPTIC TANK / SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2560610

• 21 Feb 2024Conditional

  REPOSITIONING OF EXISTING VEHICULAR ENTRANCE TO SERVE EXISTING DWELLING AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2460180

• 23 Nov 2023Conditional

  (1) CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSIONS TO DWELLING HOUSE, (2) RENOVATION WORKS AND MINOR ELEVATIONAL CHANGES TO SAME, (3) CONSTRUCTION OF A DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2351798

• 24 Aug 2023Conditional

  DECOMMISSIONING CONNECTION TO EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND THE INSTALLATION OF NEW SUITABLE REPLACEMENT EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH ASSOCIATED FACILITIES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2351258

• 11 Jul 2022Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, SEPTIC TANK / SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2251178

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

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Breaghy.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Breaghy.

Architectural heritage

• Kiln, 1840–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached single-bay lime kiln on rectangular-plan, erected c. 1860. Rubble stone buttress to the west elevation. Now out of use. Constructed of roughly coursed rubble stone masonry. Segmental-headed opening to front (north), the former oven aperture, having red brick voussoirs and soffit, and with wrought-iron lintel to interior over inner opening. Wrought-iron brackets to interior. Former loading chamber on circular-plan to the south having rubble masonry construction. Built into rock outcrop adjacent to road and with former quarries adjacent to the south. Earthen embankment to rear, formerly giving access to loading chamber. Located in the rural countryside to the north\north-west of Castlefinn.

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 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_1837 (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 Breaghy with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Breaghy

Area

646,283 m² (64.63 ha, 159.7 acres)

Civil parish

Donaghmore, and its townlands

Barony

Raphoe South

Electoral division

Castlefinn, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Castlefinn electoral division: 1,252 people in 488 households; 67% of households own their home; 24% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Dooghan, Grahamsland, Lisnabert, Magherashanvally, Sessiagh, Sessiagh (Allison), Sessiagh (Long)

Placenames

Breaghy 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.