# Breaghy, Co. Donegal: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Donaghmore, barony of Raphoe South, Co. Donegal. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 646,283 m² (64.63 ha, 159.7 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 3,744 m² (0.37 ha, 0.93 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 5 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Donaghmore, https://everytownland.com/donegal/parish/donaghmore.md - Barony: Raphoe South - Electoral division: Castlefinn, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Donegal, https://everytownland.com/donegal.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/16129 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 50377 - Centre: latitude 54.819645, longitude -7.599863 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Breaghy, from 247 m² to 189,566 m² (18.96 ha, 46.84 acres); 13 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1303083: 189,566 m² (18.96 ha, 46.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1303083.md - Parcel 1420406: 176,440 m² (17.64 ha, 43.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1420406.md - Parcel 1380537: 110,262 m² (11.03 ha, 27.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1380537.md - Parcel 1382528: 100,344 m² (10.03 ha, 24.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1382528.md - Parcel 1303085: 89,573 m² (8.96 ha, 22.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1303085.md - Parcel 1303103: 61,521 m² (6.15 ha, 15.2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1303103.md - Parcel 3660823: 26,752 m² (2.68 ha, 6.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3660823.md - Parcel 1412766: 23,472 m² (2.35 ha, 5.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1412766.md - Parcel 3660822: 18,427 m² (1.84 ha, 4.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3660822.md - Parcel 1386820: 3,832 m² (0.38 ha, 0.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1386820.md - Parcel 5615867: 3,744 m² (0.37 ha, 0.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5615867.md - Parcel 1303084: 3,740 m² (0.37 ha, 0.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1303084.md - Parcel 1372958: 3,032 m² (0.3 ha, 0.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1372958.md - Parcel 2392144: 2,399 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2392144.md - Parcel 2392135: 2,343 m² (0.23 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2392135.md - Parcel 1393831: 2,043 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1393831.md - Parcel 1357734: 2,028 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1357734.md - Parcel 1395271: 1,660 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1395271.md - Parcel 1303086: 1,393 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1303086.md - Parcel 1375010: 815 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1375010.md - Parcel 1303088: 247 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1303088.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 5 applications, newest first. - 17 Apr 2025, Donegal County Council 2560610: Conditional. Permission. (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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560610/0 - 21 Feb 2024, Donegal County Council 2460180: Conditional. Permission. REPOSITIONING OF EXISTING VEHICULAR ENTRANCE TO SERVE EXISTING DWELLING AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460180/0 - 23 Nov 2023, Donegal County Council 2351798: Conditional. Permission. (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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2351798/0 - 24 Aug 2023, Donegal County Council 2351258: Conditional. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2351258/0 - 11 Jul 2022, Donegal County Council 2251178: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, SEPTIC TANK / SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2251178/0 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 Breaghy. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Breaghy. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Kiln, 1840–1900, Regional interest, registry number 40907934, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=DG®no=40907934. 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. ## 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 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, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_1837.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/breaghy-50377.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/donegal/breaghy-50377.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/donegal/breaghy-50377.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Breaghy 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) - Dooghan: https://everytownland.com/donegal/dooghan.md - Grahamsland: https://everytownland.com/donegal/grahamsland.md - Lisnabert: https://everytownland.com/donegal/lisnabert.md - Magherashanvally: https://everytownland.com/donegal/magherashanvally.md - Sessiagh: https://everytownland.com/donegal/sessiagh-52360.md - Sessiagh (Allison): https://everytownland.com/donegal/sessiagh-allison.md - Sessiagh (Long): https://everytownland.com/donegal/sessiagh-long.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/breaghy-50377 - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/donegal/breaghy-50377