Breaghy
Townland in the civil parish of Conwal, barony of Kilmacrenan, Co. Donegal
- Area
- 189 ha
- 467 acres
- Land parcels
- 37
- registered freehold, median 3,879 m² (0.39 ha, 0.96 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 8
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
37 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Breaghy, from 194 m² to 417,129 m² (41.71 ha, 103.07 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 33 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
3 Jun 2026Conditional
(1) RETENTION OF AGRICULTURAL STORAGE SHED AND (2) ERECTION OF AN EXTENSION TO EXISTING SLATTED CATTLE SHED WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2661024
24 Sept 2024Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH CONNECTION TO PROPOSED SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2461509
1 Mar 2023Conditional
CHANGE OF HOUSE TYPE, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT TO THAT GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO: 21/51998
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2350243
8 Oct 2021Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND DOMESTIC GARAGE
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2151998
4 Nov 2020Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT
Outline permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2051652
21 Dec 2018Conditional
(1) RETENTION OF AN EXISTING SILAGE PIT WITHIN THE EXISTING FARMYARD COMPLEX AND (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A ROOF OVER AN EXISTING SILAGE PIT WITHIN THE EXISTING FARMYARD COMPLEX
Retention · Donegal County Council, 1851947
17 Dec 2018N/a
(1) RETENTION OF AN EXISTING SILAGE PIT WITHIN THE EXISTING FARMYARD COMPLEX AND (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A ROOF OVER AN EXISTING SILAGE PIT WITHIN THE EXISTING FARMYARD COMPLEX
Retention · Donegal County Council, 1851902
6 Apr 2018Refused
(1) RETENTION OF AN EXISTING SILAGE PIT WITHIN THE EXISTING FARMYARD COMPLEX AND (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A ROOF OVER AN EXISTING SILAGE PIT WITHIN THE EXISTING FARMYARD COMPLEX
Retention · Donegal County Council, 1850504
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
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
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Breaghy.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately low, low, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1790 (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.
Homes sold
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.
The townland
- Name
- Breaghy
- Area
- 1,890,462 m² (189.05 ha, 467.14 acres)
- Civil parish
- Conwal, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kilmacrenan
- Electoral division
- Rathmelton, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Rathmelton electoral division: 2,494 people in 938 households; 71% of households own their home; 42% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Aghangaddy Glebe, Ards Big, Bayhill, Booragh, Carnisk, Cashelshanaghan, Newtownfore, Rathmelton
- 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.