Bree
Bree is a townland in the civil parish of Clonca, barony of Inishowen East, Co. Donegal.
- Area
- 468.1 ha
- 1,157 acres
- Land parcels
- 175
- registered freehold, median 3,297 m² (0.33 ha, 0.81 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 10
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
175 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bree, from 31 m² to 2,789,132 m² (278.91 ha, 689.21 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 41 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Bree 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
12 May 2025N/a
REFURBISHMENT AND CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSION TO DERELICT DWELLING ALONG WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2560747
2 Apr 2025Conditional
CONVERSION OF ATTIC SPACE AND PERMISSION FOR DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DETACHED SINGLE STOREY DWELLING WITH ATTIC ACCOMMODATION (DEFECTIVE CONCRETE BLOCKWORK) AND CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DETACHED SINGLE STOREY REPLACEMENT DWELLING WITH ATTIC ACCOMMODATION ALONG WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES
Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2560481
18 Mar 2025Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSION TO EXISTING SLATTED AGRICULTURAL SHED AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2560378
23 Aug 2022Conditional
DOMESTIC OUTBUILDING AND CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2251408
28 Mar 2022Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING WITH ONSITE SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT AND DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2250525
21 Dec 2020Conditional
(1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING OUTBUILDING (2) RENOVATION OF EXISTING UNINHABITABLE COTTAGE AND CONSTRUCTION OF A ONE AND A HALF STOREY EXTENSION TO THE EASTERN SIDE (3) INSTALLATION OF A SEPTIC TANK / SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2052003
12 Oct 2020Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A SLATTED AGRICULTURAL SHED AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2051491
23 May 2019Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A MACHINERY STORAGE SHED AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1950773
25 Feb 2019Refused
CONSTRUCTION OF A MACHINERY STORAGE SHED AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1950233
26 Apr 2017Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF 2 NUMBER AGRICULTURAL SHEDS AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. WORKS INCLUDE DEMOLITION OF AN EXISTING OUTBUILDING WITHIN FARMYARD
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1750637
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
- Special Area of Conservation: North Inishowen Coast SAC 002012
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: North Inishowen Coast 002012
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Bree.
Architectural heritage
- Post box, 1910–1920 · Regional interest
Description
Wall-mounted cast-iron post box, c. 1915, with raised crown motif over letter flap, and ' G.R.' royal cipher to door. Raised 'Post Office' lettering to letter flap and foundry name to the base (W.T. Allen & Co, London). Still in use. Set into rendered gate pier in rendered boundary wall. Located adjacent to rural crossroad junction to the south-east of Malin Head, and to the north-west of Malin.
- Keenagh Bridge, bridge, 1850–1870 · Regional interest
Description
Single-arch bridge carrying road over the Keenagh River, built c. 1860. Squared random coursed limestone construction to parapets and spandrels, roughly dressed random rubble stone coping to parapets. Segmental-headed arch with roughly dressed rock-faced voussoirs, and with roughly squared rubble stone construction to arch barrel. Double carriageway with tarmacadam deck. Located to the south-east of Malin Head, and to the north-west of Malin town.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Bree, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- 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 Bree.
- Flooding
- The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Bree with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Bree
- Area
- 4,681,160 m² (468.12 ha, 1,156.74 acres)
- Civil parish
- Clonca, and its townlands
- Barony
- Inishowen East
- Electoral division
- Ardmalin, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 673 people lived in 237 households in the Ardmalin electoral division. 82% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 43% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ardmalin, Ballygorman, Ballykenny, Dunagard, Keenagh, Umgall
- Placenames
- Bree 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.