Breen

7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Breen, from 8,022 m² (0.8 ha, 1.98 acres) to 172,765 m² (17.28 ha, 42.69 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 15 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 Breen 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.

• 20 Apr 2026Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE / STORAGE SHED, INSTALLATION OF SEPTIC TANK / SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2660682

• 13 Jun 2025Conditional

  CHANGE OF HOUSE TYPE FROM PREVIOUSLY APPROVED DWELLING (PLANNING REF. NO. 25/60035 REFERS) AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS AND SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2560996

• 6 May 2025N/a

  CHANGE OF HOUSE TYPE FROM PREVIOUSLY APPROVED DWELLING (PLANNING REF. NO. 25/60035 REFERS) AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS AND SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2560714

• 16 Jan 2025Conditional

  (1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING MICA DEFECTIVE BLOCK DWELLING GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 07/60323 AND CONSTRUCTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING WITH STORM AND FOUL DRAINAGE TO BE CONNECTED TO EXISTING STORM AND FOUL SYSTEM PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 07/60323 WITH ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS AND SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2560035

• 11 Nov 2020Conditional

  REVISION OF GARAGE DESIGN AND REVISED LOCATION OF GARAGE TO WHAT WAS APPROVED UNDER PLANNING REFERENCE NO. 20/50351

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2051705

• 19 Mar 2020Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING WITH ON-SITE SEWERAGE TREATMENT AND DETACHED GARAGE

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2050351

• 27 Jan 2020Conditional

  ERECTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL STORAGE SHED WITH ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2050077

• 16 Dec 2019N/a

  ERECTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL SHED WITH ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1951954

• 21 Nov 2019Refused

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING WITH ON-SITE SEWAGE TREATMENT AND DETACHED GARAGE

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1951805

• 8 Mar 2017Conditional

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

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1750354

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 Breen.

Recorded monuments

• DG061-020 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Internal diam. c. 18m. A much destroyed monument probably originally a double-banked ringfort. An arc (22m) of an earthen bank survives up to 1.25m in height on the W side. A possible outer bank and fosse may be discerned on this side also. The surviving remains suggest an internal diameter of roughly 18m. Situated on top of a grass-covered hill with good views on all sides. The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated. Date of upload: 22 September 2008

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Breen.

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

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Breen.

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 Breen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Breen

Area

467,842 m² (46.78 ha, 115.61 acres)

Civil parish

Convoy, and its townlands

Barony

Raphoe South

Electoral division

Convoy, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Convoy electoral division: 2,559 people in 926 households; 72% of households own their home; 38% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Drumkeen, Farragans, Legland, Stralongford, Treantaboy

Placenames

Breen 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.