Brinlack

1,019 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Brinlack, from 34 m² to 986,531 m² (98.65 ha, 243.78 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 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 Brinlack 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 Jul 2026N/a

  ALTERATIONS AND CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND INSTALLATION OF A NEW ON-SITE SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2661324

• 10 Jul 2026N/a

  TEACH CONAITHE NUA AONSTÓRACH AGUS GARÁISTE CEANGAILTE A THÓGÁIL LE CÓRAS CÓIREÁLA FUÍOLLUISCE NUA AGUS OBAIR SHUÍOMH A BHAINEANN LEIS AN FHORBAIRT

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2661282

• 24 Apr 2026N/a

  FIRST FLOOR ACCOMMODATION AND ELEVATIONAL CHANGES TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE PREVIOUSLY APPROVED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 00/2728

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2660719

• 14 Apr 2026N/a

  (1) SÍNEADH AGUS ATHRUITHE A RINNEADH AR AN ÁIT CHÓNAITHE A CHOINNEÁIL AGUS (2) SOLÁTHAR CÓRAS CÓIREÁLA FUÍOLLUISCE AGUS CÓRAS DIÚSCARTHA ÚR A CHUR ISTEACH AR AN LÁTHAIR AGUS AN CÓRAS DABHACH SHÉARACHAIS ATÁ ANN FAOI LÁTHAIR A CHUR AS FEIDHM, CHOMH MAITH LEIS NA HOIBREACHA ATÁ BAINTE LEIS AR AN SUÍOMH. TÁ RÁITEAS TIONCHAIR NATURA (NIS) AG GABHÁIL LEIS AN IARRATAS SEO

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2660631

• 3 Mar 2026Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSION AND ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING DWELLING AND ALL ASSOCIATED EXTERNAL SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2650035

• 8 Jan 2026N/a

  INSTALLATION OF A TREATMENT SYSTEM AND POLISHING FILTER ALONG WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2660014

• 1 Oct 2025Conditional

  DABHACH SHÉARACHAIS A CHOIMEÁD COMH MAITH LÉ CEAD PLEANÁLA A FHAIL DO AN FORBAIRT SEO A LEANAS: (1) GARÁISTE NUA A THÓGÁIL, (2) LIMISTÉAR SÍOHLAITHE A CUIR AR FAIL AGUS (3) GACH SAOTHAR FORBARTHA LÁITHREÁIN GAOLMHAR EILE

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2561700

• 2 Sept 2025Conditional

  DOMESTIC GARAGE AND PERMISSION FOR DEMOLITION OF EXISTING MICA DEFECTIVE DWELLING HOUSE AND ERECTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING HOUSE WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2561505

• 29 Nov 2024Conditional

  CHANGES TO DWELLING HOUSE, GARAGE AND SEPTIC TANK DURING CONSTRUCTION AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2461958

• 19 Nov 2024N/a

  CHANGES MADE TO DWELLING HOUSE, GARAGE AND SEPTIC TANK DURING CONSTRUCTION AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2461879

• 24 Apr 2024Conditional

  (1) ALTERATION AND EXTENSION OF EXISTING HOUSE INCLUDING FACADE CHANGES FROM THE PREVIOUSLY APPROVED DESIGN (REF. 09/30045) AND PERMISSION FOR (2) ERECTION OF A 1.5 STOREY EXTENSION AND DETACHED SINGLE STOREY DOMESTIC GARAGE

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2460582

• 23 Apr 2024Conditional

  RESTORATION OF EXISTING WALLSTEADS AND RECONSTRUCTION TO PROVIDE NEW DWELLING HOUSE AND INSTALLATION OF A NEW ON-SITE SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) ACCOMPANIES THIS APPLICATION

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2460565

• 15 Apr 2024N/a

  RESTORATION OF EXISTING WALLSTEADS AND RECONSTRUCTION TO PROVIDE NEW DWELLING HOUSE AND INSTALLATION OF A NEW ON-SITE SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT ACCOMPANIES THE APPLICATION

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2460517

• 19 Feb 2024Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE WITH AN ON-SITE SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2450054

• 13 Dec 2023Conditional

  (1) DEMOLITION OF PART OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, (2) ERECTION OF REPLACEMENT EXTENSION INCLUDING CONNECTION TO EXISTING ON-SITE SEPTIC TANK, AND (3) ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2351917

• 20 Nov 2023Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A TWO-BEDROOM DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TREATMENT SYSTEM, DRAINAGE AND SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2351767

• 14 Nov 2023N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE WITH AN ON-SITE SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2351731

• 8 Aug 2023Conditional

  DEMOLITION OF EXISTING FLAT ROOF EXTENSIONS AND CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW EXTENSION TO EXISTING COTTAGE WITH SOME ELEVATIONAL CHANGES TO ACCOMMODATE SAME INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2351171

• 16 Mar 2023Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY REAR EXTENSION TO DWELLING TO PROVIDE POOL, ANCILLARY ACCOMMODATION AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2350344

• 22 Dec 2022Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH INSTALLATION OF A NEW WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2252080

• 25 Nov 2022Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH POLISHING FILTER AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2251909

• 31 Aug 2022Conditional

  ERECTION OF AN EXTENSION TO THE REAR OF DWELLING HOUSE WITH ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2251469

• 6 Jul 2022Conditional

  AN DÍON ARDAITHE DÁR DTEACH CÓNAITHE A CHOINNEÁILT AGUS IONAD CÓIREÁLA FUÍOLLUISE LE LÁTHAIR SHÍOTHLÚCHÁIN A CHUR ISTEACH

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2251151

• 13 Jun 2022Conditional

  (1) CONSTRUCTION OF A GROUND FLOOR EXTENSION TO THE REAR ELEVATION (2) RENOVATION AND ALTERATIONS TO THE EXISTING GROUND FLOOR LAYOUT (3) ALL ASSOCIATED ELEVATIONAL CHANGES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2251017

• 4 May 2022Conditional

  DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DERELICT DWELLING HOUSE AND ERECTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING HOUSE WITH INSTALLATION OF A NEW WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2250783

The 25 most recent of 65 applications.

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Gweedore Bay and Islands SAC 001141
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Gweedore Bay And Islands 001141

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Brinlack.

Architectural heritage

• House, 1905–2000 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached two-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c.1910, extended c.1930 and c.1995, having flat-roofed windbreak to front (south), and single-bay single-storey outbuilding recessed to west. Pitched marram grass thatched roof (re-roofed c.2005) with mesh over, secured on stone pegs at eaves level, smooth-rendered copings to gable ends, and three low, smooth-rendered chimneystacks with flat copings (one to each gable and one to west of centre). Smooth lime-rendered rubble stone walls. Square-headed window openings with painted concrete sills and replacement timber casement windows, and replacement timber door with stone step. Outbuilding has pitched marram grass thatched roof, with render coping to west gable, random rubble stone walls and square-headed timber battened door. Yard set back at angle to road and site enclosed by field stone boundary wall.

• Teach Pobail Cholmcille Naofa [Saint Colmcille's Catholic Church], church/chapel, 1930–1935 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding Catholic church, dated 1933, having four-bay nave, polygonal chancel apse to east gable, gable-fronted porch to west gable, porch and toilet block to northwest, and two-bay sacristy to northwest. Recent (c.2012-13) extension to north end of sacristy. Pitched artificial slate roof to main block, front porch, sacristy and toilet, hipped to apse and to recent block, having corbelled smooth raised eaves (except for recent block), rendered verges to gable ends having corbelled kneeler stones at eaves level, Celtic cross finials to gable apexes, cusped dentillated eaves course to gables, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Stepped two-stage rendered chimneystack to sacristy, with cornice coping. Roughcast rendered walls over projecting chamfered smooth raised plinth course, smooth rendered margins to corners, and with smooth rendered pilasters between bays to side elevations of nave. Smooth-rendered or painted stone block-and-start quoins to corners of front porch, toilet block, sacristy and corners of apse. Round-headed window openings throughout, except for sacristy, having chamfered rendered sills, rendered block-and-start surrounds, hood-mouldings and leaded stained-glass windows with Celtic interlace motifs. Triple-light window over porch, with Celtic chevron motifs to surround. Leaded figurative stained-glass windows to apse. Square-headed window openings to sacristy, having smooth rendered reveals and sills and six-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed doorways, those to side elevations of front porch and toilet/porch having smooth-rendered surrounds, with replacement timber doors; front porch has painted concrete steps. Interior has exposed timber roof trusses on corbels, panelled ceiling, round-headed chancel arch with colonnettes, moulded surround with chevron motifs and hood-moulding, hood-mouldings to window openings, and timber choir balcony to west with timber panelled parapet. Set back from road in own grounds in countryside southeast of Bun na Leaca [Brinlack] and to west of Gort an Choirce [Gortahork]. Bounded to south (road) by rubble stone boundary wall with rubble stone coping. Gateway to southwest comprising rendered octagonal-plan piers with moulded pyramidal caps, and with flanking sections of smooth-rendered quadrant walling. Modern parochial house to east, graveyard to north, and garden to south with mature trees. Priest's grave to northeast side of gateway, with cut-stone Celtic cross grave-marker.

• Teach Mhuiris, house, 1850–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c.1860, having slightly lower outbuilding attached to west gable. Now in use as cultural centre. Low pitched roof with low rendered chimneystacks and roped thatch roof, having timber strips above edge of thatch at eaves to support ends of ropes that are attached to stone fixtures in long walls. Rendered walls. Square-headed window and door openings with battened timber doors, having half-door to rear wall. Altogether only two openings, both doorways, in rear wall - one to house and one to outbuilding. Building located in falling ground at coastal edge. Earthen bank to front (south) side of house and yard to rear, bounded by rubble stone walls.

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 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Brinlack · Bun na Leaca

Area

5,281,162 m² (528.12 ha, 1,305 acres)

Civil parish

Tullaghobegly, and its townlands

Barony

Kilmacrenan

Electoral division

Meenaclady, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Meenaclady electoral division: 1,408 people in 526 households; 85% of households own their home; 32% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 36% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Glashagh, Knockfola, Meenaclady

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Brinlack 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.