# Brownknowe, Co. Donegal: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Tullyfern, barony of Kilmacrenan, Co. Donegal; in Irish An Cnoc Donn.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 430,630 m² (43.06 ha, 106.41 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 5,843 m² (0.58 ha, 1.44 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010
- Civil parish: Tullyfern, https://everytownland.com/donegal/parish/tullyfern.md
- Barony: Kilmacrenan
- Electoral division: Glenalla, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 530 people lived in 178 households in the Glenalla electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 45% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.
- County: Co. Donegal, https://everytownland.com/donegal.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/15856
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 50395
- Centre: latitude 55.061805, longitude -7.621736 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Brownknowe, from 860 m² to 146,056 m² (14.61 ha, 36.09 acres); 15 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 1326944: 146,056 m² (14.61 ha, 36.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1326944.md
- Parcel 1352661: 87,978 m² (8.8 ha, 21.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1352661.md
- Parcel 1301651: 69,297 m² (6.93 ha, 17.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1301651.md
- Parcel 1427981: 47,149 m² (4.71 ha, 11.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1427981.md
- Parcel 1333969: 29,586 m² (2.96 ha, 7.31 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1333969.md
- Parcel 1333952: 26,964 m² (2.7 ha, 6.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1333952.md
- Parcel 1357494: 5,843 m² (0.58 ha, 1.44 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1357494.md
- Parcel 1333953: 5,327 m² (0.53 ha, 1.32 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1333953.md
- Parcel 1524705: 4,380 m² (0.44 ha, 1.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1524705.md
- Parcel 3664439: 3,175 m² (0.32 ha, 0.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3664439.md
- Parcel 1326945: 2,146 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1326945.md
- Parcel 1315364: 1,117 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1315364.md
- Parcel 1372187: 860 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1372187.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

No zone of a development plan covers Brownknowe 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)

1 application, newest first.

- 25 Aug 2020, Donegal County Council 2051157: Conditional. Permission. 1)CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT (WWTP) IN THE TOWNLAND OF TIRRODDY WITH ASSOCIATED AND ANCILLARY DEVELOPMENT WORKS INCLUDING INTERNAL ACCESS ROAD, INLET WORKS, WWTP PROCESS TANKS, SLUDGE STORAGE TANKS, CHEMICAL STORAGE TANKS, ANCILLARY TREATMENT UNITS, ADMINISTRATION & ESB SUB-STATION BUILDING, SLUDGE PRESS BUILDING, INTERNAL PUMPING STATIONS, SURFACE WATER ATTENUATION POND, 2.4M HIGH BOUNDARY FENCE AROUND THE PERIMITER OF THE WWTP WORKS, 1.2M FENCING AROUND THE SITE BOUNDARY, ENTRANCE VIA AN EXISTING COILLTE ROADWAY AND ENTRANCE ONTO L-5612-1 AND WIDENING AND STRENGHTENING OF L-5612-1 2)CONSTRUCTION OF APPROXIMATELY 1,590M OF TREATED EFFLUENT OUTFALL PIPELINE IN THE TOWNLANDS OF TIRRODDY AND BROWNKNOE, INCLUDING APPROXIMATELY 160M MARINE SECTION & OUTFALL DIFFUSER LOCATED IN LOUGH SWILLY3) CONSTRUCTION OF 1 NO. MAIN WASTEWATER PUMPING STATION AT RAMELTON IN THE TOWNLAND OF RAMELTON INCLUDING ALL ANCILLARY DEVELOPMENT WORKS, DEMOLITION OF EXISTING SINGLE-STOREY BUILDING, FLOOD PROTECTION MEASURES, BELOW GROUND STORAGE TANK & STRUCTURES, PUMP HOUSE BUILDING, ESB SUB-STATION UNIT, RUBBLE STONE PERIMITER WALLS, NEW ENTRANCE ONTO CASTLE STREET, RECONSTRUCTION OF AN EXISTING STONE BOUNDARY WALL APPROXIMATELY 15M LONG ALONg CASTLE STREET AND CONNECTION TO EXISTING STORM OUTFALLS 4)CONSTRUCTION OF 1 NO. MAIN WASTEWATER PUMPING STATION AT RATHMULLAN IN THE TOWNLAND OF RATHMULLAN & BALLYBOE INCLUDING ALL ANCILLARY DEVELOPMENT WORKS, FLOOD PROTECTION MEASURES, BELOW GROUND STORAGE TANK & STRUCTURES, PUMP HOUSE BUILDING, RUBBLE STONE PERIMETER WALLS, ESB SUB-STATION UNIT, DEMOLITION OF AN EXISTING SUBTERRANEAN MUNICIPAL SEPTIC TANK, NEW TURNING HAMMERHEAD AT THE END OF THE EXISTING TURNING CIRCLE AT ABBEY VIEW ESTATE, NEW ENTRANCE TO ABBEY VIEW ESTATE, TEMPORARY WORKING AREA DURING CONSTRUCTION AND CONNECTION TO EXISTING STORM OUTFALLS 5)CONSTRUCTION OF 1 NO. NETWORK WASTEWATER PUMPING STATION AT RATHMULLAN IN THE TOWNLAND OF RATHMULLAN & BALLYBOE INCLUDING ALL ANCILLARY DEVELOPMENT WORKS, FLOOD PROTECTION MEASURES, BELOW GROUND PUMPING STATION, STORAGE TANK & STRUCTURES, LOW-LEVEL CONTROL KIOSK, 7.6M HIGH ORNATE VENTILATION STACK, RUBBLE STONE PERIMETER WALLS, DEMOLITION OF AN EXISTING SUBTERRANEAN MUNICIPAL SEPTIC TANK, NEW ENTRANCE ONTO MAIN STREET, TEMPORARY WORKING AREA DURING CONSTRUCTION, TEMPORARY ENTRANCE ONTO MAIN STREET DURING CONSTRUCTION, RELOCATION AND UPGRADING OF EXISTING STORM DRAIN AND CONNECTION TO EXISTING STORM OUTFALL....... File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2051157/0

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## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

- Special Area of Conservation: Lough Swilly SAC, site code 002287, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/002287
- Special Protection Area: Lough Swilly SPA, site code 004075, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/spa/004075
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Swilly Including Big Isle, Blanket Nook & Inch Lake, site code 000166

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Brownknowe.

## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage)

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

## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland)

- Radon: at the centre of the townland of Brownknowe, 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: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as 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 Brownknowe.
- 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/brownknowe.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/donegal/brownknowe.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/donegal/brownknowe.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Brownknowe 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)

- Ardnaree: https://everytownland.com/donegal/ardnaree.md
- Ballyconnelly: https://everytownland.com/donegal/ballyconnelly-50190.md
- Tirroddy: https://everytownland.com/donegal/tirroddy-52524.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.

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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/brownknowe
- In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/donegal/brownknowe