Clonbara
Townland in the civil parish of Tullaghobegly, barony of Kilmacrenan, Co. Donegal; in Irish Cluain Báire
- Area
- 127.4 ha
- 315 acres
- Land parcels
- 101
- registered freehold, median 6,993 m² (0.7 ha, 1.73 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
101 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Clonbara, from 491 m² to 167,370 m² (16.74 ha, 41.36 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 29 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 Clonbara 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
22 Apr 2026Conditional
ALTERATIONS, IMPROVEMENTS AND EXTENSION OF DWELLING INCLUDING ALL NECESSARY SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2650061
10 Sept 2024Conditional
ERECTION OF A DOMESTIC GARAGE AND INCLUDING MAKING ALTERATIONS TO THE EXISTING HOUSE
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2461399
24 Jul 2024Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND DOMESTIC STORAGE SHED WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2461121
23 Jun 2021Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2151247
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 Clonbara.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Clonbara.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Clonbara.
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 20 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 Clonbara.
- 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 Clonbara with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Clonbara · Cluain Báire
- Area
- 1,273,682 m² (127.37 ha, 314.73 acres)
- Civil parish
- Tullaghobegly, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kilmacrenan
- Electoral division
- Cross Roads, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Cross Roads electoral division: 2,071 people in 867 households; 74% of households own their home; 29% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 20% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballintemple, Dunmore, Tullaghobegly Scotch
- Gaeltacht
- In an Irish-speaking area
- Placenames
- Clonbara 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.