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Downies

Townland in the civil parish of Mevagh, barony of Kilmacrenan, Co. Donegal; in Irish Na Dúnaibh

Area
127.5 ha
315 acres
Land parcels
161
registered freehold, median 1,097 m²
Zoning
—
not in a zoned settlement
Planning
36
applications since 2010

Land parcels

Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann

DowniesDerrycassanCrocknamurleogMagherabegLarganreagh
1,000 m
189 parcels, click one to see it.© Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0

161 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Downies, from 2 m² to 127,633 m² (12.76 ha, 31.54 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 28 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 Downies 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

The 25 most recent of 36 applications.

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

Recorded monuments

Architectural heritage

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

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 5 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.
Terrain model
LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1658 (ZIP).
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 Downies with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

The townland

Name
Downies · Na Dúnaibh
Area
1,274,597 m² (127.46 ha, 314.96 acres)
Civil parish
Mevagh, and its townlands
Barony
Kilmacrenan
Electoral division
Rosguill, the unit of the census
Census 2022
Rosguill electoral division: 856 people in 321 households; 77% of households own their home; 31% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 58% were holiday homes.
Neighbouring townlands
Crocknamurleog, Derrycassan
Gaeltacht
In an Irish-speaking area
Placenames
Downies 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.