Durnesh

54 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Durnesh, from 93 m² to 268,027 m² (26.8 ha, 66.23 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 15 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Durnesh 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.

• 21 Jul 2023Conditional

  (1) RELOCATION OF PROPOSED TREATMENT SYSTEM FROM THAT PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER 19/51012 AND (2) ERECTION OF A DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH OFFICE STUDIO AT FIRST FLOOR LEVEL TO SERVICE PROPOSED DWELLING HOUSE WITH CONNECTION TO SEWERAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM TOGETHER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2351073

• 1 Jul 2019Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEWERAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) WILL BE SUBMITTED WITH THIS APPLICATION

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1951012

• 6 Jul 2018N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1851049

• 6 Jul 2018N/a

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEWERAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1851048

• 12 Sept 2017Refused

  EXTENSION AND UPGRADING OF EXISTING CARAVAN PARK INCLUDING RETENTION PERMISSION OF 22 NO. CARAVAN PITHES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS AND FOR FULL PLANNING PERMISSION OF 4 NO. NEW PITCHES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Extension of duration · Donegal County Council, 1751380

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: Durnesh Lough SAC 000138
• Special Protection Area: Durnesh Lough SPA 004145
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Durnesh Lough 000138

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Durnesh.

Architectural heritage

• House, 1830–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1820, with lean-to extension to the west elevation. Pitched natural slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles, smooth rendered chimneystacks to gable ends (east and west), and with cast-iron rainwater goods. Smooth rendered ruled-and-lined walls. Square-headed window openings with plain raised rendered surrounds, stone sills, and with six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows. Central square-headed door opening with plain raised rendered surrounds, replacement timber battened door and with plain overlight. Set well-back of road in own grounds on the south slope of Durnesh Hill. Long approach avenue across marshy ground from the south. Gateway at start of laneway comprising a pair of squared rubble stone gate piers (on square-plan) having pyramidal capstones and a pair of wrought-iron flat-bar gates. Located to the south-west of Ballintra, and close to the shores of Donegal Bay. Detached single-storey outbuilding to the south-west.

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

At the centre of the townland of Durnesh, about 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

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

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Durnesh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Durnesh · Doirinis

Area

1,414,991 m² (141.5 ha, 349.65 acres)

Civil parish

Drumhome, and its townlands

Barony

Tirhugh

Electoral division

Ballintra, the unit of the census

Census 2022

755 people lived in 290 households in the Ballintra electoral division. 81% of households owned their home. 25% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 41% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Birra, Drumhome, Inishinny, Rathfragan, Rossnowlagh Lower, Rossnowlagh Upper or Crockahany

Placenames

Durnesh 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.