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

Townland in the civil parish of Drumhome, barony of Tirhugh, Co. Donegal; in Irish Doirinis.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,414,991 m² (141.5 ha, 349.65 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 54 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 8,119 m² (0.81 ha, 2.01 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 5 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Drumhome, https://everytownland.com/donegal/parish/drumhome.md
- Barony: Tirhugh
- Electoral division: Ballintra, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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.
- County: Co. Donegal, https://everytownland.com/donegal.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/13784
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 51182
- Centre: latitude 54.568774, longitude -8.1948 (WGS 84)

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

54 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Durnesh, from 93 m² to 268,027 m² (26.8 ha, 66.23 acres); 15 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 1378490: 268,027 m² (26.8 ha, 66.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1378490.md
- Parcel 1340304: 105,473 m² (10.55 ha, 26.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1340304.md
- Parcel 1427103: 103,670 m² (10.37 ha, 25.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1427103.md
- Parcel 1322806: 97,187 m² (9.72 ha, 24.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1322806.md
- Parcel 1410477: 76,637 m² (7.66 ha, 18.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1410477.md
- Parcel 1309594: 74,165 m² (7.42 ha, 18.33 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1309594.md
- Parcel 1379026: 68,571 m² (6.86 ha, 16.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1379026.md
- Parcel 1428078: 57,157 m² (5.72 ha, 14.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1428078.md
- Parcel 5114622: 56,675 m² (5.67 ha, 14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5114622.md
- Parcel 1423784: 54,514 m² (5.45 ha, 13.47 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1423784.md
- Parcel 1522789: 42,696 m² (4.27 ha, 10.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1522789.md
- Parcel 1419300: 42,171 m² (4.22 ha, 10.42 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1419300.md
- Parcel 1407637: 42,117 m² (4.21 ha, 10.41 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1407637.md
- Parcel 1403301: 32,154 m² (3.22 ha, 7.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1403301.md
- Parcel 1374920: 26,818 m² (2.68 ha, 6.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1374920.md
- Parcel 1322292: 24,437 m² (2.44 ha, 6.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1322292.md
- Parcel 1384903: 24,193 m² (2.42 ha, 5.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1384903.md
- Parcel 5351254: 20,438 m² (2.04 ha, 5.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5351254.md
- Parcel 5628371: 19,702 m² (1.97 ha, 4.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5628371.md
- Parcel 1422340: 18,822 m² (1.88 ha, 4.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1422340.md
- Parcel 5372971: 14,964 m² (1.5 ha, 3.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5372971.md
- Parcel 1344625: 14,884 m² (1.49 ha, 3.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1344625.md
- Parcel 5628372: 12,687 m² (1.27 ha, 3.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5628372.md
- Parcel 1318650: 12,319 m² (1.23 ha, 3.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1318650.md
- Parcel 1372846: 10,618 m² (1.06 ha, 2.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1372846.md
- Parcel 1379052: 10,173 m² (1.02 ha, 2.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1379052.md
- Parcel 1347177: 8,885 m² (0.89 ha, 2.2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1347177.md
- Parcel 1428671: 7,354 m² (0.74 ha, 1.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1428671.md
- Parcel 1301306: 5,828 m² (0.58 ha, 1.44 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1301306.md
- Parcel 1312880: 5,426 m² (0.54 ha, 1.34 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1312880.md
- Parcel 1522788: 4,833 m² (0.48 ha, 1.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1522788.md
- Parcel 5351221: 4,795 m² (0.48 ha, 1.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5351221.md
- Parcel 1341371: 4,290 m² (0.43 ha, 1.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1341371.md
- Parcel 2764167: 4,004 m² (0.4 ha, 0.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2764167.md
- Parcel 1328708: 3,969 m² (0.4 ha, 0.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1328708.md
- Parcel 1314586: 3,620 m² (0.36 ha, 0.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1314586.md
- Parcel 1398461: 3,584 m² (0.36 ha, 0.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1398461.md
- Parcel 1348394: 3,328 m² (0.33 ha, 0.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1348394.md
- Parcel 1344249: 3,128 m² (0.31 ha, 0.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1344249.md
- Parcel 6221977: 3,042 m² (0.3 ha, 0.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6221977.md
- Parcel 4661300: 2,674 m² (0.27 ha, 0.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4661300.md
- Parcel 1417621: 2,432 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1417621.md
- Parcel 1342032: 2,233 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1342032.md
- Parcel 1340699: 1,520 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1340699.md
- Parcel 1323377: 1,302 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1323377.md
- Parcel 5351232: 1,294 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5351232.md
- Parcel 1335732: 1,242 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1335732.md
- Parcel 1318145: 996 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1318145.md
- Parcel 1345237: 666 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1345237.md
- Parcel 1403163: 658 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1403163.md
- Parcel 3987695: 531 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3987695.md
- Parcel 1371806: 476 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1371806.md
- Parcel 5372968: 473 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5372968.md
- Parcel 1394940: 93 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1394940.md

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

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.

## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)

5 applications, newest first.

- 21 Jul 2023, Donegal County Council 2351073: Conditional. Permission. (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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2351073/0
- 1 Jul 2019, Donegal County Council 1951012: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEWERAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) WILL BE SUBMITTED WITH THIS APPLICATION. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1951012/0
- 6 Jul 2018, Donegal County Council 1851049: N/a. Permission, 1 home. CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1851049/0
- 6 Jul 2018, Donegal County Council 1851048: N/a. Permission, 1 home. ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEWERAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1851048/0
- 12 Sept 2017, Donegal County Council 1751380: Refused. Extension of duration. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1751380/0

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## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

- Special Area of Conservation: Durnesh Lough SAC, site code 000138, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/000138
- Special Protection Area: Durnesh Lough SPA, site code 004145, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/spa/004145
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Durnesh Lough, site code 000138

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

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Durnesh.

## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage)

- House, 1830–1850, Regional interest, registry number 40910336, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=DG&regno=40910336. 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.

## 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 Durnesh, about 1 in 20 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 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 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/durnesh.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/donegal/durnesh.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/donegal/durnesh.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Durnesh 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)

- Birra: https://everytownland.com/donegal/birra.md
- Drumhome: https://everytownland.com/donegal/drumhome.md
- Inishinny: https://everytownland.com/donegal/inishinny-51504.md
- Rathfragan: https://everytownland.com/donegal/rathfragan.md
- Rossnowlagh Lower: https://everytownland.com/donegal/rossnowlagh-lower.md
- Rossnowlagh Upper or Crockahany: https://everytownland.com/donegal/rossnowlagh-upper-or-crockahany.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.

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