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

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

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,655,449 m² (165.54 ha, 409.07 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 113,464 m² (11.35 ha, 28.04 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Drumhome, https://everytownland.com/donegal/parish/drumhome.md
- Barony: Tirhugh
- Electoral division: Tullynaught, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 657 people lived in 206 households in the Tullynaught electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 9% were holiday homes.
- County: Co. Donegal, https://everytownland.com/donegal.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/14300
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 52450
- Centre: latitude 54.664787, longitude -7.977608 (WGS 84)

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

10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Straness, from 3,789 m² (0.38 ha, 0.94 acres) to 645,574 m² (64.56 ha, 159.52 acres); 13 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 1349493: 645,574 m² (64.56 ha, 159.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1349493.md
- Parcel 1312792: 235,104 m² (23.51 ha, 58.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1312792.md
- Parcel 1349616: 217,724 m² (21.77 ha, 53.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1349616.md
- Parcel 1345323: 157,138 m² (15.71 ha, 38.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1345323.md
- Parcel 1420401: 141,101 m² (14.11 ha, 34.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1420401.md
- Parcel 1312864: 85,827 m² (8.58 ha, 21.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1312864.md
- Parcel 1349494: 83,031 m² (8.3 ha, 20.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1349494.md
- Parcel 1420400: 68,451 m² (6.85 ha, 16.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1420400.md
- Parcel 1385577: 18,004 m² (1.8 ha, 4.45 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1385577.md
- Parcel 1362860: 3,789 m² (0.38 ha, 0.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1362860.md

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

No zone of a development plan covers Straness 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)

2 applications, newest first.

- 29 Jun 2022, Donegal County Council 2251111: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. DEMOLITION OF AN EXISTING DERELICT DWELLING AND ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2251111/0
- 23 Sept 2019, Donegal County Council 1951446: Conditional. Permission. DEVELOPMENT OF A MODULAR BATTERY ENERGY STORAGE SYSTEM (BESS) FACILITY FOR A PERIOD OF 10 YEARS CONSISTING OF UP TO 27 NO. BATTERY STORAGE MODULES (UP TO 14M LENGTH, 2.44M WIDE AND 2.9M HIGH) AND ANCILLARY EQUIPMENT INCLUDING UP TO 27 NO. TRANSFORMERS (UP TO 2.5M LENGTH, 2.5M WIDE AND 2.9M HIGH), 27 NO. POWER CONDITIONING UNIT BLOCK AREAS (UP TO 8.0M LENGTH, 1.5M WIDE AND 2.3M HIGH), 27 NO. SWITCHGEAR UNITS (UP TO 1.5M LENGTH, 1.5M WIDE AND 2.2M HIGH), SUBSTATION CONTAINER (UP TO 4.5M LENGTH, 4.5M WIDE AND 3.0M HIGH); INTERNAL PERMEABLE ACCESS ROAD JOINING THE FACILITY WITH THE EXISTING MEENADREEN WIND FARM ROAD NETWORK AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS, INCLUDING FENCING, DRAINAGE AND UNDERGROUND ELECTRICAL CONNECTIONS, REQUIRED TO FACILITATE THE DEVELOPMENT AND USE OF EXISTING ACCESS ARRANGEMENTS. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT ACCOMPANIES THIS APPLICATION. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1951446/0

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## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

- Natural Heritage Area: Barnesmore Bog NHA, site code 002375, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/nha/002375

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

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Straness.

## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage)

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

## 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 Straness, 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 high, 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 Straness.
- 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/straness.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/donegal/straness.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/donegal/straness.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Straness 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)

- Aghlem: https://everytownland.com/donegal/aghlem.md
- Barnesyneilly: https://everytownland.com/donegal/barnesyneilly.md
- Clogher: https://everytownland.com/donegal/clogher.md
- Leghawny: https://everytownland.com/donegal/leghawny.md
- Meenadreen: https://everytownland.com/donegal/meenadreen-51918.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/straness
- In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/donegal/straness