Tamur

47 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Tamur, from 1 m² to 434,344 m² (43.43 ha, 107.33 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Tamur 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.

• 1 Nov 2021N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2152158

• 5 Sept 2018N/a

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1851374

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: Lough Nillan Bog (Carrickatlieve) SAC 000165
• Special Protection Area: Lough Nillan Bog SPA 004110
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Nillan Bog (Carrickatlieve) 000165

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Tamur.

Architectural heritage

• House, 1840–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c. 1860, having bed outshot to rear elevation (north-west). Now uninhabited. Pitched rope-and-peg thatched roof having two lime rendered chimneystacks (one to the south-west gable end and one to the north-east side of centre) and with pronounced raised limewashed verge to the south-west gable end. Metal pegs below eaves level. Limewashed roughcast rendered finish over rubble stone construction. Square-headed window openings with painted cut stone sills, and having two-over-two pane horned timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed door opening (offset to the south-west side of centre) having timber sheeted door. Set back from small country road on an elevated sloping site in the rural countryside to the south-east of Ardara. Single-storey outbuilding to north/north-east of house having pitched rope-and-peg thatched roof, rubble stone walls, and square-headed doorways. Approach avenue to house from the south-east and forecourt to front of house.

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

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, on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.

Terrain model

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

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.

No address of the register names Tamur with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Tamur · Teamhair

Area

2,476,099 m² (247.61 ha, 611.86 acres)

Civil parish

Inver, and its townlands

Barony

Banagh

Electoral division

Bonnyglen, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Bonnyglen electoral division: 387 people in 142 households; 87% of households own their home; 32% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 17% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrickatlieve Glebe, Meenacahan, Meenagranoge, Meentanakill, Meenybraddan, Tullynaglaggan

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Tamur 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.