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

Townland in the civil parish of Inver, barony of Banagh, Co. Donegal; in Irish Teamhair.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 2,476,099 m² (247.61 ha, 611.86 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 47 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 8,605 m² (0.86 ha, 2.13 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Inver, https://everytownland.com/donegal/parish/inver.md
- Barony: Banagh
- Electoral division: Bonnyglen, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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.
- County: Co. Donegal, https://everytownland.com/donegal.md
- Gaeltacht: in an Irish-speaking area
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/13956
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 52466
- Centre: latitude 54.725392, longitude -8.302159 (WGS 84)

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

47 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Tamur, from 1 m² to 434,344 m² (43.43 ha, 107.33 acres); 28 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 1422559: 434,344 m² (43.43 ha, 107.33 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1422559.md
- Parcel 1386777: 347,347 m² (34.73 ha, 85.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1386777.md
- Parcel 1417042: 237,512 m² (23.75 ha, 58.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1417042.md
- Parcel 1306203: 180,571 m² (18.06 ha, 44.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1306203.md
- Parcel 1419652: 175,478 m² (17.55 ha, 43.36 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1419652.md
- Parcel 1423923: 162,336 m² (16.23 ha, 40.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1423923.md
- Parcel 1384983: 103,630 m² (10.36 ha, 25.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1384983.md
- Parcel 1387454: 96,395 m² (9.64 ha, 23.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1387454.md
- Parcel 1329083: 70,415 m² (7.04 ha, 17.4 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1329083.md
- Parcel 1408829: 49,263 m² (4.93 ha, 12.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1408829.md
- Parcel 1400777: 40,088 m² (4.01 ha, 9.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1400777.md
- Parcel 1427303: 39,566 m² (3.96 ha, 9.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1427303.md
- Parcel 1309701: 35,532 m² (3.55 ha, 8.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1309701.md
- Parcel 1369181: 30,658 m² (3.07 ha, 7.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1369181.md
- Parcel 1340001: 23,746 m² (2.37 ha, 5.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1340001.md
- Parcel 5353922: 14,447 m² (1.44 ha, 3.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5353922.md
- Parcel 5353938: 12,788 m² (1.28 ha, 3.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5353938.md
- Parcel 1351945: 12,490 m² (1.25 ha, 3.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1351945.md
- Parcel 1302243: 12,311 m² (1.23 ha, 3.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1302243.md
- Parcel 1347085: 10,963 m² (1.1 ha, 2.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1347085.md
- Parcel 4829338: 10,840 m² (1.08 ha, 2.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4829338.md
- Parcel 4829341: 10,268 m² (1.03 ha, 2.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4829341.md
- Parcel 1393699: 9,501 m² (0.95 ha, 2.35 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1393699.md
- Parcel 1405471: 8,605 m² (0.86 ha, 2.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1405471.md
- Parcel 1327779: 6,245 m² (0.62 ha, 1.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1327779.md
- Parcel 1412713: 5,528 m² (0.55 ha, 1.37 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1412713.md
- Parcel 1362070: 5,417 m² (0.54 ha, 1.34 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1362070.md
- Parcel 1427164: 4,398 m² (0.44 ha, 1.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1427164.md
- Parcel 5189922: 4,231 m² (0.42 ha, 1.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5189922.md
- Parcel 5354002: 4,227 m² (0.42 ha, 1.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5354002.md
- Parcel 1414872: 3,247 m² (0.32 ha, 0.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1414872.md
- Parcel 3657415: 3,050 m² (0.31 ha, 0.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3657415.md
- Parcel 5353958: 1,875 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5353958.md
- Parcel 4756641: 1,587 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4756641.md
- Parcel 1339195: 686 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1339195.md
- Parcel 5353961: 603 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5353961.md
- Parcel 5922143: 401 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5922143.md
- Parcel 5922145: 401 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5922145.md
- Parcel 5922119: 202 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5922119.md
- Parcel 5922135: 202 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5922135.md
- Parcel 1394727: 165 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1394727.md
- Parcel 5353956: 125 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5353956.md
- Parcel 1392406: 93 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1392406.md
- Parcel 4832486: 74 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4832486.md
- Parcel 1392041: 48 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1392041.md
- Parcel 1339051: 31 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1339051.md
- Parcel 5353944: 1 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5353944.md

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

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.

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

2 applications, newest first.

- 1 Nov 2021, Donegal County Council 2152158: N/a. Permission, 1 home. CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2152158/0
- 5 Sept 2018, Donegal County Council 1851374: N/a. Permission, 1 home. ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1851374/0

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## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

- Special Area of Conservation: Lough Nillan Bog (Carrickatlieve) SAC, site code 000165, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/000165
- Special Protection Area: Lough Nillan Bog SPA, site code 004110, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/spa/004110
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Nillan Bog (Carrickatlieve), site code 000165

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

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Tamur.

## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage)

- House, 1840–1880, Regional interest, registry number 40908301, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=DG&regno=40908301. 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.

## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland)

- Radon: 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: 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, 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/tamur-52466.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/donegal/tamur-52466.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/donegal/tamur-52466.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Tamur 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)

- Carrickatlieve Glebe: https://everytownland.com/donegal/carrickatlieve-glebe.md
- Meenacahan: https://everytownland.com/donegal/meenacahan.md
- Meenagranoge: https://everytownland.com/donegal/meenagranoge.md
- Meentanakill: https://everytownland.com/donegal/meentanakill.md
- Meenybraddan: https://everytownland.com/donegal/meenybraddan.md
- Tullynaglaggan: https://everytownland.com/donegal/tullynaglaggan.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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