Tamur

50 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Tamur, from 110 m² to 1,173,605 m² (117.36 ha, 290 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 21 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.

• 27 Jan 2026Conditional

  RENOVATION AND CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSION TO EXISTING DERELICT DWELLING AND INSTALLATION OF PACKAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM, PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2660094

• 1 Jul 2019Conditional

  ERECTION OF CONCRETE BASE FOR A SILAGE PIT AND PLANNING PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF CONCRETE WALLS ON THE SAID CONCRETE BASE TO FORM A SILAGE PIT AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 1951008

• 2 May 2019N/a

  ERECTION OF CONCRETE BASE FOR A SILAGE PIT, AND PLANNING PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF CONCRETE WALLS ON THE SAID CONCRETE BASE TO FORM A SILAGE PIT AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 1950631

• 29 Mar 2017Conditional

  A DETACHED SINGLE STORY BUILDING CONSTRUCTED IN 1982, ORIGINALLY CONSTRUCTED AS A GARAGE AND CONVERTED INTO A PLAYROOM/STUDY ROOM ANCILLARY TO THE MAIN HOUSE. RETENTION OF A DETACHED SINGLE STORY GARAGE APPROXIMATELY 41 M2 CONSTRUCTED IN 1992 TO THE SOUTH OF THE DWELLING HOUSE AND USED AS A DOMESTIC GARAGE AND FUEL STORE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 1750449

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: Tamur Bog SAC 001992
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Tamur Bog 001992

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Tamur.

Architectural heritage

• House, 1860–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c. 1870, having single-bay windbreak porch offset to the west side of centre of the main elevation (south) and with single-bay single-storey outbuilding/byre attached to the east gable end (contained under same roofline). Now out of use/in use as outbuilding. Pitched corrugated-metal roof having metal rainwater goods and three rendered rubble stone chimneystacks (one to the west gable end and two offset to the east side of centre. Painted/limewashed rubble stone walls. Square-headed window openings having two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed doorway to windbreak porch having timber panelled door. Set slightly back from small country road at bend in road alignment. Single-bay single-storey gable-fronted outbuilding to the west having pitched corrugated-metal roof with rendered coping to the south gable end, rubble stone walls, and square-headed doorway to the south elevation having timber door. Located in the rural landscape to the west of Pettigoe and to the south-east of Ballintra.

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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), 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

5,526,687 m² (552.67 ha, 1,365.67 acres)

Civil parish

Templecarn, and its townlands

Barony

Tirhugh

Electoral division

Templecarn, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Templecarn electoral division: 105 people in 46 households; 80% of households own their home; 30% of homes were built since 2001; 26% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Belalt North, Belalt South, Glaskeeragh, Meensheefin, Rushen

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.