Tawny Lower
Townland in the civil parish of Kilmacrenan, barony of Kilmacrenan, Co. Donegal
- Area
- 72.7 ha
- 180 acres
- Land parcels
- 22
- registered freehold, median 3,318 m² (0.33 ha, 0.82 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 9
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Tawny Lower, from 412 m² to 182,950 m² (18.29 ha, 45.21 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 11 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Tawny Lower 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
5 Nov 2025Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2561923
3 Oct 2025Conditional
ERECTION OF EXTENSIONS AND ALTERATIONS TO DWELLING WITH ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2550136
19 Jul 2023Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO AN EXISTING AGRICULTURAL SHED INCLUDING ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2351060
19 May 2023Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND DOMESTIC GARAGE INCLUDING ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2350696
9 Feb 2021Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSION TO EXISTING AGRICULTURAL SHED INCLUDING EXTENSION TO SLATTED TANK APPROVED UNDER PLANNING REFERENCE 20/51841 AND PROVISION OF A CONCRETE FEEDING AREA AND CANOPY ROOF OVER
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2150195
2 Dec 2020Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSION TO EXISTING AGRICULTURAL SHED TO INCLUDE SLURRY STORAGE TANK AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2051841
4 Nov 2019Conditional
DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DORMANT DWELLING AND CONSTRUCTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING WITH ON-SITE SEWAGE TREATMENT
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1951676
26 Sept 2018Conditional
ERECTION OF A SLATTED SHEEP SHED WITH ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1851498
18 Apr 2018N/a
ERECTION OF A SLATTED SHEEP SHED WITH ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1850607
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
- Special Area of Conservation: Leannan River SAC 002176
- Special Protection Area: Lough Fern SPA 004060
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Fern 001162
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Tawny Lower.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Tawny Lower.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Tawny Lower.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Tawny Lower with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Tawny Lower
- Area
- 726,882 m² (72.69 ha, 179.62 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilmacrenan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kilmacrenan
- Electoral division
- Kilmacrenan, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Kilmacrenan electoral division: 1,525 people in 538 households; 64% of households own their home; 47% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballykeeran, Ballyscanlan Upper, Drumabodan, Gortnaskeagh, Tawny Middle
- Placenames
- Tawny Lower 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.