# Tawny Upper, Co. Donegal: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Kilmacrenan, barony of Kilmacrenan, Co. Donegal. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 687,692 m² (68.77 ha, 169.93 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 38,807 m² (3.88 ha, 9.59 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Kilmacrenan, https://everytownland.com/donegal/parish/kilmacrenan.md - Barony: Kilmacrenan - Electoral division: Loughkeel, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 331 people lived in 106 households in the Loughkeel electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 42% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Donegal, https://everytownland.com/donegal.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/15940 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 52483 - Centre: latitude 55.053786, longitude -7.761241 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Tawny Upper, from 1,294 m² to 120,785 m² (12.08 ha, 29.85 acres); 11 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1331946: 120,785 m² (12.08 ha, 29.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1331946.md - Parcel 1346668: 115,329 m² (11.53 ha, 28.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1346668.md - Parcel 1394115: 78,475 m² (7.85 ha, 19.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1394115.md - Parcel 1305583: 66,303 m² (6.63 ha, 16.38 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1305583.md - Parcel 1361135: 49,582 m² (4.96 ha, 12.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1361135.md - Parcel 1352692: 48,494 m² (4.85 ha, 11.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1352692.md - Parcel 1321638: 44,078 m² (4.41 ha, 10.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1321638.md - Parcel 1361767: 38,807 m² (3.88 ha, 9.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1361767.md - Parcel 1322474: 27,876 m² (2.79 ha, 6.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1322474.md - Parcel 1302104: 8,872 m² (0.89 ha, 2.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1302104.md - Parcel 1372178: 7,855 m² (0.79 ha, 1.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1372178.md - Parcel 1339314: 4,328 m² (0.43 ha, 1.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1339314.md - Parcel 1322153: 3,921 m² (0.39 ha, 0.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1322153.md - Parcel 1391514: 1,798 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1391514.md - Parcel 1322251: 1,294 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1322251.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Tawny Upper 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) No planning application touches the townland of Tawny Upper in the national file, which goes back to 2010. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Tawny Upper. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - DG045-002: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDG045-002----. There is no sign of the 'Fort' marked on the three editions of the OS 6-inch maps. It was situated on dry ground sloping to the S with views in all directions except to the N. The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated. Date of upload: 22 September 2008 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Tawny Upper. ## 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 Tawny Upper, about 1 in 10 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Tawny Upper. - 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/tawny-upper.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/donegal/tawny-upper.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/donegal/tawny-upper.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Tawny Upper 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) - Ballyscanlan Upper: https://everytownland.com/donegal/ballyscanlan-upper.md - Carrownasaul: https://everytownland.com/donegal/carrownasaul.md - Gortnaskeagh: https://everytownland.com/donegal/gortnaskeagh.md - Skerry: https://everytownland.com/donegal/skerry.md - Skreen Upper: https://everytownland.com/donegal/skreen-upper.md - Tawny Middle: https://everytownland.com/donegal/tawny-middle.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. --- 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/tawny-upper - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/donegal/tawny-upper