Tobernahoory

35 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Tobernahoory, from 84 m² to 163,460 m² (16.35 ha, 40.39 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 18 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 Tobernahoory 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.

• 24 Jul 2026Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND INSTALLATION OF AN EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH INFILTRATION AREA

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2661381

• 1 Dec 2025N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL ENTRANCE AND ALL OTHER SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2562113

• 15 Oct 2025Conditional

  (1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING REAR EXTENSION AND RENOVATION OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, (2) ERECTION OF EXTENSION TO FRONT, SIDE AND REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, (3) INSTALLATION OF EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH AN INFILTRATION AREA AND (4) ALTERATION AND WIDENING OF EXISTING VEHICULAR ENTRANCE

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2561801

• 24 May 2020Conditional

  ERECTION OF A SHED AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2050455

• 27 Jan 2020Conditional

  REMOVAL OF EXISTING BARN STYLE ROOF AND SIDE CLADDING FROM 2 NO WAREHOUSE/STORAGE UNITS AND REPLACEMENT OF THE SAME WITH APEX ROOF AND NEW SIDE CLADDING

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2050063

• 8 Nov 2017Conditional

  DEVELOPMENT CONSISTING OF AN EXTENSION AND ALTERATIONS TO AN EXISTING SINGLE STOREY SEMI-DETACHED DWELLING HOUSE, TO PROVIDE FOR A 1 AND A HALF STOREY SPLIT LEVEL EXTENSION TO THE REAR TO PROVIDE ADDITIONAL LIVING ACCOMMODATION, TO INCLUDE ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1751691

• 20 Jun 2017Refused

  EXTENSION AND ALTERATIONS TO AN EXISTING SINGLE STOREY SEMI-DETACHED DWELLING HOUSE, TO PROVIDE FOR A 1 AND A HALF STOREY EXTENSION TO THE REAR TO PROVIDE ADDITIONAL LIVING ACCOMMODATION, TO INCLUDE ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1750952

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Tobernahoory.

Recorded monuments

• DG103-004 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  A small spring well giving its name to the townland. 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

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Tobernahoory.

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 10 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.

Terrain model

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

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 Tobernahoory with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Tobernahoory

Area

605,769 m² (60.58 ha, 149.69 acres)

Civil parish

Drumhome, and its townlands

Barony

Tirhugh

Electoral division

Ballintra, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballintra electoral division: 772 people in 281 households; 80% of households own their home; 39% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 9% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrickbreeny, Drumaneel, Drumnacroil, Grahamstown, Lismintan or Ballyruddelly, Rosscanlan

Placenames

Tobernahoory 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.