Ummerafad
Townland in the civil parish of Clondahorky, barony of Kilmacrenan, Co. Donegal; in Irish An tIomaire Fada
- Area
- 90.3 ha
- 223 acres
- Land parcels
- 53
- registered freehold, median 4,935 m² (0.49 ha, 1.22 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 12
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
53 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ummerafad, from 443 m² to 79,100 m² (7.91 ha, 19.55 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 16 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 Ummerafad 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
17 Sept 2025N/a
ERECTION OF 5 SHEPHERDS HUTS WITH PARKING FACILITIES AND WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS AS A FARM DIVERSIFICATION SCHEME.
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2561604
9 Jul 2025Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2561177
3 Jul 2024Conditional
EXTENSION AND REFURBISHMENT OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND INSTALLATION OF A NEW WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2461017
16 Dec 2020Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2051946
29 Oct 2020Conditional
ALTERATIONS TO A PREVIOUSLY APPROVED PLANNING APPLICATION REF NO. 19/50285 TO INCLUDE REVISION TO GARAGE DESIGN
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2051613
1 Jul 2020Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW VEHICULAR ACCESS TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE WITH ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2050864
7 Mar 2019Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING WITH ATTACHED GARAGE AND ON SITE SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1950285
18 Sept 2018Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND DOMESTIC GARAGE
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1851457
7 Feb 2018Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND A DOMESTIC GARAGE
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1850174
18 Sept 2017Refused
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND DOMESTIC GARAGE
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1751427
19 Jul 2017N/a
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND DOMESTIC GARAGE
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1751141
12 Apr 2017Refused
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND A DOMESTIC GARAGE
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1750566
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: Sheephaven SAC 001190
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Sheephaven 001190
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ummerafad.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ummerafad.
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 5 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 Ummerafad.
- 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 Ummerafad with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Ummerafad · An tIomaire Fada
- Area
- 903,461 m² (90.35 ha, 223.25 acres)
- Civil parish
- Clondahorky, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kilmacrenan
- Electoral division
- Doe Castle, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Doe Castle electoral division: 278 people in 98 households; 88% of households own their home; 35% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 20% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cashel, Castledoe, Creeslough, Killoughcarran, Magherablad, Magheraroarty
- Placenames
- Ummerafad 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.