Ummerawirrinan

61 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ummerawirrinan, from 11 m² to 286,521 m² (28.65 ha, 70.8 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 41 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Ummerawirrinan 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.

• 30 Jul 2026Conditional

  SINGLE STOREY PITCHED ROOF SUNROOM / CONSERVATORY TO THE SIDE OF EXISTING HOUSE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENTS WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2661435

• 15 Aug 2025Conditional

  (1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND OUTHOUSE, DECOMMISSIONING OF EXISTING SEPTIC TANK SYSTEM AND (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEWERAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2561401

• 20 Dec 2024Conditional

  (1) CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO THE SIDE OF EXISTING PROPERTY INCLUDING CHANGES TO THE ELEVATIONS AND (2) ERECTION OF A RETRACTABLE GAZEBO TO THE FRONT OF EXISTING OUTDOOR PATIO AREA AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2462155

• 30 Nov 2020Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK / SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2051818

• 10 Mar 2020Conditional

  (1) RETENTION OF RECONFIGURATION OF THE GROUND FLOOR INCLUDING ASSOCIATED MINOR ELEVATIONAL CHANGES AND THE ADDITION OF FIRST FLOOR SLEEPING ACCOMODATION AND (2) REMOVAL OF 2 NO. EXISTING WINDOWS TO THE FRONT & SIDE ELEVATIONS AND REPLACING WITH A CORNER WINDOW, (3) REMOVAL OF 1 NO. EXISTING WINDOW TO THE FRONT ELEVATION AND REPLACING WITH A LARGER WINDOW, (4) CLADDING OF THE FRONT & SIDE ELEVATIONS WITH A CHARRED TIMBER CLADDING, (5) REMOVAL OF EXISTING ROOF COVERING AND REPLACEMENT WITH A NEW ZINC ROOF AND (5) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2050299

• 4 Jun 2019Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH DETACHED GARAGE, PROVISION OF AN EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1950840

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: Slieve League SAC 000189
• Special Protection Area: West Donegal Coast SPA 004150
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Slieve League 000189

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ummerawirrinan.

Architectural heritage

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

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

At the centre of the townland of Ummerawirrinan, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as high, 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 Ummerawirrinan.

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Ummerawirrinan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Ummerawirrinan · Iomaire Mhuireanáin

Area

855,495 m² (85.55 ha, 211.4 acres)

Civil parish

Glencolumbkille, and its townlands

Barony

Banagh

Electoral division

West Donegal, the unit of the census

Census 2022

732 people lived in 273 households in the West Donegal electoral division. 75% of households owned their home. 26% of homes were built since 2001. 22% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 19% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cappagh, Croaghlin, Lergadaghtan, Rinnakill

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Ummerawirrinan 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.