Braade Lower

23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Braade Lower, from 89 m² to 2,654,015 m² (265.4 ha, 655.82 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 37 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 Braade 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.

• 21 Jun 2021Conditional

  EXTENSION TO REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AT FIRST FLOOR LEVEL AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2151214

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

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Unna/Lough Unshagh Bogs 000167

Recorded monuments

• DG081-009 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Internal diam. 18.3m. An almost circular raised area enclosed by an earthen bank up to .6m in height and an external fosse up to 3.4m wide on the E and NE but not evident elsewhere. A modern wall has been built on the bank from S to SW. A 1.6m gap in the SE is probably the original entrance. Two rectangular stones define its edge on the S side. The site is located on a ridge of good pasture with a commanding view at the E end of Glencolumbkille valley. 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

• DG081-010 Promontory fort - inland
  Description

  A promontory defined by cliff edges on the NW half and by a curving largely collapsed stone wall to the SE. The original wall width is 2.2m. The outer facing survives in places up to 1.2m. The wall fades out to the E and there is slight evidence for an entrance c. 2m in width on the E side also. Two natural straight-sided, narrow rock crevices occur at the NW end of the promontory. They could have been roofed and used as souterrains. The interior is undulating. The site is located with a commanding view over Glencolumbkille valley on barren heather-covered land. 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

• House, 1860–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Pair of semi-detached two-bay two-storey houses, built c. 1880, having central two-storey return to the rear. Pitched natural slate roof having rendered chimneystacks to either end (west and east). Smooth rendered walls over smooth rendered plinth, and having raised render block quoins to the corners. Square-headed window openings. Raised render surrounds, stone sills and two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed door openings to centre bays having raised render surrounds, timber battened doors and plain overlights. Set slightly back from road to the east of Gleann Cholm Cille/Glencolumbkille. Gravel forecourt to the front (south), gardens to the rear (north).

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 Braade Lower, about 1 in 20 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 Braade Lower.

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

Name

Braade Lower · An Bhráid Íochtarach

Area

3,569,550 m² (356.96 ha, 882.06 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

Braade Upper, Cashel, Contycro, Kilgoly, Meenavaghran, Straleel North, Straleel South

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Braade 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.