Birdstown

37 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Birdstown, from 5 m² to 214,497 m² (21.45 ha, 53 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 23 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 Birdstown 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.

• 10 Jun 2026Conditional

  ERECTION OF PERIMETER BALLSTOP FENCING TO THE NORTHERN SIDE OF EXISTING FOOTBALL PITCH AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2661062

• 1 May 2026N/a

  DEVELOPMENT OF PERIMETER BALLSTOP FENCING TO THE NORTHERN SIDE OF EXISTING FOOTBALL PITCH AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2660778

• 27 Jan 2025Conditional

  (1) TEMPORARY CLUBHOUSE BUILDING AND PORTALOO AND (2) CLUB MAINTENANCE AND STORAGE SHED AND PERMISSION FOR (1) CONSTRUCTION OF AN ALL-WEATHER PLAYING PITCH MEASURING 70 METRES X 30 METRES WHICH INCLUDES PERIMETER FENCING AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS AND (2) REPOSITIONING OF CLUB MAINTENANCE AND STORAGE SHED TO THE NORTH WEST SITE BOUNDARY

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2560082

• 20 Dec 2024N/a

  (1) TEMPORARY CLUBHOUSE BUILDING AND PORTALOO AND (2) CLUB MAINTENANCE AND STORAGE SHED AND PERMISSION FOR (1) CONSTRUCTION OF AN ALL-WEATHER PLAYING PITCH MEASURING 70 METRES X 30 METRES WHICH INCLUDES PERIMETER FENCING AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS AND (2) REPOSITIONING OF CLUB MAINTENANCE AND STORAGE SHED TO THE NORTH WEST SITE BOUNDARY

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2462161

• 25 Oct 2024N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF AN ALL-WEATHER PLAYING PITCH MEASURING 70 METRES X 30 METRES INCLUDING PERIMETER FENCING, FLOOD LIGHTING AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2461712

• 22 Jun 2023Unconditional

  CHANGE OF DESIGN TO CLUBHOUSE BUILDING PREVIOUSLY APPROVED UNDER PLANNING REF: 18/50195

  Extension of duration · Donegal County Council, 2350885

• 16 May 2023Unconditional

  (1) CONSTRUCTION OF A SOCCER PITCH MEASURING 100M X 60M AND ASTRO TURF PITCH MEASURING 45M X 30M, ASSOCIATED LIGHTING, FENCING AND DRAINAGE (2) DEVELOPMENT OF A SINGLE STOREY CLUBHOUSE BUILDING AND STAND, CAR PARKING AREA, SEPTIC TANK SYSTEM AND (3) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS AND BOUNDARY TREATMENT

  Extension of duration · Donegal County Council, 2350668

• 10 Mar 2023Conditional

  CHANGE OF DESIGN TO CLUBHOUSE BUILDING PREVIOUSLY APPROVED UNDER PLANNING REF: 18/50195 AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2350304

• 15 Jul 2020Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO THE SIDE OF EXISTING DWELLING AND A DETACHED SHED TO REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2050941

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 Birdstown.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Birdstown.

Architectural heritage

• House, 1900–1920 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey with attic level former local authority house, built c. 1910, having projecting single-bay single-storey porch to the centre of the main elevation (south), and with later two-storey extension to north. Pitched graded natural purple slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles, exposed rafter ends, decorative timber bargeboards to gable ends and to front face of porch, and with three smooth rendered chimneystacks having cornice coping and clay-ware pots over. Rubble stone and red brick walls with dressed flush ashlar quoins to the corners. Remains of lime render over; walls now covered with vegetation. Square-headed window openings with concrete sills, flush red brick block-and-start surrounds and voussoirs, smooth rendered reveals, and with two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed doorway to the east side of porch having timber panelled entrance door. Set slightly back from road in own grounds to the south\south-east of Ballindrait. Formal hedge to front and private garden to west. Timber gates to site.

• House, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey with attic level vernacular house, built c. 1800 and renovated c. 2010. Pitched flax thatched roof with decorative knotting to eaves, smooth rendered eaves course, exposed smooth rendered parapets and smooth rendered to gables ends (north-west and south-east). Lime washed rubble stone walls. Square-headed window openings with no sills and replacement timber casement windows. Square-headed doorway, offset to the south-east side of centre, having replacement battened timber double doors. Set in a sunken site adjacent to road to the south-east\south of Ballindrait. Wrought-iron railings to flight of steps down from road level to doorway. Gateway to the east gable end having a pair of lime washed rubble stone entrance piers (on square-plan) having wrought-iron flat bar gate. Enclosed yard to rear.

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 Birdstown, 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.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1928 (ZIP).

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

Name

Birdstown

Area

559,001 m² (55.9 ha, 138.13 acres)

Civil parish

Clonleigh, and its townlands

Barony

Raphoe North

Electoral division

Clonleigh South, the unit of the census

Census 2022

2,156 people lived in 853 households in the Clonleigh South electoral division. 64% of households owned their home. 32% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballindrait, Ballynabreen, Glensmoil, Legnaneale, Millsessiagh, Springhill, Toberoneill

Placenames

Birdstown 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.