Bruckless

44 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bruckless, from 30 m² to 76,585 m² (7.66 ha, 18.92 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 17 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Bruckless 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.

• 8 Jul 2026N/a

  A PERIOD OF 10 YEARS FOR PROPOSED WORKS TO FACILITATE THE DELIVERY OF TURBINE COMPONENTS TO THE PERMITTED OWENINNY WIND FARM PHASE 3 (REF. NO. PA16.316178). THE TURBINE DELIVERY ROUTE (TDR) WILL ORIGINATE AT THE PORT OF ENTRY AT KILLYBEGS HARBOUR, CO. DONEGAL, RUN THROUGH CO. SLIGO, CO. LEITRIM AND TERMINATE AT THE CONSENTED OWENINNY WIND FARM PHASE 3 SITE, CO. MAYO. THE TOTAL LENGTH OF THE TDR IS C.188KM OF WHICH C.65KM IS WITHIN CO. DONEGAL, C.57KM IN CO. SLIGO, AND C.36KM IN CO. MAYO. MINOR TEMPORARY AND PERMANENT WORKS ARE NOT PROPOSED ALONG THIS ENTIRE ROUTE BUT ONLY AT SELECT LOCATIONS. THE TOTAL AREA REQUIRED FOR THE WORKS IN CO. DONEGAL IS C.0.2HA. THE DEVELOPMENT WITHIN CO. DONEGAL COMPRISES MINOR TEMPORARY WORKS IN THE TOWNLANDS OF KILLYBEGS, GLEBE, AGHAYEEVOGE, CASHELREAGH GLEBE, BRUCKLESS, AIGHAN, BRUCKLESS AND DARNEY. THESE WORKS ARE REQUIRED TO ACCOMMODATE DELIVERY OF ABNORMAL INDIVISIBLE LOADS (AIL) AND WILL CONSIST OF (1) LAYING OF TEMPORARY LOAD BEARING SURFACE AT 5 NO. LOCATIONS, (2) TEMPORARY FENCE REMOVAL, TEMPORARY REMOVAL AND RELOCATION OF LIGHTS AT 1 NO. LOCATION, (3) TEMPORARY REMOVAL OF BOLLARD AT 1 NO. LOCATION, (4) TEMPORARY REMOVAL OF GATE, WALL AND CHEVRONS AT 1 NO. LOCATION, (5) TEMPORARY REMOVAL OF ROAD SIGNALS, BOLLARDS, LIGHTING COLUMNS, WALL AND FENCE AT 1 NO. LOCATION AS WELL AS HEDGEROW AND TREE TRIMMING, (6) TEMPORARY REMOVAL OF FENCE AND VEGETATION AT 1 NO. LOCATION, (7) TEMPORARY REMOVAL OF HEDGEROWS, FENCE AND WALL AT 1 NO. LOCATION, (8) REINSTATEMENT OF ALL TEMPORARY WORKS AREAS TO PREVIOUS CONDITION AND (10) ALL ASSOCIATED AND ANCILLARY WORKS REQUIRED FOR THE PROPOSED TDR. SEPARATE APPLICATIONS WILL BE MADE TO BOTH SLIGO AND MAYO COUNTY COUNCILS IN RESPECT OF WORKS REQUIRED AT LOCATIONS WITHIN EACH COUNTY BOUNDS. MINOR TEMPORARY WORKS IN SLIGO ARE PROPOSED AT CARROWNACREEVY, TANREGO WEST, ABBEYTOWN, CORHAWNAGH AND CARRICKNAGAT. PERMANENT WORKS ARE PROPOSED AT CARRICKNAGAT. MINOR TEMPORARY WORKS IN MAYO ARE PROPOSED AT LECARROW, CROSSMOLINA, ABBEYTOWN, KNOCKALEGAN, GLEBE, GORTSKEDDIA, BALLINA, ABBEYHALFQUARTER, KNOCKNALYRE AND BUNREE. PERMANENT WORKS ARE PROPOSED AT CROSSMOLINA. AN APPROPRIATE ASSESSMENT SCREENING REPORT (AASR) AND NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) ACCOMPANY THIS APPLICATION

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2661265

• 30 Jun 2026N/a

  PROPOSED WORKS TO FACILITATE THE DELIVERY OF TURBINE COMPONENTS TO THE PERMITTED OWENINNY WIND FARM PHASE 3 (REF. NO. PA16.316178). THE TURBINE DELIVERY ROUTE (TDR) WILL ORIGINATE AT THE PORT OF ENTRY AT KILLYBEGS HARBOUR, CO. DONEGAL, RUN THROUGH CO. SLIGO, CO. LEITRIM AND TERMINATE AT THE CONSENTED OWENINNY WIND FARM PHASE 3 SITE, CO. MAYO. THE TOTAL LENGTH OF THE TDR IS C.188KM OF WHICH C.65KM IS WITHIN CO. DONEGAL, C.57KM IN CO. SLIGO, AND C.36KM IN CO. MAYO. MINOR TEMPORARY AND PERMANENT WORKS ARE NOT PROPOSED ALONG THIS ENTIRE ROUTE BUT ONLY AT SELECT LOCATIONS. THE TOTAL AREA REQUIRED FOR THE WORKS IN CO. DONEGAL IS C.0.2HA. THE DEVELOPMENT WITHIN CO. DONEGAL COMPRISES MINOR TEMPORARY WORKS IN THE TOWNLANDS OF KILLYBEGS, GLEBE, AGHAYEEVOGE, CASHELREAGH GLEBE, BRUCKLESS, AIGHAN, BRUCKLESS AND DARNEY. THESE WORKS ARE REQUIRED TO ACCOMMODATE DELIVERY OF ABNORMAL INDIVISIBLE LOADS (AIL) AND WILL CONSIST OF (1) LAYING OF TEMPORARY LOAD BEARING SURFACE AT 5 NO. LOCATIONS, (2) TEMPORARY FENCE REMOVAL, TEMPORARY REMOVAL AND RELOCATION OF LIGHTS AT 1 NO. LOCATION, (3) TEMPORARY REMOVAL OF BOLLARD AT 1 NO. LOCATION, (4) TEMPORARY REMOVAL OF GATE, WALL AND CHEVRONS AT 1 NO. LOCATION, (5) TEMPORARY REMOVAL OF ROAD SIGNALS, BOLLARDS, LIGHTING COLUMNS, WALL AND FENCE AT 1 NO. LOCATION AS WELL AS HEDGEROW AND TREE TRIMMING, (6) TEMPORARY REMOVAL OF FENCE AND VEGETATION AT 1 NO. LOCATION, (7) TEMPORARY REMOVAL OF HEDGEROWS, FENCE AND WALL AT 1 NO. LOCATION, (8) REINSTATEMENT OF ALL TEMPORARY WORKS AREAS TO PREVIOUS CONDITION AND (10) ALL ASSOCIATED AND ANCILLARY WORKS REQUIRED FOR THE PROPOSED TDR. PERMISSION IS SOUGHT FOR A PERIOD OF 10 YEARS AND SEPARATE APPLICATIONS WILL BE MADE TO BOTH SLIGO AND MAYO COUNTY COUNCILS IN RESPECT OF WORKS REQUIRED AT LOCATIONS WITHIN EACH COUNTY BOUNDS. MINOR TEMPORARY WORKS IN SLIGO ARE PROPOSED AT CARROWNACREEVY, TANREGO WEST, ABBEYTOWN, CORHAWNAGH AND CARRICKNAGAT. PERMANENT WORKS ARE PROPOSED AT CARRICKNAGAT. MINOR TEMPORARY WORKS IN MAYO ARE PROPOSED AT LECARROW, CROSSMOLINA, ABBEYTOWN, KNOCKALEGAN, GLEBE, GORTSKEDDIA, BALLINA, ABBEYHALFQUARTER, KNOCKNALYRE AND BUNREE. PERMANENT WORKS ARE PROPOSED AT CROSSMOLINA. AN APPROPRIATE ASSESSMENT SCREENING REPORT (AASR) AND NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) ACCOMPANY THIS APPLICATION

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2661202

• 19 Dec 2024Conditional

  (1) POST OFFICE AND MINOR EXTENSIONS TO THE DEVELOPMENT AND (2) MINOR ELEVATIONAL CHANGES FROM PREVIOUS PLANNING REF. NO. 97/2708, CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS AND PERMISSION FOR CHANGE OF USE FROM SUPERMARKET TO SUPERMARKET WITH ANCILLARY OFF SALES

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2462135

• 5 Dec 2024N/a

  (1) POST OFFICE AND MINOR EXTENSIONS TO THE DEVELOPMENT AND (2) MINOR ELEVATIONAL CHANGES FROM PREVIOUS PLANNING REF. NO. 97/2709, CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS AND PERMISSION FOR CHANGE OF USE FROM SUPERMARKET TO SUPERMARKET WITH ANCILLARY OFF SALES

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2462002

• 23 Nov 2020Conditional

  DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2051771

• 26 Nov 2019Refused

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH DOMESTIC GARAGE, CARPORT, SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1951836

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 Bruckless.

Recorded monuments

• DG098-036 Enclosure
  Description

  Enclosure visible as a sub-circular platform (diam. c. 35m and up to 1m high) defined by faint traces of a bank and outer fosse. Compiled by: Paul Walsh Date of upload: 14 January 2014

• DG098-037 Enclosure
  Description

  Remains comprise remnants of a sub-circular enclosure defined by remnants of a bank, especially along N perimeter. Traces of a field boundary transect the monument from NNE to SSW. Compiled by: Paul Walsh Date of upload: 14 January 2014

Architectural heritage

• Church of SS Joseph & Conal, church/chapel, 1910–1915 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding Catholic church on cruciform-plan, built 1913, having six-bay nave elevations, double-pile two-bay transepts to the north-east and south-west, single-storey over basement sacristy attached to the south-west side of chancel, single-bay single-storey entrance porch to the south-east gable of the nave, and with single-bay single-storey porches to the south-east elevation of transept, adjoining nave. Pitched natural slate roofs having rendered corbel eaves course, raised render verges to gable ends having moulded render kneeler stone detailing at eaves level, and with Celtic cross-style finials to gable apexes of transepts and cross finials to gable apexes of main body of building. Some surviving sections of cast-iron rainwater goods. Steeped rendered chimneystack to the north-west elevation of sacristy. Pitched natural slate roof to front porch having raised render verge with kneeler stone detailing at eaves level and cross finial over gable apex. Smooth rendered walls over chamfered plinth course having raised rendered block-and-start quoins to the corners. Round vents below gable apexes of nave and transepts having cross motifs. Round-headed window openings, paired to the side elevations of nave (north-east and south-west) and to gable ends of transepts, having chamfered sills, leaded coloured glass windows, and with continuous hoodmouldings over (forming part stringcourses over nave window openings). Roundel window openings over paired round-headed window openings to gable ends of transepts and to side elevation of side porches. Round-headed window opening to the chancel gable (north-west) having triple-light window with simple (cut stone?) tracery, chamfered sills, and with figurative stained glass windows. Octofoil rose window to entrance gable, set in round-headed recess with moulded circular motifs to spandrels to base, having moulded cut stone tracery, leaded stained glass windows moulded surround, and with hoodmoulding over. Square-headed window openings to sacristy having stone sills and two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows. Round-headed doorway to the front face of main entrance porch to the south-east having timber double-doors with timber panel over, engaged colonnettes to either side with decorative capitals with over, and with moulded render hoodmoulding over. Segmental-headed door openings to transept porches having timber double-doors with timber panel over, and with render hoodmoulding above. Timber arched braces to roof with plaster ceiling; gallery to the south-east end of nave, over main entrance, supported on cast-iron columns and having carved timber balustrade; marble altar, arcades of round-headed arches to transepts supported on columns with decorative capitals. Set back from road in extensive grounds to the north-west of Dunkineely, and adjacent to the north-east of Bruckless/south of Milltown. Freestanding four-stage round tower belfry (see 40909836) adjacent to the south-east. Graveyard to site having collection of mainly late-nineteenth and early twentieth-century gravemarkers, mainly upstanding. Rendered boundary walls to site; gateway to the south-east having a pair of rendered gate piers (on square-plan) with wrought-iron gates.

• Bruckless House, house, 1740–1780 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1760 and altered c. 1830, having central projecting single-bay porch to the front elevation (south) and with large two-storey return to the rear (north). Single-bay single-storey entrance porch to the north end of rear return. Now also in use as a guest house. Hipped natural slate roofs with projecting cut stone eaves course, cast-iron rainwater goods, and with a central pair of ashlar limestone chimneystacks having cut stone coping over. Pair of ashlar limestone chimneystacks to the rear return. Flat roof to porch having moulded cornice and decorative cast-iron railings/balustrade over. Mono-pitched slate roof to the porch to the north. Rough cast rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with stone sills and having six-over-six-pane timber sliding sash windows to the ground floor and six-over-three pane timber sliding sash windows at first floor level to the main block. Tripartite/Wyatt-style timber sliding sash window to the front face of porch having segmental-headed spider’s web fanlight over. Square-headed doorway to the east face of porch having moulded cut stone surround, stone plinth blocks to base, cut stone hoodmoulding over, and with timber double doors. Set back from road in extensive mature landscaped grounds overlooking Bruckless Harbour and McSwyne’s Bay to the south. Gravel forecourt to the south and gardens to site. Complex of outbuildings to the rear (see 409098041), gateway (see 40909838) and gate lodge (see 40909838) to the north, and walled gardens (see 409098040) to the west and the south. Rubble stone boundary walls to site; dry stone walls along some approach avenues. Long winding approach road to house from the gateway to the north.

• Bridge, 1750–1800 · Regional interest
  Description

  Triple-arched bridge/causeway formerly carrying road over mouth of small unnamed stream/tidal estuary, built c. 1775. Now in use as a garden feature associated with Bruckless House (see 40909802) with lawn to former road deck. Round-headed arches having roughly squared voussoirs to arches; rubble stone construction to arch barrels. Rubble stone construction to spandrels, abutments and piers; rubble stone construction to parapets with modern concrete and blockwork repairs on places, particularly to the north end of the west elevation. Projecting rubble stone plinth/base. Located adjacent to Bruckless Harbour, and to the south-east of Bruckless House and the north-west/west of Dunkineely.

• Bridge, 1840–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Triple-arched bridge carrying road over the Oily River, built or rebuilt c. 1860, having rock-faced ashlar V-profile cutwaters to central piers. Segmental-headed arches having rock-faced stone voussoirs with dressed margins; squared rubbles tone construction to arch barrels. Coursed and squared rubble stone construction to spandrels and abutments. Coursed rubble stone construction to parapets with rock-faced coping over. Side elevations now largely obscured with vegetation. Tarmacadam deck with grass verges. Stone weir adjacent to bridge. Located to the north-west of Dunkineely and to the east of Killybegs. Located just to the north of where the Oily River discharges into McSwyne’s Bay.

• Church of SS Joseph & Conal, bell tower/stand, church/chapel, 1840–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding four-stage belltower/belfry on circular-plan associated with the Catholic Church of SS Joseph & Conal (40909801), built c. 1860, having conical ashlar roof over with cut stone eaves course and crowned with carved stone Celtic cross finial. Roughly coursed rubble stone walls. Square-headed window openings to the second and third stages having rock-faced block-and-start surrounds with dressed margins, rock-faced sills with dressed margins, and timber louvers. Segmental-headed openings at fourth stage/belfry level having rock-faced block-and-start surrounds with dressed margins, rock-faced sills with dressed margins, and timber louvers. Square-headed doorway to the south elevation having rock-faced block-and-start surrounds with dressed margins, rock-faced sills with dressed margins, and modern timber door. Located in a prominent location on an elevated site within the grounds/graveyard of associated church, to the east of the main edifice, and to the north-east of Bruckless/south of Milltown.

• Bridge, 1890–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Triple-arch railway bridge, built c. 1893, carrying accommodation road serving Bruckless House (see 40909802) over the former Donegal Town to Killybegs narrow gauge railway line. Railway lines no out of use with tracks removed (c. 1960). Three concrete segmental-headed arches having concrete lining to arch barrels; coursed rock-faced sandstone masonry to the piers. Squared and coursed mildly rock-faced rubble sandstone construction to abutments, spandrels and to parapets; rock-faced sandstone coping over parapets. Located to the south-east of Bruckless and to the west of Dunkineely, at the north entrance to Bruckless House.

• Bruckless House, gates/railings/walls, 1860–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Gateway serving Bruckless House (see 40909802), erected c. 1860 and possibly erected c. 1893 or c. 1910, comprising a pair of ashlar sandstone gate piers (on square-plan) having pyramidal sandstone capstones over, and with a pair of wrought- and cast-iron gates having spear finials over and with quatrefoil-type motifs forming frieze along centre. Gateway flanked to either side (north and south) by sections of rubble stone walling having rubble stone soldier coping over. Attendant gate lodge (see 40909839) adjacent to the north-east. Located to the north of the main house. Additional gateway to the south/south-west, giving access to outbuildings to rear of Bruckless House (see 40909841), comprising a pair of slender rendered gate piers (on square-plan) having pyramidal heads, and with a pair of wrought-iron flat-bar gates having decorative wrought-iron finial over the join.

• Bruckless House, worker's house, outbuilding, 1740–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Complex of two- and three-storey outbuildings associated with Bruckless House (see 40909802), built c. 1760, comprising main six-bay three-storey block to the west with two later two-bay two-storey dwellings/buildings (possibly a pair of former worker’s houses) attached to the east gable end. Pitched natural slate roof to main block having projecting eaves course, raised rendered verges to the gable ends, and with rendered chimneystack to the east gable end. Pitched natural slate roof to dwellings buildings to the east having projecting eaves course, central rendered chimneystack, and with rendered verge to the east gable end. Rendered rubble stone walls. Square-headed window openings with mainly fixed timber windows/vents; replacement casement windows to dwellings to the east; single multiple-pane timber window at first floor level to the west end of front elevation of main block (south). Narrow loop hole type window openings to three-storey block at second floor level. Square-headed doorways to main block having roughly squared plinth blocks to base and with timber battened doors and half-doors; square-headed loading bay at first floor level having battened timber door. Flight of stone steps to the west gable end having access to square-headed doorway at first floor level with battened timber door. Square-headed doorways to dwellings to the east having battened timber doors, and stone thresholds/steps, overlight to the doorway to the building to the east. Complex of singlet-storey outbuildings on L-shaped plan to the south of main building having mono-pitched corrugated-metal roofs, rendered walls, and square-headed openings with timber windows and timber doors; square-headed carriage-arches having battened timber double doors. Buildings arranged around a cobbled courtyard to the rear (north) of Bruckless House. Laneway into yard from the north.

• Bruckless House, walled garden, 1760–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Two former walled gardens on sub-rectangular plans associated with Bruckless House (see 40909802). Constructed of rubble stone with cement coping over. Integral square-headed doorways having roughly squared stone surrounds and lintels, and with replacement timber doors/gates. Square-headed window openings to the north-west boundary of walled garden to the south, probably originally associated with glass/greenhouses now demolished. Driveway runs between boundary walls of gardens. Gateway to the north-west end of walled garden to the south, probably originally associated with house/dwelling to the south-west, comprising a pair of squared rubble sandstone gate piers (on square-plan) having sprocketed pyramidal coping over, and with a pair of wrought-iron gates. Set back from road in extensive mature grounds to the west and south-west of Bruckless House, and close to the shoreline of Bruckless Harbour. Apple trees surviving to the northern walled garden.

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 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 Bruckless.

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

Name

Bruckless · An Bhroclais

Area

903,585 m² (90.36 ha, 223.28 acres)

Civil parish

Killaghtee, and its townlands

Barony

Banagh

Electoral division

Dunkineely, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Dunkineely electoral division: 904 people in 351 households; 73% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 20% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aighan, Ballyloughan, Darney

Placenames

Bruckless 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.