Buncronan

31 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Buncronan, from 47 m² to 77,975 m² (7.8 ha, 19.27 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 10 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 Buncronan 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.

• 14 Feb 2025Conditional

  (1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING OUTBUILDING AND ERECTION OF A REPLACEMENT ANCILLARY ACCOMMODATION ON THE FOOTPRINT AND (2) DECOMMISSIONING OF EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND INSTALLATION OF A NEW SEWERAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2560184

• 21 Jul 2021Conditional

  (1) TWO TEMPORARY MOBILE HOMES LOCATED ON THE SITE (2) SITE ENTRANCE, WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM, TEMPORARY STORAGE UNIT (PLANNING PERMISSIONS 07/20512 & 12/20145 REFERS) AND PERMISSION FOR CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY DWELLING HOUSE WITH FUTURE ATTIC DEVELOPMENT, DOMESTIC GARAGE, UPGRADING OF WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2151465

• 20 May 2021Conditional

  AS CONSTRUCTED SUB-STRUCTURES BUILDING WORKS COMPLETED TO THE DWELLING HOUSE UNDER GRANT OF PLANNING PERMISSION (06/21605 & 11/20426) AND PERMISSION FOR COMPLETION OF THE DWELLING HOUSE, CONSTRUCTION OF A DOMESTIC GARAGE, A WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2150982

• 20 May 2021N/a

  (1) TWO MOBILE HOMES (2) AS CONSTRUCTED SITE ENTRANCE (3) AS CONSTRUCTED WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM (PLANNING PERMISSION REF 07/20512 & REF 12/2015 REFERS) AND PERMISSION FOR ERECTION OF A SINGLE STOREY DWELLING HOUSE WITH FUTURE ATTIC DEVELOPMENT, DOMESTIC GARAGE, AND UPGRADING OF WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2150976

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 Buncronan.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Buncronan.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Buncronan, 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Buncronan.

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

Name

Buncronan

Area

527,675 m² (52.77 ha, 130.39 acres)

Civil parish

Inver, and its townlands

Barony

Banagh

Electoral division

Tantallon, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,745 people lived in 670 households in the Tantallon electoral division. 80% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 11% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Creevins, Drumgorman, Gortaward

Placenames

Buncronan 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.