# Buncronan, Co. Donegal: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Inver, barony of Banagh, Co. Donegal. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 527,675 m² (52.77 ha, 130.39 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 31 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,715 m² (0.27 ha, 0.67 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 4 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Inver, https://everytownland.com/donegal/parish/inver.md - Barony: Banagh - Electoral division: Tantallon, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Donegal, https://everytownland.com/donegal.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/14207 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 50399 - Centre: latitude 54.631507, longitude -8.275519 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 31 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Buncronan, from 47 m² to 77,975 m² (7.8 ha, 19.27 acres); 10 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1362979: 77,975 m² (7.8 ha, 19.27 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1362979.md - Parcel 1425762: 73,039 m² (7.3 ha, 18.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1425762.md - Parcel 1428976: 64,672 m² (6.47 ha, 15.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1428976.md - Parcel 1425478: 50,899 m² (5.09 ha, 12.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1425478.md - Parcel 1390486: 48,385 m² (4.84 ha, 11.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1390486.md - Parcel 1425479: 47,782 m² (4.78 ha, 11.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1425479.md - Parcel 1419073: 41,837 m² (4.18 ha, 10.34 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1419073.md - Parcel 5913133: 38,289 m² (3.83 ha, 9.46 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5913133.md - Parcel 5493806: 7,846 m² (0.78 ha, 1.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5493806.md - Parcel 1362879: 6,894 m² (0.69 ha, 1.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1362879.md - Parcel 1419174: 6,051 m² (0.61 ha, 1.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1419174.md - Parcel 6112966: 5,126 m² (0.51 ha, 1.27 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6112966.md - Parcel 1347061: 4,545 m² (0.45 ha, 1.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1347061.md - Parcel 4723485: 4,258 m² (0.43 ha, 1.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4723485.md - Parcel 4817774: 3,745 m² (0.37 ha, 0.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4817774.md - Parcel 2541763: 2,715 m² (0.27 ha, 0.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2541763.md - Parcel 4817807: 2,688 m² (0.27 ha, 0.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4817807.md - Parcel 4642364: 2,500 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4642364.md - Parcel 1358029: 2,238 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1358029.md - Parcel 4754163: 2,177 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4754163.md - Parcel 5724569: 2,109 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5724569.md - Parcel 1330118: 2,071 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1330118.md - Parcel 1398796: 1,988 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1398796.md - Parcel 1398797: 1,945 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1398797.md - Parcel 1398225: 1,683 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1398225.md - Parcel 1303154: 1,655 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1303154.md - Parcel 1360218: 1,651 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1360218.md - Parcel 4817814: 1,603 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4817814.md - Parcel 1395892: 609 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1395892.md - Parcel 4723483: 112 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4723483.md - Parcel 4754157: 47 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4754157.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 4 applications, newest first. - 14 Feb 2025, Donegal County Council 2560184: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. (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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560184/0 - 21 Jul 2021, Donegal County Council 2151465: Conditional. Retention, 1 home. (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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2151465/0 - 20 May 2021, Donegal County Council 2150982: Conditional. Retention, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2150982/0 - 20 May 2021, Donegal County Council 2150976: N/a. Retention, 1 home. (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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2150976/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Buncronan. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Buncronan. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Buncronan. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - 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: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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 flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/donegal/buncronan.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/donegal/buncronan.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/donegal/buncronan.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Buncronan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal: https://everytownland.com/donegal.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Creevins: https://everytownland.com/donegal/creevins.md - Drumgorman: https://everytownland.com/donegal/drumgorman.md - Gortaward: https://everytownland.com/donegal/gortaward.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/donegal/buncronan - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/donegal/buncronan