Cuskry Glebe
Cuskry Glebe is a townland in the civil parish of Kilcar, barony of Banagh, Co. Donegal. Its name in Irish is Cuiscrigh.
- Area
- 82.1 ha
- 203 acres
- Land parcels
- 42
- registered freehold, median 3,532 m² (0.35 ha, 0.87 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
42 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cuskry Glebe, from 45 m² to 112,816 m² (11.28 ha, 27.88 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 39 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Cuskry Glebe 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
17 Jul 2025Conditional
WAREHOUSE EXTENSION TO SOUTH SIDE OF EXISTING BUILDING INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2561221
1 May 2024Conditional
(1) EXTENSION, REDEVELOPMENT, AND REMEDIAL WORKS TO EXISTING BUILDING AND (2) INSTALLATION OF SEPTIC TANK ON SITE
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2460622
29 Apr 2024N/a
(1) EXTENSION TO THE REAR OF THE EXISTING BUILDING, (2) REMEDIAL WORKS TO THE FRONT AND LEFT SIDE WALL, (3) NEW WALLS TO THE SIDE, (4) NEW ROOF TO THE BUILDING, (5) NEW WINDOWS, (6) ANCILLARY WORKS TO THE SITE AND INSTALLATION OF A SEPTIC TANK
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2460598
8 Jul 2019Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A 21 METRE HIGH MULTI-USER LATTICE TELECOMMUNUICATIONS STRUCTURE, CARRYING ANTENNA AND DISHES ENCLOSED WITHIN A 2.4 METRE HIGH PALISADE FENCE COMPOUND, INCLUDING NEW ACCESS TRACK TOGETHER WITH ASSOCIATED GROUND EQUIPMENT AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1951036
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Cuskry Glebe.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Cuskry Glebe.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Cuskry Glebe.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Cuskry Glebe, 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.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Cuskry Glebe.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Cuskry Glebe with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Cuskry Glebe · Cuiscrigh
- Area
- 821,174 m² (82.12 ha, 202.92 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilcar, and its townlands
- Barony
- Banagh
- Electoral division
- Kilcar, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 669 people lived in 260 households in the Kilcar electoral division. 83% of households owned their home. 32% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 28% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Bogagh Glebe, Derrylahan, Kilcasey, Roxborough Glebe
- Gaeltacht
- In an Irish-speaking area
- Placenames
- Cuskry Glebe 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.