Dundee
Dundee is a townland in the civil parish of Taughboyne, barony of Raphoe North, Co. Donegal.
- Area
- 56.9 ha
- 141 acres
- Land parcels
- 114
- registered freehold, median 562 m²
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
114 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Dundee, from 50 m² to 84,552 m² (8.46 ha, 20.89 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Dundee 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
14 Oct 2024Conditional
SURFACING OF EXISTING ACCESS ROAD WITH A HARD SURFACE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2461620
22 Jul 2020Conditional
WORKS AT CARRIGANS WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT AS FOLLOWS: (1) PUMPING STATION AT THE EXISTING CARRIGANS WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT SITE (2) CONVERSION OF THE EXISTING PRIMARY SETTLEMENT TANK (SEPTIC TANK) INTO A STORMWATER HOLDING TANK (3) NEW SITE FENCING (4) A RISING MAIN (PUMPED MAIN) FROM CARRIGANS TO ST JOHNSTON WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT (5) CHEMICAL DOSING FACILITIES TO PREVENT SEPTICITY IN THE RISING MAIN. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) ACCOMPANIES THIS APPLICATION
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2050981
22 Jun 2020N/a
(1) CONSTRUCTION OF A PUMPING STATION AT THE EXISTING CARRIGANS WASTEWASTER TREATMENT PLANT SITE (2) CONVERSION OF THE EXISTING PRIMARY SETTLEMENT TANK (SEPTIC TANK) INTO A STORMWATER HOLDING TANK (3) NEW SITE FENCING (4) A RISING MAIN (PUMPED MAIN) FROM CARRIGANS TO ST. JOHNSTON WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT (5) CHEMICAL DOSING FACILITIES TO PREVENT SEPTICITY IN THE RISING MAIN. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT WILL ACCOMPANY THIS APPLICATION
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2050810
24 May 2020Conditional
CHANGE OF USE OF EXISTING DOMESTIC GARAGE TO HAIR AND BEAUTY SALON CONSISTING OF CHANGES FROM A GARAGE DOOR TO A PEDESTRIAN DOOR AND WINDOW WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING PUBLIC SEWER ALONG WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2050571
1 Apr 2019Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW FARM YARD CONSISTING OF (A) MEAL STORE, (B) 2 NO. SILAGE PITS, (C) SLATTED AGRICULTURAL SHED AND HANDLING FACILITIES AND (D) ACCESS VIA A NEW ENTRANCE AND ACCESS ROAD AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1950452
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
- Special Area of Conservation: River Finn SAC 002301
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: River Foyle, Mongavlin To Carrigans 002067
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Dundee.
Architectural heritage
- Bridge, 1700–1740 · Regional interest
Description
Double-arched bridge carrying road over unnamed stream\tributary flowing into the River Foyle to the east, built c. 1710, having V-profile rubble stone cutwater to central pier to both upstream and downstream elevations. Modern repairs in places. Round or segmental-headed arches having small rubble stone voussoirs; rubble stone construction to arch barrels. Random rubble stone construction to piers, spandrels, and parapets; rubble stone coping over parapets with cement coping in places. South end of parapet to the east rebuilt. Rubble stone wing walls to the north end of parapets. Tarmacadam deck with grass verges. Located to the north end of Saint Johnstown.
- Bridge, 1840–1850 · Regional interest
Description
Double-span bridge carrying the former Dundalk to Derry railway line over tributary of the River Foyle, built c. 1880, replacing and possible incorporating fabric from an earlier wooden bridge to site, built c. 1847. Now disused (since 1965). Coursed, rusticated and dressed mildly rock-faced squared granite central pier with concrete coping over supporting riveted iron or steel girder deck. Railway track girders still insitu. Stone and concrete supports to either end of deck. Cast-iron or steel riveted parapets with metal railings over. Located to east end of Saint Johnstown village adjacent to the River Foyle and the border with Northern Ireland to the east.
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 Dundee, 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 low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Dundee.
- 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 Dundee with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Dundee
- Area
- 568,871 m² (56.89 ha, 140.57 acres)
- Civil parish
- Taughboyne, and its townlands
- Barony
- Raphoe North
- Electoral division
- St. Johnstown, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,396 people lived in 537 households in the St. Johnstown electoral division. 69% of households owned their home. 40% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Altaskin, Clashygowan, Cloghfin, Gortnamoney, Saintjohnstown
- Placenames
- Dundee 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.