Owenteskiny

65 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Owenteskiny, from 149 m² to 1,073,485 m² (107.35 ha, 265.26 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 38 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Owenteskiny 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.

• 24 Jul 2023Conditional

  SHEEP HANDLING PEN, FARM ROAD AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2351079

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Slieve Tooey/Tormore Island/Loughros Beg Bay SAC 000190
• Natural Heritage Area: Crocknamurrin Mountain Bog NHA 001878
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Slieve Tooey/Tormore Island/Loughros Beg Bay 000190

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Owenteskiny.

Architectural heritage

• House, 1840–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey vernacular farmhouse, built c.1860, with bed outshot to rear, and opposed doorways. Rye-straw thatched roof with netting over, roped to iron rod and pegs to eaves and stone pegs to gables; lacking chimneystacks, but has two pots. Rendered walls, roughcast to gables and smooth-rendered to long walls, with projecting plinth course. Square-headed windows openings with painted stone sills and replacement timber casement windows, and timber battened door. Interior has timber panelled ceiling and timber battened internal doors with moulded surrounds. Two-bay two-storey outbuilding at right angle to house with pitched corrugated-iron roof, rubble stone walls roof, square-headed openings and external rubble stone steps leading to first floor.

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 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility high, 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 Owenteskiny.

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

Name

Owenteskiny · Abhainn tSeiscinne

Area

5,506,958 m² (550.7 ha, 1,360.8 acres)

Civil parish

Inishkeel, and its townlands

Barony

Banagh

Electoral division

Inishkeel, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Inishkeel electoral division: 84 people in 36 households; 79% of households own their home; 20% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 43% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Croweighter, Crowlar, Lagunna, Largybrack, Lergynasearhagh, Meenacharvy

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Owenteskiny 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.