Pluck

31 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Pluck, from 72 m² to 213,637 m² (21.36 ha, 52.79 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 16 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 Pluck 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.

• 19 Sept 2024Conditional

  ERECTION OF A SLATTED CATTLE SHED

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2450213

• 23 Mar 2020Conditional

  ERECTION OF A SLATTED CATTLE SHED

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2050378

• 26 Feb 2020N/a

  ERECTION OF A SLATTED CATTLE SHED

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2050216

• 17 Aug 2018Conditional

  (1) RETENTION OF AN EXISTING REAR BOUNDARY WALL, (2) DEMOLITION OF AN EXISTING HOUSE, (3) ERECTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING HOUSE AND (4) CONNECTION TO APPROVED WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT, POLISHING FILTER GRANTED UNDER 17/51328

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1851279

• 6 Apr 2018N/a

  DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND ERECTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING HOUSE WITH CONNECTION TO APPROVED WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT, POLISHING FILTER GRANTED UNDER 17/51328 WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1850513

• 30 Aug 2017Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM, POLISHING FILTER AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS TO SERVE EXISTING DWELLING

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1751328

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 Pluck.

Recorded monuments

• DG054-038 Standing stone
  Description

  This standing stone (H 1.75m; L 1.7m ; T 0.95m) is roughly square-shaped, with a rectangular cross-section; its long axis is aligned NNE-SSW. Situated on low-lying level ground close to the Isle Burn river. It is a National Monument in state guardianship (No. 453). The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated. Date of upload: 22 September 2008

Architectural heritage

• Bridge, 1880–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch rail bridge, c. 1883, carrying former Burt Junction to Letterkenny narrow gauge railway line over road. Railway out of use and tracks removed (since 1953). Segmental-headed arch with brick voussoirs and with brick construction to arch barrel; coursed and squared mildly rock-faced rubble stone construction to piers and to arch below springing point. Drafted margins to piers. Squared rubble stone construction to spandrels and to parapets. Rubble stone coping to parapets. Rubble stone retaining walls to either side bridge. Tarmacadam deck with grass verges to road; former track bed overgrown. Located in the rural countryside to the south-west of Manorcunningham and to the south-east of Letterkenny.

• House, 1810–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay single-storey house, built c. 1820, having single-bay two-storey addition to the west end (west), c. 1870. Now out of use and derelict. Pitched natural slate roof with projecting eaves course, cast-iron rainwater goods, and with four rendered chimneystacks (one to either gable end of original building and two to centre). Pitched natural slate roof to addition to the west. Roughcast rendered and limewashed rubble stone walls. Square-headed window openings having stone sills and six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed window openings to the block to the west having timber sliding sash windows. Central square-headed doorway to main block having remains of timber door. Set slightly back from road in own grounds in the rural countryside to the south-west of Manorcunningham. Small enclosed garden to the front, now overgrown, having low plinth wall with modern metal railings over. Detached seven-bay two-storey outbuilding to the south-west, built c. 1860, having pitched natural slate roof and projecting eaves course, roughcast rendered rubble stone walls, square-headed window openings with timber windows, and square-headed doorways and loading bays with timber lintels and battened timber doors. Gateway to the west of house having a pair of rubble stone gate piers (on circular-plan) with modern metal gates. Ruinous former corn mill (see 40905455) to the south-west of site.

• Pluck Mills, mill (water), 1840–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached multiple-bay three-storey former corn mill, built c. 1860 and possibly containing the fabric of an earlier mill to site, c. 1800. Not out of use and derelict. Pitched roof, now collapsed, having remains of cut stone eaves course. Rubble stone walls. Segmental-headed window openings having stone sills, red brick voussoirs, and remains of multiple-pane metal windows with timber frames. Square-headed doorways and loading bays having red brick voussoirs and remains of battened timber doors. Remains of metal machinery and millstones to site. Located to the east bank of the Isle Burn in the rural countryside to the south-west of Manorcunningham.

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

Landslides

Susceptibility 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 Pluck.

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

Name

Pluck · Pluc

Area

527,069 m² (52.71 ha, 130.24 acres)

Civil parish

Leck, and its townlands

Barony

Raphoe North

Electoral division

Magheraboy, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Magheraboy electoral division: 1,719 people in 542 households; 93% of households own their home; 37% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghlehard, Corkey, Raymoghy, Rossbrackan

Placenames

Pluck 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.