# Pluck, Co. Donegal: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Leck, barony of Raphoe North, Co. Donegal; in Irish Pluc.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 527,069 m² (52.71 ha, 130.24 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 31 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 1,860 m²
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 6 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Leck, https://everytownland.com/donegal/parish/leck.md
- Barony: Raphoe North
- Electoral division: Magheraboy, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 1,719 people lived in 542 households in the Magheraboy electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 37% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- County: Co. Donegal, https://everytownland.com/donegal.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/15629
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 52204
- Centre: latitude 54.937474, longitude -7.643156 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

31 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Pluck, from 72 m² to 213,637 m² (21.36 ha, 52.79 acres); 16 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 1395342: 213,637 m² (21.36 ha, 52.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1395342.md
- Parcel 1346859: 121,671 m² (12.17 ha, 30.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1346859.md
- Parcel 1352790: 49,249 m² (4.92 ha, 12.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1352790.md
- Parcel 1339833: 27,407 m² (2.74 ha, 6.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1339833.md
- Parcel 1428093: 21,525 m² (2.15 ha, 5.32 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1428093.md
- Parcel 1395069: 20,529 m² (2.05 ha, 5.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1395069.md
- Parcel 1316520: 17,104 m² (1.71 ha, 4.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1316520.md
- Parcel 1316806: 12,848 m² (1.28 ha, 3.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1316806.md
- Parcel 1378700: 3,238 m² (0.32 ha, 0.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1378700.md
- Parcel 1347890: 2,703 m² (0.27 ha, 0.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1347890.md
- Parcel 1394831: 2,397 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1394831.md
- Parcel 1314699: 2,224 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1314699.md
- Parcel 1348941: 2,197 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1348941.md
- Parcel 1417138: 2,197 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1417138.md
- Parcel 1301490: 2,175 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1301490.md
- Parcel 1350557: 1,860 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1350557.md
- Parcel 1343043: 1,712 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1343043.md
- Parcel 1407794: 1,567 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1407794.md
- Parcel 1320414: 1,480 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1320414.md
- Parcel 1326327: 1,223 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1326327.md
- Parcel 1313020: 1,212 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1313020.md
- Parcel 1340486: 851 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1340486.md
- Parcel 1350285: 783 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1350285.md
- Parcel 1305450: 744 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1305450.md
- Parcel 1327896: 699 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1327896.md
- Parcel 1338992: 653 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1338992.md
- Parcel 1346128: 637 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1346128.md
- Parcel 1346309: 537 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1346309.md
- Parcel 5070055: 380 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5070055.md
- Parcel 1341844: 89 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1341844.md
- Parcel 1345975: 72 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1345975.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

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.

## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)

6 applications, newest first.

- 19 Sept 2024, Donegal County Council 2450213: Conditional. Permission. ERECTION OF A SLATTED CATTLE SHED. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2450213/0
- 23 Mar 2020, Donegal County Council 2050378: Conditional. Permission. ERECTION OF A SLATTED CATTLE SHED. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2050378/0
- 26 Feb 2020, Donegal County Council 2050216: N/a. Permission. ERECTION OF A SLATTED CATTLE SHED. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2050216/0
- 17 Aug 2018, Donegal County Council 1851279: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. (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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1851279/0
- 6 Apr 2018, Donegal County Council 1850513: N/a. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1850513/0
- 30 Aug 2017, Donegal County Council 1751328: Conditional. Permission. CONSTRUCTION OF A WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM, POLISHING FILTER AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS TO SERVE EXISTING DWELLING. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1751328/0

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## 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 Pluck.

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- DG054-038: Standing stone, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDG054-038----. 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

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).

## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage)

- Bridge, 1880–1890, Regional interest, registry number 40905425, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=DG&regno=40905425. 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, registry number 40905454, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=DG&regno=40905454. 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, registry number 40905455, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=DG&regno=40905455. 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.

## 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 Pluck, about 1 in 10 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 low, partly inferred.
- 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, 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/pluck.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/donegal/pluck.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/donegal/pluck.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Pluck 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)

- Aghlehard: https://everytownland.com/donegal/aghlehard.md
- Corkey: https://everytownland.com/donegal/corkey.md
- Raymoghy: https://everytownland.com/donegal/raymoghy.md
- Rossbrackan: https://everytownland.com/donegal/rossbrackan.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.

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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/pluck
- In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/donegal/pluck