Scribly
Townland in the civil parish of Leck, barony of Raphoe North, Co. Donegal
- Area
- 86.3 ha
- 213 acres
- Land parcels
- 60
- registered freehold, median 491 m²
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 11
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
60 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Scribly, from 3 m² to 184,037 m² (18.4 ha, 45.48 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 40 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Scribly 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
26 Mar 2025Conditional
ERECTION OF A NEW SHED WITH ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS WITHIN EXISTING COMPLEX
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2560439
8 Mar 2024Conditional
EXTENSION OF EXISTING STORAGE YARD TO INCREASE PRODUCT STORAGE AND PARKING AREAS WITH ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2460295
4 Mar 2024N/a
EXTENSION OF EXISTING STORAGE YARD TO INCREASE PRODUCT STORAGE AND PARKING AREAS WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2460265
8 May 2023Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO THE REAR AND SIDE OF EXISTING DWELLING AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS AND SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2350618
18 Apr 2023Conditional
DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING HOUSE WITH ADDITIONAL FLOOR AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS.
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2350522
15 Mar 2023Conditional
CANOPY STRUCTURE TO THE SIDE OF THE HOUSE AND FRONT OF PRESCHOOL
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2350328
7 Oct 2022Conditional
INCREASE OF OPERATION OF THE PRESCHOOL TO BE 8.00AM TO 6.00PM MONDAY TO FRIDAY
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2251683
12 Jun 2019Conditional
A MONTESSORI SCHOOL INCLUDING CONNECTION TO EXISTING ON SITE FOUL SEWER AND WATERMAINS
Retention · Donegal County Council, 1950905
15 Nov 2017N/a
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1751755
1 Jun 2017Conditional
EXTENSION TO THE REAR OF NO. 89 THE MAPLES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND PERMISSON FOR INSTALLATION OF 2 NO. ROOFLIGHTS TO THE FRONT ELEVATION TO SERVICE ATTIC STORAGE
Retention · Donegal County Council, 1750860
22 Mar 2017Conditional
EXISTING DOMESTIC GARAGE TO THE REAR OF DWELLING ALONG WITH REAR BOUNDARY WALL/FENCE AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS
Retention · Donegal County Council, 1750439
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 Scribly.
Recorded monuments
- DG053-034 Enclosure
Description
An aerial photograph (St. Joseph, BDS 94) indicates a circular cropmark, c. 30m-40m in diameter here. The site which is located in good land was not inspected. 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
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Scribly.
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
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility 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 Scribly.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Scribly with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Scribly
- Area
- 863,111 m² (86.31 ha, 213.28 acres)
- Civil parish
- Leck, and its townlands
- Barony
- Raphoe North
- Electoral division
- Corravaddy, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Corravaddy electoral division: 1,739 people in 603 households; 70% of households own their home; 62% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyboe, Carrygally, Cullion, Drumnahoagh, Lismonaghan, Oldtown
- Placenames
- Scribly 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.