Sheskinarone
Townland in the civil parish of Templecrone, barony of Boylagh, Co. Donegal; in Irish Seascann an Róin
- Area
- 530.8 ha
- 1,312 acres
- Land parcels
- 359
- registered freehold, median 2,626 m² (0.26 ha, 0.65 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 14
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
359 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Sheskinarone, from 3 m² to 515,353 m² (51.54 ha, 127.35 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 59 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 Sheskinarone 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
20 Nov 2025Conditional
(1) DOMESTIC GARAGE, (2) STORAGE CONTAINER, (3) BASEMENT OF DWELLING AND (4) AMENDMENTS TO EXISTING DWELLING APPROVED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 98/1102 INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2562028
1 Mar 2024Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION AND ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING DWELLING INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2460257
7 Feb 2024Conditional
(1) REMOVAL OF EXISTING MASONRY/CONCRETE WEIR AND MANUAL SLUICE GATE AND (2) INSTALLATION AND CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW REINFORCED CONCRETE FIXED LEVEL WEIR WITH FISH PASS. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) ACCOMPANIES THIS APPLICATION
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2460104
21 Nov 2023Conditional
A FIRST FLOOR ATTIC CONVERSION WITH MINOR ELEVATIONAL ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2351770
21 Aug 2023Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH PROPRIETARY WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2351242
27 Feb 2023Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH PROPRIETARY WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2350223
26 Oct 2022Conditional
DWELLING HOUSE
Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2251777
28 Sept 2021Conditional
(1) CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH PROPRIETARY WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS (2) RETENTION AND COMPLETION OF SITE ACCESS ROAD AND SITE CLEARANCE INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2151930
22 Sept 2021Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH PROPRIETARY WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2151896
8 Dec 2020Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH PROPRIETARY WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2051881
3 Sept 2020Conditional
SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS AND PERMISSION FOR ERECTION OF A DOMESTIC GARAGE ADJACENT TO DWELLING HOUSE INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2051249
7 Nov 2019Conditional
GARAGE/SHED AS BUILT TO REAR OF EXISTING PROPERTY
Retention · Donegal County Council, 1951709
31 Oct 2017Conditional
DEVELOPMENT CONSISTING OF A DRY STORAGE SHED INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1751651
18 Oct 2017N/a
DEVELOPMENT CONSISTING OF A DRY STORAGE SHED INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1751582
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: Cloghernagore Bog and Glenveagh National Park SAC 002047
- Special Protection Area: Derryveagh And Glendowan Mountains SPA 004039
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Cloghernagore Bog And Glenveagh National Park 002047
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Sheskinarone.
Architectural heritage
- House, 1860–1880 · Regional interest
Description
Detached five-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c.1870, with thatched roof to middle three bays, and slightly higher slated end bays, and with central projecting porch to front. Pitched roof with cast-iron pegs to eaves in long walls of middle bays, having raised rendered copings, and with smooth-rendered chimneystacks to party walls to ends of thatched section. Curved rendered roof to porch and pitched artificial slate roofs to end bays. Painted smooth-rendered walls. Square-headed openings with painted concrete sills and two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows with replacement timber casement windows to south end bay. Garden to west, yard to east and outbuilding to north.
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 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; parts are water.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1197 (ZIP).
- 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
- Sheskinarone, Dungloe9 sales
The townland
- Name
- Sheskinarone · Seascann an Róin
- Area
- 5,308,126 m² (530.81 ha, 1,311.67 acres)
- Civil parish
- Templecrone, and its townlands
- Barony
- Boylagh
- Electoral division
- Dunglow, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Dunglow electoral division: 1,919 people in 798 households; 63% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 16% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Craghy, Crohyboyle, Crovehy, Cruickaghmore, Dunglow, Lefinn, Meenbannad, Meenmore
- Gaeltacht
- In an Irish-speaking area
- Placenames
- Sheskinarone 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.