# Skelpy, Co. Donegal: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Urney, barony of Raphoe South, Co. Donegal. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,121,896 m² (112.19 ha, 277.23 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 36 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,224 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Urney, https://everytownland.com/donegal/parish/urney.md - Barony: Raphoe South - Electoral division: Urney West, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 640 people lived in 217 households in the Urney West electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 39% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Donegal, https://everytownland.com/donegal.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/16603 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 52389 - Centre: latitude 54.767639, longitude -7.562422 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 36 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Skelpy, from 189 m² to 199,029 m² (19.9 ha, 49.18 acres); 26 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1335958: 199,029 m² (19.9 ha, 49.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1335958.md - Parcel 1325168: 171,975 m² (17.2 ha, 42.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1325168.md - Parcel 1335959: 151,372 m² (15.14 ha, 37.4 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1335959.md - Parcel 1352915: 115,212 m² (11.52 ha, 28.47 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1352915.md - Parcel 1325169: 93,401 m² (9.34 ha, 23.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1325169.md - Parcel 1407658: 93,378 m² (9.34 ha, 23.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1407658.md - Parcel 1335596: 85,014 m² (8.5 ha, 21.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1335596.md - Parcel 1371892: 68,357 m² (6.84 ha, 16.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1371892.md - Parcel 1335960: 57,891 m² (5.79 ha, 14.31 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1335960.md - Parcel 1357835: 38,937 m² (3.89 ha, 9.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1357835.md - Parcel 1410616: 8,866 m² (0.89 ha, 2.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1410616.md - Parcel 1350848: 2,940 m² (0.29 ha, 0.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1350848.md - Parcel 1366246: 2,787 m² (0.28 ha, 0.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1366246.md - Parcel 4646804: 2,739 m² (0.27 ha, 0.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4646804.md - Parcel 4646917: 2,512 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4646917.md - Parcel 1336441: 2,355 m² (0.24 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1336441.md - Parcel 5500298: 2,354 m² (0.24 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5500298.md - Parcel 1321367: 2,265 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1321367.md - Parcel 5901392: 2,183 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5901392.md - Parcel 1334758: 2,153 m² (0.22 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1334758.md - Parcel 1393666: 2,120 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1393666.md - Parcel 1362770: 1,997 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1362770.md - Parcel 5517597: 1,914 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5517597.md - Parcel 1366247: 1,639 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1366247.md - Parcel 1378504: 1,593 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1378504.md - Parcel 4633217: 1,574 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4633217.md - Parcel 1402537: 1,516 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1402537.md - Parcel 1391245: 1,034 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1391245.md - Parcel 3660807: 1,019 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3660807.md - Parcel 5901398: 839 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5901398.md - Parcel 5901400: 839 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5901400.md - Parcel 1331472: 732 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1331472.md - Parcel 1329671: 556 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1329671.md - Parcel 5517596: 414 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5517596.md - Parcel 1337171: 302 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1337171.md - Parcel 1374947: 189 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1374947.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Skelpy 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) 2 applications, newest first. - 12 Aug 2022, Donegal County Council 2251368: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND INSTALLATION OF A SEPTIC TANK AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2251368/0 - 15 Apr 2019, Donegal County Council 1950533: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. ERECTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1950533/0 Applicants are not shown. ## 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 Skelpy. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - DG088-002: Standing stone, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDG088-002----. There is no trace of the 'Standing Stone' marked on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map. Situated in rocky marsh land. 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) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Skelpy. ## 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 Skelpy, 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Skelpy. - 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/skelpy.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/donegal/skelpy.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/donegal/skelpy.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Skelpy 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) - Drumdoit: https://everytownland.com/donegal/drumdoit.md - Drumnaha: https://everytownland.com/donegal/drumnaha-51115.md - Fearn: https://everytownland.com/donegal/fearn.md - Gortkilly: https://everytownland.com/donegal/gortkilly.md - Halftown: https://everytownland.com/donegal/halftown.md - Tullyard: https://everytownland.com/donegal/tullyard-52600.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. --- 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/skelpy - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/donegal/skelpy