Skerry

30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Skerry, from 424 m² to 118,557 m² (11.86 ha, 29.3 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 10 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Skerry 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.

• 5 Jun 2024Conditional

  (1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING (DEFECTIVE/MICA) DWELLING HOUSE, (2) RECONSTRUCTION OF A NEW REPLACEMENT DWELLING HOUSE AND CONNECTION TO EXISTING SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT ON SITE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2460830

• 8 Nov 2017Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1751701

• 20 Jul 2017Refused

  ERECTION OF TWO STOREY DWELLING HOUSE AND WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1751145

• 29 May 2017N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF TWO STOREY DWELLING HOUSE AND WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1750853

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 Skerry.

Recorded monuments

• DG036-026 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Internal diam. c. 20m. A circular area enclosed by an earthen bank up to 1m in height and a fosse c. 2m wide. Part of the S area has been removed and replaced by a field boundary. The N part of the fosse has been deepened as a drain. A 2m gap in the bank to the NNW is due to modern destruction. A ruined field bank runs W from the perimeter on the NNW side. The site is located in a commanding position in good pasture 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

• DG045-001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Internal diam. 31.5m N-S and 37.5m NE-SW. An oval space defined on its N side by a stretch of earthen bank 2m high and an external fosse 3m wide. The S side is defined by a steep artificially raised platform edge up to 5m in height. Two large stones on the interior of the bank suggest that it was originally stone-faced. Part of the fosse is now used as a trackway. A 2m wide gap in the bank to the N is probably the original entrance as there is no fosse before it. The interior slopes N to S as does the external ground. There are extensive views. The land is covered by bushes. 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 Skerry.

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

At the centre of the townland of Skerry, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Skerry.

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Skerry with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Skerry

Area

743,862 m² (74.39 ha, 183.81 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmacrenan, and its townlands

Barony

Kilmacrenan

Electoral division

Loughkeel, the unit of the census

Census 2022

331 people lived in 106 households in the Loughkeel electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 42% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrownasaul, Casheleenan, Gortnaskeagh, Skreen Upper, Tawny Middle, Tawny Upper

Placenames

Skerry 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.