# Skreen Upper, Co. Donegal: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Kilmacrenan, barony of Kilmacrenan, Co. Donegal. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 899,816 m² (89.98 ha, 222.35 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 29 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 4,707 m² (0.47 ha, 1.16 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 6 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Kilmacrenan, https://everytownland.com/donegal/parish/kilmacrenan.md - Barony: Kilmacrenan - Electoral division: Loughkeel, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Donegal, https://everytownland.com/donegal.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/15939 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 52394 - Centre: latitude 55.066049, longitude -7.768475 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 29 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Skreen Upper, from 416 m² to 198,035 m² (19.8 ha, 48.94 acres); 11 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1427053: 198,035 m² (19.8 ha, 48.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1427053.md - Parcel 1419609: 171,007 m² (17.1 ha, 42.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1419609.md - Parcel 1419809: 102,639 m² (10.26 ha, 25.36 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1419809.md - Parcel 1357483: 64,986 m² (6.5 ha, 16.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1357483.md - Parcel 1316096: 34,125 m² (3.41 ha, 8.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1316096.md - Parcel 1387054: 33,174 m² (3.32 ha, 8.2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1387054.md - Parcel 1352650: 25,603 m² (2.56 ha, 6.33 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1352650.md - Parcel 4728910: 19,663 m² (1.97 ha, 4.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4728910.md - Parcel 4650470: 14,120 m² (1.41 ha, 3.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4650470.md - Parcel 1372177: 14,065 m² (1.41 ha, 3.48 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1372177.md - Parcel 1394109: 7,095 m² (0.71 ha, 1.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1394109.md - Parcel 4650384: 5,715 m² (0.57 ha, 1.41 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4650384.md - Parcel 1522574: 4,851 m² (0.49 ha, 1.2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1522574.md - Parcel 3663979: 4,842 m² (0.48 ha, 1.2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3663979.md - Parcel 5518059: 4,707 m² (0.47 ha, 1.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5518059.md - Parcel 4655479: 4,338 m² (0.43 ha, 1.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4655479.md - Parcel 5236894: 4,009 m² (0.4 ha, 0.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5236894.md - Parcel 5236936: 4,006 m² (0.4 ha, 0.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5236936.md - Parcel 4728960: 3,948 m² (0.39 ha, 0.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4728960.md - Parcel 4729001: 3,617 m² (0.36 ha, 0.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4729001.md - Parcel 5828286: 2,942 m² (0.29 ha, 0.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5828286.md - Parcel 1402831: 2,453 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1402831.md - Parcel 5198725: 1,768 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5198725.md - Parcel 5198696: 1,653 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5198696.md - Parcel 4754354: 1,523 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4754354.md - Parcel 1522575: 1,439 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1522575.md - Parcel 1315351: 989 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1315351.md - Parcel 1315963: 840 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1315963.md - Parcel 4728988: 416 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4728988.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Skreen Upper 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. - 26 Nov 2024, Donegal County Council 2450249: Conditional. Retention. SUNROOM EXTENSION TO FRONT OF DWELLING HOUSE. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2450249/0 - 13 Mar 2019, Donegal County Council 1950333: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC SHED AND INSTALLATION OF A WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1950333/0 - 22 Feb 2019, Donegal County Council 1950220: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING WITH SEPARATE DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ASSOCIATED SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1950220/0 - 13 Feb 2019, Donegal County Council 1950186: N/a. Permission, 1 home. CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING WITH SEPARATE DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ASSOCIATED SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1950186/0 - 16 Aug 2018, Donegal County Council 1851256: Conditional. Permission. CONSTRUCTION OF AN ESB SUBSTATION IN CONNECTION WITH THE LETTERKENNY WATER TREATMENT PLANT, GOLDRUM, TERMON. THE PLANNING APPLICATION IS ACCOMPANIED BY A STAGE 1 SCREENING REPORT FOR APPROPRIATE ASSESSMENT. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1851256/0 - 12 Apr 2017, Donegal County Council 1750567: Conditional. Retention. AN EXTENSION TO THE FRONT OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1750567/0 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 Skreen Upper. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Skreen Upper. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Skreen Upper. ## 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 Skreen Upper, about 1 in 20 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 high, 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 Skreen Upper. - 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/skreen-upper.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/donegal/skreen-upper.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/donegal/skreen-upper.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Skreen Upper 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) - Ballyscanlan Upper: https://everytownland.com/donegal/ballyscanlan-upper.md - Carrownasaul: https://everytownland.com/donegal/carrownasaul.md - Skerry: https://everytownland.com/donegal/skerry.md - Skreen Lower: https://everytownland.com/donegal/skreen-lower.md - Tawny Upper: https://everytownland.com/donegal/tawny-upper.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/skreen-upper - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/donegal/skreen-upper