Slievebuck
Slievebuck is a townland in the civil parish of Raphoe, barony of Raphoe North, Co. Donegal.
- Area
- 57.2 ha
- 141 acres
- Land parcels
- 15
- registered freehold, median 2,370 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 10
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Slievebuck, from 192 m² to 269,373 m² (26.94 ha, 66.56 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Slievebuck 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
21 Mar 2025Conditional
ERECTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL SHED INCLUDING ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2560415
19 Mar 2025N/a
ERECTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL SHED INCLUDING ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2560391
5 Mar 2025Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH DOMESTIC GARAGE AND WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM INCLUDING ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2560308
23 Jan 2025Conditional
FIRST FLOOR VERANDA TO THE REAR OF DWELLING HOUSE AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2560072
29 Oct 2024Refused
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH DOMESTIC GARAGE AND SEPTIC TANK INCLUDING ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2461726
20 Dec 2023Conditional
TWO STORIED DOMESTIC OUTBUILDING, PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 19/51895 WHICH IS UTILISED FOR DOMESTIC STORAGE AND OCCASIONAL MUSIC PRACTICE
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2351985
16 Jun 2022N/a
THREE NUMBER FIRST FLOOR WINDOWS, FIRST FLOOR BALCONY DOOR IN LIEU OF WINDOW, AND GROUND FLOOR PATIO DOORS IN LIEU OF GARAGE ROLLER DOOR, AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS ON GARAGE/STORE
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2251048
13 Sept 2021N/a
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2151812
5 Aug 2020Refused
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING, DOMESTIC GARAGE, WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2051069
6 Dec 2019Conditional
ERECTION OF A DOMESTIC GARAGE/STORE AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1951895
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 Slievebuck.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Slievebuck.
Architectural heritage
- Bridge, 1810–1830 · Regional interest
Description
Single-arched bridge carrying road over small unnamed stream, built c. 1820. Segmental-headed arch with roughly dressed stone voussoirs; squared rubble stone construction to arch barrel. Squared and rubble stone construction to spandrels and abutments. Rubble stone construction to parapets with roughly squared field stone boulders over. Arch barrel crosses road at an angle. Tarmacadam deck with grass verges. Located in the rural countryside to the north-east of Raphoe.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Slievebuck, 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.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Slievebuck.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Slievebuck with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Slievebuck
- Area
- 572,080 m² (57.21 ha, 141.36 acres)
- Civil parish
- Raphoe, and its townlands
- Barony
- Raphoe North
- Electoral division
- Kincraigy, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,036 people lived in 337 households in the Kincraigy electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 37% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyholey Far, Carrickadawson, Dromore Big, Magheestown, Sheskinapoll
- Placenames
- Slievebuck 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.