Summy
Summy is a townland in the civil parish of Inishkeel, barony of Boylagh, Co. Donegal. Its name in Irish is Somaigh.
- Area
- 181.4 ha
- 448 acres
- Land parcels
- 58
- registered freehold, median 5,496 m² (0.55 ha, 1.36 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
58 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Summy, from 570 m² to 257,174 m² (25.72 ha, 63.55 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 20 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 Summy 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
13 Oct 2022Conditional
(1) ERECTION OF AN EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE WITH ELEVATIONAL AMENDMENTS TO ALL FACADES AND SEPARATED DETACHED OFFICE POD BUILDING (2) DECOMMISSIONING OF EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND INSTALLATION OF A NEW WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS.
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2251726
22 Dec 2021Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING WITH SEWERAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM & DOMESTIC GARAGE. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) ACCOMPANIES THIS APPLICATION
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2152584
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: West of Ardara/Maas Road SAC 000197
- Special Protection Area: Sheskinmore Lough SPA 004090
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: West Of Ardara/Maas Road 000197
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Summy.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Summy.
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 Summy, about 1 in 5 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 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 Summy.
- 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 Summy with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Summy · Somaigh
- Area
- 1,814,258 m² (181.43 ha, 448.31 acres)
- Civil parish
- Inishkeel, and its townlands
- Barony
- Boylagh
- Electoral division
- Dawros, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 717 people lived in 288 households in the Dawros electoral division. 82% of households owned their home. 26% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 51% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Drumboghill, Kilclooney Beg, Kilclooney More, Lackaweer, Mullyvea, Naran, Sandfield
- Placenames
- Summy 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.