Trusk
Trusk is a townland in the civil parish of Donaghmore, barony of Raphoe South, Co. Donegal. Its name in Irish is An Trosc.
- Area
- 533.5 ha
- 1,318 acres
- Land parcels
- 100
- registered freehold, median 12,538 m² (1.25 ha, 3.1 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 17
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
100 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Trusk, from 34 m² to 547,996 m² (54.8 ha, 135.41 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 29 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 Trusk 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
1 Apr 2026Conditional
(1) RETENTION OF HARDCORE FILLING DEPOSITED AROUND EXISTING FARM SHED AND (2) CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSIONS TO THE SIDE AND REAR OF EXISTING SLATTED ANIMAL HOUSE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2650052
23 Jan 2026Conditional
(1) RETENTION OF (A) DESIGN DEVIATION FROM THAT APPROVED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 00/8019, INCLUDING HIPPED ROOF AND FENESTRATION OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND (B) DOMESTIC GARAGE STORE AND (2) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING MICA AFFECTED DWELLING HOUSE AND CONSTRUCTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING HOUSE UNDER THE DCBGS (MICA SCHEME) WITH MODIFIED FENESTRATION AND REMOVAL OF EXISTING CHIMNEY
Permission, 2 homes · Donegal County Council, 2660070
30 Jul 2025Conditional
(A) CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSION TO SIDE OF HOUSE, PROVISION OF WINDOW TO GABLE WALL OF HOUSE, CONVERSION OF PART OF ATTIC OF HOUSE TO HABITABLE ACCOMMODATION INCLUDING 5 NO VELUX ROOF WINDOWS (B) CONSTRUCTION OF A DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE/STORE WITH ATTACHED CAR PORT/DRYING AREA INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS.
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2550102
21 Jan 2025Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH ATTACHED GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK / SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2560057
13 May 2024Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE/STORE AND SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2450127
14 Feb 2024Conditional
"AS CONSTRUCTED" LAYOUT OF SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA WHICH DIFFERS FROM THE ORIGINALLY APPROVED LAYOUT
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2460147
2 Feb 2024Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DETACHED GARAGE, ASSOCIATED WASTEWATER TREATMENT UNIT AND GENERAL SITEWORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2460078
11 Oct 2023N/a
CONSTRUCTION OF DWELLING HOUSE, DETACHED GARAGE WITH ASSOCIATED WASTEWATER TREATMENT UNIT AND GENERAL SITEWORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2351542
26 May 2023Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND DOMESTIC GARAGE INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2350736
28 Feb 2023Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, SEPTIC TANK/SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2350240
8 Dec 2021Conditional
ERECTION OF AN ACCESSIBLE TIMBER BOARDWALK, VIEWING AREA AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS OVER EXISTING STONE COVERED WALKING TRAIL
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2152444
30 Aug 2021Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK/SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2151721
18 Nov 2019Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, SEPTIC TANK/SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1951766
13 Nov 2019Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A SLATTED ANIMAL HOUSE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1951741
24 Jul 2018Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL SHED
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1851136
2 Jun 2017Conditional
EXTENSION TO A PREVIOUS PERMITTED (REF. NO. 06/60444) QUARRY WHICH WILL CONSIST OF BLASTING, CRUSHING, & ANCILLARY SITE-WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1750856
20 Jan 2017Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSIONS TO THE FRONT AND REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE TO INCLUDE INTERNAL LAYOUT AND ELEVATIONAL AMENDMENTS, A DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS, WORKS SHALL INCLUDE DEMOLITION OF EXISTING GARAGE
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1750074
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: River Finn SAC 002301
Recorded monuments
- DG086-003 Enclosure
Description
This enclosure is indicted on the 1836 OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 15), named ‘Fort’. Inspected in the early 1980’s, it was recorded as follows: ‘An arc of an enclosing bank or wall 15m long, c. 2m wide and .1m high is all that survives of the 'Fort' marked on the 1st and 2nd editions of the OS maps. The bank remains are of soil but the boggy rocky terrain suggests that the site may have been a cashel. The area has been extensively afforested.’ (Lacy 1983, 216, no. 1396). The enclosure has since been destroyed by quarrying. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of revised upload: 26 July 2019
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Trusk.
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 Trusk, 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 Trusk.
- 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 Trusk with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Trusk · An Trosc
- Area
- 5,335,016 m² (533.5 ha, 1,318.31 acres)
- Civil parish
- Donaghmore, and its townlands
- Barony
- Raphoe South
- Electoral division
- Knock, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,922 people lived in 665 households in the Knock electoral division. 76% of households owned their home. 53% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Carrickmagrath, Corgary, Kinletter, Meenbog, Taughboy, Tievecloghoge
- Placenames
- Trusk 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.