Sheegys

49 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Sheegys, from 44 m² to 178,201 m² (17.82 ha, 44.03 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Sheegys 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.

• 3 Oct 2024Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DETACHED GARAGE, FOUL DRAINAGE SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2461555

• 3 Dec 2019Conditional

  INSTALLATION OF A NEW PACKAGED TREATMENT PLANT WITH SAND POLISHING FILTER AND DECOMMISSIONING OF EXISTING SEPTIC TANK

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1951861

• 12 Aug 2019N/a

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND INSTALLATION OF A SEPTIC TANK WITH REED BED, TERTIARY WETLAND AND DISCHARGE TO A DISPOSAL/DISTRIBUTION PAD

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1951222

• 18 Sept 2018Conditional

  ERECTION OF EXTENSION OF AN EXISTING SLATTED SHED AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW PARTIALLY SLATTED AGRICULTURAL SHED

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1851422

• 23 Mar 2018Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND A DOMESTIC GARAGE SERVED BY A PACKAGED TREATMENT PLANT WITH POLISHING FILTER

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1850424

• 19 Oct 2017Conditional

  (1) ERECTION OF A DRY STOCK SHEEP SHED AND (2) RETENTION OF EXISTING SITEWORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1751572

• 28 Mar 2017Conditional

  (a) FACADE ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING DOMESTIC STORE, TO INCLUDE STONE CLADDING TO FRONT ELEVATION (b) EXTENSION TO EXISTING DOMESTIC STORE REFERRED TO IN (a) ABOVE TO FORM GARDEN ROOM ANCILLARY TO USE OF MAIN DWELLING HOUSE (c) ERECTION OF A DOMESTIC GARAGE (d) DECOMMISSIONING OF EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA AND INSTALLATION OF A NEW EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND SAND POLISHING FILTER

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1750456

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Protection Area: Donegal Bay SPA 004151
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Erne Estuary/Finner Dunes 000139

Recorded monuments

• DG107-042 Standing stone
  Description

  A standing stone .7m high × 0.23m wide × 0.2m thick; W-E. Situated on a low natural mound sloping S to Ballyshannon Bay. 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 Sheegys.

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 Sheegys, about 1 in 20 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 Sheegys.

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 Sheegys with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Sheegys

Area

896,221 m² (89.62 ha, 221.46 acres)

Civil parish

Kilbarron, and its townlands

Barony

Tirhugh

Electoral division

Ballyshannon Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,738 people lived in 624 households in the Ballyshannon Rural electoral division. 80% of households owned their home. 37% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 16% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Abbeylands, Ballymacaward, Creevy, Tonregee

Placenames

Sheegys 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.