Laconnell

81 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Laconnell, from 83 m² to 291,584 m² (29.16 ha, 72.05 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 7 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 Laconnell 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.

• 30 Jun 2025Conditional

  (1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING OUT-BUILDINGS, (2) CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSION AND RENOVATION OF EXISTING COTTAGE WITH ALTERATIONS TO ALL FACADES AND (3) CONNECTION TO ALL EXISTING SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2561098

• 11 Nov 2020Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH A SEWERAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2051701

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Slieve Tooey/Tormore Island/Loughros Beg Bay SAC 000190
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Slieve Tooey/Tormore Island/Loughros Beg Bay 000190

Recorded monuments

• DG073-037001 Bullaun stone
  Description

  A natural rock outcrop 1.25m x 1.03m x .28m giving the appearance of a standing stone. A small cross (DG073-037003-) is carved on the SW face near the base. The top and base of the cross have T-bars but the arms are indistinct. A holy well (DG073-037002-) was located in a field of good land to the W but it is now filled in. Nearby, carved on an erratic boulder 2m x 1.33m x .6m is a rock-basin .25m in diameter and 0.15m deep. 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

• DG073-037002 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• DG073-037003 Cross-inscribed stone
  Description

  A natural rock outcrop 1.25m x 1.03m x .28m giving the appearance of a standing stone. A small cross (DG073-037003-) is carved on the SW face near the base. The top and base of the cross have T-bars but the arms are indistinct. A holy well (DG073-037002-) was located in a field of good land to the W but it is now filled in. Nearby, carved on an erratic boulder (DG073-037001-) 2m x 1.33m x .6m is a rock-basin .25m in diameter and 0.15m deep. 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 Laconnell.

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 Laconnell, 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.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Laconnell.

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

Name

Laconnell · Leac Chonaill

Area

2,382,782 m² (238.28 ha, 588.8 acres)

Civil parish

Inishkeel, and its townlands

Barony

Banagh

Electoral division

Inishkeel, the unit of the census

Census 2022

84 people lived in 36 households in the Inishkeel electoral division. 79% of households owned their home. 20% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 43% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Barkillew, Maghera, Meenagolan, Meentashesk

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Laconnell 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.