Lanehead
Lanehead is a townland in the civil parish of Aghanunshin, barony of Kilmacrenan, Co. Donegal.
- Area
- 3.3 ha
- 8 acres
- Land parcels
- 1
- registered freehold, median 3,619 m² (0.36 ha, 0.89 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
1 registered freehold parcel lies mostly in Lanehead, from 3,619 m² (0.36 ha, 0.89 acres) to 3,619 m² (0.36 ha, 0.89 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 15 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 Lanehead 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 Aug 2026N/a
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2661563
9 Apr 2025Conditional
(1) DECOMMISSIONING OF SEPTIC TANK SERVING EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND INSTALLATION OF A NEW TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH POLISHING FILTER AT NEW LOCATION AND (2) CONSTRUCTION OF NEW DWELLING HOUSE, DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE AND TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2560529
2 May 2023Conditional
OIBREACHA PÁIRTEACHA TÓGÁLA A CHOINNEÁIL CHUN AN GARÁISTE INTÍRE ATÁ ANN A THIONTÚ INA CHÓIRÍOCHT 'ÁRAS NA SEANMHÁTHAIR' AGUS CEAD LE OIBREACHA TÓGÁLA AGUS ATHCHÓIRIÚ Ó GHARÁISTE INTÍRE I GCÓIRÍOCHT 'MHAMÓ' A CHRÍOCHNÚ, CHUIG UMAR SEIPTEACH LÁITHREACH AGUS NA HOIBREACHA SUÍMH GO LÉIR A BHAINEANN LEIS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2350580
31 Mar 2023N/a
OIBREACHA PÁIRTEACHA TÓGÁLA CHUN AN GARÁISTE INTÍRE ATÁ ANN A THIONTÚ INA CHÓIRÍOCHT "ÁRAS NA SEANMHÁTHAIR" AGUS CEAD PLEANÁLA CHUN OIBREACHA TÓGÁLA AGUS ATHCÓIRIÚ Ó GHARÁISTE INTÍRE I GCÓIRÍOCHT "MHAMÓ" A CHRÍOCHNÚ CHUIG UMAR SEIPTEACH LÁITHREACH AGUS NA HOIBREACHA SUÍMH GO LÉIR
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2350426
3 Mar 2021N/a
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND SEPTIC TANK WITH ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2150372
20 Sept 2019Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1951439
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 Lanehead.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Lanehead.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Lanehead.
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 Lanehead, 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 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 Lanehead.
- 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 Lanehead with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Lanehead
- Area
- 33,197 m² (3.32 ha, 8.2 acres)
- Civil parish
- Aghanunshin, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kilmacrenan
- Electoral division
- Castlewray, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 3,681 people lived in 1,340 households in the Castlewray electoral division. 83% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Bogay, Camblestown, Castlewray, Greenhill, Roughpark
- Placenames
- Lanehead 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.