Largatreany

16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Largatreany, from 81 m² to 768,643 m² (76.86 ha, 189.94 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 15 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Largatreany 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.

• 11 Apr 2022Conditional

  (1) RENOVATIONS OF EXISTING BUNGALOW TO INCLUDE ALTERATIONS TO ROOF TO PROVIDE INNER COURTYARD, PROVISION OF MEZZANINE FLOOR TO PART, THERMAL UPGRADE OF WALLS INCLUDING NEW WINDOWS AND DOORS AND SOME MODIFICATIONS TO OPENINGS (2) ERECTION OF AN EXTENSION TO THE REAR TO PROVIDE NEW ENTRANCE LOBBY (3) REROOFING AND RENOVATIONS OF EXTERNAL WALLS TO EXISTING TWO-STOREY OUTHOUSE AND PROVISION OF EXTERNAL WALL COMPLETIONS (4) RE-ROOFING OF EXISTING TURF STORE (5) ASSOCIATED LANDSCAPING WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2250629

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: Horn Head and Rinclevan SAC 000147
• Special Protection Area: Horn Head to Fanad Head SPA 004194
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Horn Head And Rinclevan 000147

Recorded monuments

• DG015-007 Megalithic tomb - unclassified
  Description

  This monument was first shown on the 1847-9 edition of the OS 6-inch map. The remains here, considerably overgrown by furze bushes and other vegetation, consist of a substantial but ill-defined pile of stones, uneven on top, measuring c. 20m E-W, 5m N-S and 1m in maximum height. Resting on it, c. 5m from its eastern extremity, is a prostrate slab, 1.7m by 1.4m by 0.3m thick. There is a considerable scatter of loose stones in the area around the site, which is crossed by a number of partly ruined field fences. According to Thomas Fagan (1845-8), the remains represent the base of a large cairn that had covered 'sundry vaults or graves enclosed by large flat stones pitched end and edgeways in the ground'. The so-called graves were so 'disfigured' that he found it impossible to ascertain any details of their size or shape. A slab lay prostrate on the cairn, which may be the same one as mentioned above, on the basis of the dimensions quoted by Fagan. He added that a considerable amount of reclamation had taken place in the area in the ten years before his visit, which saw the destruction of many ancient features. The substantial pile of stones here may be the remains of a cairn. Its present appearance suggests that it may have been a long cairn. According to Fagan, it covered some form of megalithic structure, although the nature of this is unclear. Fagan 1845-8, book 1, 17; Ó Nualláin 1983a, 48, no. 171; SMR 1987, 15:7; RMP 1995, 15:7. The above description was published in the 'Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume VI, County Donegal.' Compiled by: Eamon Cody (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). Date of upload: 22 September 2008

• DG015-041 Promontory fort - coastal
  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.

• DG015-042 Signal tower
  Description

  Situated on the side of a truncated hill immediately adjacent to steep sea cliffs to N (187m OD), and with a large hill to the S. Located on ground that slopes down gently to the S. The surrounding area consists of unenclosed roughly pasture. The site has unobstructed views in all directions, except to the S where the rising ground blocks the view. It was built to be intervisible with the site of the signal tower to the SW at Bloody Foreland Signal Tower (DG023-003----), which is located c. 22kms to the WSW (demolished; no longer visible from the site), and with the signal tower at Melmore Head (DG008-027----), located c. 12.8kms to the ENE, which is largely collapsed and is no longer visible from the site. Site lies c. 405m to the SE of a coastal promontory fort (DG015-041----) located at the tip of Horn Head An early nineteenth-century two-storey signal tower on square-plan, constructed with roughly coursed rubble sandstone (int. dims. 4.35m N-S x 4.4.35m E-W; H 5.73m). The signal tower is largely collapsed, and consists of parts of the ground floor level and some fragments to the first floor level. The walls face N, S, E and W. The first floor doorway had been located on the N wall, and fragments of the splayed W side of the door reveal are still visible. Two window openings are visible on the W wall at ground floor level, and a single ground floor window is visible on the E wall. The windows are unusually large and feature shallow segmental-heads as opposed to the square-headed window openings found at most signal towers. The lower parts of one first floor window reveal is visible at the N end of the W wall. Rough dressed rubble stone voussoirs. A slot with joist holes that would have held the first floor is visible on the interior of W wall. Joist holes for a split-mezzanine level between the ground floor and the first floor are present at the W side of the N wall to interior. A small fragment of an alcove that would have flanked a central fireplace is visible on the ground floor of the S wall. Sections of render survive to interior. The signal tower is surrounded by a large spread of rubble which extends to the W and S of the signal tower, indicating that the signal tower collapsed in those directions. The rubble also fills the interior of the signal tower, and if a semi-basement level is present it is entirely concealed by the rubble. The signal tower is set within a sub-rectangular enclosure defined by a collapsed rubble drystone wall (ext. dims. 30m E-W x 27m N-S). The ruined signal tower is located slightly to the S of the middle of the enclosure. The best-preserved section of the enclosure wall is to the S portion. The foundations of two small buildings (on rectangular-plan) are located within the enclosure, one built against the NW corner and the other built against the central portion of the S wall. The foundations of another small building (on rectangular-plan) is located outside of the S boundary, 5.8m E of the SW corner. The small rectangular building located in the NW corner of the interior of the enclosure (ext. dims. 7.45m N-S x 3.2m E-W; int. dims 5.8m N-S x 2.6m E-W) is mostly defined by a low grassed-over foundation but with a small section of mortared rubble stone wall (max H 1.8m) surviving to the SE corner. The building to the interior to the S boundary wall (ext. dims. 3.2m E-W x 2.4m N-S) is defined by low rubble stone foundations covered in rubble stone; this structure may relate to the entrance to the enclosure, possibly the foundation of a guardhouse or a gate structure. The third building (ext. dims. 3.2m E-W x 1.5m N-S) to the exterior side of the S enclosure wall is also defined by low rubble stone foundations. The three buildings may have been used during the occupation of the signal tower. The signal tower was part of a system of over 80 signal stations constructed by the British Board of Ordnance in the first decade of the 19th century to warn of the approach of a French invasion fleet. Signalling between sites was accomplished using a naval signal post. The system formed a continuous chain from Dublin Bay running clockwise all the way around the coast to Malin Head in County Donegal. It was abandoned by the mid-1810s when the threat of a French invasion diminished (Kerrigan 1995, 157-66). Compiled by: Stuart Rathbone Uploaded on: 13/08/21 Images: DG015-042----.01.jpg View from SE DG015-042----.02.jpg S elevation DG015-042----.03.jpg View from SE DG015-042----.04.jpg View from SW DG015-042----.05.jpg View from SW DG015-042----.06.jpg W exterior DG015-042----.07.jpg S interior view DG015-042----.08.jpg SE interior DG015-042----.09.jpg W interior DG015-042----.10.jpg W interior

Architectural heritage

• Horn Head Lookout Post, watch tower, signal tower, 1939–1945 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached single-bay single-cell single-storey World War Two-era coastal watchman's hut\lookout post, in use c. 1939-45, having canted front elevation (north). Now out of use. Flat concrete roof with cement rendered chimneystack to the south end. Precast concrete walls having square-headed window openings, fittings now gone. Square-headed doorway to the east elevation, fittings now gone. Concrete fireplace to the south end of interior. Located in a prominent location on an elevated site on Coastguard Hill close to south of the tip of Horn Head, and to the north-west of Dunfanaghy. Built on the site of a former coastguard semaphore station, c. 1860. '77 Eire', c. 1940, sign painted on rocks at the tip of Horn Head to the north.

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

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Largatreany with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Largatreany · Learga an Traonaigh

Area

2,919,291 m² (291.93 ha, 721.37 acres)

Civil parish

Clondahorky, and its townlands

Barony

Kilmacrenan

Electoral division

Dunfanaghy, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Dunfanaghy electoral division: 1,015 people in 376 households; 78% of households own their home; 36% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 50% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Claggan, Muntermellan

Placenames

Largatreany 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.