Largynagreana

14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Largynagreana, from 472 m² to 129,642 m² (12.96 ha, 32.04 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 21 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Largynagreana 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Largynagreana in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Largynagreana.

Recorded monuments

• DG097-001 Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb
  Description

  This monument is on a level patch of poor pasture at the SE foot of a low ridge just 1km NW of Killybegs Harbour. There is an extensive outlook from the site southward across Donegal Bay, but elsewhere the view is restricted by low hills. Immediately in front of the SW end of the monument is a raised trackway, now disused (not on plan). This is a wedge-shaped gallery, 4.5m long, orientated WSW-ENE. A division into a short portico, at the W, and a main chamber seems indicated. A large roofstone covers the greater part of the main chamber. An outer-wall stone survives 0.9m beyond the E end of the gallery. Grass-grown cairn material encompasses all but the front of the structure. The outer-wall stone at the E retains the cairn, which is c. 3m wide near the front of the tomb and up to 0.8m high. The portico, open to the W, is 0.9m long and 1.3m wide. A single orthostat forms each side. That at the N, partly concealed, is 0.6m in exposed height at its inner face. The orthostat on the S is 0.9m in exposed height at its inner face. A large slab leaning westward against the inner ends of the two sidestones seems to be a displaced septal-stone. It is 0.5m thick and at least 1.5m long and would stand 1.1m high if upright. The front half of the main chamber is largely filled with spoil, including rough blocks of stone (not on plan). The chamber is c. 3m long and narrows toward its E end. Three sidestones are visible at both sides. Three together, their outer faces obscured, form the inner half of the N side. The westernmost one is 0.3m in exposed height. The second is 0.35m high, and the third is 0.3m high. The outermost of the three at the S is 0.6m E of the septal-stone. Partly concealed, it is 0.45m in exposed height. The other two sidestones here are at the eastern end of the chamber. The western one is 0.3m in exposed height, and the eastern is 0.15m. The backstone, skewed slightly from the transverse axis of the gallery, is 0.3m high. The roofstone is largely concealed by grass-grown earth and stones, and only its southern edge is exposed. It is at least 3m long, c. 2m wide and 0.4m thick. It rests on the backstone and on the two sides of the chamber. At the N it is supported on the innermost sidestone and on a small packing-stone (not on plan) on top of the adjoining sidestone. At the S it rests on the outermost sidestone and on a small packing-stone (not on plan) on top of the next sidestone. Its disposition indicates a slight decrease in chamber height toward the E. The outer-wall stone beyond the E end of the gallery is 0.7m high. The outer faces of two stones are exposed at the northern edge of the gallery, 1.5m from the front of the monument. The northern one, 0.5m in maximum dimension, is 0.3m in exposed height. The southern one, 0.2m to the S and higher on the slope of the cairn, measures at least 0.6m in maximum dimension and is 0.2m in exposed height. It is uncertain whether these are structural stones. A prostrate slab, 1.3m in maximum dimension, lies at around mid-length on the S side of the chamber. This is of uncertain origin but may be a displaced sidestone. Thomas Fagan (1845-8) saw this monument in 1847, and it appears from his account that it was then more or less as it is now. He claimed that slabs had been removed from the site within local memory. McNelis (1952), in notes compiled in 1931, has claimed that part of the western end of the monument was removed in making the raised trackway that now passes in front of it. Fagan 1845-8, book 19, 17-18; Borlase 1897, 250, Banagh no. 22 (incorrectly assigned to Drumbarity townland); McNelis 1952, 431 ('Largy na Greana'); Crozier 1957, 70 (repeats Borlase's error regarding location); Conaghan 1974, 14 ('Largynagrenna'); Ó Nualláin 1983a, 42, no. 109 (plan); SMR 1987, 97:1; Ó Nualláin 1989, 136; RMP 1995, 97:1. 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 See linked document with details from Eamon Cody, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume VI. County Donegal. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002) This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 1/1970).

• DG097-002001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Internal diam. 21.8m N-S, 24m WSW-ENE. A circular earthen platform from .2m to 2.85m above the surrounding land is enclosed by an earthen bank up to 1.15m in height. The bank is absent in the NE quadrant where the site has been divided by a field wall. On the SW side of the site there is evidence on the bank for a revetment and possibly for a stone wall built on top of the bank. There is evidence for a well on the exterior slope of the bank on the SSW side. Inside the angle of the field wall in the NE sector is an arc of earthen bank 1.9m in width. The rest of the interior is flat. A report (DHS 1973) of traces of a collapsed souterrain (DG097-002002-) were not substantiated on this occasion. The site is located on a low hill in undulating topography. The low ground is marshy and the higher a mixture of good and rough grazing land. 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 Excavation licence number 00E0177 Testing was conducted on the site of the proposed development of a detached dwelling-house, septic tank and driveway in the townland of Drumbarity, Co. Donegal, approximately 1km north-west of Killybegs. The proposed development involved the excavation of a 4m-wide strip for the construction of a driveway and further excavations for the dwelling-house foundation and septic tank. Testing was carried out on 15 April 2000. Using a wide, toothless trenching bucket, five test-trenches were excavated. The bedrock and natural, brown/ grey, gravelly subsoil were sealed by a series of deposits of sandy silts, gravels and clays. These strata in turn underlay sod and topsoil. Nothing of archaeological significance was noted. (Excavations Bulletin 2000) Declan Moore, 9 Clareden Drive, Donegal.

• DG097-002002 Souterrain
  Description

  A circular earthen platform (DG097-002001-) from .2m to 2.85m above the surrounding land is enclosed by an earthen bank up to 1.15m in height. The bank is absent in the NE quadrant where the site has been divided by a field wall. On the SW side of the site there is evidence on the bank for a revetment and possibly for a stone wall built on top of the bank. There is evidence for a well on the exterior slope of the bank on the SSW side. Inside the angle of the field wall in the NE sector is an arc of earthen bank 1.9m in width. The rest of the interior is flat. A report (DHS 1973) of traces of a collapsed souterrain were not substantiated on this occasion. The site is located on a low hill in undulating topography. The low ground is marshy and the higher a mixture of good and rough grazing land. 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

• DG097-003 Mound
  Description

  Overall Dimension 30m NE-SW, 24.15m NW-SE. Marked on the 2nd and 3rd editions of the OS 6-inch maps as 'Gurteen' the site consists of an earthen mound the edge of which varies from .6m to .9m above the surrounding ground but the centre varies from 1.2m to 1.6m above the surrounding land. The site is at present forested over and is located on rough marshy ground, but the surrounding higher ground consists of fair pasture. The location of this site might suggest that it is a type of crannog. 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 Largynagreana.

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 10 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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1128 (ZIP).

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

Name

Largynagreana · Leargain na Gréine

Area

410,999 m² (41.1 ha, 101.56 acres)

Civil parish

Upper Killybegs, and its townlands

Barony

Banagh

Electoral division

Killybegs, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Killybegs electoral division: 2,333 people in 880 households; 76% of households own their home; 25% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyara, Cullion, Drumbeagh, Fintragh, Meenyhooghan

Placenames

Largynagreana 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.