Leat Beg

59 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Leat Beg, from 45 m² to 336,830 m² (33.68 ha, 83.23 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 24 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 Leat Beg 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.

• 26 Apr 2026Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE AND AN ON-SITE SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2660728

• 19 Apr 2023Conditional

  CHANGE OF USE OF EXISTING OUTBUILDINGS: (1) THE EASTERN OUTBUILDING ATTACHED TO THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE TO ADDITIONAL LIVING SPACE ANCILLARY TO THE EXISTING HOUSE, (2) THE WESTERN OUTBUILDINGS TO A GAMES ROOM AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2350525

• 16 Jul 2021Conditional

  RELOCATION AND UPGRADING OF EXISTING SEPTIC TANK SYSTEM CURRENTLY SERVING EXISTING NEIGHBOURING DWELLING AND ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK SYSTEM

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2151427

• 7 Jul 2021N/a

  RELOCATION AND UPGRADING OF EXISTING SEPTIC TANK SYSTEM CURRENTLY SERVING EXISTING NEIGHBOURING DWELLING AND ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK SYSTEM

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2151358

• 21 Mar 2018Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND DOMESTIC GARAGE

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1850451

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: Mulroy Bay SAC 002159

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Leat Beg.

Architectural heritage

• Leat Beg Church (Clondavaddog), church/chapel, 1850–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding Church of Ireland chapel of ease, built c. 1870, comprising single-storey three-bay hall with attached single-bay single-storey gable-fronted entrance porch to east having modern single-bay single-storey flat-roofed addition (vestry) attached to the north elevation. Pitched natural slate roof to main body of building having yellow brick verges to gable ends (east and west), stone ridge tiles, and with raised smooth rendered parapet to west gable end with stucco Celtic cross finial over to gable apex. Pitched natural slate roof to porch to east having natural slate roof with overhanging eaves, decorative pierced timber bargeboard to gable, and with bell metal iron bell to gable apex. Wet dashed rendered walls over smooth rendered plinth. Square-headed window openings to north and south elevations of main body of church having smooth rendered reveals, painted stone sills and with multi-pane timber casement windows to the north elevation and replacement windows to the south elevation; pointed-arched window opening to the west gable end having smooth rendered reveal and modern leaded coloured glass window. Square-headed doorway to the front elevation of porch (east) having modern battened timber door with triangular multi-paned overlight above to gable apex. Simple interior with timber pews, boarded timber ceiling, wainscoting to dado rail level, carved timber pulpit with recessed trefoil-headed motifs, timber lectern, timber and cast-iron railings with ornate cast-iron baluster, and timber table with inset timber lettering reading ‘This Do in Remembrance of Me’. Set back from road in own grounds to the west of Leatbeg, and to the north-east of Carrickart overlooking Mulroy Bay a short distance to the south. Gravelled area to the east of entrance and lawned areas to the north and south. Modern rubble stone walls to site; pedestrian entrance gateway to the south-east comprising a pair of rubble stone gate piers (on square-plan) having stepped rubble stone coping over, and with wrought-iron gate.

• House, 1860–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey house, built c. 1880, having central single-bay single-storey entrance porch to the main elevation (south-west), and with single-storey outbuilding attached to the north-east. Pitched natural slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles, raised rendered verges to gable ends with kneeler stone detailing at eaves level, exposed rafter ends with cast-iron rainwater goods, and having smooth rendered chimneystacks to the gable ends. Flat roof to entrance porch with raised decorative parapets with gables and raised render detailing. Pitched corrugated-metal roof to outbuilding to the north-east elevation. Roughcast rendered walls to main body of building, ruled-and-lined walls to entrance porch. Square-headed window openings with painted stone sills, and two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed doorway to front face of porch having replacement door. Set back from road in elevated site overlooking Mulroy Bay to the south. Located to the north-east of Carrickart and to the south-west end of the Fanad Peninsula. Detached single-storey outbuilding to the west having barrel-vaulted corrugated-metal roof, roughcast rendered walls, and square-headed openings with battened timber fittings. Site bounded on road-frontage to the south by rendered boundary wall. Gateway to the south having rendered gate piers (on square-plan) having stepped coping over with ball finials, and with replacement gates.

• House, 1860–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey house with dormer attic level, built c. 1870, having two gable-fronted dormer openings to the front elevation (east), central projecting gable-fronted single-bay single-storey entrance porch to east elevation, and with single-storey open lean-to outbuilding to the north. Now unoccupied. Pitched natural slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles, raised rendered verges and rendered chimneystacks to the gable ends (north and south), and with exposed rafter ends; pitched natural slate roof and terracotta ridge tiles to entrance porch. Remains of roughcast lime rendered over rubble stone construction with roughly squared quoins to the corners. Square-headed window openings with stone sills and two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed doorway to the front elevation of porch having battened timber door with plain overlight above. Attached single-storey open outbuilding to the north having mono-pitched corrugated-metal roof. Set perpendicular to road with low rubble stone boundary walls to site and with mature trees to west. Located adjacent to Leat Beg Church (Clondavaddog) (see 40901706) to the north-east of Carrickart and to the south-west end of the Fanad Peninsula.

• John Morrow, house, 1920–1940 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached six-bay single-storey house and former shop, built c. 1930, comprising three-bay single-storey house to the west having central single-bay flat-roofed entrance porch to the main elevation (south) flanked to either side by gable-fronted bays, and with three-bay single-storey former shop to the east having central single-bay flat-roofed entrance porch to the main elevation (south). Gable-fronted bay to the north end of the west side elevation. Now out of use. Pitched artificial slate roofs (felt tiles) with clay ridge tiles, decorative wavy timber bargeboards to gable-fronted bays, cast-iron rainwater goods, and with three cement rendered chimneystacks. Painted corrugated-metal clad walls over cement rendered plinth course. Square-headed window openings to former house having concrete sills and one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows with margin glazing bars; square-headed window openings to former shop having fixed-pane timber display windows with multi-paned overlights. Square-headed window openings to side elevations of porch having timber casement windows. Square-headed doorway to the front elevation (south) of porch serving house to the west having battened timber door, sidelights, and overlight; square-headed doorway to the front elevation of porch to former shop having battened timber door and overlight with painted lettering reading ‘John Marrow Grocery and Hardware’ and ‘Licensed to Sell Tobacco’. Concrete steps serving doorways. Set slightly back from road in slightly elevated site to the west of Carrickart, and to the south-west end of the Fanad Peninsula overlooking Mulroy Bay to the south. Roughcast rendered boundary wall to road-frontage to the south having concrete coping over. Pedestrian gateways serving both doorways comprising a pair of roughcast rendered gate piers (on square-plan) having pyramidal concrete coping over. Vehicular entrance to the east end of boundary wall to front having gravelled forecourt to the north. Hedgerow to west boundary and rubble stone boundary wall to east boundary. Overgrown garden to site.

• Pier/jetty, 1870–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Pier\jetty, erected c. 1880, having coursed rubble stone walls with some modern alterations and additions including railings. Modern deck and rendered coping over coursed rubble stone storm wall to the south-west. Flight of cut stone steps from deck to sea level. Collection of modern flat-roofed outbuildings to the north-west located along deck. Located to north-west side of Millstone Bay to the north of Mulroy Bay. Associated pier to the south across Mulroy Bay (see 40901766). Modern pier to the south-west associated with modern aquaculture industry in Mulroy Bay.

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 Leat Beg, about 1 in 10 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 Leat Beg.

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

Name

Leat Beg

Area

2,660,027 m² (266 ha, 657.31 acres)

Civil parish

Clondavaddog, and its townlands

Barony

Kilmacrenan

Electoral division

Fanad West, the unit of the census

Census 2022

398 people lived in 155 households in the Fanad West electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 20% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 35% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Faltybanes, Leat More, Tully

Placenames

Leat Beg 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.