Leat More
Leat More is a townland in the civil parish of Clondavaddog, barony of Kilmacrenan, Co. Donegal.
- Area
- 83.3 ha
- 206 acres
- Land parcels
- 25
- registered freehold, median 13,820 m² (1.38 ha, 3.41 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
25 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Leat More, from 121 m² to 173,343 m² (17.33 ha, 42.83 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 26 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 Leat More 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
3 Jul 2026Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE AND INSTALLATION OF A WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) ACCOMPANIES THIS APPLICATION
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2661235
22 Dec 2025Refused
CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE AND INSTALLATION OF A WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2562326
20 Jul 2022Conditional
CHANGE OF HOUSE TYPE FROM THAT PREVIOUSLY APPROVED UNDER PLANNING REFERENCE 20/51397
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2251234
30 Sept 2020Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2051397
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.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
- Special Area of Conservation: Mulroy Bay SAC 002159
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Leat More.
Architectural heritage
- House, 1840–1860 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay two-storey vernacular house, built c. 1850, having single-bay single-storey lean-to extension to the east gable end. Now out of use and derelict. Pitched purple slate roof with rendered copings to gable ends, projecting stone eaves course, and with central rendered chimneystack having rendered coping over. Remains of lime render over rubble stone walls. Square-headed window openings with rendered sills, and with remains of two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows to front elevation at first floor level and to the rear elevation; square-headed window openings to main elevation at ground floor level having paired four-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed doorway offset to one side of the centre of the main elevation; door now missing. Located in the rural countryside to the east of Carrickart, and to the south-west end of the Fanad Peninsula overlooking Mulroy Bay. House set to south of road along a private lane with modern agricultural buildings to south-east of site.
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 Leat More, 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 Leat More.
- 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 Leat More with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Leat More
- Area
- 833,057 m² (83.31 ha, 205.85 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
- Doagh More, Faltybanes, Glinsk, Leat Beg
- Gaeltacht
- In an Irish-speaking area
- Placenames
- Leat More 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.