# Leckbeg, Co. Donegal: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Templecrone, barony of Boylagh, Co. Donegal; in Irish An Leac Bheag. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 249,542 m² (24.95 ha, 61.66 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 938 m² - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 7 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Templecrone, https://everytownland.com/donegal/parish/templecrone.md - Barony: Boylagh - Electoral division: Rutland, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 1,496 people lived in 635 households in the Rutland electoral division. 80% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 37% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Donegal, https://everytownland.com/donegal.md - Gaeltacht: in an Irish-speaking area - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/15007 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 51685 - Centre: latitude 54.986277, longitude -8.43824 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Leckbeg, from 189 m² to 14,852 m² (1.49 ha, 3.67 acres); 15 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 4438740: 14,852 m² (1.49 ha, 3.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4438740.md - Parcel 1325569: 14,277 m² (1.43 ha, 3.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1325569.md - Parcel 4436747: 11,208 m² (1.12 ha, 2.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4436747.md - Parcel 1393982: 10,416 m² (1.04 ha, 2.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1393982.md - Parcel 1417227: 6,875 m² (0.69 ha, 1.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1417227.md - Parcel 1351898: 5,768 m² (0.58 ha, 1.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1351898.md - Parcel 5434104: 2,794 m² (0.28 ha, 0.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5434104.md - Parcel 1331820: 2,393 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1331820.md - Parcel 1424086: 2,368 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1424086.md - Parcel 1307786: 1,168 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1307786.md - Parcel 1413001: 938 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1413001.md - Parcel 1373089: 875 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1373089.md - Parcel 1346797: 645 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1346797.md - Parcel 1324779: 440 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1324779.md - Parcel 1310311: 400 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1310311.md - Parcel 1310393: 374 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1310393.md - Parcel 1409280: 358 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1409280.md - Parcel 1337088: 303 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1337088.md - Parcel 5941807: 214 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5941807.md - Parcel 5941809: 204 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5941809.md - Parcel 1306257: 189 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1306257.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Leckbeg in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 7 applications, newest first. - 2 Mar 2026, Donegal County Council 2650032: Conditional. Permission. CONVERSION OF PART OF FORMER COMMERCIAL BUILDING (THE OLD COPE SHOP) INTO OFFICE SPACE AND PART INTO A TWO BEDROOM APARTMENT, MAINTAIN ALL EXISTING SERVICES WITH PARKING AND ALL NECESSARY SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2650032/0 - 28 Nov 2025, Donegal County Council 2550171: Conditional. Permission, 2 homes. CONVERSION OF EXISTING GARAGE / OUTHOUSE INTO 2 NO. RESIDENTIAL UNITS (2 BED) AND CONNECTION OF BOTH TO MAINS SEWER WITH ASSOCIATED DRAINAGE AND SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2550171/0 - 22 Aug 2025, Donegal County Council 2561456: N/a. Permission, 3 homes. (1) CONVERSION OF A FORMER COMMERCIAL BUILDING INTO 3 NO. DOMESTIC DWELLINGS WITH ALTERATIONS TO ELEVATIONS INCLUDING REMOVAL OF EXISTING WINDOWS AND CONSTRUCTION OF NEW WALLS AND WINDOW AND DOOR OPENINGS AND (2) DEMOLITION OF STRUCTURE TO REAR ALONG WITH ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2561456/0 - 11 Aug 2025, Donegal County Council 2561373: N/a. Permission. CONVERSION OF A FORMER COMMERCIAL BUILDING INTO 3 NO DOMESTIC DWELLINGS ALONG WITH ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2561373/0 - 12 Apr 2024, Donegal County Council 2460508: Conditional. Permission. RETENTION AND COMPLETION OF (1) AN ATTIC DEVELOPMENT PROVIDING 2 NO. BEDROOMS, (2) PROVISION OF 3 NO. ROOFLIGHTS TO THE FRONT ELEVATION, (3) SINGLE STOREY PORCH TO THE FRONT OF THE DWELLING, (4) STEPS, LANDING AND HANDRAILS ASSOCIATED WITH THE PORCH DEVELOPMENT, (5) CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW SECTION OF BOUNDARY WALL, (6) RAISING THE LEVEL OF THE EXISTING BOUNDARY WALL, (7) ALL ANCILLARY AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460508/0 - 2 Oct 2023, Donegal County Council 2351479: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY DWELLING, DOMESTIC GARAGE, BOUNDARY WALLS AND SERVICES TO INCLUDE CONNECTION TO THE PUBLIC SEWER VIA AN EXISTING ON SITE MANHOLE CONNECTION WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2351479/0 - 26 Sept 2019, Donegal County Council 1951459: Conditional. Permission. (1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING BLOCKWORK WALLS AND CONSTUCTION OF A WASTEWATER PUMPING STATION (WWPS) WITH APPROXIMATELY 19M3 STORAGE, (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT (WWTP) AND A NEW VEHICULAR ACCESS ON TO THE L-5983 ROAD. THE WWTP WILL PROVIDE PRIMARY TREATMENT FOR 300 POPULATION EQUIVALENT (PE), (3) INSTALLATION OF ASSOCIATED GRAVITY SEWERS, FLUSHING SYSTEM, RISING MAINS AND EXTENSION OF THE EXISTING SEWER WITH INCREASED DIAMETER AND (4) ASSOCIATED ANCILLARY WORKS TO THE WWPS AND WWTP ALONG THE R260 & L-5983 ROADS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1951459/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: Rutland Island and Sound SAC, site code 002283, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/002283 - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Gweedore Bay And Islands, site code 001141 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Leckbeg. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - House, 1880–1900, Regional interest, registry number 40904811, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=DG®no=40904811. Detached three-bay two-storey double-pile house, built c.1890, having canted bay windows to end bays of front elevation, single-bay link between piles, and rear pile projecting slightly to east; each pile has two-bay gables and rear has one window to first floor. Pitched purple slate roof on overhanging eaves course, with painted timber fascia and projecting bargeboards and false trusses, cast-iron rainwater goods and paired centrally placed smooth-rendered chimneystacks with cornice copings and clay pots. Dormer window to east end of link. Bay windows have flat roofs, moulded parapets, moulded cornice eaves course, and pediment detail containing shield device, and also having two moulded strings at impost level. Smooth-rendered walls on raised plinth course, first floor having painted sill course, header course and moulded impost-level course, all three courses continuing to include one bay of side elevations. Painted sill course to bay windows. Round-headed window to dormer and to first floor of south elevation of projecting part of rear pile. Square-headed window openings elsewhere, windows to front elevation being pseudo-three-centred, all with one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows with decorative horns, window to first floor of rear elevation having margined coloured glass. Square-headed main entrance, flanked by partly fluted pilasters on moulded bases, with entablature and moulded cornice with segmental pediment, and square-headed timber panelled double-leaf door with stained-glass overlight and flanked by sidelights having stained-glass upper halves with sills. Garden to front bounded by wrought-iron railings and formal hedge, with similar gate, and having lawn to rear. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Leckbeg, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are made ground. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Leckbeg. - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/donegal/leckbeg.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/donegal/leckbeg.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/donegal/leckbeg.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Leckbeg with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal: https://everytownland.com/donegal.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Burtonport: https://everytownland.com/donegal/burtonport.md - Roshin Lodge: https://everytownland.com/donegal/roshin-lodge.md - Roshin North: https://everytownland.com/donegal/roshin-north.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/donegal/leckbeg - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/donegal/leckbeg