Legaltan

44 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Legaltan, from 183 m² to 103,216 m² (10.32 ha, 25.51 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 27 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 Legaltan 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.

• 16 Jul 2026Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO EXISTING LOOSE HOUSE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2661316

• 9 Feb 2026Conditional

  (1) DEMOLITION OF REAR EXTENSION TO DWELLING HOUSE AND OUTBUILDINGS, (2) ERECTION OF A NEW REAR EXTENSION TO DWELLING HOUSE ALONG WITH FAÇADE ALTERATIONS AND RENOVATION OF EXISTING STRUCTURE, (3) CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW VEHICULAR ENTRANCE AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS AND (4) DECOMMISSIONING OF EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND REPLACEMENT WITH A NEW SEPTIC TANK, REED BED AND WETLAND AREA

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2660157

• 10 Jul 2024Unconditional

  (1) CONSTRUCTION OF A POULTRY SHED INCORPORATING A RAINWATER HARVESTING SYSTEM, (2) CONSTRUCTION OF AN EFFLUENT HOLDING TANK AND (3) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Extension of duration · Donegal County Council, 2450176

• 20 Mar 2019Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL SHED WITH NEW SLATTED SLURRY TANK BELOW AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1950373

• 8 Mar 2019Conditional

  (1) CONSTRUCTION OF A POULTRY SHED INCORPORATING A RAINWATER HARVESTING SYSTEM, (2) CONSTRUCTION OF AN EFFLUENT HOLDING TANK AND (3) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1950295

• 17 Nov 2017Conditional

  (1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DERELICT DWELLING HOUSE AND PART OF EXISTING OUT-BUILDING AND (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING HOUSE, SEPTIC TANK/SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1751748

• 6 Mar 2017Conditional

  CHANGE OF HOUSE DESIGN TO THAT GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF NO 09/20557 AND SUBSEQUENT EXTENSION UNDER REF NO 14/51203 TOGETHER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1750319

• 16 Feb 2017N/a

  CHANGE OF HOUSE DESIGN TO THAT GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF NO 09/20557 AND SUBSEQUENT EXTENSION UNDER REF NO 14/51203 TOGETHER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1750216

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 Legaltan.

Recorded monuments

• DG107-110 Megalithic tomb - unclassified
  Description

  This monument stands close to the N shore of Legaltan Lough, 1.5km N of Ballyshannon, and is liable to flooding when the lake rises. The outlook from the site is limited by a gradual rise to the N, by a low ridge just beyond the lake to the S, and by a low drumlin-like hill closeby to the E. The structure is largely collapsed. Only two stones are in their original position, and both are hatched on the plan. The remains are partly enclosed by a low mound, apparently composed of small stones, some or all of which may derive from field clearance. This measures 5m N-S by 4.5m E-W and is c. 0.2m high. The southern one of the two set stones, aligned NW-SE, is gabled in outline and leans north-eastward slightly. This is 1m long, 0.5m thick and 0.55m high. The northern set stone is 1m NNE of the last and almost at right angles to it. It leans considerably to the S, is 1.1m long and 0.5m thick and would stand c. 2m high if upright. Between the set stones and leaning northward against both is a displaced slab measuring 1.8m by 1.1m by 0.4m thick. A slab, at least 2m in maximum dimension, lies prostrate and partly buried beside the W end of the southern set stone. Resting on this, on the set stone at the S and on the stone leaning northward against both set stones is a large slab measuring 2.3m by 1.45m by 0.35m thick. At the N of the mound is another large slab, 2.4m by 2m by 0.35-0.45m thick, which leans against the last. A further slab, 2m by 0.8m by 0.3m thick, lies prostrate at the eastern edge of the mound. The presence of two set stones and the nature and disposition of the other slabs indicate that this was a small megalithic chamber, and it can be interpreted as a portal tomb chamber opening to the NE. In this interpretation the set stone at the S would serve as a backstone, the other set stone as a portal-stone, the prostrate stone at the eastern edge of the mound as a matching portal-stone, the stone leaning northward against the two set stones as one side of the chamber, and the partly buried, prostrate slab at the W end of the southern set stone as the opposite side. The large leaning slab at the N edge of the mound may have served as the chamber roofstone, and the slab against which it now leans may have served as a subsidiary roofstone. The employment of a subsidiary roofstone could be expected given the marked difference in height between the suggested backstone and the two possible portal-stones. Verification of this interpretation would require further investigation, and it is considered prudent, in view of the considerably collapsed state of the monument, to leave it unclassified. Ó Nualláin 1989, 142; RMP 1995, 107:110. 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)

Architectural heritage

• House, 1800–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Pair of semi-detached three-bay single-storey houses with attic level(s), built c. 1820 and extended c. 1900, having four gable-fronted dormer openings/gable-fronted bays to the front elevation (south). Pitched natural slate roofs having raised rendered coping to the gable ends (north and south) and to dormer openings/gable-fronted bays, some surviving metal rainwater goods, and with four rendered chimneystacks (one to either gable end and one to either side of the centre). Roughcast rendered walls with raised rendered block-and-start quoins to the corners of the main elevation (south), smooth rendered walls to the east and west gable ends. Rubble stone construction exposed to part of the rear (north). Square-headed window openings with plain raised smooth rendered surrounds, painted sills with the timber casement windows. Single square-headed window opening to the rear elevation (north) having fixed-pane timber window with coloured glass and with margin glazing bars. Two square-headed door openings with plain raised smooth rendered surrounds, plinth blocks, and replacement timber and glazed timber doors. Set slightly back from road with gravel forecourt to the front site (south). Modern house to the rear (north). Located in the rural countryside to the north of Ballyshannon.

• House, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c. 1800 and extended to the east c. 1880, having projecting enclosed single-bay glazed entrance porch to the front elevation (north), c. 1950, and with single-storey extensions to the west (outbuilding) and east gable ends, and with single-storey rubble stone outbuilding attached to the east end of extension to the east. Pitched straw thatched roof with raised rendered verges to gable ends and with three rendered chimneystacks (one to either gable end and one offset to the east side of centre; corrugated-metal roofs to attached outbuildings/extensions to either end having raised rendered verges to the outer gable ends. Smooth cement rendered walls; rubble stone construction to outbuilding to the extreme east end. Enlarged square-headed window openings to front elevation (north) with replacement timber casement windows. Square-headed door openings to front elevation with timber battened doors (one to east face of porch), and with timber half-door and plinth blocks to the west extension. Set adjacent to road with rear elevation facing road. Set within own grounds in the rural countryside to the north-east of Ballyshannon. Detached two-storey former outbuilding to south-west of property (across lane), now altered, having pitched modern corrugated metal roof, rubble stone walls, and square-headed openings having replacement fittings.

• House, 1837–1857 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c. 1850, having with single-bay single-storey extension to north-east gable end, added c. 1910, and with single-storey extension to the rear (south-east). Currently out of use. Pitched reed thatched roof (recently renewed) having smooth rendered eaves courses, and with raised rendered verges and smooth rendered chimneystacks to either gable end (north-east and south-west); pitched natural slate roof to single-bay extension to the north-east gable end. Roughcast rendered walls with raised render block-and-start quoins to either end of front elevation. Smooth rendered ruled-and-lined walls to extension to the rear (south-east). Square-headed window openings with plain raised rendered surrounds having pointed heads, painted sills, and with two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows. Central square-headed door opening plain raised rendered surrounds having pointed head, painted plinth blocks to base, and with battened timber door. Set slightly back from road with short gravel forecourt to the north. Complex of single-storey outbuildings to the rear (south-east) and to the west having rubble stone walls, pitched corrugated-metal roofs, and square-headed openings with timber fittings. Located in the rural countryside to the north/north-east of Ballyshannon.

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; parts are water.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Legaltan · Lag Ailteáin

Area

1,052,258 m² (105.23 ha, 260.02 acres)

Civil parish

Kilbarron, and its townlands

Barony

Tirhugh

Electoral division

Ballyshannon Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballyshannon Rural electoral division: 1,738 people in 624 households; 80% of households own their home; 37% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 16% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Abbeylands, Cashellackan, Cowpark, Crockacapple, Spaddan, Tirconeen, Tullymore

Placenames

Legaltan 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.