Leghawny
Townland in the civil parish of Donegal, barony of Tirhugh, Co. Donegal
- Area
- 258.3 ha
- 638 acres
- Land parcels
- 68
- registered freehold, median 4,081 m² (0.41 ha, 1.01 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
68 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Leghawny, from 71 m² to 419,309 m² (41.93 ha, 103.61 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Leghawny 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
19 Jun 2025Conditional
(1) REFURBISHMENT AND CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSION TO EXISTING VACANT DWELLING HOUSE, INCLUDING A LINK TO AN ADJACENT AGRICULTURAL BUILDING, (2) CHANGE OF USE OF SAID AGRICULTURAL OUTBUILDING TO A DOMESTIC LIVING AREA AND (3) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND CONNECTION TO ALL EXISTING SERVICES
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2561033
5 Jun 2025N/a
(1) REFURBISHMENT OF AN EXISTING DERELICT DWELLING HOUSE, INCLUDING A LINK TO AN ADJACENT AGRICULTURAL BUILDING AND (2) CHANGE OF USE OF SAID AGRICULTURAL OUTBUILDING TO A DOMESTIC LIVING AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2560934
28 Apr 2025Conditional
(1) ALTERATIONS, RENOVATIONS AND EXTENSION TO DWELLING HOUSE, (2) CHANGE OF USE OF ROOF SPACE TO HABITABLE SPACE, (3) OUTBUILDINGS AND (4) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2560661
8 Apr 2024Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK/SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2460469
4 Oct 2022Conditional
ENTRANCE PORCH TO THE FRONT OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2251650
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: Lough Eske and Ardnamona Wood SAC 000163
- Natural Heritage Area: Barnesmore Bog NHA 002375
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Leghawny.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Leghawny.
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
- 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.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Leghawny.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Leghawny with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Leghawny
- Area
- 2,583,300 m² (258.33 ha, 638.35 acres)
- Civil parish
- Donegal, and its townlands
- Barony
- Tirhugh
- Electoral division
- Tullynaught, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Tullynaught electoral division: 657 people in 206 households; 90% of households own their home; 36% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 9% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Aghlem, Clogher, Drumadoney, Finnadoos, Straness
- Placenames
- Leghawny 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.