Legland

101 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Legland, from 124 m² to 408,422 m² (40.84 ha, 100.92 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 35 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 Legland 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.

• 29 Jul 2026N/a

  ERECTION OF DWELLING HOUSE AND INSTALLATION OF A SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2661421

• 19 Dec 2025Conditional

  ATTIC DEVELOPMENT IN EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 92/1033

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2550181

• 27 Oct 2021Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2152111

• 11 Nov 2019Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE WITH AN ONSITE WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1951731

• 13 Nov 2017Conditional

  (1) ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING DWELLING EXTENDING TO INTERNAL RECONFIGURATION AND ELEVATIONAL CHANGES (2) TWO STOREY EXTENSION TO SIDE OF EXISTING DWELLING AND (3) DECOMMISSIONING OF EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND INSTALLATION OF NEW ON-SITE WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1751711

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: Lough Swilly SAC 002287
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Swilly Including Big Isle, Blanket Nook & Inch Lake 000166

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Legland.

Architectural heritage

• Saint Catherine's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1790–1795 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding T-plan gable-fronted Catholic Church, dated 1792, having two-bay nave and transepts, six-bay altar wall, and gabled sacristy addition to northeast. Pitched purple slate roof, with ashlar copings, stucco cross finial to gable-front with ashlar pinnacles and crenellated parapet, cast-iron rainwater goods, and with rendered chimneystack to sacristy. Lined-and-ruled rendered walls, with rendered plinth, clasping buttresses to gable-front with raised crenellated parapets and ashlar pinnacles. Stepped buttresses to corresponding locations in altar wall. Pointed-arch window openings with stone sills, timber tracery and cast-iron quarries with crown glass inset. Tudor-arch doorway to gable-front with ashlar sandstone surround and timber battened double-leaf door with overlight. Vestry approached by flight of rendered steps. Date-stone to transept gable inscribed 'St Catherine's R.C. Church 1792' and stone to opposite transept gable inscribed 'D.O.M. Aedificavit RDJ McElwee Anno Domini 1792'. Set at right angle to road, with rubble stone boundary wall to rear, having square-plan rubble stone piers with wrought-iron pedstrian gate. Concrete steps and path leading to sacristy, with low rendered boundary wall to front with replacement metal railings and gates.

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 20 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 Legland.

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

Name

Legland

Area

2,035,084 m² (203.51 ha, 502.88 acres)

Civil parish

Killygarvan, and its townlands

Barony

Kilmacrenan

Electoral division

Killygarvan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Killygarvan electoral division: 120 people in 45 households; 93% of households own their home; 39% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 21% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Drumhallagh Upper, Elly, Glencross, Gortflugh, Keranstown, Kinletteragh, Lugher, Lurganboy, Meenreagh, Oughterlin

Placenames

Legland 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.