Legnahoory
Townland in the civil parish of Kilmacrenan, barony of Kilmacrenan, Co. Donegal; in Irish Lag na hÚraí
- Area
- 294 ha
- 726 acres
- Land parcels
- 162
- registered freehold, median 3,774 m² (0.38 ha, 0.93 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 45
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
162 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Legnahoory, from 0 m² to 151,047 m² (15.1 ha, 37.32 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 39 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 Legnahoory 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
13 Aug 2026N/a
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH INTEGRATED DOUBLE GARAGE, CONNECTION TO A SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT AND PERCOLATION AREA, AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS AND SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2661508
15 Jul 2026Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY DWELLING, ACCESSED VIA EXISTING LANEWAY WITH NEW SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2661307
29 Jun 2026Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2661199
29 May 2026Conditional
(1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING STONE OUTBUILDING AND PARTIAL STABLE BUILDING, (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW ONE AND A HALF STOREY EXTENSION WITH SINGLE STOREY FLAT ROOF LINK TO REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING AND (3) DECOMMISSIONING OF EXISTING SEPTIC TANK SYSTEM AND INSTALLATION OF A NEW SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2660991
17 Feb 2026Refused
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2660226
14 Oct 2025Unconditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM
Extension of duration, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2550140
7 Jul 2025Conditional
RETENTION AND COMPLETION OF A DWELLING HOUSE UNDER CONSTRUCTION WITH CONNECTION TO AN APPROVED SEPTIC TANK, INCLUDING ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2561157
27 May 2025Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2560863
27 Apr 2025Conditional
RENOVATION, REFURBISHMENT AND CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSION TO EXISTING CHALET BUILDING ON SITE TO FORM HABITABLE DWELLING HOUSE AND CONNECTION TO EXISTING SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT, (2) INCREASING AND RAISING THE RIDGE HEIGHT OF THE BUILDING AND (3) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DEMOUNTABLE STEEL TECH SHED
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2560655
26 Jun 2024Conditional
DRY BED OPEN SIDED SHED, THE LAYING OF CONCRETE TO FORM A YARD AREA AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2460971
19 Jun 2024Conditional
(1) RELOCATION OF APPROVED DWELLING HOUSE AND TREATMENT PLANT GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 19/51756 AND (2) ERECTION OF A DOMESTIC GARAGE INCLUDING ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2460924
20 May 2024Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF DOMESTIC DWELLING AND DOMESTIC GARAGE, INSTALLATION OF ON-SITE WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2450135
25 Mar 2024Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO EXISTING SHED TO PROVIDE AN AGRICULTURAL STORAGE SHED AND ALL ANCILLARY SITEWORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2460392
9 Feb 2024Conditional
(1) DEMOLITION OF ELEMENTS OF THE EXISTING DWELLING AND EXISTING OUTBUILDINGS, (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO THE EXISTING DWELLING, ASSOCIATED INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL ALTERATION WORKS TO THE EXISTING DWELLING, A NEW WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND GRAVITY FED POLISHING FILTER TOGETHER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2460130
31 Mar 2023Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH CONNECTION TO PROPOSED TREATMENT SYSTEM AND POLISHING FILTERS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2350424
17 Feb 2022Conditional
ERECTION OF DWELLING HOUSE WITH WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM INCLUDING ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2250269
17 Dec 2021N/a
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2152548
22 Sept 2021Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM INCLUDING A DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2151891
13 Aug 2021Conditional
CHANGE OF HOUSE TYPE PREVIOUSLY APPROVED UNDER PLANNING REF: 21/50420
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2151631
28 Jul 2021N/a
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND DOMESTIC GARAGE INCLUDING ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2151505
24 Jun 2021Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2151255
13 May 2021Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH ONSITE SEWAGE TREATMENT & GARAGE. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT ACCOMPANIES THIS APPLICATION
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2150909
21 Apr 2021N/a
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH ONSITE SEWAGE TREATMENT & DETACHED GARAGE
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2150718
22 Mar 2021Conditional
ERECTION OF A DOMESTIC STORAGE SHED
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2150489
8 Mar 2021Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2150420
The 25 most recent of 45 applications.
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: Leannan River SAC 002176
Recorded monuments
- DG045-017 Bullaun stone
Description
Three apparently artificial depressions occur on rock outcrop here. (i) a circular depression .21m in diameter and up to .09m deep. (ii) 2m to the E is a flat-bottomed circular depression .22m in diameter and 0.03m in depth. (iii) 20m to the E is another flat-bottomed circular depression .21m in diameter and 0.02m in depth. There is much furze-covered rock outcrop here on which other similar features might be found. The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated. Date of upload: 22 September 2008
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Legnahoory.
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 10 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 Legnahoory.
- 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
- Legnahoory, Kilmacrennan7 sales
The townland
- Name
- Legnahoory · Lag na hÚraí
- Area
- 2,939,529 m² (293.95 ha, 726.37 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilmacrenan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kilmacrenan
- Electoral division
- Edenacarnan, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Edenacarnan electoral division: 1,824 people in 586 households; 69% of households own their home; 70% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cloghroe, Cottian, Dromore, Edenacarnan North, Garrowcarry, Gortalaban, Keenaghan, Kilmacrenan, Massreagh, Rathdonnell
- Placenames
- Legnahoory 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.