Lifford Common

88 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lifford Common, from 33 m² to 280,044 m² (28 ha, 69.2 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 63 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 Lifford Common 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.

• 13 Aug 2026N/a

  INSTALLATION OF CHANGING FACILITIES, TOILETS, KITCHEN FACILITIES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Temporary permission · Donegal County Council, 2661509

• 24 Jul 2026N/a

  INSTALLATION OF CHANGING FACILITIES, TOILETS, KITCHEN FACILITIES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Temporary permission · Donegal County Council, 2661379

• 20 Nov 2024Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO THE REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2461887

• 16 Mar 2021Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH CONNECTION TO PUBLIC SEWER TANK ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2150472

• 9 Mar 2021Conditional

  EXISTING GRAVEYARD AND PERMISSION FOR (1) DEVELOPMENT OF ADDITIONAL GRAVEYARD WITH ACCESS ROAD, TURNING CIRCLE AND DISABILTY ACCEESS AND (2) CONSTRUCTION OF DISABLED TOILETS TO THE CHURCH TO REPLACE OBSOLETE TOILETS, INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING SEWAGE SYSTEM

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2150413

• 16 Feb 2021N/a

  EXISTING GRAVEYARD WITH ACCESS ROAD, TURNING CIRCLE AND DISABILITY ACCESS AND PERMISSION FOR (1) DEVELOPMENT OF ADDITIONAL GRAVEYARD WITH ACCESS ROAD, TURNING CIRCLE AND DISABILTY ACCEESS AND (2) CONSTRUCTION OF DISABLED TOILETS TO THE CHURCH TO REPLACE OBSOLETE TOILETS, INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING SEWER SYSTEM

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2150250

• 18 Nov 2019Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE, CONNECTION TO MAIN SERVICES AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1951761

• 15 Jul 2019Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF DISABLED ACCESS TOILET / ASSISTED SHOWER ROOM AND ALL ASSOCIATED ANCILLARY WORKS INCLUDING CONNECTION TO EXISTING SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1951065

• 8 Nov 2017Conditional

  DEVELOPMENT CONSISTING OF (1) (i) THE CREATION OF A NEW VEHICULAR EXIT TO SERVE THE EXISTING SERVICE STATION AND (ii) A SCREEN WALL AND ENHANCED BUFFER TREATMENT ALONG THE SOUTH-EASTERN SITE BOUNDARY (2) RETENTION OF THE SERVICE STATION LAYOUT INCORPORATING (i) AN EXTENDED PAVED AREA (ii) 4 ADDITIONAL PUMP ISLANDS (iii) AMENDED CAR PARKING AND INTERNAL TRAFFIC LANES (iv) CAR WASH FACILITY AND EQUIPMENT STORE (v) A STORAGE SHED (vi) UNDER-GROUND RAIN WATER HARVESTING TANK (vii) CANOPY AND SHOP POSITION (viii) TWO STEEL MESH CONTAINERS AND A SINGLE PLASTIC CONTAINER (ix) A FILLING STATION SIGN AND A (x) KIOSK SERVING THE FORECOURT

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1751690

• 23 Jun 2017Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A 1.5 STOREY DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE/STORE AND NEW ENTRANCE ON TO CROAGHAN HEIGHTS HOUSING ESTATE WITH PROPOSED CONNECTIONS TO PUBLIC SERVICES TOGETHER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1750980

• 22 Feb 2017N/a

  (1) THE CREATION OF A NEW VEHICULAR EXIT TO SERVE THE EXISTING SERVICE STATION, (2) A SCREEN WALL AND ENHANCED BUFFER TREATMENT ALONG THE SOUTH -EASTERN SITE BOUNDARY AND (3) RETENTION OF SERVICE STATION LAYOUT INCORPORATING (A) AN EXTENDED PAVED AREA, (B) 4 ADDITIONAL PUMP ISLANDS, (C) AMENDED CAR PARKING AND INTERNAL TRAFFIC LANES, (D) CAR WASH FACILITY AND EQUIPMENT STORE, (E) A STORAGE SHED, (F) UNDERGROUND RAIN WATER HARVESTING TANK, (G) CANOPY AND SHOP POSITION (H) TWO STEEL MESH CONTAINERS AND A SINGLE PLASTIC CONTAINER AND (I) A FILLING STATION SIGN

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1750249

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 Lifford Common.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Lifford Common.

Architectural heritage

• St. Patrick’s Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1960–1970 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding Catholic church on polygonal cruciform-plan, built 1962-4 and altered 1994, comprising double-height seven-bay hall with canted corner to the east, transepts with canted gables to the north and south, two-storey accommodation\offices to south-west end of transept to the south, detached bell tower (on square-plan) with spire over to the north-east linked to main body of church by covered open walkway, chancel with canted gable to the west, single-storey former baptistery (on heptagonal-plan) attached to the south-east side of nave (now converted for use as confessional boxes), and single-storey single-bay porches to the east faces of transepts. Shallow pitched copper-sheeted or copper-like roofs with roof lantern (on octagonal-plan) to junction of nave and transepts with metal cross finial over; copper-sheeted pyramidal spire to bell tower with metal crucifix finial over. Shallow hipped pinched zinc roof to former baptistery. Roughcast rendered walls. Mosaic panels beneath window openings to the ends of the north south transept and to the east end of nave depicting the four evangelists in Gaelic style, named in Irish, Mata (Matthew), Marc (Mark), Lúcás (Luke), and Eóin (John), each depicted in their traditional zoomorphic symbols of man, lion, ox and eagle, respectively. Plain grey mosaic beneath window opening to the south end of south transept. Shallow pointed or chevron-headed window openings to sides of nave with cement rendered reveals and concrete structures, and containing leaded stained glass windows. Shallow pointed or chevron-headed window openings to ends of transepts and to the nave gable with cement rendered reveals and concrete structures, and containing leaded coloured glass windows. Two stories of shallow pointed or chevron-headed window openings to offices? to the south-west corner of transept to the south with replacement windows. Long narrow square-headed openings to each face of bell tower having louvered fittings. Shallow pointed or chevron-headed doorways (main doorway to the north-east corner at end of walkway) having glazed timber double-doors with decorative frosted panels. Secondary entrance doors to porches to east elevations of transepts, and at south-east corner of nave having glazed timber double-doors. Dual-pitched timber-clad ceiling, raked away from crossing with lantern over, having octagonal crossing lantern over. Interior walls clad in bare rock-faced concrete blockwork except for cream-painted rendered wall at rear of sanctuary (to west). Original timber bench and steel-framed pews throughout. Stations of the Cross to nave walls; Carrara marble monolithic altar stone, Kilkenny limestone altar panels behind and timber crucifix behind altar. Located in the rural countryside to the south-east of Ballindrait and to the north-west of Lifford. Rubble stone bell tower of former parish church to site located in grounds to the west (see 40834004). Modern stone-clad boundary walls and gate piers to the north; tarmacadam car parks to site. Modern graveyard to the south.

• St. Patrick’s Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1820–1865 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding three-stage bell tower (on square-plan), erected c. 1828 or c. 1860, formerly part of Catholic church to site (now demolished c. 1965). Stepped crenellated rubble stone parapet having cut stone coping and central cut stone cross finials over, ashlar pyramid pinnacles to corners, ashlar stone stringcourse to base of parapet, and with cast-iron downpipes. Random rubble stone walls with cut stone stringcourse delineating stages. Pointed-arch window openings having slightly raised tooled ashlar surround, stone sills and metal or timber louvers. Pointed-arched doorway to front face (west) having tooled ashlar surround, and modern metal-sheeting. Set back from road in grounds shared with St. Patrick's church (see 40834003) to the east. Tower enclosed by low rubble stone walls. Located to the south-east of Ballindrait and to the north-west of Lifford.

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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1959 (ZIP).

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

Name

Lifford Common

Area

1,115,672 m² (111.57 ha, 275.69 acres)

Civil parish

Clonleigh, and its townlands

Barony

Raphoe North

Electoral division

Clonleigh South, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Clonleigh South electoral division: 2,156 people in 853 households; 64% of households own their home; 32% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynabreen, Carricknaslate, Drumboy, Lifford, Lifford Bog, Murlough, Rossgeir, Townparks

Placenames

Lifford Common 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.