Listannagh
Listannagh is a townland in the civil parish of Taughboyne, barony of Raphoe North, Co. Donegal.
- Area
- 40.9 ha
- 101 acres
- Land parcels
- 9
- registered freehold, median 4,213 m² (0.42 ha, 1.04 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Listannagh, from 478 m² to 186,315 m² (18.63 ha, 46.04 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 14 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Listannagh 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
27 Jul 2026Refused
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS WITH CONNECTION TO SEPTIC TANK & PERCOLATION AREA
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2661391
27 Jul 2026Refused
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS WITH CONNECTION TO SEPTIC TANK & PERCOLATION AREA
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2661402
6 May 2026Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY STORAGE SHED AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2660806
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Listannagh.
Recorded monuments
- DG062-025 Souterrain
Description
No trace of any monument survives now. Old reports (NMI) indicate a souterrain. It was situated at a slight platform in a slope to the S with good views. The land around is good. 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
- Ballylennon Presbyterian Church, church/chapel, 1820–1840 · Regional interest
Description
Freestanding five-bay single-storey Presbyterian church, dated 1831 and refurbished c. 1990. Pitched natural purple slate roof with projecting eaves course, raised ashlar copings to gable ends (north and south), stone or clay ridge tiles, and with cast-iron rainwater goods. Painted roughcast rendered walls with raised smooth rendered block-and-start quoins to the corners. Cut stone date stone (on rectangular plan with raised surround) to the north elevation over doorway reading ‘A.D. 1831’. Pointed-arched window openings having raised smooth rendered surrounds, concrete sills, replacement timber Y-tracery windows with leaded coloured glass, and with moulded rendered hoodmouldings over. Leaded stained glass windows to openings to the south gable end. Central round-headed door opening to the north elevation having moulded smooth render architraved surround, plinth blocks to base, replacement timber panelled door, and with spoked fanlight over. Set back from road in own grounds to the north-east of Raphoe and to the north of Ballindrait. Detached three-bay single-storey former Sunday school adjacent to the north-east having pitched artificial slate roof, roughcast rendered walls, square-headed window openings with replacement timber casement windows, and square-headed doorways with replacement timber doors. Graveyard to south and west containing gravemarkers of mainly twentieth century date. Roughcast rendered boundary walls to site; roughcast rendered boundary walls to road-frontage to the north having smooth rendered piers (on square-plan), and with decorative cast-iron railings over. Gateway to the north of site comprising a pair of smooth rendered gate piers (on square-plan) having wrought-iron gates with spear finials over.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Listannagh, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1925 (ZIP).
- Flooding
- The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Listannagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Listannagh
- Area
- 408,766 m² (40.88 ha, 101.01 acres)
- Civil parish
- Taughboyne, and its townlands
- Barony
- Raphoe North
- Electoral division
- Feddyglass, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 456 people lived in 164 households in the Feddyglass electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyboe, Ballylennan, Creaghadoos, Drumleene
- Placenames
- Listannagh 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.