Losset
Townland in the civil parish of Gartan, barony of Kilmacrenan, Co. Donegal; in Irish An Losaid
- Area
- 432.2 ha
- 1,068 acres
- Land parcels
- 78
- registered freehold, median 8,728 m² (0.87 ha, 2.16 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 9
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
78 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Losset, from 138 m² to 417,761 m² (41.78 ha, 103.23 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 19 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 Losset 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
1 Jul 2026Conditional
INSTALLATION OF SEPTIC TANK SYSTEM AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2661219
19 Sept 2022Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, SELF CONTAINED RESIDENTIAL ANNEX AND DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK / SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2251563
18 Dec 2020N/a
ERECTION OF SHEEPWIRE FENCING AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS IN A SPECIAL CONSERVATION AREA. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) ACCOMPANIES THIS APPLICATION
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2051999
19 Oct 2020Refused
ERECTION OF A DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2051540
31 Aug 2020N/a
ERECTION OF A DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2051204
10 Jun 2020N/a
ERECTION OF A DOMESTIC GARAGE AND RELOCATION OF ENTRANCE GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF 17/51260 AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2050749
23 Dec 2019N/a
ERECTION OF SHEEPWIRE FENCING AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS IN A SPECIAL CONSERVATION AREA. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) ACCOMPANIES THIS APPLICATION
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1952036
18 Nov 2019N/a
ERECTION OF SHEEPWIRE FENCING AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS IN A SPECIAL CONSERVATION AREA. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) ACCOMPANIES THIS APPLICATION
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1951781
9 Aug 2017Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1751260
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: Cloghernagore Bog and Glenveagh National Park SAC 002047
- Special Protection Area: Derryveagh And Glendowan Mountains SPA 004039
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Cloghernagore Bog And Glenveagh National Park 002047
Recorded monuments
- DG044-008 Cist
Description
A rectangular cist 1.12m × 0.34m orientated E-W was found here. The floor consisted of a slab-stone as did the side and end walls which were backed by a second slab. The cist had been covered by a slab when found and contained cremated bones. .5m S of the cist but in the cist pit were found sherds of a foodvessel/encrusted urn type vessel. It was located in a sand ridge in poor rocky pasture. (Ó Ríordáin 1960, 9-12). 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
- DG044-013 Hut site
Description
This site, on a narrow, level terrace on a steep W-facing hillside, is a rectangular stone-built structure measuring, internally, 4m N-S by 2-2.5m E-W. Its eastern side is formed by a large erratic stone, 4m long, 1.6m in greatest width and 1.6m high. The other three sides are formed by stones set on edge, the largest 1.9m long and 0.6m high. Grass-grown peat in the interior rises 0.5m above the level of the ground around the structure. The nature of the site is uncertain, but it may have been a hut or shelter and may be of some antiquity. The position of this structure is incorrectly shown on the 1847-9 edition of the OS 6-inch map. On this map the name 'Dermot and Grania's Bed' relates to a point c. 300m N of the correct position. OS documents confirm this error. The SMR (1987) and RMP (1995) for County Donegal have separate entries for the two locations. Fagan 1845-8, book 9, 5; Kinahan 1889, 283; OS 1:2,500 Name Book, sheet 44 (1903), 12; Ó Nualláin 1983a, 48, no. 172; SMR 1987, 44:10, 44:13; RMP 1995, 44:10, 44:13. The above description was published in the 'Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume VI, County Donegal.' Compiled by: Eamon Cody (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). Date of upload: 22 September 2008
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Losset.
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 Losset.
- 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 Losset with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Losset · An Losaid
- Area
- 4,322,184 m² (432.22 ha, 1,068.03 acres)
- Civil parish
- Gartan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kilmacrenan
- Electoral division
- Gartan, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Gartan electoral division: 203 people in 70 households; 83% of households own their home; 35% of homes were built since 2001; 17% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballybuninabber, Gartan Mountain, Kilmore, Loughaskerry, Meenbunone, Whitehill
- Gaeltacht
- In an Irish-speaking area
- Placenames
- Losset 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.