Loughagannon
Townland in the civil parish of Aghanunshin, barony of Kilmacrenan, Co. Donegal
- Area
- 143.9 ha
- 356 acres
- Land parcels
- 58
- registered freehold, median 4,507 m² (0.45 ha, 1.11 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 17
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
58 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Loughagannon, from 225 m² to 183,734 m² (18.37 ha, 45.4 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 29 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 Loughagannon 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
3 Jun 2026Conditional
INSTALLATION OF A WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA TO SERVICE EXISTING DWELLING INCLUDING ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2661022
16 Apr 2026N/a
ERECTION OF NEW DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE AND INSTALLATION OF SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2660658
25 Mar 2026N/a
ERECTION OF NEW DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2660498
16 Feb 2026Conditional
DWELLING HOUSE WITH DOMESTIC GARAGE AND SEPTIC TANK INCLUDING ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2660209
23 Jun 2025Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2561052
28 May 2025N/a
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2560860
15 Dec 2021Refused
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2152513
10 Feb 2021Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND DOMESTIC GARAGE
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2150205
30 Nov 2020Conditional
(A) CHANGE IN HOUSE TYPE AND THE RELOCATION OF THE DWELLING (B) RELOCATION OF THE SITE ENTRANCE TO THE NORTH WEST CORNER OF THE SITE (C) RELOCATION OF THE SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA. CONNECTION TO ALL SERVICES APPROVED UNDER THE PREVIOUSLY APPROVED PLANNING APPLICATIONS REF: (12/50822 (EXTENDED UNDER APPLICATION REF: 18/50165) AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS AND SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2051812
4 Sept 2020Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE INCORPORATING ANCILLARY ACCOMMODATION AND DETACHED GARAGE WITH EFFLUENT TREATMENT UNIT AND SOIL POLISHING FILTER
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2051240
10 Jan 2020Conditional
REMOVAL OF EXISTING APPROVED BASE AND ERECTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND DOMESTIC GARAGE
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2050017
3 Dec 2019N/a
REMOVAL OF EXISTING BASE OF APPROVED DWELLING AND ERECTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND DOMESTIC GARAGE
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1951874
30 Aug 2019N/a
EXISTING BASE PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER REF:07/50061, COMPLETION OF DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK SYSTEM AND ERECTION OF DOMESTIC GARAGE
Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1951336
26 Jul 2019N/a
COMPLETION OF DWELLING HOUSE PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER REF:07/50061 MAKING USE OF ALREADY CONSTRUCTED BASE ON SITE AND INSTALLATION OF SEPTIC TANK SYSTEM AND ERECTION OF DOMESTIC GARAGE
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1951160
22 Oct 2018Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE, WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1851619
8 Feb 2018Unconditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND SEPTIC TANK WITH A SUITABLE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS
Extension of duration, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1850165
7 Feb 2018Conditional
REMOVAL OF EXISTING BASE OF APPROVED DWELLING AND ERECTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND DOMESTIC GARAGE
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1850175
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 Loughagannon.
Recorded monuments
- DG045-034 Cairn - unclassified
Description
An almost completely heather-covered cairn 10m to 12m across and up to 1m in height. The cairn is marked as a trigonometrical station on the 3rd edition of the OS 6-inch maps but appears to be earlier in date. It is situated on the summit of Carn Hill in rough pasture with extensive views. 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 Loughagannon.
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; parts are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Loughagannon.
- 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 Loughagannon with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Loughagannon
- Area
- 1,439,353 m² (143.94 ha, 355.67 acres)
- Civil parish
- Aghanunshin, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kilmacrenan
- Electoral division
- Castlewray, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Castlewray electoral division: 3,681 people in 1,340 households; 83% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Aghalenty, Ballyboencurragh, Bohirril, Booragh, Fallard or Calhame, Knockybrin, Lisnanees Upper, Newtownfore, Woodland
- Placenames
- Loughagannon 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.