Loughderryduff
Townland in the civil parish of Inishkeel, barony of Boylagh, Co. Donegal
- Area
- 243 ha
- 601 acres
- Land parcels
- 3
- registered freehold, median 3,660 m² (0.37 ha, 0.9 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
3 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Loughderryduff, from 3,036 m² (0.3 ha, 0.75 acres) to 2,420,354 m² (242.04 ha, 598.08 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 14 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 Loughderryduff 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
19 Aug 2022Refused
A TEN YEAR PLANNING PERMISSION FOR A RENEWABLE ENERGY DEVELOPMENT WITH A 40-YEAR OPERATIONAL LIFE FROM THE DATE OF COMMISSIONING. THE DEVELOPMENT WILL CONSISTS OF (1) CONSTRUCTION OF 3 WIND TURBINE GENERATORS AND ASSOCIATED HARDSTANDS AREAS WITHIN THE FOLLOWING PARAMETERS (A) A TOTAL TIP HEIGHT IN THE RANGE OF 145 METRES MINIMUM TO 150 METRES MAXIMUM (B) HUB HEIGHT IN THE RANGE OF 82 METRES MINIMUM TO 87 METRES MAXIMUM (C) ROTOR DIAMETER IN THE RANGE OF 121 METRES MINIMUM TO 126 METRES MAXIMUM (2) UPGRADING OF EXISTING SITE ACCESS TRACKS AND ROADS AND PROVISION OF NEW SITE ACCESS TRACK AND ROADS (3) WIDENING OF 3 NO. EXISTING SITE ENTRANCES AND PROVISION OF A NEW SITE ENTRANCE (4) WIDENING OF 4 NO. BENDS AND 1 NO. JUNCTION ALONG THE PUBLIC ROAD L2563 (5) CONSTRUCTION OF (A) A CONTROL BUILDING / SUBSTATION WITH A FENCED COMPOUND PREVIOUSLY PERMITTED UNDER PLANNING REFERENCE 14/50553 AND EXTENDED UNDER PLANNING APPLICATION REFERENCE 19/51227 (B) A NEW TEMPORARY SITE COMPOUND FOR USE DURING CONSTRUCTION (6) SITE DRAINAGE NETWORK (7) INSTALLATION OF INTERNAL WIND FARM UNDERGROUND POWER AND COMMUNICATIONS CABLING (7) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT AND ANCILLARY WORKS. A ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ACCESSMENT REPORT (EIAR) AND NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT ACCOMPANY THIS APPLICATION
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2251393
12 Aug 2019Unconditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A CONTROL BUILDING/SUB STATION WITH FENCED COMPOUND AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AT THE EXISTING WIND FARM SITE
Extension of duration · Donegal County Council, 1951227
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: West of Ardara/Maas Road SAC 000197
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: West Of Ardara/Maas Road 000197
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Loughderryduff.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Loughderryduff.
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 20 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; parts are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Loughderryduff.
- 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 Loughderryduff with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Loughderryduff
- Area
- 2,430,184 m² (243.02 ha, 600.51 acres)
- Civil parish
- Inishkeel, and its townlands
- Barony
- Boylagh
- Electoral division
- Maas, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Maas electoral division: 272 people in 104 households; 86% of households own their home; 28% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 39% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyiriston, Lackaghatermon, Loughfad, Maas, Tully Beg
- Placenames
- Loughderryduff 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.