Lougherrig

11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lougherrig, from 884 m² to 1,430,979 m² (143.1 ha, 353.6 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 16 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 Lougherrig 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.

• 21 Feb 2025Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSIONS AND ALTERATIONS TO AN EXISTING SINGLE STOREY DERELICT DWELLING HOUSE TO CREATE A NEW PART SINGLE STOREY, PART SINGLE STOREY PLUS ATTIC LEVEL DWELLING HOUSE ALONG WITH INSTALLATION OF A NEW ON SITE WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM, ALTERATIONS TO THE EXISTING SITE ENTRANCE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND LANDSCAPING

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2560233

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Natural Heritage Area: Meenmore West Bog NHA 002453

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Lougherrig.

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Lougherrig.

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 20 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 Lougherrig.

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

Name

Lougherrig · Loch Eirg

Area

3,256,663 m² (325.67 ha, 804.74 acres)

Civil parish

Inishkeel, and its townlands

Barony

Boylagh

Electoral division

Glenleheen, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Glenleheen electoral division: 156 people in 57 households; 84% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 25% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 24% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Beaghmore, Clogherachullion, Cloghercor, Currynanerriagh, Meenmore West, Shallogan More

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Lougherrig 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.