Loughmuilt
Townland in the civil parish of Killaghtee, barony of Banagh, Co. Donegal; in Irish Loch Moilt
- Area
- 189.2 ha
- 467 acres
- Land parcels
- 43
- registered freehold, median 20,917 m² (2.09 ha, 5.17 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
43 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Loughmuilt, from 255 m² to 198,077 m² (19.81 ha, 48.95 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 23 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 Loughmuilt 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
24 Jun 2025Conditional
ATTACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE AND PLANT ROOM AT BASEMENT LEVEL TO THE REAR OF THE EXISTING HOUSE AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2561058
15 Apr 2024Conditional
(1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND DECOMMISSIONING OF EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEWERAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2460511
7 Jun 2022Refused
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2250973
4 Dec 2019Conditional
ERECTION OF A SINGLE STOREY SIDE EXTENSION TO AN EXISTING DWELLING AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1951889
31 Jul 2019Conditional
RENOVATION AND EXTENSION TO EXISTING WALL STEADS TO PROVIDE NEW DWELLING WITH NEW SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND RENOVATION/RE-ROOFING OF ADJOINING WALL STEADS TO PROVIDE DOMESTIC SHED WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1951188
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 Loughmuilt.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Loughmuilt.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Loughmuilt.
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 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 Loughmuilt.
- 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 Loughmuilt with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Loughmuilt · Loch Moilt
- Area
- 1,891,567 m² (189.16 ha, 467.42 acres)
- Civil parish
- Killaghtee, and its townlands
- Barony
- Banagh
- Electoral division
- Dunkineely, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Dunkineely electoral division: 904 people in 351 households; 73% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 20% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Balwoges, Calhame, Casheltown, Gilbertstown, Urbal
- Placenames
- Loughmuilt 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.