# Loughnakey, Co. Donegal: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Tullyfern, barony of Kilmacrenan, Co. Donegal.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 438,509 m² (43.85 ha, 108.36 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 4,056 m² (0.41 ha, 1 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 6 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Tullyfern, https://everytownland.com/donegal/parish/tullyfern.md
- Barony: Kilmacrenan
- Electoral division: Glenalla, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Glenalla electoral division: 530 people in 178 households; 92% of households own their home; 45% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.
- County: Co. Donegal, https://everytownland.com/donegal.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/15865
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 51797
- Centre: latitude 55.073802, longitude -7.684686 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Loughnakey, from 74 m² to 234,211 m² (23.42 ha, 57.87 acres); 23 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 1395525: 234,211 m² (23.42 ha, 57.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1395525.md
- Parcel 1419470: 64,312 m² (6.43 ha, 15.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1419470.md
- Parcel 1352652: 52,833 m² (5.28 ha, 13.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1352652.md
- Parcel 1384699: 27,091 m² (2.71 ha, 6.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1384699.md
- Parcel 1394112: 16,043 m² (1.6 ha, 3.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1394112.md
- Parcel 1315354: 8,112 m² (0.81 ha, 2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1315354.md
- Parcel 1426891: 4,056 m² (0.41 ha, 1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1426891.md
- Parcel 1369441: 2,636 m² (0.26 ha, 0.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1369441.md
- Parcel 5633121: 2,495 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5633121.md
- Parcel 1419808: 1,121 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1419808.md
- Parcel 1372173: 866 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1372173.md
- Parcel 3663984: 661 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3663984.md
- Parcel 3663985: 74 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3663985.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

No zone of a development plan covers Loughnakey in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.

## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)

6 applications, newest first.

- 29 Jan 2025, Donegal County Council 2560096: N/a. Permission. ERECTION OF 2 NO. APARTMENTS TO FIRST FLOOR OF EXISTING TWO STOREY RETAIL SHOP BUILDING AND CONNECTION TO MAIN PUBLIC SEWER. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560096/0
- 26 Jun 2024, Donegal County Council 2460969: Conditional. Permission. CONSTRUCTION OF OFF LICENCE AREA WITHIN AND TO THE REAR OF EXISTING BLANEY STORES BUILDING AND EXTENSION OF EXISTING CAR PARK AREA TO THE SIDE AND REAR OF EXISTING PREMISES. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460969/0
- 17 Apr 2024, Donegal County Council 2460537: Conditional. Retention. (1) EXISTING OFFICE BUILDING, (2) EXISTING WORKSHOP & STORAGE BUILDINGS, (3) EXISTING CANOPY OVER YARD, (4) EXISTING STORAGE & STAFF FACILITIES AT FIRST FLOOR LEVEL AND PERMISSION FOR (1) DECOMMISSIONING OF EXISTING SEPTIC TANK & PERCOLATION AREA, AND (2) INSTALLATION OF NEW FOUL SEWER PUMPING CHAMBER WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING TREATMENT SYSTEM. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460537/0
- 23 Feb 2022, Donegal County Council 2250311: Conditional. Permission, 20 homes. COMPLETION OF DEVELOPMENT PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REFERENCE NO: 07/50145 AND ALTERATION OF CONDITION NO. 2 OF THE ABOVE GRANTED PERMISSION TO PERMIT THE HOUSES TO BE USED AS PRIVATE RESIDENCES. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2250311/0
- 25 Aug 2020, Donegal County Council 2051157: Conditional. Permission. 1)CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT (WWTP) IN THE TOWNLAND OF TIRRODDY WITH ASSOCIATED AND ANCILLARY DEVELOPMENT WORKS INCLUDING INTERNAL ACCESS ROAD, INLET WORKS, WWTP PROCESS TANKS, SLUDGE STORAGE TANKS, CHEMICAL STORAGE TANKS, ANCILLARY TREATMENT UNITS, ADMINISTRATION & ESB SUB-STATION BUILDING, SLUDGE PRESS BUILDING, INTERNAL PUMPING STATIONS, SURFACE WATER ATTENUATION POND, 2.4M HIGH BOUNDARY FENCE AROUND THE PERIMITER OF THE WWTP WORKS, 1.2M FENCING AROUND THE SITE BOUNDARY, ENTRANCE VIA AN EXISTING COILLTE ROADWAY AND ENTRANCE ONTO L-5612-1 AND WIDENING AND STRENGHTENING OF L-5612-1 2)CONSTRUCTION OF APPROXIMATELY 1,590M OF TREATED EFFLUENT OUTFALL PIPELINE IN THE TOWNLANDS OF TIRRODDY AND BROWNKNOE, INCLUDING APPROXIMATELY 160M MARINE SECTION & OUTFALL DIFFUSER LOCATED IN LOUGH SWILLY3) CONSTRUCTION OF 1 NO. MAIN WASTEWATER PUMPING STATION AT RAMELTON IN THE TOWNLAND OF RAMELTON INCLUDING ALL ANCILLARY DEVELOPMENT WORKS, DEMOLITION OF EXISTING SINGLE-STOREY BUILDING, FLOOD PROTECTION MEASURES, BELOW GROUND STORAGE TANK & STRUCTURES, PUMP HOUSE BUILDING, ESB SUB-STATION UNIT, RUBBLE STONE PERIMITER WALLS, NEW ENTRANCE ONTO CASTLE STREET, RECONSTRUCTION OF AN EXISTING STONE BOUNDARY WALL APPROXIMATELY 15M LONG ALONg CASTLE STREET AND CONNECTION TO EXISTING STORM OUTFALLS 4)CONSTRUCTION OF 1 NO. MAIN WASTEWATER PUMPING STATION AT RATHMULLAN IN THE TOWNLAND OF RATHMULLAN & BALLYBOE INCLUDING ALL ANCILLARY DEVELOPMENT WORKS, FLOOD PROTECTION MEASURES, BELOW GROUND STORAGE TANK & STRUCTURES, PUMP HOUSE BUILDING, RUBBLE STONE PERIMETER WALLS, ESB SUB-STATION UNIT, DEMOLITION OF AN EXISTING SUBTERRANEAN MUNICIPAL SEPTIC TANK, NEW TURNING HAMMERHEAD AT THE END OF THE EXISTING TURNING CIRCLE AT ABBEY VIEW ESTATE, NEW ENTRANCE TO ABBEY VIEW ESTATE, TEMPORARY WORKING AREA DURING CONSTRUCTION AND CONNECTION TO EXISTING STORM OUTFALLS 5)CONSTRUCTION OF 1 NO. NETWORK WASTEWATER PUMPING STATION AT RATHMULLAN IN THE TOWNLAND OF RATHMULLAN & BALLYBOE INCLUDING ALL ANCILLARY DEVELOPMENT WORKS, FLOOD PROTECTION MEASURES, BELOW GROUND PUMPING STATION, STORAGE TANK & STRUCTURES, LOW-LEVEL CONTROL KIOSK, 7.6M HIGH ORNATE VENTILATION STACK, RUBBLE STONE PERIMETER WALLS, DEMOLITION OF AN EXISTING SUBTERRANEAN MUNICIPAL SEPTIC TANK, NEW ENTRANCE ONTO MAIN STREET, TEMPORARY WORKING AREA DURING CONSTRUCTION, TEMPORARY ENTRANCE ONTO MAIN STREET DURING CONSTRUCTION, RELOCATION AND UPGRADING OF EXISTING STORM DRAIN AND CONNECTION TO EXISTING STORM OUTFALL....... File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2051157/0
- 2 Oct 2019, Donegal County Council 1951483: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. CONSTRUCTION OF NEW DWELLING HOUSE & DOMESTIC GARAGE & INSTALLATION OF NEW ON-SITE SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1951483/0

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## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Loughnakey.

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- DG036-019: Megalithic tomb - court tomb, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDG036-019----. This monument is not shown on any edition of the OS 6-inch map. It stands on a gentle slope in low-lying wettish pasture overlooking Lough Nakey just under 200m to the SW. The tomb consists of the remains of a gallery, 11m in overall length, opening to the SSW. It lacks a court, and its W side has been almost entirely removed. Its E side is incorporated in a field wall. At the SSW two transversely set stones only 0.2m apart seem to function as entrance jambs. The western one is 1.4m in maximum height. Its inner half, i.e. that part toward the eastern jamb, dips sharply to around half that height. The top of the eastern jamb is c. 0.3m below that of the western; it is lm high. Beside the E end of this is a large slab measuring 1.3m by 0.45m by 0.45m high. This is not in situ. A second displaced slab, now partly buried, lies immediately S of the western jamb and measures 1.35m by 0.8m by 0.4m thick. There is a well immediately in front of this stone. Approximately 2.3m N of the eastern jamb is the southernmost of the six orthostats that remain of the E side of the gallery. This stone and the next but one are set transversely to the line of the gallery, and one or both may have served to divide it. If both functioned in this way, it would indicate an unusually short chamber. The southernmost orthostat is 0.75m high. A displaced slab at its W end measures lm by 0.55m. The second orthostat is 0.4m high. The third is 0.6m high. The fourth orthostat, a large slab, is 0.7m high. The fifth, the outer face of which is obscured, is 0.5m high. This and the fourth orthostat support a corbel measuring 1.6m by 1.1m by 0.3m thick. The northernmost sidestone, flat topped, is 0.4m high. The adjacent backstone, its inner face in line with the outer end of this, is 1.1m high. It narrows from the base to a more or less flat top. Kinahan 1889, 281; Borlase 1897, 233, Kilmacrenan no. 20; Killanin and Duignan 1962, 373; Killanin and Duignan 1967, 374; Ó Nualláin 1983a, 24 (plan); SMR 1987, 36:19; Ó Nualláin 1989, 117; RMP 1995, 36:19. 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 See linked document with details from Eamon Cody, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume VI. County Donegal. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002)

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).

## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage)

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

## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland)

- Radon: About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887
- 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 Loughnakey.
- Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use.

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.

## Downloads

- DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/donegal/loughnakey.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/donegal/loughnakey.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/donegal/loughnakey.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Loughnakey with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal: https://everytownland.com/donegal.md

## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann)

- Forquar: https://everytownland.com/donegal/forquar.md
- Glenkeen: https://everytownland.com/donegal/glenkeen.md
- Legmuckduff: https://everytownland.com/donegal/legmuckduff.md
- Magheradrumman: https://everytownland.com/donegal/magheradrumman-51841.md
- Moyle: https://everytownland.com/donegal/moyle-52091.md
- Oghill: https://everytownland.com/donegal/oghill.md

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.

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Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation.

Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged.

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