Loughsalt

49 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Loughsalt, from 47 m² to 61,011 m² (6.1 ha, 15.08 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 14 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Loughsalt 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.

• 28 Oct 2025Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF GRANNY FLAT EXTENSION WITH GARAGE/STORE OUTHOUSE TO THE NORTH-WEST SIDE OF EXISTING DWELLING WITH ASSOCIATED DRAINAGE AND SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2550148

• 14 Nov 2023Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH PROPRIETARY WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2351727

• 9 Feb 2023N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH PROPRIETARY WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2350146

• 20 Jul 2020Conditional

  (1) DOMESTIC STORAGE SHED/BOAT STORAGE & ACCESS LANE (2) BORED WATER WELL IN LIEU OF MAINS WATER CONNECTION (3) RELOCATION OF SEWERAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM FROM THAT PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF 01/2326 AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2050955

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

Designated sites

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

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Loughsalt.

Architectural heritage

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

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

At the centre of the townland of Loughsalt, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Loughsalt.

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Loughsalt with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Loughsalt · Loch Sálta

Area

581,442 m² (58.14 ha, 143.68 acres)

Civil parish

Templecrone, and its townlands

Barony

Boylagh

Electoral division

Maghery, the unit of the census

Census 2022

754 people lived in 290 households in the Maghery electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 35% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Croaghnamaddy, Meenacloghcor, Meendrain, Tievegarvlagh

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Loughsalt 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.