Loughultan

36 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Loughultan, from 827 m² to 587,754 m² (58.78 ha, 145.24 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 24 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 Loughultan 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.

• 22 Dec 2017Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF TWO PORTAL FRAMED SHEDS TO INCLUDE (1) THREE BY TWO BAY OPEN FRONT CATTLE SHED, OVER AND INCLUDING UNDERGROUND STORAGE TANK AND (2) THREE BY THREE BAY ENCLOSED SHEEP SHED, OVER AND INCLUDING UNDERGROUND STORAGE TANK, INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1751969

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

Designated sites

• Natural Heritage Area: Lough Fad Bog NHA 001159

Recorded monuments

• DG105-004 Crannog
  Description

  An apparently natural island 29m × 15m in Lough Ultan appears to have some evidence of structural remains on its NNW side. The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated. Date of upload: 22 September 2008

Architectural heritage

• Mountain Lodge, hunting/fishing lodge, 1840–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey with attic level former hunting lodge, built c. 1860. Now in use as a private house/holiday home. Pitched natural slate roof with overhanging eaves having timber brackets, and a central pair of rendered chimneystacks. Smooth rendered ruled-and-lined walls. Square-headed window openings, set in round-headed recesses, having stone sills and replacement window fittings. Central square-headed doorway to the main elevation (south), set in round-headed recess, having timber panelled door with plain overlight. Ashlar stone fireplace to interior with consoles supporting cut stone lintel over. Set well back from road in own grounds on the south slopes of Carrickard Mountain to the north-west of Pettigoe. Long approach avenue to house from the south. Detached two-storey outbuilding to the rear (north) having pitched natural slate roof, rendered rubble stone walls, and square-headed openings with timber fittings. Rubble stone walls to rear (forming courtyard) having roughly squared stone quoins to the corners. Integral segmental-headed doorway to the west side of courtyard.

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 Loughultan.

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

Name

Loughultan

Area

3,219,111 m² (321.91 ha, 795.46 acres)

Civil parish

Templecarn, and its townlands

Barony

Tirhugh

Electoral division

Templecarn, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Templecarn electoral division: 105 people in 46 households; 80% of households own their home; 30% of homes were built since 2001; 26% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Belalt North, Carntressy, Carrickrory, Corlea, Fincashel, Loughfad, Meensheefin

Placenames

Loughultan 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.