Lurganboy
Townland in the civil parish of Lower Killybegs, barony of Banagh, Co. Donegal
- Area
- 21.3 ha
- 53 acres
- Land parcels
- 21
- registered freehold, median 5,752 m² (0.58 ha, 1.42 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lurganboy, from 332 m² to 47,134 m² (4.71 ha, 11.65 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 19 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 Lurganboy 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
17 Apr 2019Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DISTILLERY COMPLEX CONSISTING OF THE FOLLOWING: (1) A NEW WHISKEY & GIN DISTILLERY BUILDING WITH VISITOR CENTRE AND ASSOCIATED OFFICES, LABS, BOTTLING HALL, BAR TASTING & SHOP AREAS TOGETHER WITH STAFF FACILITIES, (2) EXTERNAL ESB SUB STATION , (3) EXTERNAL COOLING TOWER AND SILO STORAGE TANKS, (4) A NEW VEHICULAR ENTRANCE WITH ASSOCIATED FILTER LANE OFF THE MAIN COUNTY ROAD, WITH INTERNAL ACCESS ROADS AND INTERNAL FOOTPATHS, CAR PARKING AREAS ETC, (5) COOLING AND SURFACE WATER FIRE RETENTION PONDS WITHIN THE SITE AREA, (6) 4 NO. SEPARATE BARREL STORAGE SHEDS, (7) CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW PEDESTRIAN BRIDGE LINKING THE SITE TO THE ARDARA TOWN CAR PARK WITH ASSOCIATED WALKWAYS FROM BRIDGE TO THE DISTILLERY, (8) REDUCTION OF GROUND LEVEL TO LOWER PART OF SITE BY 1M IN DEPTH, (9) REDUCTION OF GROUND LEVEL ALONG THE NORTHERN BOUNDARY, (10) CONNECTION TO EXISTING PUBLIC FOUL SEWER ON SITE, (11) BORE 4 NO. BORED LINED WATER WELLS, WITH AN ASSOCIATED CONNECTION TO THE EXISTING PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY, (12) ERECTION OF ROAD SIDE SIGNAGE AND ASSOCIATED SIGNAGE TO THE DISTILLERY BUILDINGS AND (13) CONSTRUCTION OF 2M HIGH PERIMETER FENCING TO SECURE SITE. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) WILL FORM PART OF THIS APPLICATION AND IS SUBMIITED TOGETHER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPEMENT & LANDSCAPING WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1950542
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 Lurganboy.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Lurganboy.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Lurganboy.
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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1179 (ZIP).
- 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 Lurganboy with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Lurganboy
- Area
- 213,095 m² (21.31 ha, 52.66 acres)
- Civil parish
- Lower Killybegs, and its townlands
- Barony
- Banagh
- Electoral division
- Ardara, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Ardara electoral division: 1,280 people in 509 households; 65% of households own their home; 39% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 14% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ardara, Doochill North, Monargan Glebe, Stormhill, Woodhill
- Placenames
- Lurganboy 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.