# Lurgy, Co. Donegal: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Leck, barony of Raphoe North, Co. Donegal; in Irish An Lorgaigh. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,121,110 m² (112.11 ha, 277.03 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 33 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 6,183 m² (0.62 ha, 1.53 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 13 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Leck, https://everytownland.com/donegal/parish/leck.md - Barony: Raphoe North - Electoral division: Magheraboy, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 1,719 people lived in 542 households in the Magheraboy electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 37% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Donegal, https://everytownland.com/donegal.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/15626 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 51819 - Centre: latitude 54.922066, longitude -7.681394 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 33 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lurgy, from 284 m² to 330,411 m² (33.04 ha, 81.65 acres); 34 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1344865: 330,411 m² (33.04 ha, 81.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1344865.md - Parcel 1399762: 230,979 m² (23.1 ha, 57.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1399762.md - Parcel 1339860: 89,594 m² (8.96 ha, 22.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1339860.md - Parcel 3657682: 74,579 m² (7.46 ha, 18.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3657682.md - Parcel 1344864: 61,394 m² (6.14 ha, 15.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1344864.md - Parcel 4941573: 52,020 m² (5.2 ha, 12.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4941573.md - Parcel 1317086: 47,120 m² (4.71 ha, 11.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1317086.md - Parcel 3657683: 38,125 m² (3.81 ha, 9.42 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3657683.md - Parcel 3657687: 31,938 m² (3.19 ha, 7.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3657687.md - Parcel 4703205: 24,252 m² (2.43 ha, 5.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4703205.md - Parcel 1315913: 23,371 m² (2.34 ha, 5.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1315913.md - Parcel 4941581: 19,419 m² (1.94 ha, 4.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4941581.md - Parcel 1317087: 16,637 m² (1.66 ha, 4.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1317087.md - Parcel 1344866: 10,364 m² (1.04 ha, 2.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1344866.md - Parcel 4941540: 6,673 m² (0.67 ha, 1.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4941540.md - Parcel 3657677: 6,574 m² (0.66 ha, 1.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3657677.md - Parcel 5229833: 6,183 m² (0.62 ha, 1.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5229833.md - Parcel 2502904: 6,020 m² (0.6 ha, 1.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2502904.md - Parcel 3657680: 5,728 m² (0.57 ha, 1.42 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3657680.md - Parcel 3657684: 4,073 m² (0.41 ha, 1.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3657684.md - Parcel 4703222: 3,895 m² (0.39 ha, 0.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4703222.md - Parcel 3657685: 3,344 m² (0.33 ha, 0.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3657685.md - Parcel 5003357: 3,318 m² (0.33 ha, 0.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5003357.md - Parcel 4857768: 3,150 m² (0.32 ha, 0.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4857768.md - Parcel 4703100: 3,092 m² (0.31 ha, 0.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4703100.md - Parcel 6225716: 3,075 m² (0.31 ha, 0.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6225716.md - Parcel 3657686: 2,910 m² (0.29 ha, 0.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3657686.md - Parcel 1301588: 2,765 m² (0.28 ha, 0.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1301588.md - Parcel 3657681: 2,655 m² (0.27 ha, 0.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3657681.md - Parcel 3657678: 2,636 m² (0.26 ha, 0.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3657678.md - Parcel 3657679: 2,578 m² (0.26 ha, 0.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3657679.md - Parcel 1357631: 1,703 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1357631.md - Parcel 1309870: 284 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1309870.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Lurgy 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) 13 applications, newest first. - 26 May 2026, Donegal County Council 2660949: N/a. Retention. NEW ENTRANCE, ACCESS LANEWAY, CAR PARKING SPACE, 2 NO. SPORTS PLAYING PITCHES, PORTACABIN DRESSING ROOMS, TOILETS AND STORAGE AREA, PORTACABIN TOILET AND STORAGE AREA AND CONNECTION TO SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660949/0 - 12 May 2026, Donegal County Council 2660850: N/a. Retention. NEW ENTRANCE, ACCESS LANEWAY, CAR PARKING SPACE, 2 NO. SPORTS PLAYING PITCHES, PORTACABIN DRESSING ROOMS, TOILETS AND STORAGE AREA, PORTACABIN TOILET AND STORAGE AREA WITH CONNECTION TO SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660850/0 - 2 Nov 2025, Donegal County Council 2561899: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING AND DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH CONNECTION TO PROPOSED TREATMENT PLANT AND POLISHING FILTER, ALONG WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2561899/0 - 2 Jun 2025, Donegal County Council 2560904: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. CONSTRUCTION OF SINGLE STOREY DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE, INSTALLATION OF WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS INCLUDING NEW ENTRANCE ONTO EXISTING LOCAL ROAD. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560904/0 - 8 Mar 2023, Donegal County Council 2350284: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. DEMOLITION OF EXISTING (DEFECTIVE/MICA) DWELLING HOUSE AND RECONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. THE DEVELOPMENT WILL CONSIST OF THE RECONSTRUCTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING HOUSE WITH MINOR ALTERATIONS TO THE ELEVATIONS AND CONNECTION TO THE EXISTING SITE SERVICES. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2350284/0 - 22 Feb 2023, Donegal County Council 2350203: N/a. Permission, 1 home. DEMOLITION OF EXISTING (DEFECTIVE/MICA) DWELLING HOUSE AND RECONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. THE DEVELOPMENT WILL CONSIST OF THE RECONSTRUCTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING HOUSE WITH MINOR ALTERATIONS TO THE ELEVATIONS AND CONNECTION TO THE EXISTING SITE SERVICES. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2350203/0 - 27 Jan 2022, Donegal County Council 2250088: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DEFECTIVE/MICA DWELLING HOUSE AND CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS INCLUDING MINOR ALTERATIONS TO THE ELEVATIONS AND CONNECTION TO THE EXISTING SITE SERVICES. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2250088/0 - 28 Oct 2021, Donegal County Council 2152140: Conditional. Retention, 1 home. DOMESTIC GARAGE AND PERMISSION FOR (1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE & CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2152140/0 - 18 Oct 2021, Donegal County Council 2152058: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. (1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE WITH CONNECTION TO ALL EXISTING SERVICES. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2152058/0 - 18 Dec 2020, Donegal County Council 2051961: Unconditional. Extension of duration. CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW ELECTRICITY OVERHEAD POWER LINE WITH ASSOCIATED POLES, MASTS, UNDERGROUND CABLING, SITE WORKS AND ALL ANCILLARY DEVELOPMENT, FOR A 38KV GRID CONNECTION TO LINK THE CONSENTED LETTERGULL WIND FARM, MOMEEN AND LETTERGULL TOWNLANDS, RAPHOE WITH THE EXISTING LETTERKENNY 110KV SUBSTATION IN LISTILLION TOWNLAND, LETTERKENNY. THE POWER LINE WILL BE APPROXIMATELY 10.16 KILOMETRES LONG. ALL STRUCTURES RANGE IN HEIGHT FROM 12 METRES TO 19 METRES. THE MAJORITY OF THE OVERHEAD LINE STRUCTURES ARE WOODEN POLE SETS; INCLUDING 5 STEEL MAST STRUCTURES. THE ELECTRICITY POWER LINE WILL BE OVERHEAD EXCEPT FOR SHORT SECTIONS ALONG THE FOLLOWING ROAD SECTIONS; N13-8 LISTILLION TOWNLAND (TD.), L-5794-1 LISTILLION TD., L-5634-2 KINCRAIGY TD., L-5644-1 ROOSKEY TD. AND L-5664-1 ROOSKEY TD. WHERE IT IS TO BE LAID UNDERGROUND. THE PROPOSED POWER CABLE WILL TRAVERSE THE FOLLOWING TOWNLANDS (FROM SUBSTATION TO CONSENTED WIND FARM SITE); LISTILLION TD, LURGY TD, KNOCKBRACK TD, AGHLEHARD TD, TREANAVINNY TD, GLENMAQUIN LOWER TD (PART UNDERGROUND) KINCRAIGY TD (PART UNDERGROUND), ROOSKEY TD (PART UNDERGROUND), LISCLAMERTY TD, CARRICKNAMART TD, MONDOOEY UPPER TD, MONDOOEY MIDDLE TD, BALLYHOLEY FAR TD, DRUMATOLAND TD, SHESKINAPOLL TD, CARRICKADAWSON TD, WOODLAND TD AND MOMEEN TD (PART UNDERGROUND). File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2051961/0 - 6 Aug 2020, Donegal County Council 2051075: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY DWELLING HOUSE, DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE/STORE, SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2051075/0 - 13 Jun 2017, Donegal County Council 1750934: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. CHANGE OF HOUSE AND GARAGE DESIGN AND RELOCATION OF GARAGE FROM THAT PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REFERENCE NUMBERS 10/40336, 12/40142 & 15/50789. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1750934/0 - 25 Jan 2017, Donegal County Council 1750082: Unconditional. Extension of duration. ERECTION OF 38kV OVERHEAD LINE FROM EXISTING 110kV SUBSTATION AT LISTILLION, LETTERKENNY CO. DONEGAL TO A NEW LINE TERMINATION MAST. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1750082/0 Applicants are not shown. ## 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 Lurgy. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Lurgy. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Foundry Bridge, bridge, 1850–1870, Regional interest, registry number 40906111, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=DG®no=40906111. Single-arched bridge carrying road over Dooballagh Burn, c. 1860 and possibly containing fabric of earlier bridge to site, c. 1800. Projecting rubble stone piers\buttresses to either side of arch to both the north and south elevations. Segmental-headed arch with roughly dressed and mildly rock-faced stone voussoirs; sprayed concrete lining over rubble stone construction to arch barrel. Squared and rubble stone construction to spandrels and abutments. Rubble stone construction to parapets with rubble stone coping over; modern repairs in places. Rubble stone wing walls to either side. Tarmacadam deck with grass verges. Located in the rural countryside to the south-east of Letterkenny. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Lurgy, 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: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Lurgy. - 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/lurgy.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/donegal/lurgy.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/donegal/lurgy.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Lurgy 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) - Aghlehard: https://everytownland.com/donegal/aghlehard.md - Dooballagh: https://everytownland.com/donegal/dooballagh.md - Knockbrack: https://everytownland.com/donegal/knockbrack-51633.md - Listellian: https://everytownland.com/donegal/listellian.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. --- 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. - Page: https://everytownland.com/donegal/lurgy - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/donegal/lurgy