Tawnasligo
Townland in the civil parish of Upper Killybegs, barony of Banagh, Co. Donegal
- Area
- 40.3 ha
- 100 acres
- Land parcels
- 36
- registered freehold, median 4,076 m² (0.41 ha, 1.01 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 8
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
36 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Tawnasligo, from 402 m² to 59,400 m² (5.94 ha, 14.68 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 10 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 Tawnasligo 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
14 May 2026Conditional
INTERNAL ALTERATIONS AND ELEVATIONAL CHANGES INCLUDING ROOF MODIFICATIONS WITH CONNECTION TO ALL EXISTING SITE SERVICES
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2660871
3 Dec 2025Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSION TO THE FRONT OF HOUSE AND DETACHED SHED TO THE REAR OF HOUSE AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2562129
30 Jun 2021Unconditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A PART ONE STOREY PART ONE AND A HALF STOREY DWELLING HOUSE, A DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE, PROVISION OF EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH PERCOLATION AREA, PROVISION OF ACCESS ROAD AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Extension of duration · Donegal County Council, 2151291
24 Jul 2019Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF NEW DWELLING HOUSE, PROPRIATORY WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Outline permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1951132
21 Nov 2018N/a
CONSTRUCTION OF NEW DWELLING HOUSE, PROPRIETORY WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PEROCLATION AREA AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Outline permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1851780
8 Aug 2017Conditional
DOMESTIC GARAGE
Retention · Donegal County Council, 1751238
7 Jul 2017N/a
DOMESTIC GARAGE
Retention · Donegal County Council, 1751071
19 Jun 2017N/a
DOMESTIC GARAGE
Retention · Donegal County Council, 1750944
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 Tawnasligo.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Tawnasligo.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Tawnasligo.
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 5 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.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1158 (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 Tawnasligo with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Tawnasligo
- Area
- 403,125 m² (40.31 ha, 99.61 acres)
- Civil parish
- Upper Killybegs, and its townlands
- Barony
- Banagh
- Electoral division
- Killybegs, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Killybegs electoral division: 2,333 people in 880 households; 76% of households own their home; 25% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyloughan, Binroe, Carn Beg Glebe
- Placenames
- Tawnasligo 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.