Tirloughan

109 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Tirloughan, from 59 m² to 97,341 m² (9.73 ha, 24.05 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 21 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 Tirloughan 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.

• 23 Dec 2024Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF DWELLING WITH ON SITE SEWAGE TREATMENT

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2462177

• 5 Apr 2023Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSIONS TO THE FRONT AND REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2350456

• 23 Sept 2020Conditional

  EXISTING SLAB FOUNDATIONS GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF NO. 06/50180 AND PERMISSION FOR CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK

  Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2051344

• 11 Mar 2020Conditional

  MOBILE HOME AND PERMISSION FOR CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE AND SEPTIC TANK

  Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2050311

• 20 Nov 2019N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC SHED AND SEPTIC TANK

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1951807

• 24 Jun 2019Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, SEPTIC TANK AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1950940

• 4 Sept 2017Conditional

  CHANGE OF USE OF THE REMAINING GROUND FLOOR PORTION, FROM RESIDENTIAL TO A PRE-SCHOOL TO LINK IN WITH A PREVIOUSLY APPROVED APPLICATION, REF: 12/50992

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1751353

• 9 Aug 2017N/a

  CHANGE OF USE OF THE REMAINING PLAYGROUND FLOOR PORTION, FROM RESIDENTIAL TO A PRE-SCHOOL TO LINK IN WITH PREVIOUSLY APPROVED APPLICATION 12/50992

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1751249

• 28 Jun 2017Conditional

  (1) EXTENSION TO THE EAST, WEST & NORTH ELEVATIONS OF THE ORIGINAL DWELLING HOUSE (2) WINDOWS AT FIRST FLOOR LEVEL

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 1751020

• 13 Apr 2017N/a

  EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 1750556

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Mulroy Bay SAC 002159
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Sheephaven 001190

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Tirloughan.

Architectural heritage

• House, 1860–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c. 1880, having central shallow projecting windbreak porch to the front elevation (south). Now no longer occupied. Pitched thatched roof with rendered chimneystacks to the gable ends (east and west), and with projecting stone pegs below eaves to front and rear elevations and metal pegs to the side elevations. Partially rendered random rubble stone walls with remains of lime wash over. Square-headed window openings with stone sills and replacement timber sliding sash windows. Blank elevation to rear (north). Square-headed doorway to the windbreak porch having plinth blocks and replacement battened timber half-doors. Stone step to front door. Located to the north-east of Carrickart a short distance to the east of Gordon’s Strand. Front elevation faces away from road. Complex of single- and two-storey outbuildings to the west. Single-storey outbuilding to the north of complex of outbuildings having pitched corrugated-metal roof, rubble stone walls and square-headed openings with remains of battened timber fittings; partially restored two-storey outbuilding to the south of complex of outbuildings having replacement tiled roof, partially-rebuilt rubble stone walls, external flight of stone steps giving access to doorway at first floor level to the east elevation, and square-headed openings with replacement battened doors.

• Springford, house, 1880–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey\single-storey house with attic level house, built c. 1890, having central gable-fronted two-storey breakfront\projection to the front elevation (north), two-storey return to the rear at the south-east corner, gable-fronted half-dormer openings to the front elevation, and with modern single-storey extensions to rear (south) and to the west side elevation. Hipped natural slate roof to main body of building with two central rendered chimneystacks, and cast-iron rainwater goods; pitched natural slate roof to breakfront and half-dormers. Smooth rendered walls. Square-headed window openings to front (north) elevation having replacement three-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows. Timber casement windows to extensions. Square-headed doorway to the east face of breakfront having timber door with raised and fielded panels and bolection mouldings. Round-headed doorway to the rear. Set back from road in mature grounds with mature trees to the east of Carrickart. Rubble stone boundary walls to site. Single-storey outbuilding to the rear (south) having pitched corrugated-metal roofs, rubble stone walls, and square-headed doorways with timber doors. Gateway to the east of house comprising a pair of rubble stone gate piers (on square-plan) having rendered coping over with ball finials, and metal gates.

• Owenwee Bridge, bridge, 1860–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arched bridge carrying road over Owenwee River, built c. 1865. Segmental-headed arch with roughly dressed stone voussoirs; squared rubble stone construction to arch barrel with projecting cut stone stringcourse at arch-springing point. Randomly rubble stone construction to spandrels and abutments. Rubble stone construction to parapets with rubble stone soldier coursing over; modern cement repairs on places. voussoirs over. Tarmacadam deck with grass verges. Located in the rural countryside to the east\north-east of Carrickart, and to the west of Mulroy House.

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 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

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

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

Name

Tirloughan · Tír Lochán

Area

1,725,634 m² (172.56 ha, 426.41 acres)

Civil parish

Mevagh, and its townlands

Barony

Kilmacrenan

Electoral division

Carrickart, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Carrickart electoral division: 965 people in 353 households; 73% of households own their home; 37% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 40% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghalatty, Carrickart, Gortnabrade, Rawros

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Tirloughan 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.