Doobally

46 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Doobally, from 151 m² to 253,335 m² (25.33 ha, 62.6 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 26 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 Doobally 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.

• 16 Jan 2026N/a

  1. Construct a story and a half type domestic dwelling. 2. Construct a domestic garage. 3. Construct a new site entrance. 4. Construct a waste water treatment system to current EPA code of practice, and all ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 2660013

• 14 Jun 2022Conditional

  construct a dwelling house, domestic garage, effluent treatment system with percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 22113

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: Lough Melvin SAC 000428
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Melvin 000428

Recorded monuments

• LE001-035 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  On top of a hillock. Grass-covered oval area (int. dims 34.5m N-S; 26.5m E-W) defined by a drystone wall (Wth 1.25m; max. int. H 1.4m; ext. H 2.05m) with facing-stones and a hedge. There are entrance gaps at NNW (Wth 2.3m) and SE (Wth 2.4m). A bullaun stone (LE001-035002-) and a stone with an inscription (LE001-035003-), which are probably from this monument, are now kept at Tullaghan Roman Catholic church (LE001-063001-; LE001-063002-). The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 September 2008

• LE001-035002 Bullaun stone
  Description

  The inscription (LE001-035003-) and the bullaun stone, known locally as a font, which are now at Tullaghan Roman Catholic church (LE001-063001-), came from a fort in Doobally townland that was called Lisahurman fort, possibly this one. The bullaun stone is a globular sandstone boulder (H 0.52m) which has a flat top (dims 0.58m x 0.54m) with a single basin (diam. 0.35m; D 0.2m). There are traces of pecking in the basin and around the top of the stone. (Ó Gallachair 1958) The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 September 2008

• LE001-035003 Inscribed stone
  Description

  The inscribed stone and the bullaun stone (LE001-063001-), which are now at Tullaghan Roman Catholic church (LE001-063002-), came from a fort in Doobally townland that was called Lisahurman fort, possibly this one. A limestone plaque (dims 1m x 0.34-0.38m) has an incised inscription in Latin commemorating Rev. Eugene Magowan who founded a chapel in 177?. (Ó Gallachair 1958, 28-9) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 11 December, 2015

• LE001-036 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  On top of a steep-sided and prominent drumlin. Grass-covered oval area (int. dims 25.5m NNW-SSE; 19.5m NNE-SSW) defined by a steep stone-covered scarp, except SSE-S where there is a collapsed drystone wall (Wth 3.15m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 1.65-1.9m), with an external berm (Wth 2.5m). The entrance (Wth 1.4m) is at S. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 September 2008

• LE001-037 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  On top of a prominent drumlin. Grass covered oval area (int. dims 27m E-W; 21.5m N-S) defined by an overgrown stone-spread (original Wth 3.15m; int. H 0.25m; ext. H 0.15m), with facing-stones intermittently visible S-NW. The original entrance cannot be identified. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 September 2008

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Doobally.

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 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_1231 (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.

No address of the register names Doobally with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Leitrim.

Name

Doobally · An Dúbaile

Area

1,569,054 m² (156.91 ha, 387.72 acres)

Civil parish

Rossinver, and its townlands

Barony

Rosclogher

Electoral division

Gubacreeny, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Gubacreeny electoral division: 803 people in 316 households; 69% of households own their home; 49% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 18% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Agharroo, Duncarbry, Gargrim, Gubacreeny, Laghta, Magheracar (Co. Donegal), Sheean, Tullaghan

Placenames

Doobally 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.