Doonmorgan
Doonmorgan is a townland in the civil parish of Drumlease, barony of Drumahaire, Co. Leitrim. Its name in Irish is Dún Muireagáin.
- Area
- 34.5 ha
- 85 acres
- Land parcels
- 11
- registered freehold, median 22,729 m² (2.27 ha, 5.62 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Doonmorgan, from 1,386 m² to 115,050 m² (11.5 ha, 28.43 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 11 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Doonmorgan 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
2 Sept 2021Conditional
construct a new walking trail. To upgrade parts of the existing trail. To decommission part of the existing trail and restore it too its natural state. To construct a viewing platform along the trail. To construct a new car parking area. To erect a livestock fencing and signage and all ancillary works. Natura Impact Statement has been prepared in respect of the planning application
Permission · Leitrim County Council, 21174
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Lough Gill SAC 001976
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Gill 001976
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Doonmorgan.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Doonmorgan.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Doonmorgan, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Doonmorgan.
- Flooding
- The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Doonmorgan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Leitrim.
The townland
- Name
- Doonmorgan · Dún Muireagáin
- Area
- 344,908 m² (34.49 ha, 85.23 acres)
- Civil parish
- Drumlease, and its townlands
- Barony
- Drumahaire
- Electoral division
- Sramore, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 406 people lived in 144 households in the Sramore electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 38% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Corrycullen, Lugalustran, Magurk, Moneyduff
- Placenames
- Doonmorgan 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.