Largydonnell
Townland in the civil parish of Rossinver, barony of Rosclogher, Co. Leitrim; in Irish Learga Uí Dhónaill
- Area
- 288.6 ha
- 713 acres
- Land parcels
- 43
- registered freehold, median 16,451 m² (1.65 ha, 4.07 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
43 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Largydonnell, from 150 m² to 1,365,174 m² (136.52 ha, 337.34 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 45 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 Largydonnell 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
5 May 2026N/a
retention of ancillary guest accommodation (for short term rental) as constructed to rear of existing dwelling
Retention · Leitrim County Council, 2660113
25 Jul 2022Conditional
construction of new dwelling house with proprietary effluent treatment system and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 22148
7 Jan 2021Conditional
development consisting of the construction of a two storey detached private dwelling house and detached private garage, sewerage treatment unit and percolation area, access road way with access onto public road and all associated site development works
Permission, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 212
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: Arroo Mountain SAC 001403
- Special Protection Area: Sligo/Leitrim Uplands SPA 004187
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Arroo Mountain 001403
Recorded monuments
- LE004-001 Megalithic tomb - unclassified
Description
In rough pasture at the S edge of an E-W ravine that opens into a broader SSE-NNW ravine c. 45m to the W. A single chamber (dims c. 2m E-W; c. 1.2m N-S) is defined by orthostats (max. H 0.7m) with some stones outside at its W end, possibly from a court or a kerb. The stones are emerging from the bog and it may be a court tomb. (de Valera and Ó Nualláin 1972, 51-2) 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 See linked document with details from Ruaidhrí de Valera and Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume III. Counties Galway, Roscommon, Leitrim, Longford, Westmeath, Laoighis, Offaly, Kildare, Cavan. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1972).
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Largydonnell.
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, high (inferred), 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 Largydonnell.
- 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 Largydonnell with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Leitrim.
The townland
- Name
- Largydonnell · Learga Uí Dhónaill
- Area
- 2,885,600 m² (288.56 ha, 713.05 acres)
- Civil parish
- Rossinver, and its townlands
- Barony
- Rosclogher
- Electoral division
- Aghanlish, the unit of the census
- Neighbouring townlands
- Aghalateeve, Aghanlish, Carrownoona, Drummans, Erriff, Keeloges, Loughmuirran
- Placenames
- Largydonnell 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.