Legnatraw
Legnatraw is a townland in the civil parish of Taughboyne, barony of Raphoe North, Co. Donegal. Its name in Irish is Lag na Trá.
Parcel 1318454
- Area
- 201,197 m² (20.12 ha, 49.72 acres)
- Buildings
- 3 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 163 m².
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Legnatraw
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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
- At the centre of this parcel, about 1 in 10 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 low.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.
- 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.
Download this parcel as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program. GeoJSON, in WGS 84, suits a map, and KML opens in Google Earth.
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.
- Area
- 187.9 ha
- 464 acres
- Land parcels
- 51
- registered freehold, median 2,157 m² (0.22 ha, 0.53 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 12
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
51 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Legnatraw, from 613 m² to 284,783 m² (28.48 ha, 70.37 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 22 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 Legnatraw 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
11 Aug 2026N/a
CONSTRUCTION OF A 2-STOREY DETACHED DWELLING, INSTALLATION OF A SEPARATE ON-SITE WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM TOGETHER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2661492
15 Nov 2025Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH CONNECTION TO SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2561992
20 Sept 2025N/a
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS INCLUDING CONNECTION TO SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2561631
11 May 2025Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH CONNECTION TO PROPOSED SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA ALONG WITH ALL ANCILLARY WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2560742
4 Feb 2025Conditional
(1) ALTERATION, EXTENSION AND RENOVATION WORKS TO EXISTING DERELICT DWELLING HOUSE INCLUDING CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSIONS TO THE REAR ELEVATION AND RAISING EXISTING PERIMETER WALLS AND ROOF HEIGHT TO PROVIDE FIRST FLOOR ACCOMMODATION, (2) INSTALLATION OF A NEW SEPTIC TANK / SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND (3) CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW VEHICULAR ENTRANCE AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2560128
3 Dec 2024Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS AND CONNECTION TO SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2461985
2 Dec 2024N/a
(1) CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSION AND RENOVATION WORKS TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, (2) INSTALLATION OF A SEPTIC TANK / SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND (3) CONSTRUCTION OF A VEHICULAR ENTRANCE AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2461964
22 Oct 2024Conditional
CHANGE OF HOUSE TYPE TO THAT PREVIOUSLY GRANTED (REG. REF. NO. 22/50403 REFERS)
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2461670
9 Oct 2024N/a
CHANGE OF HOUSE TYPE PREVIOUSLY GRANTED (REG. REF. NO.: 22/50404 REFERS)
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2461588
9 Mar 2022Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH CONNECTION TO PROPOSED SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2250403
9 Mar 2022Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH CONNECTION TO PROPOSED SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2250404
5 Apr 2019Conditional
ERECTION OF AGRICULTURAL LIVESTOCK SLATTED SHED WITH UNDERGROUND EFFLUENT STORAGE TANK INCLUDING ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1950460
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 Legnatraw.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Legnatraw.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Legnatraw.
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 Legnatraw, about 1 in 10 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 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 Legnatraw.
- 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 Legnatraw with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Legnatraw · Lag na Trá
- Area
- 1,879,115 m² (187.91 ha, 464.34 acres)
- Civil parish
- Taughboyne, and its townlands
- Barony
- Raphoe North
- Electoral division
- St. Johnstown, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,396 people lived in 537 households in the St. Johnstown electoral division. 69% of households owned their home. 40% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballylennan, Binnion, Burnthaw, Castletown, Drumenan, Gillystown, Lettergull, Moness, Treansallagh
- Placenames
- Legnatraw 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.