Leckenagh

313 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Leckenagh, from 46 m² to 204,731 m² (20.47 ha, 50.59 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 50 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Leckenagh 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.

• 27 Aug 2026N/a

  RENOVATION AND EXTENSION OF DWELLING HOUSE INCLUDING INSTALLATION OF SEPTIC TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH ALL ASSOCIATED DRAINAGE AND SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2650109

• 20 May 2026Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH INTEGRATED GARAGE AND WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2660909

• 18 May 2026N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH INTEGRATED GARAGE AND WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2660891

• 8 Apr 2026Conditional

  DEMOLITION OF PART OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND EXTENSION TO DWELLING ON THE NORTH WESTERN AND SOUTH WESTERN ELEVATIONS AND TO CARRY OUT ASSOCIATED RENOVATION TO SAME

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2660591

• 22 Jan 2026Conditional

  (1) EXTENSION TO THE REAR OF EXISTING HOUSE, (2) DETACHED GARAGE TO THE FRONT OF HOUSE AND (3) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2660068

• 13 Sept 2025Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING AND THE INSTALLATION OF A WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2561575

• 25 Aug 2025Conditional

  RENOVATION AND CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSION TO DWELLING HOUSE AND INSTALLATION OF A TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH ASSOCIATED DRAINAGE AND SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2550113

• 6 Aug 2025N/a

  RENOVATION AND EXTENSION TO DWELLING AND INSTALLATION OF A TREATMENT SYSTEM

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2550105

• 24 Jul 2025Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH PROPRIETARY WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2561270

• 15 Jul 2025Conditional

  UPGRADING OF SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA AND PERMISSION FOR CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO DWELLING HOUSE TOGETHER WITH ALTERATIONS TO THE EXISTING ELEVATIONS AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2561201

• 30 Apr 2025Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH PROPRIETARY WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND DOMESTIC GARAGE INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2560685

• 13 Jan 2025Conditional

  INSTALLATION OF AN ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS INFRASTRUCTURE COMPRISING OF A 15-METRE HIGH LATTICE TOWER SUPPORTING 7 NO. RADIO-LINK DISHES, TOGETHER WITH EQUIPMENT CABINET, ENCLOSING FENCE AND GATE, FIBRE DUCTING AND CHAMBERS, FOUNDATION AND ALL ASSOCIATED ANCILLARY DEVELOPMENT. THE DEVELOPMENT IS REQUIRED TO CARRY THE BROADBAND DATA FROM THE NEW HIGH SPEED FIBRE BROADBAND NETWORK ON THE ISLAND, TO THE MAINLAND BY RADIO LINK, TO CONNECT TO THE NBI NATIONAL FIBRE NETWORK, AS PART OF THE GOVERNMENT’S NATIONAL BROADBAND PLAN TO PROVIDE HIGH SPEED BROADBAND TO ALL PARTS OF THE COUNTRY THAT ARE NOT AVAILABLE COMMERCIALLY, INCLUDING THE ISLANDS, AT THE SAME DATA SPEED

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2560014

• 17 Dec 2024Conditional

  (1) CHANGE OF USE OF EXISTING DOMESTIC GARAGE TO STUDIO ACCOMMODATION, (2) ELEVATIONAL CHANGES TO WINDOWS OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND (C) UPGRADE OF EXISTING SEPTIC TANK SYSTEM AND MONOGRADE SAND FILTER AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2462095

• 5 Sept 2024Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH TREATMENT SYSTEM AND AN ASSOCIATED TERTIARY SAND FILTER AND A SAND POLISHING FILTER INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2450201

• 2 Aug 2024N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH PROPRIETARY WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) ACCOMPANIES THIS APPLICATION

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2461186

• 2 Jul 2024Conditional

  EXTENSION AND RENOVATION OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM, PROPOSED NEW DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2460998

• 2 Apr 2024Conditional

  (1) ERECTION OF (A) 4 NO. DRY-GOODS STORAGE UNITS TOTALLING 1,100 SQ.M. AND (B) A 750 SQ.M. TWO STOREY OFFICE UNIT WITH SOLAR PANELS AND UNDERGROUND RAIN WATER STORAGE FACILITIES AND (2) CONNECTION TO MAIN SEWERAGE SYSTEM, PROPOSED ACCESS ROAD AND PARKING WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) ACCOMPANIES THIS APPLICATION

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2450098

• 25 Mar 2024Conditional

  CHANGE OF HOUSE TYPE TO PREVIOUSLY GRANTED DWELLING, PLANNING REF. NO. 23/50704 AND PROVISION OF A DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2460395

• 22 May 2023Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING, SEPTIC TANK WITH PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2350704

• 13 Jan 2023Conditional

  INSTALLATION OF 149.4KW PHOTOVOLTAIC (PV) PANEL SYSTEM ON EXISTING ROOF TOGETHER WITH NECESSARY ANCILLARY SITE WORKS AND SERVICES

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2350025

• 13 Jan 2023Conditional

  INSTALLATION OF 191.7KW PHOTOVOLTAIC (PV) PANEL SYSTEM ON EXISTING ROOF TOGETHER WITH NECESSARY ANCILLARY SITE WORKS AND SERVICES

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2350023

• 12 Oct 2022Refused

  ERECTION OF DWELLING HOUSE WITH A WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2251722

• 6 May 2022Conditional

  ERECTION OF 12 NO. PODS UNITS WITH WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND POLISHING FILTER TOGETHER WITH SERVICE BUILDINGS, PARKING & PATHWAYS WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT ACCOMPANIES THIS APPLICATION

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2250794

• 21 Feb 2022Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH PROPRIETARY WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2250291

• 22 Dec 2021Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2152608

The 25 most recent of 42 applications.

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: Rutland Island and Sound SAC 002283

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Leckenagh.

Architectural heritage

• Saint Columba's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1895–1910 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding Catholic church, dated 1898 and built 1898-1908, having six-bay nave, polygonal apse to east, three-bay recent sacristy to south, and porch to west. Pitched slate roof, with raised parapets having rendered copings with gablets, painted stucco cross finial on gablets to apex, kneeler stones, moulded eaves on dentil course, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Hipped slate roof to apse, with moulded cornice on dentils and having cast-iron cross to apex. Pitched slate roof to sacristy, with raised parapets having rendered copings, kneeler stones, stucco cross finial on gablets to apex of west, and with roughcast-rendered chimneystack to east having rendered skews, coping and decorative pots. Roughcast-rendered and painted walls on smooth raised plinth course with dressed and rusticated ashlar quoins, and having painted buttresses and sill course to apse. Pointed-arch window openings with raised render surrounds, integral sills, hood-mouldings, and stained-glass windows with secondary glazing. Rose window to west gable with quatrefoils and stained glass within raised render surround having hood-moulding and flanked at lower level by pair of lancet windows. Quatrefoil stained-glass window to apse, set within round-headed opening with raised render surround and hood-moulding. Date-stone to west over porch, inscribed '[...] Laid 16[?]th April 1888 by the Most Rev. Patrick O'Donnell D.D. Rt Rev. Mgr Walker P.P.' and 'R.H. [?] Caffrey Builder' to left side of base and 'E.J. Toye Architect' to right side of base. Church stands within enclosure bounded by rendered wall with rendered gate piers, having some gravestones and recent three-stage square-plan freestanding 'St. Columba's Bell Tower' to west with hipped cement-tiled roof on overhanging eaves with rubble stone walls and having square-headed timber louvered windows.

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

At the centre of the townland of Leckenagh, 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are made ground and water.

Terrain model

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

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.

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

Name

Leckenagh · Leac Eidhneach

Area

2,094,052 m² (209.41 ha, 517.45 acres)

Civil parish

Templecrone, and its townlands

Barony

Boylagh

Electoral division

Rutland, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,496 people lived in 635 households in the Rutland electoral division. 80% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 37% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Burtonport, Cruickaghmore, Glashbeggan, Roshin Acres, Roshin Lodge

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Leckenagh 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.