Laghy

120 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Laghy, from 35 m² to 60,208 m² (6.02 ha, 14.88 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 43 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 Laghy 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.

• 8 Apr 2026Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DRY FLOOR AGRICULTURAL SHED WITH FEEDING AREA AND CATTLE YARD WITH CATTLE CRUSH AND HOLDING TANK ALONG WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2660593

• 1 Apr 2026Conditional

  (1) RETENTION OF (A) EXISTING GARDEN CENTRE TO THE EAST ELEVATION OF EUROSPAR SHOP, AND (B) EXISTING GARDEN CENTRE CANOPY TO THE EAST ELEVATION OF GARDEN CENTRE, (2) REPLACEMENT OF EXISTING ENTRANCE TO EUROSPAR, (3) CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW SINGLE-STOREY EXTENSION TO THE SOUTH ELEVATION OF EUROSPAR SHOP, (4) ADDITIONAL TIMBER CLADDING TO EUROSPAR WEST FACADE, AND (5) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND CONNECTION TO ALL EXISTING SERVICES

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2660536

• 31 Jan 2025Conditional

  FIRST FLOOR DEVELOPMENT CONSISTING OF ADDITIONAL GUEST ACCOMMODATION, INCLUDING ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS TO AN EXISTING PREMISES

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2560113

• 25 Jul 2022Conditional

  DEVELOPMENT OF (1) ONE NO. ALL WEATHER PITCH (2) ONE NO. COMBINATION TENNIS/BASKETBALL COURT (3) ONE NO. PLAYGROUND AREA (4) COMMUNITY GARDEN AREA (5) FLOODLIGHTING TO THE ALL WEATHER PITCH AND TENNIS/BASKETBALL COURT (6) PEDESTRIAN WALKWAY FOR ACCESS AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2251268

• 30 Jun 2022Conditional

  DWELLING HOUSE WITH ATTACHED GARAGE (DWELLING HOUSE PREVIOUSLY GRANTED PERMISSION UNDER PLANNING REF: NO. T.14,983) AND DETACHED STORAGE SHEDS AND FOR WASTEWATER AND STORM WATER CONNECTIONS TO THE PUBLIC MAINS AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2251130

• 20 Jun 2022Conditional

  ERECTION OF AN EXTENSION AND ALTERATIONS TO THE EXISTING CHURCH HALL AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2251060

• 10 Jan 2022N/a

  (1) ERECTION OF AN EXTENSION & ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING CHURCH HALL (2) DEVELOPMENT OF (A) AN ALL-WEATHER PITCH (B) A COMBINED TENNIS & BASKETBALL COURT (C) A COMMUNITY WELL-BEING AND SENSORY GARDEN (D) A RIVERSIDE WALKWAY AND THE ADDITION OF A FOOTPATH TO THE ENTRANCE OF THE RIVERSIDE WALKWAY (E) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2250009

• 11 Aug 2021Conditional

  (1)RETENTION OF (A)EXTENSION TO SMOKING AREA AND (B) CHANGE OF USE OF SAME TO ENTRANCE PORCH / LOBBY TO THE RAMBLING HOUSE RESTAURANT AND ASSOCIATED ELEVATIONAL CHANGES AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS, (2) ERECTION OF AN EXTENSION AT GROUND FLOOR LEVEL CONSISTING OF A LIFT AND STAIRWAY, (3) CHANGE OF USE OF PREVIOUSLY GRANTED FIRST FLOOR RESTAURANT, KITCHEN, STORAGE AND TOILETS GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REG. REF. NO. 18/51303 TO 7 NO. EN-SUITE BEDROOMS AND STORE, (4) ERECTION OF A FIRST FLOOR EXTENSION CONTAINING 9 NO. EN-SUITE BEDROOMS, LIFT AND STAIRWAY AND (5) ALL ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS AT THE RAMBLING HOUSE MAIN STREET LAGHEY CO. DONEGAL

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2151620

• 19 Aug 2020Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF 2 TWO STOREY TERRACED HOUSES, CONNECTION INTO THE PUBLIC SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 2 homes · Donegal County Council, 2051139

• 17 Jan 2019Conditional

  (1) OMISSION OF SURFACE WATER ATTENUATION TANK GRANTED UNDER PLANNING PERMISSION REFERENCE 17/50501, (2) INSTALLATION OF NEW 40,000 LITRE UNDERGROUND DIESEL STORAGE TANK WITH ASSOCIATED PIPEWORK TO OFFSET FILL POINTS AND VENTS AND (3) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1950031

• 18 Oct 2018Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A 50X40M WIDE SYNTHETIC PLAYING PITCH, PERIMETER FENCING THROUGHOUT WITH BALL STOP FENCING TO SW BOUNDARY WITH PEDESTRIAN PATHWAY ACCESS FROM EXISTING SCHOOL CAR PARK, FLOODLIGHTING TO PITCH AND ALL ASSOCIATED ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1851598

• 23 Aug 2018Conditional

  (1) CHANGE OF USE OF EXISTING FIRST FLOOR DOMESTIC ACCOMMODATION TO USE AS A RESTAURANT, (2) CONSTRUCTION OF FIRST FLOOR EXTENSION TO NORTHERN ELEVATION TO PROVIDE 70SQ M OF ADDITIONAL RESTAURANT FLOOR AREA, (3) CONSTRUCTION OF FIRST FLOOR EXTENSION TO THE EASTERN ELEVATION TO PROVIDE 72SQ M OF FLOOR AREA FOR TOILETS, KITCHEN AND STORAGE, (4) CONSTRUCTION OF GROUND FLOOR EXTENSION TO THE NORTHERN ELEVATION TO PROVIDE 5SQ M OF FLOOR SPACE AND (5) RETENTION OF GROUND FLOOR EXTENSION TO THE NORTHERN AND EASTERN BOUNDARIES MEASURING 131 SQ M AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1851303

• 4 Jul 2018N/a

  (1) CHANGE OF USE OF EXISTING FIRST FLOOR DOMESTIC ACCOMMODATION TO USE AS A RESTAURANT, (2) CONSTRUCTION OF FIRST FLOOR EXTENSION TO NORTHERN ELEVATION TO PROVIDE 70SQ M OF ADDITIONAL RESTAURANT FLOOR AREA, (3) CONSTRUCTION OF FIRST FLOOR EXTENSION TO THE EASTERN ELEVATION TO PROVIDE 72SQ M OF FLOOR AREA FOR TOILETS, KITCHEN AND STORAGE, (4) CONSTRUCTION OF GROUND FLOOR EXTENSION TO THE NORTH ERN ELEVATION TO PROVIDE 5SQ M OF FLOOR SPACE, (5) RETENTION FOR GROUND FLOOR EXTENSION TO THE NORTHERN AND EASTERN BOUNDARIES MEASURING 131 SQ M AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1851030

• 6 Apr 2017Conditional

  REDEVELOPMENT OF THE EXISTING SERVICE STATION TO COMPRISE: (1)THE DEMOLITION AND REDEVELOPMENT OF THE EXISTING FORECOURT AMENITY BUILDING TO INCLUDE A CONVENIENCE SHOP (92SQM NET RETAIL AREA), A HOT FOOD DELI, SEATING AREAS, ANCILLARY STORAGE, TOILETS, FOOD PREPARATION, STAFF AND SERVICE AREAS; (2) THE REALIGNMENT AND WIDENING OF EXISTING SITE ENTRANCES; (3) THE REALIGNMENT OF EXISTING INTERNAL ROADS; (4) THE RELOCATION OF EXISTING HCV FUEL PUMPS AND THE PROVISION OF A NEW HCV FUEL PUMP (5) THE REORGANISATION OF EXISTING CAR PARKING TO PROVIDE 4 NO. HCV PARKING SPACES AND 24 NO. CAR PARKING SPACES; (6) THE RELOCATION OF EXISTING SERVICES INCLUDING AIR AND WATER AND E-CHARGE POINTS AND THE REMOVAL OF EXISTING CAR WASH; (7) ATTENUATION AND DRAINAGE WORKS; AND (8) ALL ASSOCIATED BOUNDARY TREATMENTS, LANDSCAPING SIGNAGE AND SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1750501

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 the townland of Laghy.

Recorded monuments

• DG100-011 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  The 'Holy Well' marked on the OS 6-inch maps has been modernised. The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated. Date of upload: 22 September 2008

Architectural heritage

• Laghy Bridge, bridge, 1760–1800 · Regional interest
  Description

  Seven-arch road bridge carrying road over The Laghy River, built c. 1768 and extended to north end c. 1775; Repaired c. 1797, with modern strengthening works carried out c. 2000. Arch to south end now infilled. Segmental-headed arches having squared and roughly dressed voussoirs to arch. Arch barrels now cement rendered. V-profile ashlar cutwaters to piers. Rubble stone spandrels, haunches and parapets. Cement repair to parapets in places and modern concrete abutments to bases of some piers. Modern pipe to the east elevation. Tarmacadam carriageway to bridge. Located to the north end of Laghy village. Spans the Laghy River which flows into Donegal Bay a short distance to the west.

• Laghy Church of Ireland Church, church/chapel, 1830–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding Church of Ireland church, built 1834 - 37 and altered 1911 and 1919, comprising a two-bay nave to the east with shallow chancel to the east end, single-bay block/transept with pitched roof to the east end of the north side of the nave, single-bay entrance porch/vestry to the east end of the south elevation of nave having catslide roof, single-bay gable-fronted entrance porch to the centre of the entrance gable (west), cut stone bellcote to entrance gable (west) apex having cut stone/ashlar obelisk over (on square-plan), and having diagonally-set stepped ashlar stone clasping buttresses to the corners of the entrance gable surmounted with cut stone/ashlar obelisks/spirelets having projecting stringcourses. Pitched artificial slate roofs to main body of church, porch/vestry to the southeast and block/vestry to the north-east. Rendered chimneystack to the gable apex at the east end of nave. Pitched natural slate roof to chancel having raised cut stone coping/verge with moulded kneeler stones to the east gable end and with blue\black clay roll ridge tiles; pitched natural slate roof to entrance porch to the west gable end. Raised cement rendered parapet to west gable end of main body of church having cut stone coping over. Projecting cut stone eave course to main body of church and block/transept to the northeast extension (now rendered). Some remaining sections of cast-iron rainwater goods. Squared and roughly coursed rubble stone walls to west elevation and to porch to west, broken coursed rubble stone walls to north and south sides of main body of church and to vestry and chancel, ruled-and-lined cement rendered walls to northeast extension/transept. Ashlar limestone panel/shallow buttress to the centre of the entrance gable (west), rising to bellcote over, having engraved cut stone date plaque. Cut stone plinth course to the main body of church, concrete plinth to chancel. Pointed-arched window openings to north and south elevations of nave having slightly raised plain cut stone surrounds, chamfered sills, replacement timber Y-tracery and stained glass windows. Pointed-arched window openings to the west and north elevations of block/transept to the north-east having lightly raised plain cut stone surrounds and stained glass windows. Pointed-arched/lancet window openings to the west gable end and to the west gable end of main entrance porch having dressed stone surrounds, cut stone hoodmouldings with decorative label stops, and stained glass windows. Wide round-headed window opening to the east elevation of chancel having concrete surround and leaded stained glass window. Square-headed window opening to the east elevation of porch/vestry to the south. Square-headed entrance door openings to the south elevation of porch to west and to the south elevation of porch/vestry to the south having replacement/modern timber doors (double-doors to main entrance). Cross-braced timber roof to interior. Set back from road in own grounds to the north end of Laghy and adjacent to the south-east of Laghy Bridge (40848002). Graveyard to west of site with mainly late nineteenth to early twentieth-century memorials. Roughcast rendered and rubble stone boundary walls to site. Gateway to the west of site comprising a pair of cut stone gate piers (on square-plan) having rubble stone coping, and with a pair of modern metal gates.

• House, 1800–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Attached mid-terrace three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1810. One of a terrace of three. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimneystacks to either end (north and south), and shallow projecting rendered eaves course. Pebbledashed walls over smooth rendered plinth course, having cement rendered bands/strips to the margins and cement rendered band below eaves level. Square-headed window openings with stone sills, projecting cement rendered reveals and six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows. Central square-headed entrance door opening having cement rendered reveals and replacement door. Road-fronted to the north end of Laghy.

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 Laghy, 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 Laghy.

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 Laghy with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Laghy · An Lathaigh

Area

687,959 m² (68.8 ha, 170 acres)

Civil parish

Drumhome, and its townlands

Barony

Tirhugh

Electoral division

Laghy, the unit of the census

Census 2022

799 people lived in 290 households in the Laghy electoral division. 81% of households owned their home. 32% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 15% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrick East, Cormullin, Greaghs, Oughtnadrin, Raneany East, Raneany West, Trumman East, Tullywee

Placenames

Laghy 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.