Leghawny

68 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Leghawny, from 71 m² to 419,309 m² (41.93 ha, 103.61 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 27 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 Leghawny 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.

• 19 Jun 2025Conditional

  (1) REFURBISHMENT AND CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSION TO EXISTING VACANT DWELLING HOUSE, INCLUDING A LINK TO AN ADJACENT AGRICULTURAL BUILDING, (2) CHANGE OF USE OF SAID AGRICULTURAL OUTBUILDING TO A DOMESTIC LIVING AREA AND (3) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND CONNECTION TO ALL EXISTING SERVICES

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2561033

• 5 Jun 2025N/a

  (1) REFURBISHMENT OF AN EXISTING DERELICT DWELLING HOUSE, INCLUDING A LINK TO AN ADJACENT AGRICULTURAL BUILDING AND (2) CHANGE OF USE OF SAID AGRICULTURAL OUTBUILDING TO A DOMESTIC LIVING AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2560934

• 28 Apr 2025Conditional

  (1) ALTERATIONS, RENOVATIONS AND EXTENSION TO DWELLING HOUSE, (2) CHANGE OF USE OF ROOF SPACE TO HABITABLE SPACE, (3) OUTBUILDINGS AND (4) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2560661

• 8 Apr 2024Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK/SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2460469

• 4 Oct 2022Conditional

  ENTRANCE PORCH TO THE FRONT OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2251650

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: Lough Eske and Ardnamona Wood SAC 000163
• Natural Heritage Area: Barnesmore Bog NHA 002375

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Leghawny.

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Leghawny.

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 Leghawny, 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 Leghawny.

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

Name

Leghawny

Area

2,583,300 m² (258.33 ha, 638.35 acres)

Civil parish

Donegal, and its townlands

Barony

Tirhugh

Electoral division

Tullynaught, the unit of the census

Census 2022

657 people lived in 206 households in the Tullynaught electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 9% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghlem, Clogher, Drumadoney, Finnadoos, Straness

Placenames

Leghawny 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.