Lurgacloghan

19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lurgacloghan, from 714 m² to 257,984 m² (25.8 ha, 63.75 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 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 Lurgacloghan 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.

• 16 Jun 2026Conditional

  (1) RENOVATIONS AND ALTERATIONS TO THE EXISTING HOUSE TO INCLUDE RAISING THE HEIGHT OF THE SINGLE STOREY SECTION AND PROVISION OF NEW WINDOWS TO THE REAR OF THE SINGLE STOREY SECTION, (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW TWO STOREY EXTENSION TO THE NORTHEAST SIDE OF THE EXISTING HOUSE, (3) DECOMMISSIONING OF EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND PROVISION OF A NEW SEPTIC TANK/SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH PERCOLATION AREA AND (4) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2661107

• 28 Jul 2021Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC SHED AND SEPTIC TANK

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2151506

• 14 Oct 2020Refused

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC SHED, INSTALLATION OF SEPTIC TANK AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2051510

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: Mulroy Bay SAC 002159

Recorded monuments

• DG017-003 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  The 'Fort' noted on the 1st and 2nd editions of the OS 6-inch maps is not now visible. It stood on level marshy ground where rock outcrops occur. There is rough grazing here. Local topography would suggest a stone-built enclosure. 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

• DG017-004 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  Internal diam. c. 16m. A much collapsed stone wall, encloses an area, circular on plan. An outer wall face is visible on the N, and for a very much shorter stretch on the SE. The wall face is also traceable in the collapse from the NW to NE and from the S to WSW. Massive collapse on the E side obscures the wall face except for a short stretch between E and SE. From the WSW to the NW, alongside an almost sheer cliff-edge there is no wall or collapse. About 9m outside and concentric to the cashel wall on the N, and downhill from it, a setting of large blocks on edge form a face, c. 10m in length to a natural edge. This setting is across a natural route downhill from the cashel and at either end joins jutting rock outcrop. On the SE end, at the outer edge of the large mass of collapsed stone, is a 2m to 3m stretch of-wall face. The exact nature and extent of this feature is hidden in the collapsed stones. The interior, some of which is grass-covered, is uneven with rock outcrop visible in the S half. A low heap of stones, about 4m across may be part of a trigonometrical station. The site commands the W extension of the peninsula at the N end of Mulroy Bay. There is a steep slope downhill from the site to the S, slightly less so to the E and to the W there is an almost sheer fall. To the N the slope is more gentle. It is situated in rough pasture with rock outcrop. 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

• DG017-005 Burial ground
  Description

  Known locally as Cille Brie from St. Bricne who is supposed to be buried here. The site has survived as a 'Calvary' or old burial ground. It is an oval area 31m NNE-SSW and 21m WNW-ESE. A stone-facing, up to 1m high, can be seen on the SE side but the rest of the perimeter and part of the interior are obscured by heaps of field stones. It is located on grazing land just above Mulroy Bay 100m to the E. 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

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

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 Lurgacloghan, 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 Lurgacloghan.

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

Name

Lurgacloghan

Area

1,007,204 m² (100.72 ha, 248.89 acres)

Civil parish

Clondavaddog, and its townlands

Barony

Kilmacrenan

Electoral division

Fanad West, the unit of the census

Census 2022

398 people lived in 155 households in the Fanad West electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 20% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 35% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyheerin, Ballyhork, Laddan, Tullyconnell

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Lurgacloghan 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.