Leckbeg

21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Leckbeg, from 189 m² to 14,852 m² (1.49 ha, 3.67 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 15 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 Leckbeg 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.

• 2 Mar 2026Conditional

  CONVERSION OF PART OF FORMER COMMERCIAL BUILDING (THE OLD COPE SHOP) INTO OFFICE SPACE AND PART INTO A TWO BEDROOM APARTMENT, MAINTAIN ALL EXISTING SERVICES WITH PARKING AND ALL NECESSARY SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2650032

• 28 Nov 2025Conditional

  CONVERSION OF EXISTING GARAGE / OUTHOUSE INTO 2 NO. RESIDENTIAL UNITS (2 BED) AND CONNECTION OF BOTH TO MAINS SEWER WITH ASSOCIATED DRAINAGE AND SITE WORKS

  Permission, 2 homes · Donegal County Council, 2550171

• 22 Aug 2025N/a

  (1) CONVERSION OF A FORMER COMMERCIAL BUILDING INTO 3 NO. DOMESTIC DWELLINGS WITH ALTERATIONS TO ELEVATIONS INCLUDING REMOVAL OF EXISTING WINDOWS AND CONSTRUCTION OF NEW WALLS AND WINDOW AND DOOR OPENINGS AND (2) DEMOLITION OF STRUCTURE TO REAR ALONG WITH ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES

  Permission, 3 homes · Donegal County Council, 2561456

• 11 Aug 2025N/a

  CONVERSION OF A FORMER COMMERCIAL BUILDING INTO 3 NO DOMESTIC DWELLINGS ALONG WITH ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2561373

• 12 Apr 2024Conditional

  RETENTION AND COMPLETION OF (1) AN ATTIC DEVELOPMENT PROVIDING 2 NO. BEDROOMS, (2) PROVISION OF 3 NO. ROOFLIGHTS TO THE FRONT ELEVATION, (3) SINGLE STOREY PORCH TO THE FRONT OF THE DWELLING, (4) STEPS, LANDING AND HANDRAILS ASSOCIATED WITH THE PORCH DEVELOPMENT, (5) CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW SECTION OF BOUNDARY WALL, (6) RAISING THE LEVEL OF THE EXISTING BOUNDARY WALL, (7) ALL ANCILLARY AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2460508

• 2 Oct 2023Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY DWELLING, DOMESTIC GARAGE, BOUNDARY WALLS AND SERVICES TO INCLUDE CONNECTION TO THE PUBLIC SEWER VIA AN EXISTING ON SITE MANHOLE CONNECTION WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2351479

• 26 Sept 2019Conditional

  (1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING BLOCKWORK WALLS AND CONSTUCTION OF A WASTEWATER PUMPING STATION (WWPS) WITH APPROXIMATELY 19M3 STORAGE, (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT (WWTP) AND A NEW VEHICULAR ACCESS ON TO THE L-5983 ROAD. THE WWTP WILL PROVIDE PRIMARY TREATMENT FOR 300 POPULATION EQUIVALENT (PE), (3) INSTALLATION OF ASSOCIATED GRAVITY SEWERS, FLUSHING SYSTEM, RISING MAINS AND EXTENSION OF THE EXISTING SEWER WITH INCREASED DIAMETER AND (4) ASSOCIATED ANCILLARY WORKS TO THE WWPS AND WWTP ALONG THE R260 & L-5983 ROADS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1951459

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
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Gweedore Bay And Islands 001141

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Leckbeg.

Architectural heritage

• House, 1880–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey double-pile house, built c.1890, having canted bay windows to end bays of front elevation, single-bay link between piles, and rear pile projecting slightly to east; each pile has two-bay gables and rear has one window to first floor. Pitched purple slate roof on overhanging eaves course, with painted timber fascia and projecting bargeboards and false trusses, cast-iron rainwater goods and paired centrally placed smooth-rendered chimneystacks with cornice copings and clay pots. Dormer window to east end of link. Bay windows have flat roofs, moulded parapets, moulded cornice eaves course, and pediment detail containing shield device, and also having two moulded strings at impost level. Smooth-rendered walls on raised plinth course, first floor having painted sill course, header course and moulded impost-level course, all three courses continuing to include one bay of side elevations. Painted sill course to bay windows. Round-headed window to dormer and to first floor of south elevation of projecting part of rear pile. Square-headed window openings elsewhere, windows to front elevation being pseudo-three-centred, all with one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows with decorative horns, window to first floor of rear elevation having margined coloured glass. Square-headed main entrance, flanked by partly fluted pilasters on moulded bases, with entablature and moulded cornice with segmental pediment, and square-headed timber panelled double-leaf door with stained-glass overlight and flanked by sidelights having stained-glass upper halves with sills. Garden to front bounded by wrought-iron railings and formal hedge, with similar gate, and having lawn to rear.

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 Leckbeg, 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.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Leckbeg · An Leac Bheag

Area

249,542 m² (24.95 ha, 61.66 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, Roshin Lodge, Roshin North

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Leckbeg 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.