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New house with attached garage and wastewater system at Ballydevitt Beg

Caroline Duncan has been given the go-ahead to build a new house with an attached garage at Ballydevitt Beg in Donegal Town. The development will also include a wastewater treatment system and associated site works. Permission was granted on 8 May 2026, though it comes with conditions that need to be met.

CAROLINE DUNCAN
File ref: 2562278 · Donegal County Council
Donegal County Council (Planning)

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Extension of duration for 45-unit mixed housing development near Donegal Town

Tir Conaill Properties is seeking to extend the planning permission for a 45-unit housing development on Old Laghey Road in Drumrat, Donegal Town. The scheme includes 9 detached houses, 16 semi-detached houses, and 20 apartment units across various buildings, plus estate roads, footpaths, play areas and full infrastructure connections.

TIR CONAILL PROPERTIES LIMITED
File ref: 2650066 · Donegal County Council
Donegal County Council (Planning)

Housing development scaled back from 17 to 12 units with revised house types

Tirconaill Properties is revising plans for a housing development at Farmleigh Woods in Donegal Town. They're reducing the number of homes from 17 to 12 units, consisting of 10 semi-detached four-bedroom houses and 2 duplex apartments. The changes also include new roads, footpaths, and services for the site.

TIRCONAILL PROPERTIES LIMITED
File ref: 2650067 · Donegal County Council
Donegal County Council (Planning)

Retention of house landscaping, drainage, retaining wall, garden store, sauna and hot tub

Seamus McGowan has been given the go-ahead to keep landscape and drainage works around his house in Tullaghcullion, along with a tiered retaining wall with a guard rail along the shoreline, a garden store built into the wall, and a sauna room with sunken hot tub. The council has also approved soft landscaping between the wall tiers, external stairs to the lower garden level, and timber cladding on

SEAMUS MCGOWAN
File ref: 2660443 · Donegal County Council
Donegal County Council (Planning)

Single-storey garden room added to south side of Donegal Town school

Scoil an Linbh Iosa in Donegal Town is planning to build a single-storey garden room on the south side of the school as part of site works. The application from the school's board of management was decided on 14 May 2026.

CAROLINE FEENEY, THE CHAIRPERSON OF THE BOARD OF MANAGEMENT OF SCOIL AN LINBH IOSA
File ref: 2660500 · Donegal County Council
Donegal County Council (Planning)