Derryfad

29 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Derryfad, from 783 m² to 616,822 m² (61.68 ha, 152.42 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 26 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Derryfad 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.

• 26 May 2023Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND DOMESTIC GARAGE INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2350734

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: Cloghernagore Bog and Glenveagh National Park SAC 002047
• Special Protection Area: Derryveagh And Glendowan Mountains SPA 004039
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Derryfad Bog 001117
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Derrylaggy Woods 001118

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Derryfad.

Architectural heritage

• An Droichead Nua [New Bridge], bridge, 1870–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Three-arch bridge, built c.1880, crossing Abhainn Choradh [Owencarrow River]. Raised rusticated voussoirs forming segmental arches, with gunnelled soffits, triangular cut-stone cut-waters flanking middle arch, string course and render copings to coursed rubble parapets. Now flanked by metal barriers.

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

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.

Terrain model

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

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Derryfad with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Derryfad · Doire Fada

Area

2,617,150 m² (261.72 ha, 646.71 acres)

Civil parish

Clondahorky, and its townlands

Barony

Kilmacrenan

Electoral division

Doe Castle, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Doe Castle electoral division: 278 people in 98 households; 88% of households own their home; 35% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 20% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cashel, Derriscligh, Drumeasan, Drumnacarry, Drumnakillew, Drumnaraw, Glenieraragh, Stragraddy

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Derryfad 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.