Dunlewy Far

9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Dunlewy Far, from 1,679 m² to 744,172 m² (74.42 ha, 183.89 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 18 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 Dunlewy Far 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.

• 10 Jun 2025Conditional

  (1) ALTERATIONS MADE TO EXISTING ELEVATIONS, (2) CHANGE OF USE FROM DOMESTIC GARAGE TO ANCILLARY ACCOMMODATION WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND (3) ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2560963

• 5 Jun 2025N/a

  ALTERATIONS MADE TO EXISTING ELEVATIONS AND PERMISSION FOR CHANGE OF USE FROM DOMESTIC GARAGE TO ANCILLARY ACCOMMODATION WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2560939

• 21 Mar 2025N/a

  (1) CHANGE OF USE FROM GARAGE/STORAGE/WORKSHOP SHED TO LIVING ACCOMMODATION ANCILLARY TO THE MAIN DWELLING HOUSE, (2) ELEVATIONAL CHANGES INCLUDING REPLACEMENT OF GARAGE DOOR WITH WINDOW/CENTRE DOOR, WINDOWS ON EACH OF THE 4 SIDES OF THE BUILDING ALONG WITH INTERNAL CHANGES CONSISTING OF A BATHROOM AND TOILET WITH NO NEW CONSTRUCTION ON THE EXTERIOR OF THE SHED AND (3) ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORK (NO ROAD WORK) COMPRISING CONNECTION TO EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND CONNECTION OF WELL WATER PIPE FROM EXISTING WELL

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2560412

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 Area of Conservation: Fawnboy Bog/Lough Nacung SAC 000140
• Special Protection Area: Derryveagh And Glendowan Mountains SPA 004039
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Fawnboy Bog/Lough Nacung 000140
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Cloghernagore Bog And Glenveagh National Park 002047

Recorded monuments

• DG042-001 Crannog
  Description

  Marked 'Crannoge Island' on the 3rd edition of the OS 6-inch map. The island is now submerged. 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

• DG042-002001 Ecclesiastical enclosure
  Description

  Internal diam. c. 40m N-S, c. 35m E-W. A subcircular area defined by slight remains of an enclosing stone wall. At the mid W part of the enclosure are the remains of a stone building (DG042-002002-) only surviving .3m in height, 8m E-W and 5m N-S internally. There are breaks in the middle of the N and S walls. The SE quadrant of the enclosure is covered by a scatter of stones. In the NW area of the scatter is a cross-slab (DG042-002003-) .5m high standing on a low mound of stones. It is .24m wide and 0.08m thick. A cross is grooved on the W face. There are forks at the extremities of the arms and shaft and at the centre, a small depression surrounded by two concentric circles. To the S of the cross-slab are two standing stone slabs (DG042-002004-). Partly surrounding the cross-slab on the S is a semicircle of loose stones 3m in width and 0.3m in height. An earlier report of the site (UJA 1857, 253) records four circular buildings (DG042-002005-), each 14 feet in diameter, to the S and SE of the centre of the enclosure. The site is located on level ground beside the Devlin river at the S base of Errigal mountain in wet but fair pasture at the SE end of Dunlewy Lough. 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

• DG042-002002 Building
  Description

  A subcircular area defined by slight remains of an enclosing stone wall. At the mid W part of the enclosure are the remains of a stone building (DG042-002002-) only surviving .3m in height, 8m E-W and 5m N-S internally. There are breaks in the middle of the N and S walls. The SE quadrant of the enclosure is covered by a scatter of stones. In the NW area of the scatter is a cross-slab (DG042-002003-) .5m high standing on a low mound of stones. It is .24m wide and 0.08m thick. A cross is grooved on the W face. There are forks at the extremities of the arms and shaft and at the centre, a small depression surrounded by two concentric circles. To the S of the cross-slab are two standing stone slabs (DG042-002004-). Partly surrounding the cross-slab on the S is a semicircle of loose stones 3m in width and 0.3m in height. An earlier report of the site (UJA 1857, 253) records four circular buildings (DG042-002005-), each 14 feet in diameter, to the S and SE of the centre of the enclosure. The site is located on level ground beside the Devlin river at the S base of Errigal mountain in wet but fair pasture at the SE end of Dunlewy Lough. 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

• DG042-002003 Cross-slab
  Description

  A subcircular area defined by slight remains of an enclosing stone wall. At the mid W part of the enclosure are the remains of a stone building (DG042-002002-) only surviving .3m in height, 8m E-W and 5m N-S internally. There are breaks in the middle of the N and S walls. The SE quadrant of the enclosure is covered by a scatter of stones. In the NW area of the scatter is a cross-slab (DG042-002003-) .5m high standing on a low mound of stones. It is .24m wide and 0.08m thick. A cross is grooved on the W face. There are forks at the extremities of the arms and shaft and at the centre, a small depression surrounded by two concentric circles. To the S of the cross-slab are two standing stone slabs (DG042-002004-). Partly surrounding the cross-slab on the S is a semicircle of loose stones 3m in width and 0.3m in height. An earlier report of the site (UJA 1857, 253) records four circular buildings (DG042-002005-), each 14 feet in diameter, to the S and SE of the centre of the enclosure. The site is located on level ground beside the Devlin river at the S base of Errigal mountain in wet but fair pasture at the SE end of Dunlewy Lough. 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

• DG042-002004 Graveslab
  Description

  A subcircular area defined by slight remains of an enclosing stone wall. At the mid W part of the enclosure are the remains of a stone building (DG042-002002-) only surviving .3m in height, 8m E-W and 5m N-S internally. There are breaks in the middle of the N and S walls. The SE quadrant of the enclosure is covered by a scatter of stones. In the NW area of the scatter is a cross-slab (DG042-002003-) .5m high standing on a low mound of stones. It is .24m wide and 0.08m thick. A cross is grooved on the W face. There are forks at the extremities of the arms and shaft and at the centre, a small depression surrounded by two concentric circles. To the S of the cross-slab are two standing stone slabs (DG042-002004-). Partly surrounding the cross-slab on the S is a semicircle of loose stones 3m in width and 0.3m in height. An earlier report of the site (UJA 1857, 253) records four circular buildings (DG042-002005-), each 14 feet in diameter, to the S and SE of the centre of the enclosure. The site is located on level ground beside the Devlin river at the S base of Errigal mountain in wet but fair pasture at the SE end of Dunlewy Lough. 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

• DG042-002005 Building
  Description

  A subcircular area defined by slight remains of an enclosing stone wall. At the mid W part of the enclosure are the remains of a stone building (DG042-002002-) only surviving .3m in height, 8m E-W and 5m N-S internally. There are breaks in the middle of the N and S walls. The SE quadrant of the enclosure is covered by a scatter of stones. In the NW area of the scatter is a cross-slab (DG042-002003-) .5m high standing on a low mound of stones. It is .24m wide and 0.08m thick. A cross is grooved on the W face. There are forks at the extremities of the arms and shaft and at the centre, a small depression surrounded by two concentric circles. To the S of the cross-slab are two standing stone slabs (DG042-002004-). Partly surrounding the cross-slab on the S is a semicircle of loose stones 3m in width and 0.3m in height. An earlier report of the site (UJA 1857, 253) records four circular buildings (DG042-002005-), each 14 feet in diameter, to the S and SE of the centre of the enclosure. The site is located on level ground beside the Devlin river at the S base of Errigal mountain in wet but fair pasture at the SE end of Dunlewy Lough. 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

• DG042-005 Crannog
  Description

  Depicted as a small circular 'island' with the designaton 'Monk's Island' in Dunlewy Lough on the 1906 ed. of the OS 6-inch map.

Architectural heritage

• Dunlewy House, country house, 1810–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c.1830, with projecting open porch to front (north) elevation, single-bay projection to east forward of two-storey return to east end of rear, latter having four-bay first floor and five-bay ground floor to east elevation and multiple-bay to west elevation, and three-bay single-storey castellated wing to west. Eastern projection has canted bay window to east gable, and front block has full-height canted bay to west gable. Slate roof, mainly hipped, but pitched to eastern projection, with smooth-rendered chimneystacks having moulded clay pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Flat felt roof to castellated wing, with moulded string course and splayed crenellated parapet. Painted lined-and-ruled rendered walls with projecting plinth course, and full-height canted bay having string courses between floors and sill course to first floor. Square-headed openings with stone sills and mainly six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows, double and flanking double six-pane casement with overlights to crenellated wing, and having label-mouldings to front elevation and first floor of gables of front block and to castellated wing. Some two-over-two pane windows to west elevation of return. Ground floor of east projection has window of fifty-six small panes flanked by double twenty-four pane casement windows. Porch has round-headed half-glazed timber door with leaded fanlight, and round-headed unglazed window openings to side walls. Set on rising ground overlooking Loch Dhún Lúiche [Dunlewy Lough] with enclosed yard to rear having single-storey outbuildings and laneway and mature woodlands to east. Gateway to west with ashlar piers having rendered copings with carved lions over, flanked by rubble stone walls, and with ruinous gate lodge.

• Dunlewy House, gate lodge, 1840–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey gate lodge, built c.1850, having double gabled front and rear elevations. M-profile pitched slate roof with overhanging eaves, cast-iron rainwater goods and painted decorative timber bargeboards, and having centrally placed smooth-rendered chimneystacks with rendered copings and clay plots. Roughcast-rendered walls. Pointed-arch window openings to east and south elevations with smooth cavetto-moulded surrounds, painted stone sills and traceried timber six-over-six pane sliding sash windows; two-over-two pane windows to north elevation. Square-headed doorways, one to middle of front elevation and one to north elevation, with replacement timber half-door to front with stone step. Rubble stone boundary wall to road with stone piers and decorative cast-iron gate. Ruinous houses to west, and inscribed stones to south.

• Dunlewy House, outbuilding, 1840–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Courtyard of two-storey and single-storey outbuildings, built c.1850, now mainly roofless. Detached eight-bay two-storey building to south with rendered eaves course, and three-bay single-storey building at right angle to north, both having coursed rubble stone walls and square-headed openings. Four-bay single-storey twentieth-century open-fronted shed to north with pitched corrugated-iron roof, front elevation having rendered piers. Four-bay single-storey gable-fronted building to east (outside courtyard) with segmental-headed opening having dressed stone voussoirs. Enclosed by rubble stone wall with square-plan piers to east and wrought-iron gates and bellcote to south, latter having round-headed opening with cast-iron bell, and round-headed opening to north with chamfered cut-stone header and wrought-iron gate.

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 20 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 Dunlewy Far.

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

Name

Dunlewy Far · Dún Lúiche Íochtarach

Area

16,353,460 m² (1,635.35 ha, 4,041.03 acres)

Civil parish

Tullaghobegly, and its townlands

Barony

Kilmacrenan

Electoral division

Dunlewy, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Dunlewy electoral division: 689 people in 273 households; 88% of households own their home; 28% of homes were built since 2001; 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 23% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bingorms, Commeen, Drumnalifferny Mountain, Dunlewy Near, Glentornan, Money Beg, Money More, Staghall Mountain West, Tor

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Dunlewy Far 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.