Edenfinfreagh

32 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Edenfinfreagh, from 2 m² to 532,169 m² (53.22 ha, 131.5 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 21 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 Edenfinfreagh 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.

• 12 Jun 2025Conditional

  20M TELECOMMUNICATIONS SUPPORT STRUCTURE CARRYING ANTENNA AND DISHES, COMMUNICATIONS CABIN AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS WITHIN A CHAIN LINKED FENCED COMPOUND PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER PLANNING PERMISSION REF. NO. 10/30194 AND PERMISSION FOR INSTALLATION OF ADDITIONAL ANTENNA AND DISH EQUIPMENT TO THE SUPPORT STRUCTURE INCLUDING GROUND EQUIPMENT CABINETS AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2560989

• 9 May 2018Conditional

  (1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND SHEDS AND ERECTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE WITH CONNECTION TO THE EXISTING SEWERAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND (2) RETENTION OF A DOMESTIC GARAGE ERECTED TO SERVICE THE NEW DWELLING HOUSE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention, 2 homes · Donegal County Council, 1850725

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: West of Ardara/Maas Road SAC 000197
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: West Of Ardara/Maas Road 000197

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Edenfinfreagh.

Architectural heritage

• Catholic Church of the Holy Family, church/chapel, 1895–1910 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding gable-fronted Catholic church, built 1900-6 and dated 1906, having five-bay nave, projecting porch to southwest and sacristy to northeast, latter having flat-roof extension to northeast side. Pitched slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles, rendered copings and kneeler stones with pediment copings and scrolled brackets to gable, stone cross finials, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Porch has lean-to slate roof with projecting dormer having terracotta ridge tiles and cast-iron finial. Hipped slate roof to sacristy and flat felt roof to extension. Roughcast-rendered walls with raised smooth-rendered plinth and quoins. Pointed-arch window openings, triple-light to gables, that to southeast flanked by single lights, double-light to porch, with smooth raised chamfered render surrounds, integral sills and leaded stained-glass windows. Porch has blind quatrefoil above within oculus. Square-headed openings to sacristy with one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Pointed-arch doorway to porch with raised chamfered render surround and double-leaf timber door; square-headed replacement timber door to sacristy. Interior has suspended timber panelled ceiling with exposed timber trusses on decorative corbels. Raised altar to northeast end; internal porch and confessionals to southwest end. Church sited on hillside with freestanding campanile comprising splayed rendered piers and cast-iron bell. Low rendered boundary wall to road with rendered copings and stone cross finials to piers, and metal railings.

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 Edenfinfreagh.

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

Name

Edenfinfreagh · An tÉadan Anfach

Area

1,596,891 m² (159.69 ha, 394.6 acres)

Civil parish

Inishkeel, and its townlands

Barony

Boylagh

Electoral division

Graffy, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Graffy electoral division: 150 people in 65 households; 86% of households own their home; 19% of homes were built since 2001; 33% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 12% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Greenans, Lacklea, Meenabrock, Meenavale, Tangaveane, Tievelough

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Edenfinfreagh 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.