Faiafannan

35 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Faiafannan, from 263 m² to 209,439 m² (20.94 ha, 51.75 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 11 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 Faiafannan 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.

• 15 Jun 2024Refused

  10 YEAR PLANNING PERMISSION WHICH WILL CONSIST OF (1) UPGRADING OF APPROXIMATELY 0.7KM OF EXISTING ACCESS TRACK AND EXISTING SITE ENTRANCE, (2) CONSTRUCTION OF APPROXIMATELY 1.2KM OF NEW ACCESS TRACKS AND NEW SITE ENTRANCE, AND (3) CONSTRUCTION OF A 5.5M SPAN TEMPORARY BRIDGE AND ASSOCIATED ANCILLARY INFRASTRUCTURE

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2460903

• 7 Jun 2024N/a

  10 YEAR PLANNING PERMISSION FOR WORKS RELATING TO BRADÁN WIND FARM WHICH WILL CONSIST OF (1) THE UPGRADE OF APPROXIMATELY 0.7KM OF EXISTING ACCESS TRACK AND EXISTING SITE ENTRANCE, (2) CONSTRUCTION OF APPROXIMATELY 1.2KM OF NEW ACCESS TRACKS AND NEW SITE ENTRANCE, (3) CONSTRUCTION OF A 5.5M SPAN TEMPORARY BRIDGE AND ASSOCIATED ANCILLARY INFRASTRUCTURE

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2460857

• 1 Jul 2020Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A ONE AND A HALF STOREY DWELLING HOUSE WITH PREPARATORY WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Extension of duration · Donegal County Council, 2050850

• 26 Jul 2017Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1751182

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Faiafannan.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Faiafannan.

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Faiafannan.

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 5 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.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1157 (ZIP).

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

Name

Faiafannan

Area

825,992 m² (82.6 ha, 204.11 acres)

Civil parish

Upper Killybegs, and its townlands

Barony

Banagh

Electoral division

Killybegs, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Killybegs electoral division: 2,333 people in 880 households; 76% of households own their home; 25% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghayeevoge, Carricknamoghil, Corporation, Crocknafeola, Cunlin, Straleeny

Placenames

Faiafannan 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.