Falchorrib

318 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Falchorrib, from 18 m² to 223,605 m² (22.36 ha, 55.25 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 12 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Falchorrib 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.

• 14 Jul 2026Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF OUTHOUSE / GARAGE

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2650098

• 16 Jun 2025Conditional

  (1) REFURBISHMENT OF EXISTING COTTAGE TO INCLUDE A VIEWING WINDOW ON THE SOUTH-EAST GABLE WALL (SIDE ELEVATION WALL) AND ALL GLAZED PATIO DOORS ON THE NORTH-EAST WALL (REAR WALL) AND (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW ENTRANCE AND DRIVEWAY FROM THE PUBLIC ROAD TO SERVE THE COTTAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2561010

• 21 Dec 2022Conditional

  ERECTION OF AN EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE TO PROVIDE EXTRA LIVING ACCOMMODATION AND WITH MINOR ALTERATIONS TO THE FACADE OF THE EXISTING DWELLING TOGETHER WITH CONNECTION TO ALL EXISTING ON-SITE SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2252061

• 4 Apr 2022Conditional

  RETENTION AND COMPLETION OF THE CHANGE OF USE OF EXISTING STABLE TO A HOME OFFICE WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2250577

• 6 Jul 2021Conditional

  RETENTION AND COMPLETION OF DWELLING HOUSE WITH TREATMENT SYSTEM AND POLISHING FILTER

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2151346

• 29 Sept 2020Conditional

  RAISING AND REPLACING OF THE ROOF ON EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2051406

• 2 Sept 2019Conditional

  RENOVATION OF EXISTING SHED TO PROVIDE LIVING SPACE WITH EXTENSION LINKING THE SHED TO EXISTING DWELLING WITH ASSOCIATED ELEVATION AMENDMENTS TO BOTH THE SHED AND EXISTING DWELLING INCLUDING ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1951340

• 27 Aug 2019N/a

  RENOVATION OF EXISTING SHED TO PROVIDE LIVING SPACE WITH EXTENSION LINKING THE SHED TO EXISTING DWELLING WITH ASSOCIATED ELEVATION AMENDMENTS TO BOTH THE SHED AND EXISTING DWELLING INCLUDING ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1951307

• 30 Jul 2019Conditional

  (1) EXTENSION TO DWELLING HOUSE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS AND (2) RETENTION OF STABLES

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 1951166

• 22 Jan 2019N/a

  (1) RETENTION OF PARTIALLY COMPLETED DWELLING HOUSE AND (2) COMPLETION OF CONSTRUCTION OF SAME WITH TREATMENT SYSTEM AND POLISHING FILTER

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1950070

• 2 Jan 2019N/a

  (1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING SHED AND (2) EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING WITH ASSOCIATED ELEVATION AMENDMENTS AND SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1950004

• 27 Oct 2017Unconditional

  SUN-PORCH AS BUILT TO THE SOUTH SIDE OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 1751656

• 31 Mar 2017Unconditional

  (1) RETENTION OF EXTENSION TO THE SOUTH SIDE OF DWELLING HOUSE AND RELOCATION OF THE SEPTIC TANK AND ASSOCIATED PERCOLATION AREA AND (2) ERECTION OF 35M.SQ OUTHOUSE TO THE REAR OF DWELLING HOUSE

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1750465

• 16 Mar 2017N/a

  EXTENSION TO THE SOUTH SIDE OF DWELLING HOUSE, THE RELOCATION OF THE SEPTIC TANK AND ASSOCIATED PERCOLATION AREA AND PLANNING PERMISSION TO BUILD 35M.SQ OUTHOUSE TO THE REAR OF DWELLING HOUSE

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 1750387

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 Falchorrib.

Recorded monuments

• DG057-002 Hut site
  Description

  Situated on poorly drained rocky land. Small circular area (int. diam. 10.4m N-S; 9.2m E-W) enclosed by low earth and stone bank (Wth 1.1m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.3m) and waterlogged shallow external fosse (Wth 4m; ext. D 0.2m). No entrance feature visible. Internal and external stone facing visible on enclosing bank. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 7 October 2015

Architectural heritage

• House, 1840–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c.1860, having very shallow bed outshot projection to rear wall. Two-bay single-storey outbuilding attached to south end. Pitched straw-thatched roof with mesh over and wired to stone pegs to eaves, and two smooth-rendered chimneystacks with thatch flashings to base of front. Corrugated-asbestos roof to outbuilding, with replacement metal rainwater goods, and roughcast-rendered walls. Square-headed openings throughout, with replacement timber casement windows to house and two-over-two pane timber sliding sash window to outbuilding, and replacement timber battened half-doors to both. Interior of house has roughly-hewn pegged timber A-framed truss roof with purlins and ridgepole providing rounded profile to thatch, and with densely-set rough timber ribs that support sod underthatch and thatch. Set with rear to road, with single-storey outbuildings to south and west with pitched corrugated-iron roofs and mainly limewashed rubble stone walls. Field-stone boundary wall to road.

• House, 1850–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c.1860, having opposed doorways. Pitched straw-thatched roof with mesh over, also having iron and granite pegs (some used to secure thatch), and having rendered copings and chimneystack. Rendered and limewashed walls with slight plinth. Square-headed openings with painted sills, and replacement windows and door. Single-storey outbuilding to rear with pitched roof and rubble stone walls. Set overlooking Bá Thráigh Éanach [Trawenagh Bay].

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

At the centre of the townland of Falchorrib, about 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

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

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

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

Name

Falchorrib · Fál Chorb

Area

4,038,934 m² (403.89 ha, 998.04 acres)

Civil parish

Templecrone, and its townlands

Barony

Boylagh

Electoral division

Maghery, the unit of the census

Census 2022

754 people lived in 290 households in the Maghery electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 35% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Crohy, Meenacloghcor, Meenacross, Tievegarvlagh

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Falchorrib 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.