Fallard or Calhame
Townland in the civil parish of Conwal, barony of Kilmacrenan, Co. Donegal
- Area
- 108.4 ha
- 268 acres
- Land parcels
- 104
- registered freehold, median 2,582 m² (0.26 ha, 0.64 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 18
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
104 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Fallard or Calhame, from 34 m² to 138,092 m² (13.81 ha, 34.12 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 29 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Fallard or Calhame 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
18 Jan 2026Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF NEW SITE ENTRANCE ONTO PUBLIC ROAD TO SERVE EXISTING DWELLING, CHANGE OF USE OF EXISTING GARAGE TO UTILITY ROOM AND PLAY ROOM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2660043
16 Dec 2025Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A TWO-STOREY DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE, INCLUDING INSTALLATION OF A WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2562247
2 Dec 2024Refused
CONTINUATION OF THE USE OF AN EXISTING CONCRETE BATCHING PLANT AND WHEEL WASH INCLUDING ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2461976
26 Aug 2024Conditional
EXISTING DOMESTIC GARAGE AND SHED AND PERMISSION FOR DEMOLITION OF EXISTING HOUSE AND CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE AND CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES
Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2461292
12 Jun 2024Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2460880
12 Jun 2024Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2460881
6 Jun 2023Conditional
(A) CHANGE OF USE FROM AN AGRICULTURAL SHED PREVIOUSLY RETAINED UNDER PLANNING REF: 15/50164 TO A MECHANICS WORKSHOP, (B) EXTENSION AND CHANGE OF USE OF AGRICULTURAL / DOMESTIC LAND INTO A COMMERCIAL YARD, (C) RAISED EARTH BERM ON THE NORTHERN BOUNDARY AND (D) ALL WORKS, AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2350798
29 Apr 2022Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2250765
22 Apr 2022Conditional
(1) CLOSURE OF EXISTING ACCESS ROAD THAT SERVES EXISTING DWELLING APPROVED UNDER PLANNING REF NO. 04/8063 (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM, (3) DEVELOPMENT OF A NEW ACCESS ROAD TO SERVE EXISTING DWELLING AND PROPOSED DWELLING AND ALL OTHER SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2250716
14 Feb 2022N/a
CONSTRUCTION OF DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM, AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2250224
22 Dec 2021N/a
(1) CHANGE OF USE OF AN AGRICULTURAL SHED PREVIOUSLY RETAINED UNDER PLANNING REF: 15/50164 TO A MECHANICS WORKSHOP (2) EXTENSION AND CHANGE OF USE OF AGRICULTURAL YARD INTO A COMMERCIAL YARD (3) ALL WORKS AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2152601
18 Dec 2020Conditional
ALTERATIONS & CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSIONS TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2051962
11 May 2018Unconditional
CONSTRUCTION OF 1 NO. DWELLING TOGETHER WITH ANY ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Extension of duration, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1850731
11 May 2018Unconditional
CONSTRUCTION OF 1 NO. DWELLING TOGETHER WITH ANY ASSOCIATED SITE WORK
Extension of duration, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1850732
11 Jan 2018Conditional
DEVELOPMENT CONSISTING OF (A) THE CONTINUATION OF QUARRYING ACTIVITIES FOR A PERIOD OF 10 YEARS ON A SITE OF 7.3 HECTARES BY LOWERING THE FLOOR OF THE EXISTING QUARRY TO 132M AOD, AND (B) REVISED OPENING HOURS. AN ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT AND NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT HAVE BEEN PREPARED IN RESPECT OF THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT AND WILL BE SUBMITTED TO THE PLANNING AUTHORITY WITH THE APPLICATION
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1850016
22 Dec 2017N/a
DEVELOPMENT CONSISTING OF (A) THE CONTINUATION OF QUARRYING ACTIVITIES FOR A PERIOD OF 10 YEARS ON A SITE OF 7.3 HECTARES BY LOWERING THE FLOOR OF THE EXISTING QUARRY TO 132M AOD, AND (B) REVISED OPENING HOURS. AN ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT AND NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT HAVE BEEN PREPARED IN RESPECT OF THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT AND WILL BE SUBMITTED TO THE PLANNING AUTHORITY WITH THE APPLICATION
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1751973
24 Feb 2017Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF 6 BAY AGRICULTURAL SLATTED SHED EXTENSION TO WEST ELEVATION OF EXISTING AGRICULTURAL SLATTED SHED AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1750266
6 Feb 2017N/a
CONSTRUCTION OF 1. 6 BAY AGRICULTURAL SLATTED SHED EXTENSION TO WEST ELEVATION OF EXISTING AGRICULTURAL SLATTED SHED AND 2. ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1750145
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Fallard or Calhame.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Fallard or Calhame.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Fallard or Calhame.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility 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 Fallard or Calhame.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Fallard or Calhame with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Fallard or Calhame
- Area
- 1,084,202 m² (108.42 ha, 267.91 acres)
- Civil parish
- Conwal, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kilmacrenan
- Electoral division
- Gortnavern, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Gortnavern electoral division: 1,303 people in 443 households; 82% of households own their home; 42% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballaghderg, Bohirril, Ellistrin Big, Ellistrin Little, Knockybrin, Loughagannon
- Placenames
- Fallard or Calhame 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.