Fanaghans

116 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Fanaghans, from 71 m² to 48,817 m² (4.88 ha, 12.06 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 36 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 Fanaghans 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.

• 17 Apr 2026Conditional

  EXTENSION TO THE EXISTING COMMERCIAL BUILDING USED AS A STORAGE AREA AND A SEPARATE DETACHED BUILDING ALSO USED FOR STORAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2660669

• 15 Nov 2024Conditional

  (1) ALTERATIONS TO THE FENESTRATION OF THE REAR ELEVATION OF EXTENDED HOUSE, INCLUDING INSTALLATION OF SLIDING DOORS AND (2) SUSPENDED DECK/PLATFORM WITH GLAZED BALUSTRADE TO THE EAST SIDE OF EXTENDED HOUSE (ALL CONSTRUCTED ON FOOT OF PLANNING REF. NO. 20/51402) AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2461856

• 9 May 2024Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSIONS AND ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2460677

• 16 Oct 2023Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO THE SIDE AND REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING INCLUDING A DOMESTIC GARAGE AT GROUND FLOOR LEVEL AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2351555

• 7 Jul 2021Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH PROPRIETARY WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2151357

• 28 Jun 2021Conditional

  DECOMISSIONING OF EXISTING SEPTIC TANK, INSTALLTION OF NEW WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH POLISHING FILTER AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2151273

• 27 May 2021Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, PROPRIETARY WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM & PERCOLATION AREA AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2151043

• 19 May 2021Conditional

  EXISTING COMMERCIAL STORAGE SHED AND PERMISSION FOR (1) EXTENSION TO COMMERCIAL SHED FOR WHICH RETENTION IS SOUGHT AND (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW COMMERCIAL STORAGE SHED TO BE INTERLINKED WITH EXISTING COMMERCIAL STORAGE SHED AND EXTENSION THERETO

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2150961

• 1 Apr 2021N/a

  ALTERATIONS TO THE SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO THE EXISTING DWELLING PREVIOUSLY APPROVED UNDER PLANNING REFERENCE 20/51402. ALTERATIONS TO INCLUDE: 1. DEMOLITION OF EXISTING GARAGE 2. PROVISION OF AN INCREASE IN FLOOR AREA TO THE EAST OF THE PREVIOUSLY APPROVED EXTENSION IN LIEU OF DEMOLISHED GARAGE 3. ELEVATIONAL CHANGES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2150566

• 30 Sept 2020Conditional

  (1) CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO THE SOUTH EAST OF THE EXISTING DWELLING (2) DECOMMISSIONING OF EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA (3) INSTALLATION OF A NEW WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM (4) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS INCLUDING CONNECTION TO EXISTING ONSITE SERVICES

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2051402

• 24 May 2020Conditional

  ALTERATIONS TO PREVIOUS DWELLING PL REF:19/51130. PROPOSED ALTERATIONS INCLUDING A SMALL INCREASE IN FLOOR AREA, ASSOCIATED ELEVATIONAL CHANGES AND SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2050418

• 17 Feb 2020N/a

  ALTERATIONS TO PREVIOUSLY APPROVED DWELLING PL REF:19/51130, ALTERATIONS TO INCLUDE A SMALL INCREASE IN FLOOR AREA, ASSOCIATED ELEVATION CHANGES AND SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2050173

• 11 Sept 2019Conditional

  RENOVATIONS AND CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW PORCH/SUNROOM EXTENSION TO DWELLING

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1951377

• 24 Jul 2019Conditional

  (1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DERELICT DWELLING AND SHEDS ON SITE (2) CONSTRUCTION OF TWO STOREY DWELLING WITH ATTACHED GARAGE (3) ON-SITE EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH PERCOLATION AREA AND (4) NEW ENTRANCE, ACCESS ROAD AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1951130

• 25 Mar 2019Conditional

  ERECTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC CAR SHED, MECHANICAL TREATMENT SYSTEM AND SOIL POLISHING FILTER AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1950399

• 2 Jun 2017Conditional

  EXTENSION TO THE REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING, DECOMMISSIONING OF EXISTING SEPTIC TANK, INSTALLATION OF A WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1750870

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 Fanaghans.

Recorded monuments

• DG098-004 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  St. Naul's Well, a modernised 'holy well'. It is located on fairly good land on a SSE slope above the sea. Described by Ó Muirgheasa in 1936 as 'A Holy Well on the steep sloping seaside at Fanaghan has been traditionally associated with this miracle [that of St. Naal's drawing water from the rock], and was once the centre of a great annual pilgrimage. Even in recent times the presence of votive offerings and discarded sticks attest cures, but the station has now declined to negligible dimensions." Thus Dr. Maguire abridged. The Well is near Inver' (Ó Muirgheasa 1936, 145). (Ó Muirgheasa No. 14) Archaeological testing was carried out in the vicinity of the holy well in 2001 and the summary results of this excavation are given below. Excavation licence number 01E0120 Testing was carried out in the townland of Fanaghans, Inver, Co. Donegal, on 17 February 2001. The proposed development entails the construction of three detached dwelling-houses and associated services and access road. The site is on a south-west-facing hillside to the west of Inver village, overlooking Inver Bay. A 'modernised' holy well is located at the foot of the hill. Excavation of eighteen test-trenches was carried out at the location of the proposed houses, access road and percolation areas. Topsoil and sod overlay a compact yellow brown sand and bedrock. Nothing of archaeological significance was noted during the course of monitoring. (Excavations Bulletin 2001) Declan Moore, Moore Archaeological and Environmental Services Ltd, 200 Dún na Coiribe, Galway. 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. Compiled by Caimin O'Brien Date of upload/revision: 03 November 2011

Architectural heritage

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

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 moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

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.

• Fanaghans, Inver5 sales

Name

Fanaghans · Na Feannacháin

Area

684,850 m² (68.49 ha, 169.23 acres)

Civil parish

Inver, and its townlands

Barony

Banagh

Electoral division

Inver, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Inver electoral division: 795 people in 296 households; 86% of households own their home; 31% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 13% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardaghy Glebe, Coolshangan, Drumnakilly, Inver Glebe, Port

Placenames

Fanaghans 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.