Farnagh

13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Farnagh, from 565 m² to 227,930 m² (22.79 ha, 56.32 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 28 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 Farnagh 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.

• 4 Sept 2024Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND DOMESTIC GARAGE INCLUDING ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2461366

• 15 May 2024Conditional

  (1) SUN ROOM TO SIDE OF EXISTING COTTAGE, (2) REPOSITIONING OF EXTERNAL PORCH ON FRONT ELEVATION OF EXISTING COTTAGE DURING RENOVATION AND REFURBISHMENT WORKS, (3) VELUX ROOFLIGHT TO FRONT ELEVATION, (4) CONVERSION OF SIDE STORAGE SHED INTO LIVING ACCOMMODATION, (5) UPGRADING OF EXISTING SEPTIC TANK, (6) EXCAVATION AND REMOVAL OF A SUBSTANTIAL QUANTITY OF MATERIAL FROM SITE, TIP AND LEVEL ON LAND ADJACENT TO THE EXISTING COTTAGE

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2450131

• 21 Sept 2023Conditional

  (1) EXISTING DOMESTIC GARAGE, (2) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DEFECTIVE CONCRETE DWELLING HOUSE AND (3) PERMISSION FOR CONSTRUCTION OF NEW REPLACEMENT DWELLING AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2351409

• 12 Apr 2022Conditional

  SELF CONTAINED APARTMENT, DOMESTIC GARAGE, CONCRETE BASE AND PERMISSION FOR COMPLETION OF THE DWELLING HOUSE ON THE CONCRETE BASE

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2250646

• 20 Feb 2019N/a

  ERECTION OF DWELLING HOUSE AND SEPTIC TANK SYSTEM WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1950219

• 22 Mar 2017Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND HORSE STABLES/GARAGE

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1750440

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 Farnagh.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Farnagh.

Architectural heritage

• House, 1830–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey vernacular house with attic, built c.1840, having bed outshot to rear. Southwest end bay is addition of c.1890, and windbreak was added c.1950. Pitched corrugated-asbestos roof with rendered parapets, replacement gutters and rendered chimneystacks. Roughcast-rendered walls with smooth plinth to front, smooth-rendered elsewhere, and having concrete walls to windbreak. Square-headed openings with stone sills and timber sliding sash windows, two-over-two pane and margined one-over-one pane to front elevation and two-over-two pane to northeast gable. Square-headed timber panelled door. Set at right angle to road, with low rendered boundary wall having crenellated parapet and square-plan piers, with single-storey rendered outbuildings to southeast and southwest with lean-to corrugated-iron roofs.

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 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 Farnagh.

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

Name

Farnagh

Area

592,962 m² (59.3 ha, 146.52 acres)

Civil parish

Aughnish, and its townlands

Barony

Kilmacrenan

Electoral division

Rathmelton, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Rathmelton electoral division: 2,494 people in 938 households; 71% of households own their home; 42% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aughnish, Ballylin, Croaghan, Gortaway

Placenames

Farnagh 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.