# Farnagh, Co. Donegal: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Aughnish, barony of Kilmacrenan, Co. Donegal. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 592,962 m² (59.3 ha, 146.52 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,447 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 6 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Aughnish, https://everytownland.com/donegal/parish/aughnish.md - Barony: Kilmacrenan - Electoral division: Rathmelton, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 2,494 people lived in 938 households in the Rathmelton electoral division. 71% of households owned their home. 42% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Donegal, https://everytownland.com/donegal.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/15985 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 51224 - Centre: latitude 55.036241, longitude -7.593755 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Farnagh, from 565 m² to 227,930 m² (22.79 ha, 56.32 acres); 28 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1405198: 227,930 m² (22.79 ha, 56.32 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1405198.md - Parcel 1371295: 220,043 m² (22 ha, 54.37 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1371295.md - Parcel 1371660: 46,893 m² (4.69 ha, 11.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1371660.md - Parcel 1405197: 27,294 m² (2.73 ha, 6.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1405197.md - Parcel 5893218: 15,929 m² (1.59 ha, 3.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5893218.md - Parcel 2876064: 2,634 m² (0.26 ha, 0.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2876064.md - Parcel 3663141: 2,447 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3663141.md - Parcel 1365390: 2,241 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1365390.md - Parcel 1424195: 1,971 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1424195.md - Parcel 1351717: 1,594 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1351717.md - Parcel 1301604: 1,522 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1301604.md - Parcel 1426841: 609 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1426841.md - Parcel 5893225: 565 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5893225.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 6 applications, newest first. - 4 Sept 2024, Donegal County Council 2461366: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND DOMESTIC GARAGE INCLUDING ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2461366/0 - 15 May 2024, Donegal County Council 2450131: Conditional. Retention. (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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2450131/0 - 21 Sept 2023, Donegal County Council 2351409: Conditional. Retention, 1 home. (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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2351409/0 - 12 Apr 2022, Donegal County Council 2250646: Conditional. Retention. SELF CONTAINED APARTMENT, DOMESTIC GARAGE, CONCRETE BASE AND PERMISSION FOR COMPLETION OF THE DWELLING HOUSE ON THE CONCRETE BASE. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2250646/0 - 20 Feb 2019, Donegal County Council 1950219: N/a. Permission, 1 home. ERECTION OF DWELLING HOUSE AND SEPTIC TANK SYSTEM WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1950219/0 - 22 Mar 2017, Donegal County Council 1750440: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND HORSE STABLES/GARAGE. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1750440/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Farnagh. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Farnagh. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - House, 1830–1900, Regional interest, registry number 40904624, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=DG®no=40904624. 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. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Farnagh, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. - 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, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/donegal/farnagh.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/donegal/farnagh.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/donegal/farnagh.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Farnagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal: https://everytownland.com/donegal.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Aughnish: https://everytownland.com/donegal/aughnish.md - Ballylin: https://everytownland.com/donegal/ballylin.md - Croaghan: https://everytownland.com/donegal/croaghan-50794.md - Gortaway: https://everytownland.com/donegal/gortaway.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/donegal/farnagh - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/donegal/farnagh