Farragans

123 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Farragans, from 23 m² to 100,983 m² (10.1 ha, 24.95 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 33 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 Farragans 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 Aug 2026N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSIONS, ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING FENESTRATION, UPGRADING EXISTING WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2661525

• 11 Feb 2026Conditional

  (1) CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSION AND RENOVATION OF EXISTING DERELICT DWELLING HOUSE WITH ALTERATIONS TO ALL FACADES AND (2) INSTALLATION OF A NEW SEWERAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2660171

• 3 Sept 2025Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEWERAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2561514

• 12 Jun 2025Conditional

  (1) RECONSTRUCTION OF ORIGINAL STONE-WALLED COTTAGE INCLUDING A FIRST FLOOR BEDROOM EXTENSION TO THE COTTAGE, (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A SPLIT-LEVEL SINGLE-STOREY VAULTED ROOF EXTENSION TO THE GABLE-SIDE OF THE COTTAGE, (3) INSTALLATION OF A WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND (4) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2560975

• 2 Jul 2024Refused

  DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE WITH ATTACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE. DECOMMISSIONING OF EXISTING TREATMENT SYSTEM AND INSTALLATION OF A NEW SEWERAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Extension of duration · Donegal County Council, 2450168

• 26 Mar 2024N/a

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEWERAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2460398

• 29 Dec 2022Conditional

  EXTENSION AND ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING DWELLING AND ASSOCIATED OUTBUILDING, REPLACEMENT OF EXISTING SEPTIC TANK WITH NEW PACKAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2252104

• 1 Jul 2022N/a

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEWERAGE TREATMENT AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2251136

• 1 Jun 2022N/a

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEWERAGE TREATMENT AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2250945

• 27 Apr 2022Conditional

  (1) ERECTION OF DOMESTIC EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE WITH ELEVATIONAL AMENDMENTS TO ALL FACADES (2) DECOMMISSIONING OF EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND INSTALLATION OF A NEW WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2250739

• 24 May 2020Conditional

  CHANGE OF HOUSE TYPE INCLUDING REPOSITIONING OF HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND SITE ENTRANCE WITHIN SITE AS PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REFERENCE 18-51620 AND INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2050598

• 8 Apr 2020N/a

  CHANGE OF HOUSE TYPE INCLUDING PERMISSION TO REPOSITION HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND SITE ENTRANCE WITHIN SITE AS PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REFERENCE 18-51620 AND INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2050473

• 24 Jun 2019Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEWERAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1950966

• 22 Oct 2018Conditional

  DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE WITH ATTACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE. DECOMMISSIONING OF EXISTING TREATMENT SYSTEM AND INSTALLATION OF A NEW SEWERAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1851620

• 16 May 2018Refused

  DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE WITH ATTACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE AND CONNECTION TO THE EXISTING SEWERAGE SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1850773

• 30 Aug 2017Conditional

  DWELLING HOUSE WITH TREATMENT PLANT AND PERCOLATION AREA PLUS DOMESTIC SHEDS INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1751334

• 24 Jul 2017N/a

  DWELLING HOUSE WITH TREATMENT PLANT AND PERCOLATION AREA PLUS DOMESTIC SHEDS INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1751173

• 10 May 2017Conditional

  ERECTION OF A 1.5 STOREY DWELLING HOUSE WITH PREPARATORY WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1750718

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: West of Ardara/Maas Road SAC 000197
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: West Of Ardara/Maas Road 000197

Recorded monuments

• DG065-017 Megalithic tomb - court tomb
  Description

  The monument is not shown on any edition of the OS 6-inch map. It is close to the coast on a fall of ground overlooking Gweebarra Bay to the W and the estuary of the Gweebarra River c. 1km to the S. Rising ground restricts the outlook to the N and E. The fair pasture in the locality is broken by numerous occurrences of outcropping rock. The monument consists of an unroofed but otherwise well-preserved gallery that is preceded at the E by the remains of a court. A peculiarity of this monument is the use of a large erratic as the inner end of the N side of the gallery. A projection of the outer end of this rock narrows the gallery just beyond mid-length and was apparently availed of to effect a division of the gallery into two chambers. The incorporation of this large rock in the structure may account for the positioning of the monument on a fall of ground that, 3m to the S, gives way to a steep rocky ledge. A modern field wall runs diagonally across the gallery. There are some humps and hollows in the ground to the N of the gallery but no reliable trace of any cairn material. The fall in ground level to the S and W of the tomb would have presented difficulties in any attempts to raise a cairn. Seven courtstones survive, of which two serve as the entrance jambs of the gallery. A single orthostat flanks the southern entrance jamb, and four contiguous ones survive beyond the northern jamb. The courtstones are small, and a decrease in height toward the outermost is apparent at the N. The stone flanking the southern jamb is 1.05m high, and that next to the northern jamb is 0.3m high. The heights of the succeeding three courtstones at the N are 0.3m, 0.2m and 0.15m. Both the size and the original design of the court are now unclear. The northern entrance jamb is partly forward of the southern, but they are well matched in other respects and stand 0.75m apart. That to the N, the top of which slopes downward slightly toward the outside, is 0.55m high. The southern one is more or less flat on top and 0.55m high. A displaced slab, apparently a lintel, rests against the outer end of this. It measures 1.8m by 0.85m by 0.4m thick. The gallery is just over 5m long internally. The outer half is 2-2.5m wide; it narrows to 0.85m at mid-length; and the inner half is 1.5m wide. A stone, 1.5m by 0.45m by 0.5m, lying across the gallery at mid-length forms part of the field wall crossing the monument. At either side of this stone the floor of the gallery has been dug to a depth of c. 0.5m and is now quite uneven. Three stones form the N side of the gallery, and three its S side. There is an additional stone inside the outermost orthostat at the S, which serves to double the side-wall. The gallery is closed by a more or less flat-topped backstone, its N end set inside the line of the gallery and its S end set beyond the S side of the same. The outermost orthostat at the N side of the gallery has a flat inner and a sloping outer face and rises c. 0.1m above the top of the adjacent entrance jamb. At its inner face it is exposed to a maximum depth of 1.1m. The next, the top of which is 0.5m below that of the first, is a small stone exposed to a depth of 0.6m at its inner face but only 0.1m at its outer face. There is a very small upright stone (not hatched on plan) wedged against the NW corner of this, which measures 0.3m by 0.1m and is 0.3m high. The inner half of this side of the gallery wall is formed by the large rock already referred to. This is broadest close to its outer end and narrows considerably toward the back of the gallery. It measures 2.7m long by 1.7m in maximum thickness and is 1.75m in maximum height. Its height decreases to the W. The outermost orthostat on the S side of the gallery is exposed to a depth of 0.05m at its inner face and 0.15m at its outer face. The stone inside this is exposed to a height of 0.1m at its outer face and 0.4m at its inner face. It serves to close a space between the entrance jamb and the gallery wall. The second sidestone at this side is 0.8m high. It rises c. 0.7m over the innermost stone, which is exposed to a depth of 0.1m at its inner face and 0.4m at its outer face. The backstone, which is more or less flat topped, leans inward slightly. It measures 0.8m high at its inner face. There are two small embanked enclosures, possibly hut sites, c. 20m E of the tomb. One is round and measures 7.5m in overall diameter, and adjoining this at the N is a rectangular one measuring 8m by 6m. Cookman 1987, 133. The above description was published in the 'Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume VI, County Donegal.' Compiled by: Eamon Cody (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). Date of upload: 22 September 2008 See linked document with details from Eamon Cody, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume VI. County Donegal. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002)

Architectural heritage

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

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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility high, 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 Farragans.

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

Name

Farragans · Na Fargáin

Area

1,525,825 m² (152.58 ha, 377.04 acres)

Civil parish

Lettermacaward, and its townlands

Barony

Boylagh

Electoral division

Lettermacaward, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Lettermacaward electoral division: 727 people in 301 households; 83% of households own their home; 36% of homes were built since 2001; 17% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 27% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cor, Dooey, Glebe, Longfield, Meenagowan, Ranny, Toome

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Farragans 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.