Faugher

192 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Faugher, from 16 m² to 157,489 m² (15.75 ha, 38.92 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 30 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 Faugher 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.

• 13 May 2026Conditional

  (1) PARTIAL DEMOLITIONS TO EXISTING SINGLE DWELLING HOUSE, (2) REMOVAL OF DEFECTIVE ATTIC ROOF FROM THE EXISTING MAIN HOUSE AND REPLACEMENT WITH NEW ATTIC ROOF WITH INCREASED HEAD HEIGHT, (3) REMOVAL OF EXISTING SINGLE STOREY BATHROOM AND CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSIONS IN ITS PLACE CONSISTING OF A NEW SINGLE STOREY BEDROOM, BATH AND SHOWER ROOMS WITH A UTILITY ROOM TO THE SIDE AND REAR OF THE EXISTING PROPERTY INCLUDING ELEVATIONAL CHANGES AND (4) INSTALLATION OF A NEW ON-SITE WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM REPLACING AND UPGRADING THE EXISTING CESS PIT WHICH WILL BE REMOVED AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS, PROVIDING IMPROVED EXTERNAL ACCESS SUITABLE FOR DISABLED USE

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2660857

• 7 May 2025Conditional

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

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2560727

• 18 Sept 2024Conditional

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

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2461475

• 28 Jun 2024Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO THE REAR OF EXISTING HOUSE, INCREASING THE OVERALL FLOOR AREA FROM 55 SQM TO 157 SQM, INCLUDING ELEVATION CHANGES. DEVELOPMENT WILL INCLUDE A NEW ON-SITE WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2460983

• 30 Jan 2023Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO THE REAR AND SIDE OF DWELLING HOUSE INCORPORATING AN INTEGRAL GARAGE AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2350087

• 1 Jun 2022Conditional

  SITE WORKS AND ERECTION OF A STORAGE SHED TO THE REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2250949

• 1 Jun 2022N/a

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

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2250952

• 28 Mar 2022N/a

  ERECTION OF A DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2250516

• 2 Mar 2022N/a

  ERECTION OF A DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2250348

• 29 Jul 2021Conditional

  ERECTION OF AN EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE WITH ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2151520

• 24 May 2020Conditional

  ERECTION OF AN EXTENSION TO THE SIDE OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE TO PROVIDE ANCILLARY ACCOMMODATION WITH ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT ACCOMPANIES THIS APPLICATION

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2050641

• 16 Jul 2019Conditional

  ERECTION OF DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1951099

• 1 May 2019Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DOMESTIC SHED AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1950627

• 7 Nov 2018Conditional

  ERECTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL SHED AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1851720

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: Sessiagh Lough SAC 000185
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Sessiagh Lough 000185

Recorded monuments

• DG016-022 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  A grassed-over, collapsed stone wall encloses a sub-circular area except on the S side. The interior is level. It is situated on a rock spur close to the E shore of Sessiagh Lough. To the N there is marshy rocky land, to the S higher ground with good grazing. 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. Date of upload: 22 September 2008

• DG016-023 Burial ground
  Description

  Marked 'Mullaghadoney Burial Ground' on the 2nd and 3rd editions of the OS 6-inch maps. The site now consists of a group of stones, presumably grave-markers. One of these, .85m high, .7m wide and thick has a hole c. 3cms in diameter close to its W edge, at mid-height. The site, in grazing land, is a flat-topped rise with good views. 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. Date of upload: 22 September 2008

• DG016-024001 House - 16th/17th century
  Description

  Faugher House: In 1611, Tirlagh Roe O'Boyle was granted some 2,000 acres in the barony of Kilmacrenan which included, inter alia, the lands of Faugher (Hill 1877, 328; Trench 1945, 96-8). In 1619 O'Boyle is described as having 'built a good bawn and a house of lime and stone in which he with his family dweleth' (Hill 1877, 526). He mortgaged the lands to John Stanton, whose wife is recorded as living there in 1622. The house is described in that year as 'of clay and stone rough cast with lime, 48 ft long, 25 ft broad and 13 ft high . . . Adjoining to this house, there are 3 stone houses and a timber house, thatched' (Simmington 1937, 136; Treadwell 1953-5, 43). The lands were forfeited by O'Boyle as a result of the 1641 rebellion. They were regranted to Sir John Stephens and were sold by his assignee, Hugh Hamil, to William Wray in 1700; the Wrays had been living there for some 30 years previous (Trench 1945, 94-7). The house was abandoned during the 18th century and is marked as 'Castle Ruins' in Taylor and Skinner (1778, 231). The remains comprise an irregular five bay three-storey house with attic and entrance at first-floor level set centrally in a rectangular bawn (DG016-024002-), 34.3m x 29.4m internally, which had four corner towers. Sited on a slope, there is a gradual rise in ground level from S to N; this rise is markedly less within the bawn, where some attempt has been made to raise the ground level, particularly on the SE. House. The harled, gabled, three-storey house survives to full height and is built of split stone and rubble laid in a coarse mortar; the E gable chimney, having been struck by lightning, fell c. 30 years ago. The windows and doorways are lintelled and have a relieving arch above; all had timber frames. The house was roughly square in plan 9.75m x 9.1m internally with walls .61m thick. Each floor was divided into four rooms by two crosswalls rising the full height of the house, the N-S wall giving added support to the ridge. The first floor was supported by massive E-W joists, the surviving holes for which average c. 35cms by c. 30cms. The ground floor, which is part basement, contained the kitchen at the SE, where the remains of a large fireplace and brick-lined oven survive. There is a rectangular opening at floor level in the E wall just S of the fireplace. The landowner records a flag-covered tunnel or passage outside this wall of the house (3 ft wide by 3 ft deep); it might be the remains of a drain similar to that which discharges itself at the foot of the S bawn wall. This opening may have connected with the drain or tunnel. Part of the N wall of the NE room has fallen and the surviving ingoings indicate the former presence of a door and window in this area. The lower courses of a secondary crosswall survive in the NW room. Access to the first floor was probably by a wooden stairs along the E face of the N-S crosswall. The main entrance to the house was at this level and the porch is a secondary addition; the E wall has almost completely fallen. The windows in this floor are of uniform size, c. 1.2m high by c. 0.84m wide. On the second floor, they are of similar size in the gable walls, but being just below eaves-level in the N and S walls are c. 1m high. The fireplaces are in the corners of the rooms adjoining the gables or in the case of the SW rooms flank the flue from the kitchen fireplace; only the SW attic room has a fireplace. The sloping mantels supported on wooden cross beams (some charred stumps remain) survive in the NE, NW and SW rooms of the first floor; the remaining fireplaces had single-slab lintels supported by a wooden beam (now missing). The SW first-floor room was probably the principal living room in the house, and has two wall-presses (E wall 1.8m high; N wall .95m high); it alone led to the NW room. Access to the second floor was probably by a wooden stairs (possibly with a quarter turn or dog-legged) along the E face of the N-S cross wall in the NE room. A section of the N wall of this room has fallen. There is evidence for the secondary blocking of some openings on the second floor, and the fireplace in the SE room was reduced in width and given a segment-headed, arched lintel. There are small attic rooms above; the NE, NW and SW have small gable windows. The bawn (DG016-024002-) is possibly early 17th century in date and is probably that which was erected by O'Boyle. The house is certainly later than that described in the 1622 report and might well have been built when the Wrays came to reside there in the second half of the 17th century. The nature of this settlement is further reflected in the names of two fields on the S of Faugher House, namely 'the kitchen garden' and 'the orchard'. 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. Date of upload: 22 September 2008

• DG016-024002 Bawn
  Description

  Faugher House (DG016-024): In 1611, Tirlagh Roe O'Boyle was granted some 2,000 acres in the barony of Kilmacrenan which included, inter alia, the lands of Faugher (Hill 1877, 328; Trench 1945, 96-8). In 1619 O'Boyle is described as having 'built a good bawn and a house of lime and stone in which he with his family dweleth' (Hill 1877, 526). He mortgaged the lands to John Stanton, whose wife is recorded as living there in 1622. The house is described in that year as 'of clay and stone rough cast with lime, 48 ft long, 25 ft broad and 13 ft high . . . Adjoining to this house, there are 3 stone houses and a timber house, thatched' (Simmington 1937, 136; Treadwell 1953-5, 43). The lands were forfeited by O'Boyle as a result of the 1641 rebellion. They were regranted to Sir John Stephens and were sold by his assignee, Hugh Hamil, to William Wray in 1700; the Wrays had been living there for some 30 years previous (Trench 1945, 94-7). The house was abandoned during the 18th century and is marked as 'Castle Ruins' in Taylor and Skinner (1778, 231). The remains comprise an irregular five bay three-storey house with attic and entrance at first-floor level set centrally in a rectangular bawn (DG016-024002-), 34.3m x 29.4m internally, which had four corner towers. Sited on a slope, there is a gradual rise in ground level from S to N; this rise is markedly less within the bawn, where some attempt has been made to raise the ground level, particularly on the SE. Bawn: The walls are built of split stone and rubble laid in mortar; the stones are neatly laid and the whole finely jointed. Only the W wall with adjoining remains of the corner towers, the W half of the S wall, and sections of the walls which adjoin the NE corner tower, survive. The W and S walls stand to full height and are capped with rounded crenellations. The main entrance to the bawn was about midway along the S wall. The stop-chamfered jamb and voussoir of a four-centred arch survive on the W, and the splayed ingoing preserves a large draw-bar socket. The wall is 3.8m high externally and 2.4m high on the interior; it preserves four gun-loops. At the foot of the exterior face is a small rectangular opening, c. 20cms high, the outlet for a flag-covered drain which runs in the direction of the SW corner of the house. Due to the nature of the exterior slope, the W wall is higher on the S, 4m-5m, than on the N, 3m; the wall is 2.9m high on the interior and is pierced with sixteen gun-loops. The SW corner tower is represented by the N and W walls c. 1.5m high; both have two gun-loops. This tower was probably two storeys in height with the entrance from the interior of the bawn at first-floor level. The tower has a slight salient angle. A small section of the E wall of the SE tower, .7m high and incorporated in a modern drystone wall, would likewise confirm that tower as also having a salient angle; it is equally likely that both the N towers were similarly constructed. Only the S wall, c. 1m high, and interior return of the E wall of the NW tower survives. A window in the S wall looks onto the interior of the bawn, and the doorway in the E wall, c. 1.4m high, is blocked up; the heads are missing. The line of the N wall is indicated by fallen rubble and a short stretch of fallen wall lies within the bawn. The E section of the N wall survives to a height of c. 1m, and has a small drain-like opening, c. 20cms high, at present ground level. Fragments of the interior walls of the NE tower are incorporated in a modern drystone wall and the splayed ingoing on the N may be the remains of a doorway corresponding with that in the NW tower. Only a short length of the E wall remains c. 1m high, though its line can be traced for almost the whole of its length; it preserves the remains of a single loop. The outline of two secondary structures in the bawn are visible as footings. One was built against the interior face of the W wall and some stones were removed for bonding, the other was built against the interior corner of the N wall and NE tower; the latter is cross-hatched and depicted as part of a larger structure on the OS 6 inch sheet. The bawn is possibly early 17th century in date and is probably that which was erected by O'Boyle. The house (DG016-024) is certainly later than that described in the 1622 report and might well have been built when the Wrays came to reside there in the second half of the 17th century. The nature of this settlement is further reflected in the names of two fields on the S of Faugher House, namely 'the kitchen garden' and 'the orchard'. 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. Date of upload: 22 September 2008

• DG016-025 Bullaun stone
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• DG016-031 Megalithic structure
  Description

  Marked in gothic script on current edition of the Ordnance Survey map as 'Lacknaloe'. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload/revision: : 19 July 2010

Architectural heritage

• Faugher House, castle/fortified house, house, 1610–1710 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay two-storey over basement house with attic storey or storeys, built c. 1670-1700 and possibly incorporating remains of earlier fortified house to site, built c. 1611. Possibly with remains of defensive porch to the south-west elevation, now ruinous. Now derelict and out of use. Originally with steeply pitched roof, now collapsed, having remains of partially lime roughcast rendered rubble stone chimneystack to the north-west gable end. Chimneystack to the south-east gable end, and probably to the central partition wall now collapsed. Remains of angled corner fireplaces to the gable end walls to interior. Partially roughcast rendered rubble stone walls. Irregularly-spaced square-headed window openings having rubble stone voussoirs; sills and fittings now removed. Square-headed doorways, fittings now removed. Remains of rubble stone (partially defensive) former entrance porch to the south-west elevation, now partially collapsed. Remains of brick fireplace and brick-lined oven survive to former kitchen to the south-east corner at basement level. Set back from road in own grounds in the rural countryside to the south-east\east of Dunfanaghy close to summit of Mullaghdoney Hill and close to Portnablagh Pier and Portnablagh. Set within the remains of former defensive bawn (on rectangular-plan) having rubble stone walls with rounded battlements over, and with regular gun loops along the north-west wall having splayed internal reveals. Remains of flanking towers (on square-plan) to corners. Remains of integral four-centred arched entrance with chamfered stone reveals to the south-west side. Interior of bawn is raised in comparison to exterior ground level; remains of footings of former buildings surviving to the north-west and north-east sides of bawn interior. Site now associated with modern farm complex to the south-west.

• House, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c.1800, with two-bay outbuilding at south and multiple-bay single-storey outbuilding to north. Pitched Roshin slate roof with two rendered chimneystacks, having stone and rendered copings to parapet, and galvanized steel gutter. Corrugated-metal roof to northern outbuilding. Square-headed window openings with one-over-one pane timber sliding sash and various other timber windows, with painted stone sills. Set within farmyard, with rubble stone boundary wall to south.

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 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 Faugher.

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

Name

Faugher

Area

1,337,150 m² (133.72 ha, 330.42 acres)

Civil parish

Clondahorky, and its townlands

Barony

Kilmacrenan

Electoral division

Ards, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ards electoral division: 805 people in 270 households; 86% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 61% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballymore Lower, Breaghy, Clonmass, Dundrudian, Knocknafaugher, Marblehill, Rockhill

Placenames

Faugher 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.