Fawans

34 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Fawans, from 367 m² to 299,152 m² (29.92 ha, 73.92 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 17 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Fawans 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.

• 23 Oct 2025Conditional

  REVISIONS TO PREVIOUSLY APPROVED PLANNING REF. NO. 21/50825 INCLUDING PROPOSED CHANGE OF HOUSE TYPE, RELOCATION OF ENTRANCE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2561845

• 20 Aug 2025Conditional

  (1) DEMOLITION OF PART OF EXISTING BUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW ENTRANCE TO SHOP, (2) ERECTION OF AN EXTENSION TO FRONT, SIDE AND REAR OF EXISTING BUILDING, (3) PROVISION OF A NEW INTERNAL LAYOUT TO SHOP TO INCLUDE AN OFF-LICENCE, (4) PROVISION OF NEW SIGNAGE THROUGHOUT DEVELOPMENT, (5) RELOCATION OF APPROVED WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND (6) ALL ADDITIONAL SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS INCLUDING CAR PARKING IN LIEU OF PREVIOUSLY APPROVED PERMISSION (PLANNING REF. NO. 24/61629 REFERS) AT THE SITE OF EXISTING FILLING STATION/SHOP

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2561440

• 13 May 2025Conditional

  CHANGE OF HOUSE TYPE TO THAT PREVIOUSLY GRANTED (PLANNING REF. NO. 20/50979 REFERS)

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2560754

• 15 Oct 2024Conditional

  ADDITIONAL CAR PARKING SPACES AND PERMISSION FOR (1) DEMOLITION OF PART OF FRONT OF THE BUILDING, (2) ERECTION OF A NEW EXTENSION TO THE FRONT OF THE BUILDING, (3) NEW INTERNAL LAYOUT OF THE SHOP TO INCLUDE AN OFF-LICENCE, (4) PROVISION OF NEW SIGNAGE THROUGHOUT THE DEVELOPMENT AND (5) ALL ADDITIONAL SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS AT THE SITE OF EXISTING FILLING STATION/SHOP

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2461629

• 30 Jan 2024N/a

  (1) DEMOLITION OF PART OF THE EXISTING FRONT OF THE BUILDING, (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW EXTENSION TO THE FRONT OF THE BUILDING, (3) NEW INTERNAL LAYOUT OF THE SHOP TO INCLUDE AN OFF-LICENCE, (4) PROVISION OF NEW SIGNAGE THROUGHOUT THE DEVELOPMENT AND (5) CONSTRUCTION OF AN ADDITIONAL NEW CAR PARKING AREA INCLUDING ALL OTHER SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2460055

• 22 Dec 2022N/a

  (1) DEMOLITION OF PART OF EXISTING FRONT OF THE BUILDING, (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW EXTENSION TO THE FRONT OF THE BUILDING, (3) NEW INTERNAL LAYOUT OF THE SHOP TO INCLUDE AN OFF-LICENCE AND (4) DEVELOPMENT OF ADDITIONAL NEW CAR PARKING AREA AND INCLUDING ALL OTHER SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS AT EXISTING FILLING STATION / SHOP

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2252083

• 12 Aug 2022Conditional

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

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2251372

• 5 May 2021Conditional

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

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2150825

• 22 Jul 2020Conditional

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

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2050979

• 23 Apr 2019Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A STORE TO SIDE OF EXISTING FILLING STATION BUILDING AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1950577

• 13 Oct 2017N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO EXISTING FILLING STATION, PROVISION OF AN OUTDOOR STORAGE AREA AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1751551

• 10 May 2017Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING WITH SEPARATE DOMESTIC GARAGE AND SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1750731

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 Fawans.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Fawans.

Architectural heritage

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

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

At the centre of the townland of Fawans, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as high, 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 Fawans.

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Fawans with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Fawans · Na Fánaibh

Area

1,575,563 m² (157.56 ha, 389.33 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmacrenan, and its townlands

Barony

Kilmacrenan

Electoral division

Termon, the unit of the census

Census 2022

568 people lived in 189 households in the Termon electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 41% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Barnes Lower, Currin, Goldrum, Knocknabollan

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Fawans 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.