Fawnaboy

214 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Fawnaboy, from 23 m² to 2,857,772 m² (285.78 ha, 706.17 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 102 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 Fawnaboy 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 Oct 2026N/a

  (1) RENOVATION, CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSION AND INCREASE IN HEIGHT OF EXISTING DERELICT COTTAGE, (2) INSTALLATION OF SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND (3) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2650124

• 16 Jul 2026N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND DRIVEWAY, INSTALLATION OF WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2661319

• 5 Jun 2026N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND DRIVEWAY, INSTALLATION OF WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2661039

• 21 Aug 2025Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO EXISTING OUTHOUSE INCLUDING ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2561451

• 13 Aug 2025Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE AND INSTALLATION OF A WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2561395

• 3 Mar 2025Conditional

  EXTENSION AND ASSOCIATED ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, TOGETHER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2560295

• 15 Nov 2024Conditional

  (1) GARAGE/STORE, (2) CHANGE OF USE FROM OUTHOUSE TO GRANNY FLAT AND (3) SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL OTHER SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2461854

• 5 Jul 2023Conditional

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

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2350976

• 5 Jul 2023Conditional

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

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2350972

• 20 Mar 2023Conditional

  (1) LAYING NEW HEAVY GAUGE 63MM DIAMETER WATER SUPPLY PIPE TO REPLACE AND EXTEND EXISTING SUB-STANDARD 2" WATER SUPPLY PIPE AND (2) LAYING NEW 125MM DIAMETER WATER SUPPLY PIPE. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) ACCOMPANIES THIS APPLICATION

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2350353

• 31 Jan 2023Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE AND TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH POLISHING FILTER

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2350106

• 29 Jul 2021N/a

  HARDSTAND AREA AND PERMISSION FOR ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2151539

• 19 Nov 2018Conditional

  THE SITE ACCESS ROAD AND GARDEN STORE AND PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH PROPRIETARY WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1851773

• 4 Sept 2017Conditional

  (1) REMOVAL OF EXISTING CHIMNEYS FROM EXISTING DWELLING (2) CONSTRUCTION OF DOMESTIC EXTENSION TO THE NORTH ELEVATION OF EXISTING DWELLING TO CONSIST OF NEW DRESSING AREA (3) CONSTRUCTION OF DOMESTIC EXTENSION TO SOUTH ELEVATION OF EXISTING DWELLING TO CONSIST OF EXTENDED KITCHEN, UTILITY ROOM, SITTING ROOM AND W.C., (4) COMPLETION OF NEW LANDSCAPE AREA ADJACENT WEST SITE BOUNDARY AND (5) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1751346

• 10 Jul 2017Conditional

  (1) REMOVAL OF EXISTING CHIMNEYS FROM EXISTING DWELLING (2) CONSTRUCTION OF DOMESTIC EXTENSION TO THE NORTH ELEVATION OF EXISTING DWELLING TO CONSIST OF NEW DRESSING AREA (3) CONSTRUCTION OF DOMESTIC EXTENSION TO SOUTH ELEVATION OF EXISTING DWELLING TO CONSIST OF EXTENDED KITCHEN, UTILITY ROOM, SITTING ROOM AND W.C.; (4) COMPLETION OF NEW LANDSCAPE AREA ADJACENT WEST SITE BOUNDARY; AND (5) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1751073

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: Fawnboy Bog/Lough Nacung SAC 000140
• Special Protection Area: Derryveagh And Glendowan Mountains SPA 004039
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Fawnboy Bog/Lough Nacung 000140

Recorded monuments

• DG033-005 Standing stone
  Description

  On a low knoll at the N end of Lough Trusk, in a valley of rough, heather-covered boggy terrain. Truskmore, a steep-sided rocky ridge, borders the E side of the lake, and a lower, heather-covered ridge defines the W side of the valley. The standing stone is located on the level top of the low knoll; the S side of the knoll slopes gently down for c. 45m to the N shore of the lake. A stream flows N from the NE shore of the lake, c. 50m to E of the stone. An upright, rectangular-shaped stone slab (H 0.9m; Wth 0.33m; max T 0.33m at WNW end), long axis ESE−WSW, set firmly in the ground. The stone tapers on its long axis from the broader WNW end (T 33cm) to a thin pointed edge (T 2-5cm) at ESE. The top rises gently towards the ESE. The surface of the stone is blotched with lichen. Attached images: DG033-005----_01.JPG Viewed from N DG033-005----_02.JPG Viewed from S Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 21 February 2022

Architectural heritage

• Fawnaboy Bridge, bridge, 1800–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Double-arch bridge, built c.1810, crossing Abhainn Ghleann Átha [Glenna River], having coursed rubble stone walling, parapets with smooth-rendered copings, field-stone voussoirs forming segmental arches, and triangular cut-waters.

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 Fawnaboy, about 1 in 20 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. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Fawnaboy.

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

Name

Fawnaboy · Fána Bhuí

Area

7,346,665 m² (734.67 ha, 1,815.4 acres)

Civil parish

Tullaghobegly, and its townlands

Barony

Kilmacrenan

Electoral division

Gortahork, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,693 people lived in 667 households in the Gortahork electoral division. 83% of households owned their home. 32% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 21% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Beltany Mountain, Beltany Upper, Cashelnagor, Keeldrum Upper, Money Beg

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Fawnaboy 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.