Fawnmore

73 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Fawnmore, from 21 m² to 155,026 m² (15.5 ha, 38.31 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 32 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 Fawnmore 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.

• 1 Jul 2026Conditional

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

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2661216

• 13 May 2026Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2660862

• 17 Dec 2025Conditional

  AS BUILT, SIDE EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2562249

• 18 Oct 2024Conditional

  DECOMMISSIONING OF AN EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND INSTALLATION OF A NEW SEPTIC TANK WITH PERCOLATION AREA INCLUDING ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2461655

• 7 Jun 2022Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF DWELLING HOUSE WITH PROPRIETARY WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2250977

• 19 May 2021Conditional

  EXISTING OFFICE BUILDING WITH WEIGH BRIDGE AND SEPTIC TANK SYSTEM AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2150959

• 13 Jun 2018N/a

  ERECTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL SLATTED SHED WITH ASSOCIATED SHEEP HANDLING AREA AND MACHINERY STORAGE, INCLUDING ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1850940

• 7 Apr 2017Conditional

  A TEN YEAR PLANNING PERMISSION FOR DEVELOPMENT CONSISTING OF EXTENSION, AREA OF EXTENSION 2.72HA, TO THE OPERATIONAL FAWNMORE QUARRY, PA REG. REF.: 15/50132, AND INCLUDES THE EXTRACTION OF SAND AND GRAVEL MATERIALS, AND ROCK QUARRYING INCLUDING ROCK BLASTING TOGETHER WITH SITE LANDSCAPING, ALL ANCILLARY FACILITIES AND ASSOCIATED WORKS AS DETAILED IN THE PARTICULARS OF THE APPLICATION. THE APPLICATION IS ACCOMPANIED BY ENVIRONMENTAL REPORTS AND A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1750513

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 Fawnmore.

Recorded monuments

• DG025-008 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  Internal diam. c. 20m. The cashel wall is traceable from SSE to S and from SW to N and measured on the SW is 2.5m wide. From SW to N the outer face survives with but a few small gaps, and is built of large blocks surviving in places to two courses and c. 1m in height. The inner face is traceable only for a few short stretches on the SW. The interior is rough and uneven with rock outcrop occurring. Modern stone field walls cross the site which is on a platform of rock with good views. The land is suitable for grazing but wet and marked by rock outcrop. 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

• DG025-020 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  The 'Fort' which was marked on the three editions of the OS 6-inch maps has been removed in the course of sand-quarrying. It stood on an elevated position in undulating land suitable for 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

Architectural heritage

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

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

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Fawnmore · Fán Mór

Area

1,432,618 m² (143.26 ha, 354.01 acres)

Civil parish

Clondahorky, and its townlands

Barony

Kilmacrenan

Electoral division

Dunfanaghy, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Dunfanaghy electoral division: 1,015 people in 376 households; 78% of households own their home; 36% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 50% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyboe, Derryreel, Errarooey Beg, Errarooey More, Murroe

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Fawnmore 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.