Fearn

26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Fearn, from 783 m² to 350,718 m² (35.07 ha, 86.66 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 11 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 Fearn 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.

• 19 Dec 2025Conditional

  DEVELOPMENT OF AN EQUINE ACADEMY TO INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING: (1) CONSTRUCTION OF INDOOR HORSE ARENA BUILDING WHICH INCLUDES STABLES, FEED ROOM, WC AND OFFICE, (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A CLASSROOM AND ACCOMMODATION BLOCK, (3) DEVELOPMENT OF A FOUL EFFLUENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA AND (4) INTERNAL ACCESS ROAD, PARKING AREAS, PERIMETER WALKING TRAIL AND ALL ASSOCIATED AND ANCILLARY SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2562305

• 19 Sept 2022Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DOG KENNELS (DOG ACCOMMODATION) INCLUDING EXERCISE AREA, SEPTIC TANK / SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2251564

• 7 Oct 2020Conditional

  (1) CONSTRUCTION OF INDOOR HORSE ARENA BUILDING WHICH INCLUDES STABLES, FEED ROOM, WC AND OFFICE (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A CLASSROOM AND ACCOMMODATION BLOCK (3) INSTALLATION OF FOUL EFFLUENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA (4) INTERNAL ACCESS ROAD, PARKING AREAS, PERIMETER WALKING TRAIL AND ALL ASSOCIATED AND ANCILLARY SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2051454

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 Fearn.

Recorded monuments

• DG088-003 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  Internal diam. c. 13m. A roughly circular area enclosed by a random scatter of stones surviving to a height of .2m. It appears that an outer wall existed, suggested only by a discolouration in the heather. A 2m break in the NE quadrant may indicate an entrance but there is also a causeway through the walls in the NW quadrant. A subcircular foundation of stones, 2m in diameter, inside the enclosure may be the remains of a trigonometrical station while a horseshoe shaped depression in the SE quadrant may be natural. It is situated on the summit of Fearn Hill on a rocky platform and commands extensive 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

• DG088-004 Standing stone
  Description

  There is no trace of the 'Standing Stone' marked on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map. Situated in marshy pasture land. 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

• DG088-005 Enclosure
  Description

  A slight rise in the field indicates the former location of the single-ringed enclosure shown on the 1st and 2nd editions of the OS 6-inch maps. It was located on the S slope of Fearn Hill. 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 Fearn.

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 Fearn, about 1 in 5 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 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 Fearn.

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

Name

Fearn · Fearna

Area

3,676,411 m² (367.64 ha, 908.46 acres)

Civil parish

Urney, and its townlands

Barony

Raphoe South

Electoral division

Urney West, the unit of the census

Census 2022

640 people lived in 217 households in the Urney West electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 39% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Drumdoit, Skelpy, Tullyard

Placenames

Fearn 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.