Figart

64 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Figart, from 74 m² to 157,411 m² (15.74 ha, 38.9 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 19 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 Figart 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.

• 5 Mar 2025Conditional

  PITCHED ROOFS AND AMENDED FENESTRATION PATTERN TO PORCH AT FRONT OF HOUSE AND UTILITY ROOM TO REAR OF HOUSE

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2550017

• 21 Oct 2024Conditional

  (1) CONSTRUCTION OF 44 NO. DWELLINGS AND 12 NO. APARTMENTS (TOTAL NO. OF RESIDENTIAL UNITS = 56) IN LIEU OF 51 NO. UNITS PREVIOUSLY APPROVED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 04/2843 (EXTENDED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 10/30338) AND PLANNING REF. NO. 06/31696, (2) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS TO INCLUDE ASSOCIATED CARPARKING, LANDSCAPED AMENITY SPACES, SURFACE PLAY AREAS AND SEATING AREAS AND (3) CONNECTION TO EXISTING ON SITE SERVICES INCLUDING EXISTING FOUL WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PROPOSED ACCESS TO SITE VIA 2 NO. EXISTING ENTRANCES ALL PREVIOUSLY CONSTRUCTED UNDER PLANNING REF.NO. 04/2843 (EXTENDED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 10/30338) AND PLANNING REF. NO. 06/31696

  Permission, 44 homes · Donegal County Council, 2461665

• 12 Sept 2024Unconditional

  RETENTION AND COMPLETION OF DWELLING HOUSE CURRENTLY UNDER CONSTRUCTION INCLUDING ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Extension of duration, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2450205

• 27 May 2024Conditional

  RETENTION AND COMPLETION OF DWELLING HOUSE CURRENTLY UNDER CONSTRUCTION INCLUDING ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2460771

• 27 Feb 2024Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO SIDE OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2450066

• 2 Aug 2023N/a

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH AN ONSITE WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT AND ALL OTHER SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2351153

• 13 Jul 2022Conditional

  ERECTION OF NEW FLOODLIGHTING TO AN EXISTING PLAYING FIELD AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2251209

• 8 Sept 2021Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH DOMESTIC GARAGE AND WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM INCLUDING ALL OTHER SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2151792

• 29 Apr 2021Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW TWO-STOREY DETACHED DWELLING, A SINGLE-STOREY DETACHED GARAGE, A NEW WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT AND PERCOLATION AREA, TOGETHER WITH ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS AND CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2150792

• 10 Feb 2021N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF AN ENCLOSED ASTRO TURF PITCH WITH ASSOCIATED FENCING AND BOUNDARY WALL, FLOODLIGHTING AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2150210

• 5 Feb 2020Refused

  CHANGE THE HOUSE TYPE PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER REF 18/51309

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2050119

• 12 Mar 2019Conditional

  (1) ALTERATIONS TO MIXED USE BUILDING PREVIOUSLY APPROVED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 07/31451 COMPRISING OF REVISED ROOF AND FENESTRATION DETAILS AND CHANGES TO THE INTERNAL LAYOUT AND (2) PERMISSION FOR THE CHANGE OF USE OF THE GROUND FLOOR FROM RETAIL TO OFFICE USE

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 1950322

• 22 Aug 2018Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK. THE PLANNING APPLICATION IS ACCOMPANIED BY A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1851309

• 31 May 2018Conditional

  (1) ERECTION OF AN EXTENSION TO THE REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE LINKING THE HOUSE TO THE GARAGE, (2) CONVERSION OF EXISTING DOMESTIC GARAGE INTO BEDROOM ANCILLARY TO THE EXISTING DWELLING AND (3) ALTERATIONS TO THE FENESTRATION OF THE EXISTING WEST ELEVATION INCLUDING 2 NO. NEW ROOF WINDOWS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1850861

• 16 Jan 2018N/a

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK. THE APPLICATION IS ACCOMPANIED BY A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT.

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1850049

• 21 Dec 2017N/a

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1751956

• 7 Jun 2017Conditional

  CHANGE OF HOUSE TYPE TO HOUSE TYPE NO. 1 PREVIOUSLY APPROVED UNDER PLANNING REFERENCE NUMBER 11/30345 WITH CONNECTION TO PREVIOUSLY APPROVED WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1750906

• 16 May 2017N/a

  EXISTING ACCESS ROAD WITH ENTRANCE ONTO THE PUBLIC ROAD

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 1750768

• 12 May 2017N/a

  CHANGE OF HOUSE TYPE TO HOUSE TYPE NO. 1, PREVIOUSLY APPROVED UNDER PLANNING REFERENCE NUMBER 11/30345 WITH CONNECTION TO PREVIOUSLY APPROVED WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1750735

• 6 Mar 2017Conditional

  ERECTION OF A SINGLE-STOREY EXTENSION TO THE WEST ELEVATION OF THE EXISTING HOUSE. THE EXTENSION WILL INCREASE THE DIMENSIONS OF THE EXISTING MASTER BEDROOM, FACILITATE A NEW EN SUITE AND REPURPOSE THE PREVIOUS EN SUITE TO BE USED FOR THE ADJACENT BEDROOM. GROUND WORKS FOR THE FRONT AND REAR OF THE HOUSE IS ALSO INTENDED TO ACCOMMODATE 2 NO. CAR PARKING SPACES AND A PATIO AREA

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1750316

• 23 Feb 2017N/a

  ERECTION OF A SINGLE-STOREY EXTENSION TO THE WEST ELEVATION OF THE EXISTING HOUSE. THE EXTENSION WILL INCREASE THE DIMENSIONS OF THE EXISTING MASTER BEDROOM, FACILITATE A NEW EN SUITE AND REPURPOSE THE PREVIOUS EN SUITE TO BE USED FOR THE ADJACENT BEDROOM. GROUND WORKS FOR THE FRONT AND REAR OF THE HOUSE IS ALSO INTENDED TO ACCOMMODATE 2 NO. CAR PARKING SPACES AND A PATIO AREA

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1750251

• 31 Jan 2017N/a

  ERECTION OF A SINGLE-STOREY EXTENSION TO THE WEST ELEVATION OF THE EXISTING HOUSE. THE EXTENSION WILL INCREASE THE DIMENSIONS OF THE EXISTING MASTER BEDROOM, FACILITATE A NEW EN SUITE AND REPURPOSE THE PREVIOUS EN SUITE TO BE USED FOR THE ADJACENT BEDROOM. GROUND WORKS FOR THE FRONT AND REAR OF THE HOUSE IS ALSO INTENDED TO ACCOMMODATE 2 NO. CAR PARKING SPACES AND A PATIO AREA

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1750109

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: Horn Head and Rinclevan SAC 000147
• Special Protection Area: Horn Head to Fanad Head SPA 004194
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Horn Head And Rinclevan 000147

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Figart.

Architectural heritage

• The Gallery, hospital/infirmary, 1840–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay two-storey former fever hospital originally associated with Dunfanaghy Union Workhouse (see 40807008), dated 1845. Closed as a hospital in 1922 and later in use as a national school, c. 1930-60. Now in use as a gallery and private dwelling with two-storey addition to the rear (west). Replacement pitched slate roof with cast-iron rainwater goods, projecting eaves course, and with rendered chimneystacks to the gable ends. Pitched roof to rear extension. Squared and snecked rubble sandstone walls with dressed and hammered flush ashlar block-and-start quoins to the corners. Smooth rendered walls to gable ends (north and south). Square-headed window openings with stone sills, slim rendered surrounds, dressed ashlar lintels, and replacement timber casement windows. Central square-headed doorway to the front elevation (east) having dressed ashlar lintels, stone steps, replacement timber door with overlight. Detached single-storey outbuilding to the north. Set back from road in own grounds to the south-west of Dunfanaghy with gardens to south-east. Bounded on road-frontage to the east by rubble stone boundary wall with rubble stone gate piers (on square-plan). Located adjacent to the south of the former Dunfanaghy Union Workhouse complex (see 40807008).

• The Dunfanaghy Workhouse and Famine Museum, workhouse, workhouse administration block, 1840–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Pair of detached gable-fronted single-bay single-storey with attic level former workhouse gatehouses, built c. 1841-5, having modern linking three-bay single-storey block, c. 1995. Now in use as workhouse museum. Pitched artificial slate roofs with projecting cut stone eaves course, raised cut stone parapets to front (south-east) and rear (north-west) elevations of gable-fronted blocks having chamfered cut stone coping over and with dressed and hammered kneeler stone detailing at eaves level having corbelled detailing. Squared and snecked rubble sandstone walls with projecting canted plinth course, and having flush dressed and hammered ashlar block-and-start quoins. Square-headed window openings to the front elevations of gable-fronted blocks, now blocked, having chamfered cut stone reveals, chamfered cut stone sills, cut stone transoms and mullions, and with cut stone hoodmoulding over with decorative label stops; link loophole openings over at attic level to gable apexes having cut stone surrounds. Square-headed window openings to the outer side elevations of original blocks having cut stone lintels, some surviving cut stone sills, and with replacement fittings. Pitched roof profile of demolished buildings to the rear (north-west) of each block. Modern linking single-storey block between former gatehouses having pitched artificial slate roof, rubble stone walls, and square-headed openings with modern fittings. Set back from road in own grounds to the south-west of Dunfanaghy. Site of former workhouse adjacent to the west (demolished c. 2000); site now occupied by modern housing partially built using reclaimed stone from workhouse complex. Rebuilt rubble stone boundary walls with crenellated coping over to road-frontage to the east. Tarmacadam car park to south-west and playground to the south; former fever hospital (see 40807007) adjacent to the south-west of site.

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 moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1539 (ZIP).

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.

• Figart, Dunfanaghy10 sales

Name

Figart

Area

605,735 m² (60.57 ha, 149.68 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

Dunfanaghy, Rinclevan

Placenames

Figart 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.