Fincashel

38 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Fincashel, from 38 m² to 367,766 m² (36.78 ha, 90.88 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 28 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 Fincashel 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.

• 8 Sept 2026N/a

  (1) RETENTION AND COMPLETION OF ADDITIONAL FLOOR AREA PROVIDED IN MANUFACTURING AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS, (2) ALTERATIONS AND EXTENSION TO EXISTING LIGHT ENGINEERING WORKSHOP CURRENTLY UNDER CONSTRUCTION, APPROVED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 25/60275, TO PROVIDE OFFICE AND ANCILLARY ACCOMMODATION, (3) CONNECTION TO EXISTING TREATMENT PLANT SERVICING THE ADJACENT ENVIRO GRIND COMPLEX, IN LIEU OF THE APPROVED WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT APPROVED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 25/60275 AND (4) ALL ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS INCLUDING REVISION TO PARKING ARRANGEMENTS AND SURFACE WATER DRAINAGE NETWORK TO ACCOMMODATE PROPOSED EXTENSION

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2661667

• 17 Jun 2026Conditional

  (1) REMOVAL / DEMOLITION OF EXISTING WORKSHOP BUILDING AND BAGGING LINE BUILDING TO FACILITATE AN EXTENSION TO THE EXISTING SORTING SHED, (2) CONSTRUCTION OF NEW INDUSTRIAL BUILDING FOR MATERIAL PROCESSING, SCREENING, STORAGE, HANDLING, TRANSFER, BLENDING TOGETHER WITH ALL ANCILLARY PLANT AND MACHINERY AND (3) ALL ANCILLARY SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2661128

• 27 Feb 2025Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A LIGHT ENGINEERING WORKSHOP FOR THE FABRICATION, ASSEMBLY AND MAINTENANCE OF EQUIPMENT AND VEHICLES WITH ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS, INCLUDING SITE PARKING, VARIOUS DRAINAGE SYSTEMS, NEW PROPRIETARY WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ANCILLARY PERCOLATION AREA, RAINWATER HARVESTING TANK, FIREFIGHTING WATER RESERVOIR TANK, LANDSCAPING, BOUNDARY FENCE AND THE PROVISION AND DIVERSION OF EXISTING SERVICES, INCLUDING AN OVERHEAD ELECTRICITY CABLE AND ALL ANCILLARY WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2560275

• 18 Feb 2025N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A LIGHT ENGINEERING WORKSHOP FOR THE FABRICATION, ASSEMBLY AND MAINTENANCE OF EQUIPMENT, WITH ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS SUCH AS PARKING, DRAINAGE SYSTEMS, LANDSCAPING AND THE PROVISION AND DIVERSION OF EXISTING SERVICES, INCLUDING AN OVERHEAD ELECTRICITY CABLE

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2560199

• 6 Nov 2023Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A FOUR BY TWO BAY SHEEP SHED, STORAGE TANK BELOW, SOAKAWAY AND HANDLING PEN INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2351682

• 3 Aug 2022Conditional

  (1) INTENSIFICATION OF THE EXISTING COMPOSTING AND WASTE RECOVERY ACTIVITIES FROM AN ANNUAL TONNAGE OF 25,000 TONNES TO 150,000 TONNES, (2) UPGRADING OF THE EXISTING SURFACE WATER DRAINAGE INFRASTRUCTURE, AN UPGRADED ON-SITE WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM (OSWTS) WITH SOIL POLISHING FILTER, (3) PROVISION OF ADDITIONAL CAR PARKING AREA AND (4) ALL ANCILLARY SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. A LICENCE FROM THE ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY IS REQUIRED FOR THIS ACTIVITY. AN ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT REPORT (EIAR) ACCOMPANIES THIS APPLICATION

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2251327

• 9 Feb 2021Conditional

  RETENTION OF (1) EXTENSION TO THE EXISTING OFFICE, LOCATED ALONG THE SOUTH EASTERN BOUNDARY, WHERE SAME EXTENSION IS IN THE FORM OF TWO PREFABRICATED UNITS (2) THREE PREFABRICATE UNITS FOR USE AS; CANTEEN, STAFF WELFARE AND OFFICE STORE, ALL OF WHICH ARE LOCATED TOWARDS THE SOUTH EASTERN CORNER OF THE SITE (3) GENERAL STORAGE UNIT, IN THE FORM OF STEEL LORRY CONTAINER, LOCATED AT SOUTH EASTERN CORNER OF THE SITE (4) GENERAL STORAGE UNIT, IN THE FORM OF STEEL LORRY CONTAINER, LOCATED APPROXIMATELY MID WAY ALONG THE SOUTH WESTERN BOUNDARY (5) PREFABRICATED SWITCHROOM / COMMS. UNIT, LOCATED TOWARDS THE NORTH EAST BOUNDARY, AT THE REAR OF THE MAIN STORAGE / PROCESSING SHED AND PERMISSION FOR (1) CONSTRUCTION OF A CONCRETE BUILD MV SUBSTATION BUILDING AND ASSOCIATED SWITCHROOM (2) ALL ANCILLARY SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2150194

• 27 Jan 2021Conditional

  (1) 3 BAY EXTENSION TO THE SOUTH WEST SIDE OF THE EXISTING MAIN STORAGE / PROCESSING SHED (2) REVISED SITE BOUNDARY, TO INCLUDE AN EXTENSION TO THE EXISTING YARD TOWARD THE NORTH WEST OF THE SITE (3) UPGRADED REPLACEMENT OF THE EXISTING BIOFILTER, WHERE SAME STRUCTURE COMPRISES OF CONCRETE RETAINING WALLS, AN ASSOCIATED MONO-PITCH ROOFED SHED MEASURING 69.4M LONG AND ASSOCIATED INFRASTRUCTURE (4) ALL ANCILLARY SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2150088

• 28 Aug 2019Conditional

  (1) THE REDUCE LEVEL DIG TO THE NORTH WESTERN BOUNDARY FOR ACCESS TO AN INCREASED BIO FILTER (ODOUR CONTROL SYSTEM) (2) CHANGE OF USE FROM EXISTING STORAGE SHED TO ENGINEERING WORKSHOP (3) EXTENSION OF THE MAIN STORAGE SHED TO PROVIDE ADDITIONAL WOODCHIP AND BIOMASS PROCESSING AREA (4) EXTENSION OF EXISTING REINFORCED BOUNDARY WALL (5) UNDERGROUND STORM WATER ATTENUATION & SETTLEMENT TANK AND TO INCLUDE ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1951314

• 13 Mar 2017Conditional

  (1) EXTENSION TO THE EXISTING YARD TO THE SOUTH WESTERN BOUNDARY TO PROVIDE LORRY TURNING AND STORAGE SPACE WHICH WILL INCLUDE A LANDSCAPED EARTH EMBANKMENT WITH 1.80m FENCE TO THE SAID BOUNDARY; (2) STAND ALONE TOP SOIL STORAGE SHED TO THE WESTERN PART OF THE SITE; (3) A LEAN TO EXTENSION TO THE FRONT GABLE END OF THE EXISTING COMPOSTING STORAGE SHED AND (4) IN SITU CAST BIO-FILTER STRUCTURE TO THE NORTH SIDE ELEVATION OF THE EXISTING COMPOSTING STORAGE SHED ALONG WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1750366

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 Fincashel.

Recorded monuments

• DG105-008 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  Internal diam. c. 30m. A 10m arc of stone wall c. 1.25m high incorporated in a field boundary would seem to be the remains of a cashel. There is no geographical reason for the bend in the wall at this point. It is densely overgrown and there is no local tradition but the townland name would strengthen the suggestion. It is situated on a roughly circular ridge of high ground. 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

• DG105-016 Standing stone
  Description

  Marked in gothic script on current edition of the Ordnance Survey map as 'Finn Mc. Cool's Fingerstone'. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload/revision: : 19 July 2010

Architectural heritage

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

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 Fincashel, 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 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 Fincashel.

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

Name

Fincashel

Area

2,012,448 m² (201.24 ha, 497.29 acres)

Civil parish

Templecarn, and its townlands

Barony

Tirhugh

Electoral division

Pettigoe, the unit of the census

Census 2022

368 people lived in 170 households in the Pettigoe electoral division. 76% of households owned their home. 19% of homes were built since 2001. 19% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bannus, Carntressy, Carrickrory, Drumgun, Loughultan, Mulnagoad

Placenames

Fincashel 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.