# Fincashel, Co. Donegal: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Templecarn, barony of Tirhugh, Co. Donegal. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 2,012,448 m² (201.24 ha, 497.29 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 38 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 14,722 m² (1.47 ha, 3.64 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 10 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Templecarn, https://everytownland.com/donegal/parish/templecarn.md - Barony: Tirhugh - Electoral division: Pettigoe, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Donegal, https://everytownland.com/donegal.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/14194 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 51242 - Centre: latitude 54.553701, longitude -7.879786 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 38 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Fincashel, from 38 m² to 367,766 m² (36.78 ha, 90.88 acres); 28 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1340214: 367,766 m² (36.78 ha, 90.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1340214.md - Parcel 1391049: 265,840 m² (26.58 ha, 65.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1391049.md - Parcel 5920075: 186,930 m² (18.69 ha, 46.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5920075.md - Parcel 1406487: 182,848 m² (18.28 ha, 45.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1406487.md - Parcel 1357970: 154,350 m² (15.44 ha, 38.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1357970.md - Parcel 1375279: 131,049 m² (13.1 ha, 32.38 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1375279.md - Parcel 1405359: 89,178 m² (8.92 ha, 22.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1405359.md - Parcel 1373777: 88,881 m² (8.89 ha, 21.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1373777.md - Parcel 1427115: 76,260 m² (7.63 ha, 18.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1427115.md - Parcel 1351991: 75,910 m² (7.59 ha, 18.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1351991.md - Parcel 1417612: 48,036 m² (4.8 ha, 11.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1417612.md - Parcel 1369525: 40,593 m² (4.06 ha, 10.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1369525.md - Parcel 1357058: 40,377 m² (4.04 ha, 9.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1357058.md - Parcel 1305972: 31,180 m² (3.12 ha, 7.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1305972.md - Parcel 1310474: 30,648 m² (3.06 ha, 7.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1310474.md - Parcel 1417573: 30,251 m² (3.03 ha, 7.48 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1417573.md - Parcel 1352256: 23,294 m² (2.33 ha, 5.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1352256.md - Parcel 1422121: 15,096 m² (1.51 ha, 3.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1422121.md - Parcel 1393483: 15,042 m² (1.5 ha, 3.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1393483.md - Parcel 5789572: 14,403 m² (1.44 ha, 3.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5789572.md - Parcel 5927438: 14,082 m² (1.41 ha, 3.48 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5927438.md - Parcel 4225326: 11,929 m² (1.19 ha, 2.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4225326.md - Parcel 1412695: 10,688 m² (1.07 ha, 2.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1412695.md - Parcel 4225339: 10,256 m² (1.03 ha, 2.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4225339.md - Parcel 1388692: 9,981 m² (1 ha, 2.47 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1388692.md - Parcel 1417761: 9,973 m² (1 ha, 2.46 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1417761.md - Parcel 5431664: 8,163 m² (0.82 ha, 2.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5431664.md - Parcel 5411331: 8,154 m² (0.82 ha, 2.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5411331.md - Parcel 5411341: 7,878 m² (0.79 ha, 1.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5411341.md - Parcel 4746094: 3,049 m² (0.3 ha, 0.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4746094.md - Parcel 1327739: 2,963 m² (0.3 ha, 0.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1327739.md - Parcel 1334001: 2,378 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1334001.md - Parcel 5287945: 2,149 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5287945.md - Parcel 1306130: 1,445 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1306130.md - Parcel 3661929: 1,411 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3661929.md - Parcel 5287893: 1,330 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5287893.md - Parcel 5789574: 528 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5789574.md - Parcel 5920084: 38 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5920084.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 10 applications, newest first. - 8 Sept 2026, Donegal County Council 2661667: N/a. Permission. (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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2661667/0 - 17 Jun 2026, Donegal County Council 2661128: Conditional. Permission. (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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2661128/0 - 27 Feb 2025, Donegal County Council 2560275: Conditional. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560275/0 - 18 Feb 2025, Donegal County Council 2560199: N/a. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560199/0 - 6 Nov 2023, Donegal County Council 2351682: Conditional. Permission. CONSTRUCTION OF A FOUR BY TWO BAY SHEEP SHED, STORAGE TANK BELOW, SOAKAWAY AND HANDLING PEN INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2351682/0 - 3 Aug 2022, Donegal County Council 2251327: Conditional. Permission. (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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2251327/0 - 9 Feb 2021, Donegal County Council 2150194: Conditional. Retention. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2150194/0 - 27 Jan 2021, Donegal County Council 2150088: Conditional. Retention. (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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2150088/0 - 28 Aug 2019, Donegal County Council 1951314: Conditional. Permission. (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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1951314/0 - 13 Mar 2017, Donegal County Council 1750366: Conditional. Permission. (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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1750366/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Fincashel. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - DG105-008: Ringfort - cashel, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDG105-008----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDG105-016----. 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 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Fincashel. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - 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: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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 flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/donegal/fincashel.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/donegal/fincashel.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/donegal/fincashel.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Fincashel with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal: https://everytownland.com/donegal.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Bannus: https://everytownland.com/donegal/bannus.md - Carntressy: https://everytownland.com/donegal/carntressy.md - Carrickrory: https://everytownland.com/donegal/carrickrory.md - Drumgun: https://everytownland.com/donegal/drumgun-51057.md - Loughultan: https://everytownland.com/donegal/loughultan.md - Mulnagoad: https://everytownland.com/donegal/mulnagoad.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/donegal/fincashel - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/donegal/fincashel