Foyagh

26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Foyagh, from 126 m² to 95,418 m² (9.54 ha, 23.58 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 14 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 Foyagh 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.

• 30 Jul 2024Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND SOIL POLISHING FILTER

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2461159

• 2 Oct 2023Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH WASTEWATER TREATMENT UNIT, TER 3 POD AND POLISHING DISPOSAL INFILTRATION PAD ALONG WITH A DOMESTIC GARAGE

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2351473

• 27 Jul 2023N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH WASTEWATER TREATMENT UNIT, TER 3 POD AND POLISHING DISPOSAL INFILTRATION PAD ALONG WITH A DOMESTIC GARAGE

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2351116

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: Durnesh Lough SAC 000138
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Durnesh Lough 000138

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Foyagh.

Architectural heritage

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

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

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Foyagh

Area

539,380 m² (53.94 ha, 133.28 acres)

Civil parish

Drumhome, and its townlands

Barony

Tirhugh

Electoral division

Ballintra, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballintra electoral division: 755 people in 290 households; 81% of households own their home; 25% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 41% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Birra, Dromore, Glasbolie, Killinangel More

Placenames

Foyagh 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.