Foyfin

9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Foyfin, from 67 m² to 35,628 m² (3.56 ha, 8.8 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 15 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 Foyfin 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 Dec 2023Conditional

  INSTALLATION OF NEW EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED POLISHING FACILITY TO SERVE EXISTING DWELLING INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2351893

• 26 Apr 2021Refused

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW GENERAL PURPOSE STORAGE SHED FOR PRIVATE USE AND ALL ASSOCIATED ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2150743

• 7 Oct 2020Conditional

  (1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND DECOMMISSIONING OF EXISTING SEPTIC TANK (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING HOUSE, DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK / SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2051451

• 27 Sept 2017Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK/SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMEMT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1751480

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: River Finn SAC 002301

Recorded monuments

• DG079-047 Quarry
  Description

  This is a quarry. It is not an archaeological monument. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 25 April 2012

Architectural heritage

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

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 low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Foyfin · Faiche Fionn

Area

861,948 m² (86.19 ha, 212.99 acres)

Civil parish

Urney, and its townlands

Barony

Raphoe South

Electoral division

Urney West, the unit of the census

Census 2022

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

Neighbouring townlands

Cavanaweery, Cormakilly, Dresnagh, Magherareagh, Magherycallaghan, Stranamuck, Tawnacrom

Placenames

Foyfin 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.