# Foyfin, Co. Donegal: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Urney, barony of Raphoe South, Co. Donegal; in Irish Faiche Fionn. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 861,948 m² (86.19 ha, 212.99 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,110 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 4 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Urney, https://everytownland.com/donegal/parish/urney.md - Barony: Raphoe South - Electoral division: Urney West, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 640 people lived in 217 households in the Urney West electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 39% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Donegal, https://everytownland.com/donegal.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/16594 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 51258 - Centre: latitude 54.788344, longitude -7.572846 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Foyfin, from 67 m² to 35,628 m² (3.56 ha, 8.8 acres); 15 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1321352: 35,628 m² (3.56 ha, 8.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1321352.md - Parcel 1330217: 31,671 m² (3.17 ha, 7.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1330217.md - Parcel 1300714: 2,249 m² (0.22 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1300714.md - Parcel 5380887: 2,141 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5380887.md - Parcel 1305285: 2,110 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1305285.md - Parcel 1372000: 1,497 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1372000.md - Parcel 1315114: 660 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1315114.md - Parcel 5752856: 125 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5752856.md - Parcel 5748734: 67 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5748734.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 4 applications, newest first. - 8 Dec 2023, Donegal County Council 2351893: Conditional. Permission. INSTALLATION OF NEW EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED POLISHING FACILITY TO SERVE EXISTING DWELLING INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2351893/0 - 26 Apr 2021, Donegal County Council 2150743: Refused. Permission. CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW GENERAL PURPOSE STORAGE SHED FOR PRIVATE USE AND ALL ASSOCIATED ANCILLARY SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2150743/0 - 7 Oct 2020, Donegal County Council 2051451: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. (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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2051451/0 - 27 Sept 2017, Donegal County Council 1751480: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK/SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMEMT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1751480/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: River Finn SAC, site code 002301, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/002301 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - DG079-047: Quarry, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDG079-047----. This is a quarry. It is not an archaeological monument. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 25 April 2012 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 Foyfin. ## 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 Foyfin, about 1 in 10 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 low, partly inferred. - 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, 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/foyfin.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/donegal/foyfin.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/donegal/foyfin.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Foyfin 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) - Cavanaweery: https://everytownland.com/donegal/cavanaweery.md - Cormakilly: https://everytownland.com/donegal/cormakilly.md - Dresnagh: https://everytownland.com/donegal/dresnagh.md - Magherareagh: https://everytownland.com/donegal/magherareagh.md - Magherycallaghan: https://everytownland.com/donegal/magherycallaghan.md - Stranamuck: https://everytownland.com/donegal/stranamuck.md - Tawnacrom: https://everytownland.com/donegal/tawnacrom.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/foyfin - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/donegal/foyfin