Garvan

53 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Garvan, from 316 m² to 198,562 m² (19.86 ha, 49.07 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 Garvan 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.

• 12 Mar 2026Conditional

  DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING DUE TO DEFECTIVE MICA BLOCKWORK AND CONSTRUCTION OF REPLACEMENT DWELLING INCLUDING REDESIGN OF THE DWELLING FROM THAT PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 05/60175, COMPRISING OF A STOREY AND A HALF DWELLING, TOGETHER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2660405

• 17 Dec 2021Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO THE SIDE(EXTENDING TO THE FRONT AND REAR) OF THE EXISTING SINGLE STOREY DWELLING HOUSE ALONG WITH ALL ASSOCIATED ALTERATIONS TO THE EXISTING DWELLING, SITE WORKS AND LANDSCAPING

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2152531

• 18 Dec 2019Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, SEPTIC TANK/SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1951983

• 3 Jul 2019Conditional

  SÍNEADH A CHUR LEIS AN BHFOIRGNEAMH SCOILE FACHOINNE SEOMRA RANGA

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1951019

• 29 Aug 2018Conditional

  AMENDMENTS TO A DWELLING HOUSE AND DETACHED SHED PERMITTED UNDER PLANNING REF: 16/51572 (A) REPOSITION DWELLING HOUSE WITHIN SITE AREA AND INCREASE FINISHED FLOOR LEVELS OF THE DWELLING HOUSE AND DETACHED SHED AND (B) INCREASE ROOF PITCH TO MAIN DWELLING HOUSE, AMEND PERMITTED BAY WINDOW DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION OF AN ADDITIONAL BAY WINDOW TO GROUND FLOOR FRONT ELEVATION

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1851345

• 2 Feb 2018Conditional

  AMENDMENTS TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND DETACHED SHED PERMITTED UNDER PLANNING REF: 16/51572 CONSISTING OF (A) THE REPOSITIONING OF DWELLING HOUSE WITHIN SITE AREA AND INCREASE PROPOSED FINISHED FLOOR LEVEL OF THE DWELLING HOUSE AND SHED BY 4.0 METRES AND (B) TO INCREASE ROOF PITCH TO MAIN DWELLING HOUSE, AMEND PERMITTED BAY WINDOW DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION OF AN ADDITIONAL BAY WINDOW TO GROUND FLOOR FRONT ELEVATION

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1850137

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

• DG067-003 Children's burial ground
  Description

  The 'Children's Burial Ground' marked on the 2nd and 3rd editions of the OS 6-inch maps consists of a rectangular platform 22.2m N-S and 26.7m E-W enclosed by a collapsed stone wall. It is very overgrown and situated in an area of marshy pasture land. 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

Architectural heritage

• Reelan Bridge, bridge, 1760–1800 · Regional interest
  Description

  Six-arch bridge carrying road over the Reelan River, built c. 1770, having V-profile rubble stone cutwaters to central piers to both upstream and downstream elevations. Segmental-headed arches having roughly dressed rubble stone voussoirs and squared rubble stone construction to arch barrels. Rendered rubble stone construction to spandrels, piers and abutments. Rubble stone parapets having cement rendered coping over, and with modern repairs in places. Tarmacadam deck with grass deck. Located in the countryside to the south of Letterbrick, and to the west of Ballybofey.

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 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, 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 Garvan.

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

Name

Garvan · An Gharbháin

Area

2,258,433 m² (225.84 ha, 558.07 acres)

Civil parish

Kilteevoge, and its townlands

Barony

Raphoe South

Electoral division

Cloghan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Cloghan electoral division: 935 people in 318 households; 86% of households own their home; 31% of homes were built since 2001; 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynaman, Bindoo, Commeen, Cronadun, Kilrean, Tonduff (Thompson)

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Garvan 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.