Glenfad

44 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Glenfad, from 3 m² to 90,737 m² (9.07 ha, 22.42 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 21 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 Glenfad 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.

• 16 Jul 2026Conditional

  (1) CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW AGRICULTURAL SLATTED SHED WITH ASSOCIATED UNDERGROUND EFFLUENT TANK AND (2) PROVISION OF A NEW EXTERNAL LIVESTOCK HANDLING AREA, INCLUDING A CONCRETE HARDSTANDING WITH FENCED ENCLOSURES, RACE AND CRUSH, AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2661320

• 14 Mar 2025Conditional

  DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DERELICT DWELLING HOUSE AND CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE, DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE AND STORAGE SHED, SEPTIC TANK / SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2560366

• 4 Nov 2024Conditional

  DWELLING HOUSE AND DETACHED GARAGE AND PERMISSION FOR INSTALLATION OF A SEPTIC TANK / SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2461767

• 20 Dec 2023Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO THE REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE INCLUDING ALL ANCILLARY AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2351968

• 5 Oct 2022Refused

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH POLISHING FILTER

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2251668

• 8 Jun 2022Conditional

  RELOCATION OF PERMITTED SEPTIC TANK SYSTEM AND PERMISSION FOR (1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING UNAUTHORISED CONCRETE SUBSTRUCTURE (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A DETACHED GARAGE AND STORE AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2250996

• 11 Aug 2021N/a

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2151608

• 7 Oct 2019Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A VEHICULAR ENTRANCE AND PLACING OF A MOBILE HOME ON SITE AS A TEMPORARY STRUCTURE AND PERMISSION FOR CONSTRUCTION OF (A)EXTENSION TO THE REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND DEVELOPMENT OF A NEW ROOF DESIGN WHICH INCORPORATES A GABLE END DESIGN IN LIEU OF THE CURRENT HIP ROOF DESIGN OVER THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND ASSOCIATED MINOR ELEVATIONAL AMENDMENTS, (B) DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE AND DECOMMISSIONING OF EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND INSTALLATION OF A NEW SEPTIC TANK SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 1951519

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

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Glenfad.

Architectural heritage

• Kiln, 1840–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding two-bay lime kiln on rectangular-plan, erected c. 1860. Tapers outwards towards base. Now out of use. Constructed of coursed rubble stone masonry. Round-headed opening to front (south), the former oven aperture, having red brick voussoirs to arch and with series of segmental-headed brick arches to interior. Former loading chambers to the south having rubble masonry construction.. Built into hillside adjacent to former quarries. Earthen embankment to rear formerly giving access to loading chambers. Set back from road in rural location to the north of Lifford.

• Hall Green Farm, house, 1600–1760 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay single-storey over basement house on L-shaped plan with attic level, built c. 1750 and possibly retaining fabric of earlier house to site, c. 1611, having central gabled dormer opening to the main elevation (east) and with long two-storey return to the rear (west) at the south end. Now also in use as a guest house. Pitched natural slate roof with projecting eaves course, some surviving sections of cast-iron rainwater goods, and with smooth rendered chimneystacks to the gable ends (north and south) having cut stone coping and with decorative clay ware pots over. Chimneybreasts project slightly from the gable walls. Roughcast rendered walls with raised smooth rendered parallel quoins to corners of the front elevation. Square-headed window openings with painted stone sills and replacement windows. Two small window openings at basement level having replacement windows. Central three-centred/segmental-headed doorway to the east elevation having slim smooth rendered surround, timber panelled door with bolection mouldings, and modern leaded and coloured glass overlight and sidelights. Doorway approached by flight of stone steps having flanking low rendered walls to either side. Set back from road in own grounds in the rural countryside to the north of Lifford. Detached four-bay two-storey split-level outbuilding to north having pitched corrugated-sheeted roof, smooth rendered walls and square-headed openings. Formal hedge boundary containing house to east with gravel surround and with mature trees surrounding site. House approached by long avenue from roadway to the east.

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.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1987 (ZIP).

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

Name

Glenfad

Area

1,085,250 m² (108.53 ha, 268.17 acres)

Civil parish

Clonleigh, and its townlands

Barony

Raphoe North

Electoral division

Clonleigh North, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Clonleigh North electoral division: 1,429 people in 520 households; 84% of households own their home; 29% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Druminaw, Gortgranagh, Masshill, Newrow, Porthall, Sixty Acres

Placenames

Glenfad 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.