Habbitstown

13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Habbitstown, from 77 m² to 119,844 m² (11.98 ha, 29.61 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 17 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Habbitstown 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.

• 9 Nov 2022Conditional

  (1) TEMPORARY RELOCATION OF 4 EXISTING PREFABS FROM EXISTING CAR PARK AREA AT THE EAST OF THE SITE TO THE ALL-WEATHER PITCH AT THE NORTH OF THE SITE, (2) ERECTION OF A NEW STAND-ALONE 2 STOREY MODULAR BUILDING CONTAINING 8 CLASSROOMS, 1 SET ROOM, TOILETS AND ANCILLARY SPACES ON THE SITE OF THESE 4 EXISTING PREFABS, (3) CONNECTION INTO EXISTING SEWERAGE AND DRAINAGE SYSTEMS AND (4) UPGRADING OF THE HARD-STANDING PARKING AREA TO THE NORTH OF THE SPORTS HALL TO REPLACE THE PARKING SPACES LOST WHERE THE PROPOSED MODULAR BUILDING IS TO BE SITED AND PROVIDE ADDITIONAL SPACES TO ACCOMMODATE THE 8 EXTRA CLASSROOMS WITHIN THE MODULAR BUILDING AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2251825

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Habbitstown.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Habbitstown.

Architectural heritage

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

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

At the centre of the townland of Habbitstown, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Habbitstown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Habbitstown

Area

292,345 m² (29.23 ha, 72.24 acres)

Civil parish

Raphoe, and its townlands

Barony

Raphoe North

Electoral division

Figart, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,131 people lived in 384 households in the Figart electoral division. 79% of households owned their home. 49% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Braehead, Common, Lisnoble, Muntertinny, Raphoe Townparks

Placenames

Habbitstown 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.