# Inishfad, Co. Donegal: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Drumhome, barony of Tirhugh, Co. Donegal. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 833,903 m² (83.39 ha, 206.06 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 29,071 m² (2.91 ha, 7.18 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Drumhome, https://everytownland.com/donegal/parish/drumhome.md - Barony: Tirhugh - Electoral division: Ballintra, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Ballintra electoral division: 755 people in 290 households; 81% of households own their home; 25% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 41% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Donegal, https://everytownland.com/donegal.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/13788 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 51498 - Centre: latitude 54.582129, longitude -8.18626 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Inishfad, from 2,303 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres) to 262,095 m² (26.21 ha, 64.77 acres); 11 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1412445: 262,095 m² (26.21 ha, 64.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1412445.md - Parcel 1412441: 138,056 m² (13.81 ha, 34.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1412441.md - Parcel 1378269: 97,243 m² (9.72 ha, 24.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1378269.md - Parcel 1391704: 89,860 m² (8.99 ha, 22.2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1391704.md - Parcel 1378267: 59,017 m² (5.9 ha, 14.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1378267.md - Parcel 1391035: 45,318 m² (4.53 ha, 11.2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1391035.md - Parcel 1378268: 42,036 m² (4.2 ha, 10.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1378268.md - Parcel 1378266: 35,236 m² (3.52 ha, 8.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1378266.md - Parcel 1423780: 22,905 m² (2.29 ha, 5.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1423780.md - Parcel 1412442: 10,387 m² (1.04 ha, 2.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1412442.md - Parcel 4734863: 8,338 m² (0.83 ha, 2.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4734863.md - Parcel 1330034: 7,365 m² (0.74 ha, 1.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1330034.md - Parcel 1412444: 6,415 m² (0.64 ha, 1.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1412444.md - Parcel 1419400: 4,357 m² (0.44 ha, 1.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1419400.md - Parcel 4734864: 2,612 m² (0.26 ha, 0.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4734864.md - Parcel 1382345: 2,303 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1382345.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Inishfad 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) No planning application touches the townland of Inishfad in the national file, which goes back to 2010. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: Durnesh Lough SAC, site code 000138, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/000138 - Special Protection Area: Durnesh Lough SPA, site code 004145, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/spa/004145 - Special Protection Area: Donegal Bay SPA, site code 004151, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/spa/004151 - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Durnesh Lough, site code 000138 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - DG103-005: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDG103-005----. Internal diam. 26m. Shown as a single-ringed enclosure on the OS 6-inch maps the site now consists of an oval area isolated by a combination of natural slope and terracing on the N and W sides. It is situated on a peninsular ridge running S into Donegal Bay. 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 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 Inishfad. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: 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: Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Inishfad. - 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/inishfad.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/donegal/inishfad.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/donegal/inishfad.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Inishfad 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) - Drumhome: https://everytownland.com/donegal/drumhome.md - Inishinny: https://everytownland.com/donegal/inishinny-51504.md - Mullanacross: https://everytownland.com/donegal/mullanacross.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/inishfad - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/donegal/inishfad