# Knockfair, Co. Donegal: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Stranorlar, barony of Raphoe South, Co. Donegal. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 637,268 m² (63.73 ha, 157.47 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 7,361 m² (0.74 ha, 1.82 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Stranorlar, https://everytownland.com/donegal/parish/stranorlar.md - Barony: Raphoe South - Electoral division: Stranorlar, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 4,706 people lived in 1,787 households in the Stranorlar electoral division. 61% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Donegal, https://everytownland.com/donegal.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/16550 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 51636 - Centre: latitude 54.816763, longitude -7.752016 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockfair, from 494 m² to 316,014 m² (31.6 ha, 78.09 acres); 26 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1360742: 316,014 m² (31.6 ha, 78.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1360742.md - Parcel 1302605: 156,952 m² (15.7 ha, 38.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1302605.md - Parcel 1412797: 60,231 m² (6.02 ha, 14.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1412797.md - Parcel 1405546: 41,479 m² (4.15 ha, 10.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1405546.md - Parcel 1306449: 10,931 m² (1.09 ha, 2.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1306449.md - Parcel 1386738: 3,791 m² (0.38 ha, 0.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1386738.md - Parcel 4823476: 3,736 m² (0.37 ha, 0.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4823476.md - Parcel 1391225: 2,952 m² (0.3 ha, 0.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1391225.md - Parcel 1414837: 784 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1414837.md - Parcel 1368440: 494 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1368440.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Knockfair 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) 1 application, newest first. - 6 Mar 2017, Donegal County Council 1750314: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DETACHED DWELLING HOUSE ADJACENT TO FAMILY HOME WITH PROPRIETARY WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1750314/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Knockfair. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - DG078-044: Megalithic tomb - unclassified, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDG078-044----. A feature named 'Druid's Altar in ruins', shown on a pre-publication field map, was omitted from the published OS 6-inch map of 1845-8. There is no information about it in OS documents, nor are there any remains at the site now. Its nature remains uncertain. The above description was published in the 'Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume VI, County Donegal.' Compiled by: Eamon Cody (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). 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 Knockfair. ## 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 Knockfair, 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 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 Knockfair. - 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/knockfair.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/donegal/knockfair.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/donegal/knockfair.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Knockfair 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) - Admiran: https://everytownland.com/donegal/admiran.md - Castlebane: https://everytownland.com/donegal/castlebane-50573.md - Dunwiley: https://everytownland.com/donegal/dunwiley.md - Gortletteragh: https://everytownland.com/donegal/gortletteragh.md - Lough Hill: https://everytownland.com/donegal/lough-hill.md - Mullaghagarry: https://everytownland.com/donegal/mullaghagarry.md - Tircallan: https://everytownland.com/donegal/tircallan.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/knockfair - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/donegal/knockfair