Knocknafaugher

47 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knocknafaugher, from 32 m² to 424,577 m² (42.46 ha, 104.92 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 29 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 Knocknafaugher 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.

• 15 Jun 2026N/a

  (1) RETENTION OF SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS AND (2) ERECTION OF 2 NO. SHEPHERDS HUTS WITH PARKING FACILITIES AND WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2661095

• 15 Nov 2023Conditional

  RETENTION AND COMPLETION OF AN EXTENSION UNDER CONSTRUCTION AT THE REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2351746

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: Sessiagh Lough SAC 000185
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Sessiagh Lough 000185

Recorded monuments

• DG025-027 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  A slab, upon which some loose stones have been heaped, covers St. Columbkille's well. It is about 20m from Columbkille's Lough in wet land. It is probably to be associated with a penitential station (DG025-028----) 40m to the S. Described by Ó Muirgheasa in 1936 as 'St. Colmcille's Well on the shore of Loch Colmcille at Kildarragh, half-way between Creeslough and Dunfanaghy. A few people still " walk " the turus on the 9th June, and the cairn of small stones on the hill above the well (Cnoc a' Chullin) testifies to the numbers who made the turus in ages past. No fish are found in this lake as Colmcille gave it a left-handed blessing because a fisherman there denied that he had any fish: the same story is told of Mulroy Bay' (Ó Muirgheasa 1936, 153). (Ó Muirgheasa No. 59). 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. Compiled by Caimin O'Brien Date of upload/revision: 02 November 2011

• DG026-001 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  There is no sign of the single-ringed enclosure shown on the 2nd and 3rd editions of the OS 6-inch maps. It was situated on the edge of a sheer cliff overlooking the NE. Good grazing is available locally but the topography would suggest a stone enclosure. 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

• DG026-002 Stone row
  Description

  Marked 'Cloghbane' on the OS 6-inch maps the site consists of five stones in a line. The central stone is the largest measuring 1.5m high × 1.25m wide × 0.65m thick; NNE-SSW. .75m to the N is a stone .6m high; .7m further N again is another, .4m high. .5m S of the standing stones is a stone, .25m × 0.25m in plan, its top flush with the present ground level; .65m further S again is another, almost buried, stone. Situated in bog land overlooked by higher ground to the S. The bog is growing up around the stones and may conceal others in the same line. 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

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

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 high, moderately high, moderately low, 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 Knocknafaugher.

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

Name

Knocknafaugher · Cnoc na Foithre

Area

2,699,695 m² (269.97 ha, 667.11 acres)

Civil parish

Clondahorky, and its townlands

Barony

Kilmacrenan

Electoral division

Ards, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ards electoral division: 805 people in 270 households; 86% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 61% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballymore Lower, Ballymore Upper, Casey Glebe, Faugher, Kildarragh, Kill, Port, Rinnaraw, Rockhill, Swillybrin, Woodhill

Placenames

Knocknafaugher 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.