Liafin

109 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Liafin, from 81 m² to 208,213 m² (20.82 ha, 51.45 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 41 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Liafin 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.

• 25 Aug 2026N/a

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH ALL OTHER SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2661571

• 15 Dec 2025Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING, CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2562224

• 24 Apr 2025Conditional

  DEMOLITION OF AN EXISTING DETACHED 1½ STOREY DWELLING (DEFECTIVE CONCRETE BLOCKWORK) AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DETACHED 2 STOREY REPLACEMENT DWELLING, DEMOLITION OF EXISTING GARAGE & CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2560644

• 4 Mar 2025Conditional

  FIRST FLOOR ACCOMMODATION AND PERMISSION FOR DEMOLITION OF EXISTING CONSERVATORY AND ERECTION OF REPLACEMENT CONSERVATORY DUE TO DEFECTIVE BUILDING MATERIALS AND CONNECTION TO ALL EXISTING SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2560304

• 28 Jan 2025Conditional

  (1) AMENDMENTS TO ELEVATIONS OF EXISTING DWELLING (PLANNING REF. NO. 04/5601 REFERS) AND (2) SMALL EXTENSION TO FRONT OF DWELLING AND PERMISSION FOR COMPLETION OF WORKS, CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2560090

• 12 Dec 2024N/a

  (1) AMENDMENTS TO ELEVATIONS OF EXISTING DWELLING (PLANNING REF. NO. 04/5601 REFERS) AND (2) SMALL EXTENSION TO FRONT OF DWELLING, AND PERMISSION FOR COMPLETION OF WORKS, CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS

  Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2462062

• 16 Sept 2024Refused

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING WITH EFFLUENT TREATMENT PLANT, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2461455

• 3 Jul 2024Conditional

  (1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING AND (2) CONSTRUCTION OF DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, TREATMENT PLANT AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2461011

• 1 Jul 2024Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING WITH CONNECTION TO AN ON-SITE EFFLUENT TREATMENT PLANT, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2460993

• 25 Jun 2024N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING WITH CONNECTION TO AN ON-SITE EFFLUENT TREATMENT PLANT, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2460962

• 14 May 2024N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING WITH CONNECTION TO AN ON SITE EFFLUENT TREATMENT PLANT, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2460700

• 7 May 2024N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING WITH ATTACHED GARAGE, CONNECTION TO AN ON-SITE EFFLUENT TREATMENT PLANT AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2460657

• 8 Apr 2024Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, CONNECTION TO ON-SITE WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2460477

• 20 Feb 2024Conditional

  ERECTION OF A SLATTED AGRICULTURAL SHED WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2460172

• 28 Dec 2023Refused

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING WITH EFFLUENT TREATMENT PLANT AND DOMESTIC GARAGE, ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2352029

• 26 Sept 2023Conditional

  DEMOLITION OF AN EXISTING DETACHED MICA AFFECTED 1 1/2 STOREY DWELLING AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DETACHED 1 1/2 STOREY REPLACEMENT DWELLING ALONG WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2351439

• 12 Sept 2023Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING AND ATTACHED GARAGE WITH CONNECTION TO AN ON-SITE EFFLUENT TREATMENT PLANT AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2351362

• 17 Jul 2023N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, TREATMENT PLANT AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2351049

• 7 Mar 2023Conditional

  RE-LOCATION OF PERCOLATION AREA GRANTED PERMISSION UNDER 04/5601 AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2350271

• 14 Feb 2023N/a

  ALTERATIONS AND 19M2 EXTENSION TO GROUND FLOOR AND EXTENSION TO UPPER FLOOR OF EXISTING DWELLING TO PROVIDE ADDITIONAL ACCOMMODATION WITH ALL EXISTING SERVICES TO REMAIN AND BE UTILISED

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2350166

• 26 May 2022Conditional

  EXISTING SITE ENTRANCE AND HARDCORE YARD AND PERMISSION FOR CONSTRUCTION OF PARKING BAYS WITH SERVICES FOR CAMPER VANS, CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2250912

• 11 Apr 2022Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH WASTEWATER SYSTEM AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2250618

• 15 Nov 2021Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2152253

• 11 Aug 2021Conditional

  ERECTION OF A ONE AND A HALF STOREY DWELLING HOUSE, TOGETHER WITH A DETACHED GARAGE, ONSITE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2151619

• 18 May 2021N/a

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2150941

The 25 most recent of 32 applications.

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 Liafin.

Recorded monuments

• DG019-013 Megalithic tomb - court tomb
  Description

  The monument is on the W side of the Inishowen peninsula, c. 1km from the shore of Lough Swilly on a low flat-topped ridge, and is aligned NE-SW. The land in the vicinity, poorly drained and bog grown, provides rough grazing. There are good views from the site, particularly to the SW across Lough Swilly, though limited to the NE by Aghaweel Hill c. 1.2km away and to the E by the less imposing Liafin Hill. The monument consists of, at the NE, the remains of a gallery c. 6m long, now divided into two chambers. Approximately 26m to the SW there is a ruined subsidiary chamber, and a further 12m to the SW is another, both opening to the SE. These three elements seem to have stood in a long narrow mound that is now only intermittently traceable in the uneven, boggy surface. Reliable survey of its outline is not possible, but it seems to have been c. 15m broad. There appears to have been considerable clearance of cairn material from the site since the middle of the 19th century, when, it is reported, there was 'a vast quantity of loose stones of various dimensions lying in a confused mass' between the main gallery and the south-western subsidiary chambers (OS Revision Name Book, 1846-7). Today there is only a light scatter of loose stones in this area. The main gallery opens to the NE. The front chamber is represented by a single orthostat at its southern side. This is a split stone set with its flat face to the interior. It is 0.8m high. It does not seem to be deeply set in the ground and leans inward against a segmenting jamb at its inner end. This longitudinally set jamb is the same height as the sidestone. At the inner face of this jamb is an upright stone, 0.2m high. The status of this stone is uncertain. Opposite the jamb is an orthostat lm in exposed height. This too may be a jamb. A prostrate stone measuring 1.lm by 0.7m lies 2.6m to the NE of this. A thorn bush grows in the rear chamber, the southern side of which is formed by two stones. The outer stone, set more or less in line with the segmenting jamb, is 0.6m in exposed height. Its top is 0.4m below that of the jamb. The inner sidestone here, set outside the line of the outer, does not seem to be deeply set in the ground. It has a flat inner face and is 0.8m high. A tall gabled orthostat, 1.7m high, forms the back of the gallery. This chamber was c. 3m long and was probably c. 1.5m wide. The gallery was rather better preserved in 1846-7 (OS Revision Name Book), when five 'flag stones' were present on the S side and four on the N. It was then 26 feet (c. 8m) long, which suggests that the gallery may have consisted of more than the two chambers now known. Only two stones of the eastern subsidiary chamber survive. One of these, a sidestone at the SW, leans markedly to the E. If upright, it would stand 1m high. There is a gable-shaped backstone at right angles to the N end of this. It leans southward and partly overlies but does not touch the sidestone. This, if upright, would stand 0.7m high. The western subsidiary chamber is rather better preserved. It is c. 2m long and almost 1m wide. Two sidestones and a backstone survive. The backstone, low and flat topped, is 0.25m high. The sidestone to the E leans against the backstone and rises 0.35m above it. The sidestone to the W is set in front of the backstone. Its inner end is around the same height as the backstone, from where it rises toward the front of the chamber, where it is 0.55m high. According to local information, this chamber was damaged at around the beginning of the 20th century. Approximately 3.5m to the W of the chamber is a leaning stone 0.6m long, c. 0.3m thick and, if upright, lm high. It is unclear whether it is a structural stone. Almost lm to the W is a displaced stone measuring 0.7m in maximum dimension. OS Revision Name Book, sheet 19 (1846-7), 30-31; de Valera 1960, 104, no. 3 (plan); Ó Nualláin 1983a, 24, no. 32; SMR 1987, 19:13 and 19:14; Ó Nualláin 1989, 117; Colhoun 1995, 57, no. 19/2; RMP 1995, 19:13 and 19:14. 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 See linked document with details from Eamon Cody, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume VI. County Donegal. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002)

• DG019-015 Standing stone
  Description

  There is no trace of the 'erect stones' marked on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map. Situated on rough ground sloping SW towards Lough Swilly. Excavation licence number 00E0646 A one-day site assessment was carried out in the area of a proposed house site at Liafin, Linsfort, Co. Donegal, in order to fulfil the requirements of an outline planning application to erect a dwelling and septic tank. The archaeological site that prompted this assessment, standing stone SMR 19:15, no longer appears to exist at its recorded location. However, two 'new' standing stones had been located in the field on the opposite side of the road to the development site during a previous site assessment. Three test-trenches were opened within the area of development—Trenches 1 and 2 within the footings of the building, and Trench 3 along the length of the proposed access road to the dwelling. Trench 1 was placed along the length of the proposed building and was located 26m from the west field boundary and 8m from the north field boundary. The trench, which was 20m long, c. 2m wide and orientated north-south, was excavated with the aid of a machine fitted with a toothless bucket. The topsoil (a grey/dark brown, loamy, silty clay that ranged in depth from 0.2m to 0.26m) was removed to uncover the underlying subsoil—an orange/white, soft, sandy, silt boulder clay. No archaeological activity was located during this work. Trench 2 was placed along the width of the proposed building, at right angles to Trench 1, approximately central to the first trench. This trench was c. 2m wide and 10m long. Again the topsoil was stripped to uncover the underlying subsoil. No archaeological activity was uncovered within this trench. Trench 3 was placed along the length of the proposed access road to the dwelling and was located c. 8m to the south of Trench 2 and 13m to the west of Trench 1. The area opened up was c. 2m wide and 15m long. Again the topsoil was removed to uncover the underlying subsoil, and nothing of archaeological significance was located within this trench. (Excavations Bulletin 2000) Ciara McManus, ADS, Unit 48, Westlink Enterprise Centre, 30-50 Distillery Street, Belfast. Pre-development testing was undertaken by Aaron Johnston, for Archaeological Development Services Ltd, under licence No. 08E0543 across the site proposed for the construction of a dwelling house with wastewater treatment plant and access road. The site of development is located partly within the constraint rings of a megalithic tomb (DG019–014----) and a standing stone (DG019–015----). A desk-based assessment undertaken in 2000 concluded that the standing stone was no longer in situ. However, two previously unrecorded standing stones located a short distance across the road to the south-west are likely to be the remains of this monument. A test excavation conducted later in the same year by Ciara MacManus (ADS) revealed no archaeological features or artefacts within the site proposed for construction of the house (Excavations 2000, No. 184, 00E0646). The plan of development was amended several years later which involved relocating the proposed dwelling house a short distance to the north of the site planned initially. The relocation of the proposed dwelling house was therefore subject to a planning condition by Donegal County Council to carry out a further phase of testing. This was carried out on 14 August 2008. Four transecting trenches were excavated, which measured between 25–60m in length. They were excavated across the site of the proposed house, septic tank and driveway. No archaeological features or artefacts of any kind were exposed during testing. 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: 18 November 2011

• DG019-016 Standing stone
  Description

  A standing stone c. 2m high × 0.95m wide; NE-SW. Situated on rough pasture land overlooking Lough Swilly. 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 No archaeological significance NGR 23279 43719 Excavation Licence No. 05E0608 Pre-development testing was carried out on 7 June 2005 at a site in advance of its development at Liafin townland, Buncrana, Co. Donegal. The proposed development, the construction of a single-storey dwelling with septic tank, was located within the constraint area for a standing stone. The monument was 14m from the proposed access road/driveway and 50m away from the proposed dwelling. Three trenches were excavated along the access road/driveway and through the proposed dwelling, septic tank and percolation area. The trenches measured 150m, 14.7m and 16.1m long, 1.5-1.8m wide and 0.1-0.6m deep. Below the topsoil were orange/grey/brown plastic sandy clay, orange/brown plastic silty clay and orange/brown friable silt loam. The three types of natural subsoil were sterile. The testing exposed two land drains and crossed a backfilled test-pit. One sherd of modern pottery was recovered from the topsoil. The testing revealed nothing of archaeological significance (Excavations Bulletin 2005). Richard Crumlish, 4 Lecka Grove, Castlebar Road, Ballinrobe, Co. Mayo.

• DG019-028 Megalithic structure
  Description

  Described by Ciara McManus as 'Concealed almost entirely by a thick garden hedge 1m W of the roadside, two large stones stand next to each other both aligned with their long axis in an E-W direction. The stone to the N is the larger of the two, though approximately 0.1m less in height than its S partner (exact measurements are impossible due to the thickness of the hedge). It is a large lichen-covered block standing stone 1.2m in height and measures 1.1m long and about 0.4m in breadth. The full height of both stones is lessened on the E side by build-up on the verge of the road, though to the W, in the base of the hedge, their full height can be seen as the garden is about 0.4m lower. The S stone stands 1.3m high and is a fine slab, approximately 0.3m thick and 1m in length. It is leaning slightly from its original position and and now rests against the top of the other though originally, if upright, as measured at the base of the stones, it would have been no more than 0.2m from the other. On present evidence, the stones do not appear to be the remains of any larger monument, such as a megalithic tomb and can only be classfieid at this time as a pair of standing stones' (Unpublished excavation report no. 00E646). Excavation licence number 00E0646 A one-day site assessment was carried out in the area of a proposed house site at Liafin, Linsfort, Co. Donegal, in order to fulfil the requirements of an outline planning application to erect a dwelling and septic tank. The archaeological site that prompted this assessment, standing stone SMR 19:15, no longer appears to exist at its recorded location. However, two 'new' standing stones had been located in the field on the opposite side of the road to the development site during a previous site assessment. (Excavations Bulletin 2000) Ciara McManus, ADS, Unit 48, Westlink Enterprise Centre, 30-50 Distillery Street, Belfast.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Liafin, about 1 in 20 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 high, 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 Liafin.

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

Name

Liafin

Area

1,979,846 m² (197.98 ha, 489.23 acres)

Civil parish

Desertegny, and its townlands

Barony

Inishowen West

Electoral division

Desertegny, the unit of the census

Census 2022

751 people lived in 252 households in the Desertegny electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 37% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 15% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyannan, Glebe, Gortleck, Gortyarrigan, Linsfort, Meenalooban, Sladran

Placenames

Liafin 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.