Loughfad

104 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Loughfad, from 74 m² to 447,638 m² (44.76 ha, 110.61 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 27 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 Loughfad 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.

• 17 Feb 2026Conditional

  (1) RETENTION OF (A) STORAGE SHED TO SIDE OF DWELLING, (B) YARD TO SIDE OF DWELLING AND (C) CHANGE OF USE FROM FORMER AGRICULTURAL ENTRANCE TO RESIDENTIAL ENTRANCE AND (2) CONSTRUCTION OF DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2660218

• 24 Apr 2024N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH DOMESTIC GARAGE, ASSOCIATED SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM, AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2460570

• 1 Jun 2023Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMEMT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2350786

• 2 Aug 2022Conditional

  DWELLING FOR USE AS SHORT TERM LETTING

  Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2251317

• 17 Feb 2022Refused

  ERECTION OF 3 NO. CABIN TYPE GLAMPING UNITS FOR SHORT TERM LETTING AND THE INSTALLATION OF A WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2250268

• 14 Sept 2021Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, PROPRIETARY WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM, PERCOLATION AREA AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2151824

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: West of Ardara/Maas Road SAC 000197
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: West Of Ardara/Maas Road 000197

Recorded monuments

• DG064-013001 Mound
  Description

  In 1937 workmen levelling a mound discovered a double cist burial here. The mound was oval 19ft E-W × 16ft 6in N-S × 3ft 6in high. It was composed of dry sandy soil held in position by a kerb of large boulders and similarly sized boulders were scattered over the mound surface. A cist covered by two capstones lay 3ft below the mound surface near the W kerb i.e. approximately level with the outside ground surface. It consisted of two compartments each 32in E-W × 11in and 14in deep and was formed of thin limestone slabs. The slabs were held in place by packing stones. Each compartment contained an individual disarticulated burial, head to the W. Other skeletal material was found in the mound, including two tiny skulls probably representing the use of the site as a Cillin or burial ground for unbaptized children up to c. AD 1850. The site is located E of Lough Fad in an area of good pasture interrupted by patches of rougher ground. (Raftery 1942, 122-6) 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

• DG064-013002 Cist
  Description

  In 1937 workmen levelling a mound discovered a double cist burial here. The mound was oval 19ft E-W × 16ft 6in N-S × 3ft 6in high. It was composed of dry sandy soil held in position by a kerb of large boulders and similarly sized boulders were scattered over the mound surface. A cist covered by two capstones lay 3ft below the mound surface near the W kerb i.e. approximately level with the outside ground surface. It consisted of two compartments each 32in E-W × 11in and 14in deep and was formed of thin limestone slabs. The slabs were held in place by packing stones. Each compartment contained an individual disarticulated burial, head to the W. Other skeletal material was found in the mound, including two tiny skulls probably representing the use of the site as a Cillin or burial ground for unbaptized children up to c. AD 1850. The site is located E of Lough Fad in an area of good pasture interrupted by patches of rougher ground. (Raftery 1942, 122-6) 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

• DG064-013003 Children's burial ground
  Description

  In 1937 workmen levelling a mound discovered a double cist burial here. The mound was oval 19ft E-W × 16ft 6in N-S × 3ft 6in high. It was composed of dry sandy soil held in position by a kerb of large boulders and similarly sized boulders were scattered over the mound surface. A cist covered by two capstones lay 3ft below the mound surface near the W kerb i.e. approximately level with the outside ground surface. It consisted of two compartments each 32in E-W × 11in and 14in deep and was formed of thin limestone slabs. The slabs were held in place by packing stones. Each compartment contained an individual disarticulated burial, head to the W. Other skeletal material was found in the mound, including two tiny skulls probably representing the use of the site as a Cillin or burial ground for unbaptized children up to c. AD 1850. The site is located E of Lough Fad in an area of good pasture interrupted by patches of rougher ground. (Raftery 1942, 122-6) 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

• Mamie's, house, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c.1800, having windbreak entrance, and flat-roofed extension to rear. Pitched thatched roof with reed to front and flax to rear, having raised scolloped ridge, and smooth-rendered chimneystacks. Limewashed roughcast-rendered walls. Square-headed openings with painted concrete sills, replacement timber casement windows, and replacement door. Garden to front, and outbuildings with rubble walls and pitched and lean-to roofs to side and rear.

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 20 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 Loughfad.

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

Name

Loughfad · Loch Fhada

Area

3,691,866 m² (369.19 ha, 912.28 acres)

Civil parish

Inishkeel, and its townlands

Barony

Boylagh

Electoral division

Maas, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Maas electoral division: 272 people in 104 households; 86% of households own their home; 28% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 39% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyiriston, Ballymackilduff, Cashelgolan, Clogher West, Clooney, Kilclooney Beg, Loughderryduff, Meenagrillagh, Tully Beg

Placenames

Loughfad 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.