Marfagh

2 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Marfagh, from 88,166 m² (8.82 ha, 21.79 acres) to 343,314 m² (34.33 ha, 84.83 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 3 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 Marfagh 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Marfagh in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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: Horn Head and Rinclevan SAC 000147
• Special Protection Area: Horn Head to Fanad Head SPA 004194
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Horn Head And Rinclevan 000147

Recorded monuments

• DG015-031 Stone circle - embanked
  Description

  Situated on flat pasture on a headland with panoramic views of the Atlantic Ocean and Tory Island to W and N with upland area to E and overlooked by rock outcrop immediately to S. Site consists of a slightly sunken circular shaped interior (diam 28.1m N-S ; 32m E-W) enclosed by a mixture of low upright stones and rock outcrop which has been quarried to form a revetment or kerbing defining a roughly circular shaped interior. The best preserved upright orthostats can be seen on the SE side where the tallest stone measures 0.85m H by 0.6m by 0.67m. This stone appears to be set into a socket with packing stones around its base. On the outer face of these stones on the SE side there is the slightest suggestion of a low denuded bank which may have been built up against the outer face of these upright stones. There is no enclosing element from ENE through E to ESE as this appears to have been levelled when the interior was used for tillage. There is evidence of cultivation ridges running across the interior of the enclosure. The interior of the enclosure rises slightly from what appears to be a low mound, although this rise may be due to later disturbance. This circle or enclosure is situated amongst a field system (DG015-031002-) of unknown date. A field bank runs off the N side of the enclosure and runs down to the cliff edge while a second low field bank intersects the ENE side of the enclosure and runs off to the E of the monument. The extensive remains of a field system (DG015-031002-) and field clearance cairns (DG015-031001/003-) can be seen to the NE and E of the monument. The classification of this monument is problematical as it appears to fall between the stone circle and embanked enclosure classification. It is possible that this monument may be the remains of poorly preserved embanked stone circle which is contemporaneous with the associated field system. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revision: 2 May 2010

• DG015-031001 Cairn - clearance cairn
  Description

  Low field clearance cairn situated inside large field which is one of several fields in a large field system of unknown date. The monument consists of a low grass covered stone cairn (H 0.3m; diam. 3.4m) and apprears to be the remains of a field clearance cairn which is located inside a large field which is part of an extensive field system (DG015-031002-) and nearby stone enclosure (DG015-031). A second field clearance cairn(DG015-031003-) is located 35m to the N. These clearance cairns appear to be post-1700 AD in date. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload/revision: 02 May 2010

• DG015-031002 Field system
  Description

  Extensive remains of a large field system of unknown date. There are two field clearance cairns (DG015-031001/003-) associated with this field system and a stone enclosure (DG015-031) of possible prehistoric date. The field walls are well preserved in places and form large irregular shaped fields many of which can still be traced running across the W face of the hills to the E of the stone enclosure (DG015-031). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload/revision: 02 May 2010

• DG015-031003 Cairn - clearance cairn
  Description

  Low field clearance cairn situated inside large field which is one of several fields in a large field system (DG015-031002-) of unknown date. The monument consists of a low grass covered stone cairn (H 0.3m; diam. 4.5m) and apprears to be the remains of a field clearance cairn inside a large field which is part of an extensive field system (DG015-031002-) and nearby stone enclosure (DG015-031). A second field clearance cairn (DG015-031003-) is located 35m to the S. These clearance cairns appear to be post-1700 AD in date. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload/revision: 02 May 2010

Architectural heritage

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

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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, moderately low (inferred), low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Marfagh.

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

Name

Marfagh · Marfach

Area

431,246 m² (43.12 ha, 106.56 acres)

Civil parish

Clondahorky, and its townlands

Barony

Kilmacrenan

Electoral division

Dunfanaghy, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Dunfanaghy electoral division: 1,015 people in 376 households; 78% of households own their home; 36% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 50% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cloghernagh, Lurgabrack

Placenames

Marfagh 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.