# Marfagh, Co. Donegal: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Clondahorky, barony of Kilmacrenan, Co. Donegal; in Irish Marfach. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 431,246 m² (43.12 ha, 106.56 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 2 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 215,740 m² (21.57 ha, 53.31 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Clondahorky, https://everytownland.com/donegal/parish/clondahorky.md - Barony: Kilmacrenan - Electoral division: Dunfanaghy, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Donegal, https://everytownland.com/donegal.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/14409 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 51877 - Centre: latitude 55.188512, longitude -8.017759 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 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); 3 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1340246: 343,314 m² (34.33 ha, 84.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1340246.md - Parcel 1395726: 88,166 m² (8.82 ha, 21.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1395726.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) No planning application touches the townland of Marfagh in the national file, which goes back to 2010. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: Horn Head and Rinclevan SAC, site code 000147, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/000147 - Special Protection Area: Horn Head to Fanad Head SPA, site code 004194, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/spa/004194 - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Horn Head And Rinclevan, site code 000147 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - DG015-031: Stone circle - embanked, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDG015-031----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDG015-031001-. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDG015-031002-. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDG015-031003-. 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 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 Marfagh. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: About 1 in 5 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: 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, 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/marfagh.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/donegal/marfagh.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/donegal/marfagh.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Marfagh 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) - Cloghernagh: https://everytownland.com/donegal/cloghernagh.md - Lurgabrack: https://everytownland.com/donegal/lurgabrack.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/marfagh - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/donegal/marfagh