Monfad

35 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Monfad, from 24 m² to 327,189 m² (32.72 ha, 80.85 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 18 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Monfad 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.

• 16 Apr 2026N/a

  ERECTION OF A MODULAR MEDICAL DIAGNOSTIC SCANNING UNIT, ASSOCIATED CARPARKING, CONNECTION TO EXISTING SURFACE AND FOUL WATER DRAINAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2660656

• 10 Sept 2024Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND SEPTIC TANK WITH PERCOLATION AREA

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2461397

• 14 Sept 2022Conditional

  CHANGE OF HOUSE DESIGN FROM THAT PREVIOUSLY APPROVED UNDER PLANNING REF: 22/50014

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2251541

• 12 Jan 2022Conditional

  (1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING MICA DEFECTIVE DWELLING HOUSE (2)CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW REPLACEMENT DWELLING HOUSE WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2250014

• 8 Jun 2021N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE, GRANNY FLAT AND SEPTIC TANK WITH PERCOLATION AREA

  Permission, 2 homes · Donegal County Council, 2151121

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 Monfad.

Recorded monuments

• DG054-007 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  The land here has been extensively reclaimed and there is no trace of the 'Fort' marked on the 1st and 2nd editions of the OS 6-inch maps. It was situated in good land on the NW slope of Taylors Hill. This seems to be the cropmark indicated on the aerial photograph (St. Joseph, ARV 52). 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

• Bridge, 1875–1885 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch bridge carrying road over the former Burton Junction to Letterkenny narrow gauge railway line, built c. 1883. Railway out of use from 1953 with northern end of arch now infilled. Segmental-headed arch with brick voussoirs and with brick construction to arch barrel. Squared rubble stone construction to spandrels and to parapets with flush roughly dressed stone quoins to corners of piers below arch springing point. Rubble stone coping to parapets. Single lane tarmacadam deck with gravel to verges. Roughly squared rubble stone retaining walls aligning former railway cutting. Located to the south-west of Newtowncunningham.

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 Monfad, about 1 in 10 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1923 (ZIP).

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

Name

Monfad

Area

966,139 m² (96.61 ha, 238.74 acres)

Civil parish

Allsaints, and its townlands

Barony

Raphoe North

Electoral division

Newtown Cunningham, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,028 people lived in 372 households in the Newtown Cunningham electoral division. 66% of households owned their home. 49% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cottage, Gortree, Milltown, Moyle, Moylemoss, Newtowncunningham, Plaster, Tinklersford

Placenames

Monfad 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.