Rafoarty
Townland in the civil parish of Drumhome, barony of Tirhugh, Co. Donegal
- Area
- 33.5 ha
- 83 acres
- Land parcels
- 12
- registered freehold, median 6,414 m² (0.64 ha, 1.59 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rafoarty, from 767 m² to 118,904 m² (11.89 ha, 29.38 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 15 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Rafoarty 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
27 Jan 2023Conditional
(1) CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, FOUL SEWER TREATMENT PLANT AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND (2) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING FARM SHED TO FACILITATE THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT
Outline permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2350071
3 Sept 2019Conditional
(1) CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, FOUL SEWER TREATMENT PLANT & ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND (2) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING FARM SHED TO FACILITATE THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT
Outline permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1951344
11 Jul 2019N/a
ERECTION OF DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, FOUL SEWER TREATMENT PLANT AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS
Outline permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1951060
25 Aug 2017Refused
CONSTRUCTION OF A ONE AND A HALF STOREY DWELLING, USE OF THE EXISTING ACCESS POINT TO ROAD, CONNECTION TO THE EXISTING TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA, INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1751308
25 Aug 2017Refused
CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY DWELLING, ALTERING EXISTING ACCESS, TREATMENT SYSTEM, PERCOLATION AREA, INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1751310
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Rafoarty.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Rafoarty.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Rafoarty.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Rafoarty.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Rafoarty with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Rafoarty
- Area
- 335,473 m² (33.55 ha, 82.9 acres)
- Civil parish
- Drumhome, and its townlands
- Barony
- Tirhugh
- Electoral division
- Ballintra, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Ballintra electoral division: 772 people in 281 households; 80% of households own their home; 39% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 9% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Coxtown, Drumaneel, Kilgole, Lisnapaste, Urbalshinny
- Placenames
- Rafoarty 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.