Rahan Far

29 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rahan Far, from 47 m² to 148,088 m² (14.81 ha, 36.59 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 8 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 Rahan Far 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.

• 9 Aug 2022Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A (1) DETACHED SINGLE STOREY FLAT ROOF HOME OFFICE (2) DETACHED PITCHED ROOF DOMESTIC SHED, WITH ACCESS LANE VIA AN EXISTING AGRICULTURAL ENTRANCE FROM THE ADJOINING PUBLIC ROAD

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2251345

• 14 Apr 2022Conditional

  DOMESTIC GARAGE ATTACHED TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2250660

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 Rahan Far.

Recorded monuments

• DG098-021 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Internal diam. 31.4m N-S, 35m E-W. A low subcircular platform .5m above surrounding ground. A low (.25m) earthen bank is evident on the NW side but elsewhere has been ploughed out. The interior is level. The site is located in fair pasture land. 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

• DG098-022 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Overall Diam. c. 34m. A subcircular earthen platform up to 1.36m above the surrounding ground. The edges are badly disturbed and a walled garden has been built on the top. Situated in a prominent position on good pasture and with excellent views. 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

• House, 1870–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, dated 1872, with projecting flat-roofed single-bay single-storey entrance porch to the centre of the rear elevation (west). Pitched natural slate roof having rendered chimneystacks and raised verges to the gable ends (north and south). Roughcast rendered walls to the main elevation with smooth rendered plinth course and smooth rendered strips to the margins; smooth rendered finish to the gable ends (north and south) and to the rear elevation (west). Square-headed window openings with stone sills, smooth rendered reveals and six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed window openings to the rear having two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed doorway to the centre of the main elevation having smooth rendered reveals, replacement glazed timber door, stone threshold and plain overlight. Set slightly back from road to the south-west of Dunkineely, and close to the west side of St. John’s Point. Yard to the front (east), and rubble stone and dry stone walls to the north. Integral square-headed doorway set within boundary wall to the north-west having stone lintel. Rubble stone outbuilding to the north having mono-pitched slate and stone roof, rubble stone walls, and with open elevation to the east gable end.

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 Rahan Far, 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

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

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

Name

Rahan Far · Rathain Íochtarach

Area

647,864 m² (64.79 ha, 160.09 acres)

Civil parish

Killaghtee, and its townlands

Barony

Banagh

Electoral division

Dunkineely, the unit of the census

Census 2022

904 people lived in 351 households in the Dunkineely electoral division. 73% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 20% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cavan, Menamny, Rahan Near

Placenames

Rahan Far 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.