Faughary

52 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Faughary, from 271 m² to 423,943 m² (42.39 ha, 104.76 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 30 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 Faughary 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.

• 26 Nov 2018N/a

  1. Construction of a two-storey type dwelling house 2. Upgrade of existing agricultural track to serve the proposed dwelling 3. Provision of effluent treatment system with percolation area 4. and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 18260

• 19 Nov 2018N/a

  a new forest road entrance and erection of a new security barrier together with all ancillary site services and associated site works

  Permission · Leitrim County Council, 18253

• 18 Apr 2018Refused

  (a) construction of a two storey type dwelling house; (b) upgrade of existing agricultural track to serve the proposed dwelling; (c) provision of effluent treatment system with percolation area and (d) all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 1864

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 Faughary.

Recorded monuments

• LE008-014 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  : Located on a slight rise of a SW-facing slope. This is a grass and rush-covered circular platform (diam. 48m) defined by a scarp (H 0.25m) and an external band of rushes (Wth 3m). The original entrance is not identified. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 September 2008

Architectural heritage

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

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

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1417 (ZIP).

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 Faughary with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Leitrim.

Name

Faughary · Fothaire

Area

4,685,605 m² (468.56 ha, 1,157.84 acres)

Civil parish

Killasnet, and its townlands

Barony

Rosclogher

Electoral division

Manorhamilton, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Manorhamilton electoral division: 2,064 people in 854 households; 58% of households own their home; 48% of homes were built since 2001; 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Boleyboy, Brackary Beg, Cartrongibbagh, Cashelaveela, Curraghfore, Curraghfore, Killea, Lisdarush, Shasmore, Skreeny Little, Tawnyfeacle

Placenames

Faughary 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.