Figart

40 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Figart, from 559 m² to 93,390 m² (9.34 ha, 23.08 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 24 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 Figart 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.

• 12 May 2026Refused

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE, PROVISION OF ON-SITE EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2660851

• 13 Jan 2025Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2560017

• 6 Jul 2023Refused

  CONSTRUCTION OF A TWO STOREY DWELLING HOUSE WITH CONNECTION TO PROPOSED SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2350987

• 3 Jul 2023N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND GARAGE WITH CONNECTION TO PROPOSED WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2350956

• 6 Oct 2021Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK & PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2151982

• 18 Sept 2020Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. WORKS INCLUDE DEMOLITION OF EXISTING ATTACHED WC AND UTILITY ROOM TO MAKE PROVISION FOR THE PROPOSED EXTENSION WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2051318

• 7 Jul 2020Conditional

  INSTALLATION OF 4 NO. DORMER STYLE WINDOWS ON EXISTING DWELLING AND RETENTION OF EXISTING ROOF SPACE ROOMS AND ASSOCIATED TWO UPPER GABLE WINDOWS AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2050891

• 1 Jul 2019Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK/ SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1951017

• 1 Jul 2019Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK/ SEWAGE TREAMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1951016

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 Figart.

Recorded monuments

• DG070-015 Standing stone
  Description

  A standing stone 1.05m high × 0.62m wide × 0.33m thick; NE-SW. Situated on good land on the E slope of a hill. 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

• DG070-016 Standing stone
  Description

  A standing stone 1.1m high × 0.92m wide × 0.45m thick; WNW-ESE. Situated on good land on the E slope of a hill. 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

• DG070-017 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Internal diam. c. 30m. A subcircular area enclosed by a much ploughed-out earthen bank hardly surviving above 10 cms in height. It is situated in cultivated land on the E side of a hill with views to N, S and E. 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

• DG070-018 Souterrain
  Description

  Some time ago a 'flag-covered tunnel' was, found during sowing operations. It was situated near the crest of a hill in cultivated 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

Architectural heritage

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

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 Figart, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The Geological Survey did not answer.

Terrain model

The Geological Survey did not answer.

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

Name

Figart · Fiogart

Area

1,110,562 m² (111.06 ha, 274.43 acres)

Civil parish

Raphoe, and its townlands

Barony

Raphoe North

Electoral division

Figart, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,131 people lived in 384 households in the Figart electoral division. 79% of households owned their home. 49% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardvarnock Glebe, Burnside, Kiltole, Magherahee, Newrow, Tullyvinny

Placenames

Figart 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.