Foxhall

23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Foxhall, from 201 m² to 359,603 m² (35.96 ha, 88.86 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 21 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 Foxhall 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.

• 17 Feb 2026Conditional

  ERECTION OF 6 NO. 21M HIGH GALVANISED FLOODLIGHTING COLUMNS WITH HOODED FLOODLIGHTS TO EXISTING GAELIC PITCH AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2660217

• 10 Sept 2025Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A SPORTS PITCH AND ASSOCIATED FLOOD LIGHTS AND BALL STOPS TOGETHER WITH ALL OTHER SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2561554

• 26 May 2025Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2560839

• 29 Apr 2025N/a

  ERECTION OF A DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2560671

• 7 Feb 2017Conditional

  ERECTION OF 4 NO. 24 METER HIGH GALVANISED FLOODLIGHTING COLUMNS FITTED WITH 56 NO. 1.5KW HOODDED FLOODLIGHTS TO EXISTING GAELIC PITCH

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1750152

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: River Swilly Valley Woods 002011

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Foxhall.

Architectural heritage

• Fox Hall, walled garden, 1850–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Walled garden on sub-rectangular plan, laid out c.1860, having rubble stone boundary walls with horizontal stone copings, raised corners and with square-headed openings to three sides, one with red brick flat arch to entrance to south. Ruinous outbuilding to southeast. Set in mature woodland in former Fox Hall estate, east of Letterkenny.

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 Foxhall, about 1 in 5 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 high, 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 Foxhall.

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

Name

Foxhall

Area

685,243 m² (68.52 ha, 169.33 acres)

Civil parish

Conwal, and its townlands

Barony

Kilmacrenan

Electoral division

Templedouglas, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,089 people lived in 352 households in the Templedouglas electoral division. 89% 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

Ballygawley, Cashelreagh, Doon Glebe, Drumanaught, Killymasny, Rashedoge, Whitehill

Placenames

Foxhall 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.