Figary

127 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Figary, from 8 m² to 73,246 m² (7.32 ha, 18.1 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Figary 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.

• 24 Sept 2026N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY DWELLING WITH DOMESTIC GARAGE, CONNECTION TO ON-SITE WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM & ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2661770

• 22 Jul 2026N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY DWELLING & DETACHED GARAGE, CONNECTION TO ON-SITE EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM & ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2661358

• 15 Jul 2026N/a

  RESTORATION AND REFURBISHMENT OF REMAINDER OF BUILDING FORMERLY KNOWN AS THE RONERAGH HOTEL WHICH ENTAILS CHANGE OF USE FROM FORMER HOTEL TO 3 NO. INDIVIDUAL RESIDENTIAL APARTMENTS WITH ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS AND CONNECTION TO EXISTING ON-SITE SERVICES SERVING THE RONERAGH APARTMENTS DEVELOPMENT OF WHICH THE BUILDING IS PART OF. THE REMAINING BUILDING IS A PROTECTED STRUCTURE INCLUDED IN THE RECORD OF PROTECTED STRUCTURES (RPS) UNDER DONEGAL COUNTY COUNCIL AND RECORDED BY THE NATIONAL INVENTORY OF ARCHITECTURAL HERITAGE UNDER REG. NO. 40820004

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2661311

• 11 May 2026Refused

  CONSTRUCTION OF 2 SMALL DWELLINGS WITH CONNECTION TO MAIN SEWER VIA A HOLDING TANK AND PUMP SYSTEM, ALONG WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 2 homes · Donegal County Council, 2660843

• 10 Mar 2026Refused

  (A) CONSTRUCTION OF DWELLING HOUSE WITH CONNECTION TO PRIMARY WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT ALONG WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING PUBLIC SEWER AND (B) CONSTRUCTION OF A DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2650039

• 8 Mar 2026N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF TWO SMALL DWELLINGS WITH CONNECTION TO MAIN SEWER VIA A PUMP SYSTEM, ALONG WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2660364

• 16 Dec 2025Conditional

  DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING AND CONSTRUCTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING WITH CONNECTION TO MAIN SEWER, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) ACCOMPANIES THIS APPLICATION

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2562240

• 11 Dec 2025N/a

  DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING AND CONSTRUCTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING WITH CONNECTION TO MAIN SEWER, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) ACCOMPANIES THIS APPLICATION

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2562194

• 11 Dec 2025Conditional

  A TEN-YEAR PLANNING PERMISSION FOR DEVELOPMENT AT THE EXISTING BUNCRANA WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT (WWTP) LOCATED AT RAILWAY ROAD, BALLYMACARRY LOWER, CO. DONEGAL; THE EXISTING FAHAN WWTP LOCATED AT CARRONTLIEVE, FAHAN, CO. DONEGAL; AND ALONG THE R238 REGIONAL ROAD WITHIN THE TOWNLANDS OF CARRONTLIEVE, CARROWMULLIN, FIGARY, LISFANNAN, LUDDAN, AND BALLYMACARRY LOWER. THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT WILL CONSIST OF: (1) UPGRADE WORKS TO THE EXISTING BUNCRANA WWTP REQUIRING AN EXPANSION OF THE EXISTING SITE TO INCREASE ITS DESIGN POPULATION EQUIVALENT (PE) FROM 13,200PE TO 17,700PE COMPRISING (A) CONSTRUCTION OF A SECONDARY TREATMENT TANK, BLOWERS AND SOUND ATTENUATION BARRIER, PUMP SUMP AND VENT STACK, FLOW METER CHAMBER, VALVE CHAMBER, ADMINISTRATION BUILDING, FLOOD PROTECTION WALL, 2 NO. PICKET FENCE THICKENER TANKS, A SITE DRAINAGE PUMPING STATION, INTERNAL SITE ACCESS ROAD, INTERCONNECTING PIPEWORK AND MANHOLES AND 4 NO. PARKING SPACES, (B) INTERNAL UPGRADES TO THE INLET WORKS BUILDING, INTERNAL UPGRADES TO THE CONTROL AND SLUDGE DEWATERING BUILDING, INTERNAL UPGRADES TO THE OUTFALL PUMPING STATION, REPURPOSING OF THE PRIMARY SETTLEMENT TANKS AS FINAL EFFLUENT BALANCING TANKS, RECONFIGURATION OF THE FLOW DISTRIBUTION CHAMBER AND INTERNAL UPGRADES TO THE SLUDGE HOLDING TANK, (C) REPLACEMENT OF THE EXISTING SITE ACCESS GATE WITH A PALISADE SECURITY GATE, (D) INSTALLATION OF ROOF MOUNTED SOLAR PHOTOVOLTAIC (PV) PANELS ON SOUTH FACING ROOFS OF THE EXISTING INLET WORKS, CONTROL AND SLUDGE DEWATERING AND PROPOSED ADMINISTRATION BUILDINGS, (E) DECOMMISSIONING AND DEMOLITION OF THE EXISTING SITE DRAINAGE PUMPING STATION, GAS HOLDING TANK, PICKET FENCE THICKENER AND SLUDGE DIGESTION TANK AND (F) ALL HARD AND SOFT LANDSCAPING WORKS INCLUDING SCREEN PLANTING AND ALL ASSOCIATED ANCILLARY WORKS INCLUDING SITE WORKS AND TEMPORARY WORKING AREAS, (2) UPGRADE WORKS TO THE EXISTING FAHAN WWTP TO CONVERT IT INTO A WASTEWATER PUMPING STATION (WWPS) COMPRISING (A) CONSTRUCTION OF A STORMWATER HOLDING TANK, PUMP SUMP AND VENT STACK, VALVE CHAMBER, INLET FLUME, SURGE VESSEL, WET KIOSK, 2 NO. CONTROL KIOSKS, CHEMICAL SKID, BUNDED CHEMICAL STORAGE TANK, EMERGENCY SHOWER, WELFARE UNIT, FLOOD PROTECTION WALL WITH GATE, INTERCONNECTING PIPEWORK AND MANHOLES, (B) DECOMMISSIONING AND DEMOLITION OF THE SITE GATE AND WING WALLS, SEPTIC TANK AND PRELIMINARY EQUIPMENT, (C) MATERIAL ALTERATION OF THE EXISTING SITE ACCESS TO INCORPORATE A NEW AND REALIGNED SECURITY MESH SITE GATE AND WINGWALLS AN

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2562206

• 3 Dec 2025Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF TWO HOUSES, WITH EACH DWELLING HAVING A SEPARATE VEHICULAR ACCESS AND CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES INCLUDING WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH DISCHARGE TO PUBLIC SEWER

  Outline permission · Donegal County Council, 2562135

• 8 Nov 2025N/a

  DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING AND CONSTRUCTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING WITH CONNECTION TO MAIN SEWER, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) ACCOMPANIES THIS APPLICATION

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2561948

• 17 Sept 2025Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING WITH CONNECTION OF PRIMARY TREATMENT PLANT ALONG WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVIES, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2561608

• 13 Aug 2025Conditional

  DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING DUE TO DEFECTIVE MICA BLOCKWORK AND ERECTION OF REPLACEMENT DWELLING WITH AMENDMENTS AND CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2561389

• 3 Jul 2025Conditional

  (1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING DUE TO DEFECTIVE BLOCKS (PLANNING REF. NO. 99/1684 REFERS) AND (2) ERECTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING WITH CHANGE OF HOUSE TYPE, CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2561131

• 2 Jun 2025N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY DWELLING AND DETACHED GARAGE, CONNECTION TO ON-SITE EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2560905

• 22 May 2025Conditional

  (1) EXTENSIONS TO KITCHEN, STORE AND DINING AREA, (2) OUTDOOR PATIO AREA, (3) ADDITIONAL CAR PARKING AREA AND (4) BYPASS SEPARATOR, CONNECTION TO EXISTING PUBLIC SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2560822

• 25 Apr 2025Refused

  CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY DWELLING AND TREATMENT PLANT. AN APPROPRIATE ASSESSMENT / NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) ACCOMPANIES THIS APPLICATION

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2550055

• 15 Apr 2025Conditional

  (1) EXCAVATION OF ROCK TO FORM ACCESS ROAD AND A LEVEL SITE AND (2) TIMBER VERTICAL BOARD FENCE ALONG NORTH EASTERN AND WESTERN BOUNDARIES OF THE SITE AND PERMISSION FOR CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING, INSTALLATION OF A WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT CONNECTED TO EXISTING SEWER AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2560577

• 9 Apr 2025Conditional

  DEMOLITION OF EXISTING SPLIT LEVEL DETACHED 1 1/2 STOREY DWELLING (DEFECTIVE CONCRETE BLOCKWORK) AND CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DETACHED 2 STOREY REPLACEMENT DWELLING ALONG WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2560534

• 4 Apr 2025N/a

  DEMOLITION OF EXISTING SPLIT LEVEL DETACHED 2 STOREY DWELLING (DEFECTIVE CONCRETE BLOCKWORK) AND CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DETACHED 2 STOREY REPLACEMENT DWELLING ALONG WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2560505

• 1 Apr 2025Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF AN ENTERTAINMENT ROOM WITH CONNECTION TO ALL EXISTING SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2560476

• 19 Feb 2025Refused

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING, SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT WITH TREATED EFFLUENT CONNECTED TO PUBLIC SEWER AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Extension of duration, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2550011

• 12 Feb 2025N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF AN ENTERTAINMENT ROOM WITH CONNECTION TO ALL EXISTING SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2560170

• 16 Dec 2024Refused

  RELOCATION OF EXISTING ENTRANCE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2462082

• 29 Nov 2024Conditional

  ERECTION OF AN EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE INCLUDING ALL OTHER SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2461959

The 25 most recent of over 100 applications.

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Lough Swilly SAC 002287
• Special Protection Area: Lough Swilly SPA 004075
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Swilly Including Big Isle, Blanket Nook & Inch Lake 000166

Recorded monuments

• DG038-006 Cairn - unclassified
  Description

  A mound of stones c. 20m in diameter and 3.5m high situated on the summit of Gollan Hill in mountain terrain with marvellous views over Lough Swilly and surrounding land. The cairn now forms the base for a modern cross. Attached image: DG038-006----_01.JPG viewed from NW 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

• DG038-009 Flat cemetery
  Description

  A cist containing a plano-convex knife was found here (NMI). Several other cists, one of which contained an 'urn', and several other skeletons were found in this area also. 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

• Fahan Catholic Chapel of Ease, church/chapel, 1940–1950 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding gable-fronted Catholic Chapel of Ease, built c. 1947, having seven-bay nave, single-bay single-storey gable-fronted entrance porch to the entrance gable (south-east), and with single-bay single-storey gable-fronted sacristy to the west gable end. Pitched sprocketed natural slate roof with projecting eaves course, concrete cross finial to west gable end of nave, projecting cement rendered eaves, cast-iron rainwater goods, and red clay roll ridge tiles. Pitched sprocketed natural slate roofs to porch and sacristy with cross finial to porch gable apex. Roughcast rendered walls with smooth cement rendered crown band, snecked rock-faced stone-clad plinth with chamfered concrete coping. Round-headed window openings with concrete Y-tracery, leaded coloured glass, flush concrete surrounds and sill, and with concrete hoodmouldings with decorative label stops. Square-headed door opening to porch having timber panelled door with raised and fielded panels and bolection mouldings surmounted by concrete round-headed tympanum with three roundels with embossed cross motifs, flush concrete surrounds to doorcase, concrete hoodmoulding and label-stops; round-headed door opening to sacristy with painted timber chevron-sheeted door, concrete reveals and flush surrounds, concrete hoodmoulding and label stops. Inside, rendered walls with rendered hoodmoulding with label stops to windows, timber pews, rendered canted ceiling with rendered moulded braces supported by rendered pilasters, and with marble altar. Set back from road in sloping site to the north-east end of Fahan and adjacent to Lough Swilly. Site enclosed to north by roughcast rendered boundary wall with concrete saddle-backed coping over surmounted by decorative metal railing; cement rendered piers (on square-plan) at intervals along length. Gateway to the north comprising a pair of smooth rendered gate piers (on square-plan) having round-headed roughcast rendered panels, stepped pyramidal cap surmounted by round concrete finials, and with a pair of metal gates.

• Bridge, 1860–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch bridge, built c. 1864, carrying road over the former Derry to Buncrana section of the Londonderry & Lough Swilly Railway line. Railway line now out of use with tracks removed (c. 1953); now spans lane leading to Lough Swilly Yacht Club. Round-headed arch with mildly rock-faced ashlar limestone voussoirs to arch and with roughly squared rubble stone construction to arch barrel. Randomly coursed and squared rubble stone construction to spandrels and to parapets; roughly dressed and squared rubble stone coping to parapets. Roughly squared and coursed rubble stone retaining walls aligning former railway cutting with flight of concrete steps behind retaining wall to the north-west corner. Tarmacadam deck with grass verges. Located to the north-west of Fahan, adjacent to Lough Swilly, and a short distance to the south-east of the former Fahan Railway Station (altered and not in survey).

• Ennerdale, house, 1880–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached two-bay single-storey with half-dormer attic level house, built c. 1890, having open projecting single-bay single-storey entrance porch to the centre of the front elevation (south), return to rear, modern conservatory to east. Later in use as a guest house, now in use as a house. Pitched natural slate roofs, hipped and lean-to natural slate roofs to return, having red clay ridge tiles, yellow brick chimneystacks to the gable ends (east and west) with corbelled caps over, timber overhanging eaves with exposed timber rafter feet, chamfered decorative timber bargeboards to gables, decorative wrought-iron finials to dormers, and with replacement rainwater goods. Smooth rendered walls over projecting chamfered rendered plinth. Square-headed window openings at ground floor level, having smooth rendered reveals, render hoodmoulding over with label stops, and with two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows with horizontal glazing bars; canted-headed window openings to attic to dormers having smooth rendered reveals , painted sills, and with two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows with horizontal glazing bars. Segmental-headed entrance door opening to porch having timber panelled double-doors with bolection mouldings, door addressed by concrete doorstep and with coloured geometrically laid tiled\encaustic tiled threshold; doorcase set within open porch with pitched slate roof, decorative painted bargeboards, decorative wrought-iron railings to the side elevations (east and west), decorative painted wrought-iron finial, and supported by painted. Set back from road in an elevated site overlooking Lough Swilly to the south, located to the north-west end of Fahan. Garden to front of site. Bounded on road-frontage to the south by rendered boundary wall. Gateway to the south-west corner of site having rendered gate piers (on square-plan) having modern metal gates. Single-storey outbuilding to the rear (north-east) having pitched natural slate roof, rubble stone walls (rendered to the west gable end), square-headed doorways with battened timber doors, and square-headed carriage-arch with battened timber double-doors.

• Roneragh House, house, 1870–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached multiple-bay two-storey over raised basement house and former hotel on complex irregular-plan, built c. 1875, having projecting two-storey over basement gable-fronted bay to the north-west end of the south-west elevation, projecting two-storey over basement gable-fronted bay to the south-east end of the south-west elevation having full-height canted bay window, two-gable-fronted bays to the north-east elevation, and projecting two-storey over basement gable-fronted bay to the north-east side elevation having full-height canted bay window. Later in use as a hotel with modern single-storey over basement flat-roofed addition to the north-east. Now disused. Pitched tile roof with decorative fish scale tile courses, terracotta ridge cresting, red clay finials over gable apexes, decorative timber bargeboards to gable-fronted bays, decorative timber brackets over canted bay projections, cast-iron rainwater goods, and with red brick chimneystacks having corbelled brick heads and with clay pots over. Channelled smooth rendered rubble stone walls at basement level having moulded rendered cornice over, red brick (Flemish bond) walls at ground and first floor level having flush black brick stringcourses, flush black brick stringcourses forming flush hoodmouldings over openings, and with flush black brick diamond motifs to gables. Pointed segmental-headed and camber headed window openings having roll moulded\torus moulded surrounds, chamfered sills, and with boarded fittings over surviving one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows; sill course at ground floor level; square-headed window openings at basement level, now boarded with timber panels; flush black keystone motifs over some window openings. Square-headed entrance door openings at basement level, blocked with timber panels. Located adjacent to Lough Swilly; land slopes steeply away from coast towards road to the north-east with single-storey elevation to roadscape. Stone-clad wall adjacent to road to the north-east.

• Glencairn, house, 1860–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house on L-shaped plan, built 1871, having advanced gable-fronted bay to the south-west end of the front elevation (north-west) having single-storey canted bay window at ground floor level, two gable-fronted dormers\gablets to the north-east end of the front elevation, advanced gable-fronted bay to the south-east end of the south-west elevation having single-storey canted bay window at ground floor level, and with gable-fronted return to the rear (north-east). Modern single-storey addition to the north-east. Pitched artificial slate roofs with decorative ridge cresting, decorative undulating pierced timber bargeboards, carved timber spear finials over apexes to gable ends and to gablets, overhanging eaves with exposed painted timber rafter feet, replacement rainwater goods, and with rendered chimneystacks having decorative pots over. Smooth rendered walls over chamfered smooth rendered plinth, and with rendered chamfered rusticated quoins to the corners. Square-headed window openings with one-over-one pane horned timber sliding sash windows, timber one-over-one margin-lights horned sash windows to first floor east elevation, painted sills, and with rendered moulded hoodmouldings at ground floor level and to window openings to projecting gable-fronted bays. Central pointed segmental-headed doorway to the front elevation (north-west) having timber panelled door with recessed floral ornament, plain overlight, rendered reveals, tiled threshold, and with render hoodmoulding over. Set back from road in attractive mature site with gardens to the centre of Fahan, house overlooks Lough Swilly located adjacent to the west and south-west of site. Enclosed yard to the north-east having detached two-storey outbuilding with pitched artificial slate roof, rendered walls, and square-headed openings with timber doors and timber louvers. Yard enclosed to south by roughcast rendered wall with crenellated parapet over. Gateway to the north of site comprising a pair of yellow brick piers (on square-plan) having inset red brick panels, and with pyramidal coping over.

• Oúnmaul, house, 1870–1910 · Regional interest
  Description

  Semi-detached four-bay two-storey house with attic level built c. 1890, having central two-bay two-storey gable-fronted block to the main elevation (north-west), two gable-fronted full-height bays to the south-west elevation, and with modern opening canopy extension to the south-west and north-east elevations, and with modern single-storey extension to the north end of the front elevation. One of a pair with building (see 40820007) adjoining to the south-east. Pitched artificial slate roof with blue black clay ridge tiles, cement rendered chimneystacks, painted timber overhanging eaves on exposed painted rafter feet; decorative timber bargeboards, tracery brace and finial to central gable to the north-west, replacement rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed window openings smooth rendered reveals, painted sills, and with four-over-four pane timber sliding sash windows, six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows, and four-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows with horizontal glazing bars,; some casement windows. Pointed segmental-headed entrance door opening to central projecting block to the north-west having rendered block-and-start surround, timber panelled door with timber bolection mouldings, and with four pane overlight. Set back from road in mature site with gardens to the centre of Fahan, house overlooks Lough Swilly located adjacent to the west and south-west of site. Gateway to the north\north-west of site comprising a pair of rendered gates piers (on square-plan) with a pair of hooped wrought-iron gates.

• Torrington House, house, 1870–1910 · Regional interest
  Description

  Semi-detached four-bay two-storey house with attic level, built c. 1890. On irregular-plan with gable-fronted projections to the north-east, south-west and south-east elevations. One of a pair with building (see 40820006) adjoining to the north-west. Pitched artificial slate roof with blue black clay ridge tiles, cement rendered chimneystacks, painted timber overhanging eaves on exposed painted rafter feet; decorative timber bargeboards, and replacement rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed window openings smooth rendered reveals, painted sills, and with some surviving timber sliding sash windows (including six-over-six pane timber sliding sashes and paired six over-two pane timber sash windows with timber mullion with horizontal glazing bars) but mainly replacement fittings. Pointed segmental-headed entrance door opening to north-east elevation having rendered block-and-start surround, timber panelled door with timber bolection mouldings, and with four pane overlight. Set back from road in mature site with gardens to the centre of Fahan, house overlooks Lough Swilly located adjacent to the west and south-west of site. Gateway to the north\north-west of site comprising a pair of rendered gates piers (on square-plan) with a pair of replacement metal gates. Rendered boundary wall to road frontage to the north-east.

• Nazareth House, house, 1870–1875 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay two-storey former house, built in 1870-71, having full-height segmental bowed bay to the east end of the front elevation (south), full-height segmental bowed bay to the west side elevation, central pedimented entrance porch to the front elevation (south), and with single-storey flat-roofed addition to the east elevation having canted corner to the east end. Later in use as a convent and now in use as a nursing home with multiple modern extensions and additions to the rear (north). Hipped artificial slate roof with blue-black roll clay ridge tiles, a central pair of rendered chimneystacks with moulded corbelled cap, projecting rendered eaves course, and with painted cast-iron rainwater goods. Smooth rendered walls with moulded render stringcourses at window head level, rendered pilasters between paired and bow window openings, moulded rendered sill courses, and pronounced projecting rendered plinth with moulded head. Square-headed window openings with replacement windows; surviving two-over-six pane timber sliding sash window to rear (north) having margin glazing bars with coloured glass to outer panels. Central square-headed door opening to the front elevation having timber panelled door with bolection mouldings and metal door furniture, plain overlight, and with render doorcase comprising render pilasters having entablature over with plain frieze, and with render triangular pediment over. Carved sandstone steps up to entrance. Set well-back from road in an elevated mature site overlooking Lough Swilly to the south. Complex of outbuildings (see 40820010) and former walled garden located to the east.

• Nazareth House, farmyard complex, 1870–1875 · Regional interest
  Description

  Complex of single- and two-storey outbuildings associated with St. Mura’s (now Nazareth House), built c. 1871 and altered c. 1900, arranged around a courtyard to the east of the main house comprising seven-bay single-storey former coach house to the south of site having two-bay single-storey section attached to the north-west, four-bay two-storey block to the north-west having three-bay single-storey block attached to the east, and with segmental-headed carriage-arch to the west of site having curvilinear parapet over with plaque dated 1871, and with monogram ‘DMC’. Currently in use as outbuildings associated with Nazareth House. Pitched natural slate roof to outbuilding to the north-west, and hipped artificial slate roof to building to the south, with clay ridge tiles, projecting eaves course cement rendered chimneystack to building to the north-east, and with cast-iron and replacement rainwater goods. Roughcast and rendered rubble stone walls. Square and segmental-headed window openings, some with rendered brick block-and-start brick surrounds, some surviving with two-over-two and six-over-three pane timber sash window and replacement timber casement windows. Some surviving stone sills. Square-headed door openings with brick block-and-start brick surrounds and timber vertically-sheeted single and double-doors. Depressed-headed carriage-arched with rendered block-and-start brick surrounds. Decorative wrought-iron weather vane in the form of a cockerel over carriage-arch to the west side of complex. Set back from road in extensive mature shared grounds to the east of main house. Former walled garden adjacent to the south. Located to the north of the long straggling village of Fahan.

• Nazareth House, walled garden, 1870–1875 · Regional interest
  Description

  Walled garden on sub rectangular-plan associated with St. Mura’s\Nazareth nursing home (see 4082009), erected c. 1871, having rounded corner to the south-west corner of site. Now in use as pasture land. Random coursed rubble stone boundary walls lined internally with red brick (English garden bond) to the south and west sides, and with remains of brick coping over. Remains of demolished building to the north wall, possibly originally part of a greenhouse. Segmental-headed carriage-arch to the west boundary having red brick block-and-start surrounds, red brick voussoirs, and with a pair of battened timber gates. Integral square-headed doorway to the north boundary, opening in complex of outbuildings (see 40820010), having modern metal doors. Located to in mature shared grounds to the east of associated house, and to the north of the centre of Fahan.

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 Figary, 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low. Parts of the land are made ground.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Figary

Area

620,896 m² (62.09 ha, 153.43 acres)

Civil parish

Upper Fahan, and its townlands

Barony

Inishowen West

Electoral division

Fahan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,634 people lived in 546 households in the Fahan electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 42% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 20% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrowmullin, Lisfannan

Placenames

Figary 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.