Raforker

13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Raforker, from 84 m² to 96,342 m² (9.63 ha, 23.81 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 28 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 Raforker 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.

• 5 Aug 2026N/a

  A PERIOD OF 10 YEARS FOR A LARGE-SCALE RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT (LRD) CONSISTING OF THE FOLLOWING: (1) CONSTRUCTION OF 228 NO. RESIDENTIAL UNITS CONSISTING OF (A) 71 NO. HOUSES, HOUSING MIX OF 65 NO. 3 BEDROOM HOUSES & 6 NO. 4 BEDROOM HOUSES AND (B) 157 NO. APARTMENTS, APARTMENT MIX OF 122 NO. 2 BEDROOM APARTMENTS & 35 NO. 1 BEDROOM APARTMENTS, (2) CONSTRUCTION OF LOCAL RETAIL AND SERVICE USES: 476M² (5,123SQ/FT) WITH 4 NO. INDIVIDUAL UNITS, (3) CONSTRUCTION OF A PRE-SCHOOL (CRECHE) WITH OUTDOOR CLASSROOM/PLAY AREA: 160M² (1722SQ/FT), (4) AN ACCESS LINK ROAD CONNECTING INTO THE EXISTING PUBLIC ROAD NETWORK (L-20854-0) VIA THE EXISTING HOUSING ESTATE AT ABBEY VIEW TO THE SOUTHWEST OF THE SITE AND EXTENDING EASTWARDS TO CONNECT TO THE EXISTING ROAD NETWORK AT EXISTING HOUSING ESTATE AT WINWARD DRIVE TO THE EAST OF THE SITE, WITH CREATION OF NEW ROAD FOR FUTURE SEPARATE CONNECTION TO THE SOUTH-WEST OF THE SITE, (5) ALL ASSOCIATED FOOTPATHS AND CYCLE LANES & INTERNAL PEDESTRIAN LINKAGE PATHS, (6) VEHICULAR & FOOTPATH LINK TO THE LANDS TO THE NORTH OF THE SITE, (7) PARALLEL PARKING SPACES ALONG THE NEW LINK ROAD AND ASSOCIATED PARKING THROUGHOUT THE SITE, (8) AMENITY & GREEN SPACES THROUGHOUT THE SITE CONSISTING OF HARD AND SOFT LANDSCAPING, (9) BIODIVERSITY ZONES THROUGHOUT THE SITE WITH NATIVE TREES, SHRUBS & POLLINATOR PLANTING, (10) A DEDICATED NATURAL WOODLAND PARK & GREEN AMENITY SPACE TO THE SOUTH OF THE SITE, (11) RETENTION AND PROTECTION OF THE EXISTING DECIDUOUS WOODLANDS TO THE NORTH-EAST OF THE SITE, (12) A FOUL SEWER CONNECTION TO THE ADJOINING PUBLIC FOUL SEWER NETWORK, (13) STORM WATER DRAINAGE AND CONNECTION TO ADJOINING PUBLIC STORM WATER NETWORK, (14) SUDS STORM RETENTION DRAINAGE SYSTEMS AS REQUIRED, (15) PROVISION FOR A NEW WATER CONNECTION TO THE DEVELOPMENT FROM THE ADJOINING PUBLIC WATER MAIN, (16) PUBLIC LIGHTING THROUGHOUT THE DEVELOPMENT SITE, (17) ELECTRIC VEHICLE CHARGE POINTS WITH ASSOCIATED SITE INFRASTRUCTURE DUCTING TO PROVIDE CHARGE POINTS FOR RESIDENTS THROUGHOUT THE SITE, (18) PROVISION OF ASSOCIATED BICYCLE STORAGE FACILITIES AT SURFACE LEVEL THROUGHOUT THE SITE AND BIN STORAGE FACILITIES AS REQUIRED THROUGHOUT, (19) CONTROLLED & UNCONTROLLED PEDESTRIAN CROSSINGS THROUGHOUT THE SITE, (20) SITE EXCAVATION WORKS TO FACILITATE THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT TO INCLUDE EXCAVATION AND GENERAL SITE PREPARATION WORKS AND ANY RETAINING STRUCTURES THAT MAY BE REQUIRED THROUGHOUT THE SITE, (21) ANCILLARY SITE DEVELOPMENT/CONSTRUCTION WORKS TO

  Permission, 71 homes · Donegal County Council, 2661462

• 10 Apr 2026Refused

  CONSTRUCTION OF DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE INCLUDING THE INSTALLATION OF A WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. A SCREENING REPORT FOR APPROPRIATE ASSESSMENT HAS BEEN CARRIED OUT IN RESPECT OF THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2660604

• 6 Aug 2024Conditional

  RELOCATION OF A DWELLING AND SEPTIC TANK, AMENDMENTS TO THE ELEVATIONS OF THE DWELLING AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS FROM THAT WHICH WAS GRANTED PERMISSION UNDER PLANNING PERMISSION REF : 96/236

  Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2461201

• 20 Apr 2022Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE INCLUDING THE INSTALLATION OF A WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND FOR ALL ANCILLARY SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Outline permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2250689

• 8 Aug 2018Conditional

  (A) 4 NO. FOUR-BEDROOM DETACHED DWELLINGS (B) 6 NO. THREE-BEDROOM SEMI-DETACHED DWELLINGS (C) 2 NO. THREE-BEDROOM SEMI-DETACHED, WITH 2 NO. TWO-BEDROOM APARTMENTS BELOW, (TOTAL 14 NO. RESIDENTIAL UNITS) (D) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DERELICT DWELLING AND (E) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS INCLUDING CONNECTION TO EXISTING COUNCIL DRAINAGE NETWORK, MAINS WATER SUPPLY AND VEHICULAR ACCESS ONTO THE OLD LAGHEY ROAD

  Permission, 14 homes · Donegal County Council, 1851217

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 Raforker.

Recorded monuments

• DG093-018 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Overall Diam. c. 30m. A much effaced site which appears to have consisted of an oval area surrounded by an earthen bank. There are faint suggestions of a fosse and an outer bank. It is situated on top of a drumlin with good views. The landscape consists of good land on the drumlins surrounded by marshy valleys. 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 Raforker.

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 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. Parts of the land are made ground.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1435 (ZIP).

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

Name

Raforker

Area

384,031 m² (38.4 ha, 94.9 acres)

Civil parish

Donegal, and its townlands

Barony

Tirhugh

Electoral division

Donegal, the unit of the census

Census 2022

4,179 people lived in 1,617 households in the Donegal electoral division. 71% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardchicken, Ardeskin, Brookfield, Donegal, Glebe, Rarooey, Tullaghcullion

Placenames

Raforker 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.