Faugher

24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Faugher, from 55 m² to 15,931 m² (1.59 ha, 3.94 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 38 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 Faugher 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.

• 14 Jul 2023Refused

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH TREATMENT PLANT AND SAND FILTER

  Outline permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2351044

• 28 Jun 2023N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH TREATMENT PLANT AND SAND FILTER

  Outline permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2350918

• 28 Apr 2023Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO THE GABLE END OF DWELLING HOUSE

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2350567

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 Faugher.

Recorded monuments

• DG080-015001 Cairn - unclassified
  Description

  A cairn (DG080-015001-) 3.6m N-S × 2.3m E-W and 0.75m high has a flat slab set upright on top. The slab (DG080-015002-) is .88m × 0.43m × 0.1m. This is station 9 of St. Columbkille's turas but the antiquity of these features is not clear. It is situated in fair pasture land in the centre of Glencolumbkille valley. Pre-development testing was carried out by Richard Crumlish under licence No. 06E0087 on 9 and 10 February 2006 at a site at Drumroe townland, Glencolumbcille, Co. Donegal. The proposed development, the construction of five dwelling houses and a sewage treatment plant, was partially located within the archaeological constraint for a cairn, named as ‘Penitential Station’ on the 6-inch OS sheet, and located 32m away across a road. Testing consisted of the excavation (by machine) of five trenches, which measured 60m, 29.5m, 41m, 20m and 45m long respectively, 0.9–2.3m wide and 0.2–1.5m deep. Below the topsoil was blue/grey plastic sandy clay and peat. Below the peat, which measured up to 1.3m thick, was more sandy clay and bedrock. Modern fill on the surface of one of the trenches, above the peat, was dumped on the site by the developer in 2005. One modern glass bottle was recovered from the topsoil. Apart from the fill, the testing revealed evidence of natural undisturbed stratigraphy. Nothing of archaeological significance was revealed (Bennett 2009, 97). 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. Compiled by Caimin O'Brien Date of upload/revision: 14 November 2011

• DG080-015002 Graveslab
  Description

  A cairn (DG080-015001-) 3.6m N-S × 2.3m E-W and 0.75m high has a flat slab set upright on top. The slab (DG080-015002-) is .88m × 0.43m × 0.1m. This is station 9 of St. Columbkille's turas but the antiquity of these features is not clear. It is situated in fair pasture land in the centre of Glencolumbkille valley. The above description was published in 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). Date of upload: 22 September 2008

• DG080-016001 Cairn - unclassified
  Description

  Two conjoined penitential cairns (DG080-016001-) orientated N-S. The S·cairn is subcircular c. 3m in diameter and 0.97m in height. The N cairn is also subcircular c. 4.2m in diameter and 1.12m in height. Situated on top of the N cairn is a stone slab (DG080-016002-) .42m × 0.22m × 0.14m. This is station 11 of St. Columbkille's turas. It is situated in an area of good pasture in the centre of the floor of Glencolumbkille valley. 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

• DG080-016002 Graveslab
  Description

  Two conjoined penitential cairns (DG080-016001-) orientated N-S. The S·cairn is subcircular c. 3m in diameter and 0.97m in height. The N cairn is also subcircular c. 4.2m in diameter and 1.12m in height. Situated on top of the N cairn is a stone slab (DG080-016002-) .42m × 0.22m × 0.14m. This is station 11 of St. Columbkille's turas. It is situated in an area of good pasture in the centre of the floor of Glencolumbkille valley. 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

• DG080-017003 Cairn - wayside cairn
  Description

  Situated on N side of public road opposite cross-slab (DG080-017001-) which is 15m to the S, on the outskirts of the village of Glencolumbkille. This penitential cairn is part of the turas of Glencolumbkille. The monument consists of a circular cairn (diam. 2.7m; H 1m) with upright orthostats froming the kerb around the base of the cairn. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload/revision: : 19 July 2010

• DG081-003 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  Internal diam. c. 12m. A subcircular area now enclosed by the remains of a collapsed stone wall. The inner and outer facing stones are visible at some points and indicate an original wall thickness of 1.9m. The wall is composed of large outer stones with a small-stone core filling. The wall survives to a height of c. 0.3m. It is situated on top of a knoll known as An Drungán, the N side being on the cliff edge, in poor pasture on the N flank of Glencolumbkille valley. 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

• House, 1840–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c. 1860, having windbreak porch to the front elevation (south). Pitched/domed thatched roof (recently re-thatched with reed) having ropes over secured on stone pegs below eaves level, and with two rendered chimneystack. Smooth rendered walls over rubble stone construction. Square-headed window openings (enlarged) with replacement windows. Square-headed door opening to windbreak porch having replacement timber sheeted door. Set back from road in elevated sloping site to the north-east of Gleann Cholm Cille/Glencolumbkille. Long approach avenue to house from the main road to the south. Detached five-bay single-storey outbuilding adjacent to the east having pitched thatched with ropes over secured with pegs at eaves level, rubble stone walls, and having square-headed openings. Some openings now blocked with modern blockwork.

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 Faugher, 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 Faugher.

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

Name

Faugher · An Fhothair

Area

173,833 m² (17.38 ha, 42.96 acres)

Civil parish

Glencolumbkille, and its townlands

Barony

Banagh

Electoral division

Kilgoly, the unit of the census

Census 2022

365 people lived in 152 households in the Kilgoly electoral division. 84% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 22% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 26% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cloghan, Drumroe, Farranmacbride, Gannew and Curreen, Kinnakillew

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Faugher 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.