Feddyglass

41 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Feddyglass, from 57 m² to 249,284 m² (24.93 ha, 61.6 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 14 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 Feddyglass 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.

• 28 Apr 2023Conditional

  (1) AGRICULTURAL SLATTED SHED, (2) AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY SHED, (3) EXTENSION TO THE REAR OF EXISTING AGRICULTURAL SHED AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS AND PERMISSION FOR CONSTRUCTION OF A PROPOSED POTATO STORAGE SHED

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2350574

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: Feddyglass Woods 001129

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Feddyglass.

Architectural heritage

• House, 1720–1740 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached six-bay single-storey with attic level vernacular house, built c.1720 and renovated c. 2010, having projecting gable-fronted entrance porch to south. Pitched formerly thatched roof with raised rendered copings to gable ends (east and west), and with four red brick chimneys. Roughcast rendered walls over smooth raised plinth course; painted margins to corners of entrance porch. Square-headed window openings with painted concrete sills and replacement timber sash windows. Square-headed doorway to west face of porch to south with timber door, square-headed doorway to the rear (north) with timber door. Set back from road in own grounds in the rural countryside to the east of Raphoe. Complex of multiple-bay single- and two-storey outbuildings adjacent to the west having pitched corrugated-metal roofs with raised rendered coping to gable ends, projecting eaves course to central single-storey block, limewashed rubble stone walls, and square-headed openings with timber fittings.

• Outbuilding, 1840–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached six-bay two-storey outbuilding, built c. 1860, and having single-storey lean-to addition to the south-east and single-storey extension to the north-west. Pitched natural slate roof having blue clay ridge tiles, and replacement rainwater goods. Mono-pitched corrugated-metal roof to lean-to and pitched corrugated-metal roof to extension. Remains of limewashed roughcast render over rubble stone walls. Square-headed window openings with timber fittings and wrought-iron security bars. Square-headed doorways and loading bays with battened timber doors; corrugated-metal sheeting to loading bays at first floor level. Central segmental-headed carriage-arch having red brick voussoirs. Altered three-bay single-storey outbuilding to the west having corrugated-sheeted roof, roughcast rendered rubble stone walls, and square-headed openings. Complex of ruinous outbuildings to the south-west. Set to west of road along private laneway with farmland surrounding. Located in the rural countryside to the east of Raphoe.

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 Feddyglass, 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, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1926 (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 Feddyglass with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Feddyglass · An Fhaiche Ghlas

Area

1,562,161 m² (156.22 ha, 386.02 acres)

Civil parish

Taughboyne, and its townlands

Barony

Raphoe North

Electoral division

Feddyglass, the unit of the census

Census 2022

456 people lived in 164 households in the Feddyglass electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carnshannagh, Drumcrow, Drumfad, Drummucklagh, Mulnagung, Mulnaveagh, Tullyrap

Placenames

Feddyglass 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.