Anny Far and Near

66 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Anny Far and Near, from 39 m² to 210,414 m² (21.04 ha, 51.99 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 29 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 Anny Far and Near 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 Jul 2026Conditional

  ERECTION OF NEW DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2661330

• 3 Jun 2026N/a

  ERECTION OF NEW DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE AND SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2661016

• 5 Dec 2024Refused

  CONSTRUCTION OF (1) DWELLING HOUSE, DETACHED GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK / SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS AND (2) VEHICULAR ENTRANCE INTO AGRICULTURAL LANDS ALONG PRIVATE ROADWAY

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2462003

• 8 Jul 2024Conditional

  (1) ALTERATIONS AND EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND (2) DECOMMISSIONING OF EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND INSTALLATION OF A NEW ON-SITE SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2461034

• 2 Mar 2022Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM & ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2250358

• 14 Oct 2021Conditional

  RENOVATION WORKS TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE CONSISTING OF MINOR INTERNAL & EXTERNAL AMENDMENTS AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSIONS TO THE FRONT, SIDE AND REAR ELEVATIONS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2152042

• 10 Jul 2020Unconditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A VEHICULAR ENTRANCE AND DRIVEWAY TO ACCESS DWELLING HOUSE FROM THE ADJOINING REGIONAL ROAD R-268

  Extension of duration · Donegal County Council, 2050909

• 26 Nov 2019Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A SUN ROOM EXTENSION TO SIDE OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND INCREASING SIZE OF 2 NO. VELUX ROOFLIGHTS TO FRONT FACADE OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1951835

• 7 Nov 2019N/a

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH PERCOLATION AREA, ENTRANCE GATES AND PIERS AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1951724

• 5 Mar 2018Conditional

  (1) CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSION AND ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING DWELLING AND (2) DECOMMISSIONING OF EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM , POLISHING FILTER AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1850296

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 Anny Far and Near.

Recorded monuments

• DG028-006 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  The 2nd edition of the OS 6-inch map shows a circular, single-ringed enclosure here. There is no trace of this now. It stood at the base of a steep W-facing slope in poor, wettish land suitable for rough grazing. 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, 1820–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c.1830, with windbreak entrance, and having single-bay single-storey outbuilding to west. Pitched straw thatched roof, with wire mesh, secured to cast-iron pegs to gables, raised eaves course, and smooth-rendered chimneystacks. Roughcast rendered and painted walls to front with smooth render plinth course, and smooth-rendered to rear. Square-headed openings with concrete sills and two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows, and timber battened door. Set at angle to road, with garden to front and enclosed by recent rubble sandstone boundary wall with timber gate. Pitched corrugated-iron roof to outbuilding with rendered coping, roughcast rendered walls and square-headed openings, replacement timber battened door to front and two=over-two pane timber sliding sash window to rear. Single-storey outbuildings to south with pitched corrugated-iron roofs, limewashed rubble stone walls and replacement timber battened doors and fixed timber windows.

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 Anny Far and Near, 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, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Anny Far and Near.

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 Anny Far and Near with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Anny Far and Near

Area

1,547,069 m² (154.71 ha, 382.29 acres)

Civil parish

Killygarvan, and its townlands

Barony

Kilmacrenan

Electoral division

Knockalla, the unit of the census

Census 2022

286 people lived in 112 households in the Knockalla electoral division. 84% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 19% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 25% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carngarrow, Carrowreagh, Creeveoughter, Inniskil, Killycolman, Lehardan

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Anny Far and Near 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.