Rafoarty

12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rafoarty, from 767 m² to 118,904 m² (11.89 ha, 29.38 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 15 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 Rafoarty 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.

• 27 Jan 2023Conditional

  (1) CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, FOUL SEWER TREATMENT PLANT AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND (2) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING FARM SHED TO FACILITATE THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT

  Outline permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2350071

• 3 Sept 2019Conditional

  (1) CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, FOUL SEWER TREATMENT PLANT & ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND (2) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING FARM SHED TO FACILITATE THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT

  Outline permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1951344

• 11 Jul 2019N/a

  ERECTION OF DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, FOUL SEWER TREATMENT PLANT AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS

  Outline permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1951060

• 25 Aug 2017Refused

  CONSTRUCTION OF A ONE AND A HALF STOREY DWELLING, USE OF THE EXISTING ACCESS POINT TO ROAD, CONNECTION TO THE EXISTING TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA, INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1751308

• 25 Aug 2017Refused

  CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY DWELLING, ALTERING EXISTING ACCESS, TREATMENT SYSTEM, PERCOLATION AREA, INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1751310

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 Rafoarty.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Rafoarty.

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Rafoarty.

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 Rafoarty, 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.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Rafoarty

Area

335,473 m² (33.55 ha, 82.9 acres)

Civil parish

Drumhome, and its townlands

Barony

Tirhugh

Electoral division

Ballintra, the unit of the census

Census 2022

772 people lived in 281 households in the Ballintra electoral division. 80% of households owned their home. 39% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 9% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Coxtown, Drumaneel, Kilgole, Lisnapaste, Urbalshinny

Placenames

Rafoarty 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.