Fanavolty

23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Fanavolty, from 435 m² to 266,140 m² (26.61 ha, 65.76 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 23 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 Fanavolty 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.

• 29 Apr 2026Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2660754

• 20 Aug 2025Conditional

  ERECTION OF DWELLING HOUSE WITH WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2550111

• 29 Oct 2024Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2461729

• 6 Dec 2023Conditional

  SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS AND PERMISSION FOR CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH ON-SITE SEWERAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2351875

• 10 Jul 2018Conditional

  ERECTION OF AN EXTENSION TO EXISTING GRAVEYARD ADJACENT TO ST. MARY'S CHAPEL, FANAVOLTY, TO CATER FOR EXTRA CAPACITY AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1851088

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Ballyhoorisky Point to Fanad Head SAC 001975
• Special Area of Conservation: Kindrum Lough SAC 001151
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Kindrum Lough 001151
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Ballyhoorisky Point To Fanad Head 001975

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Fanavolty.

Architectural heritage

• Saint Mary's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1820–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding Catholic church, built c.1830, having seven-bay nave, pentagonal apse at east end, sacristy to north, and porch of c.1880 to west gable. Renovated 2003. Replacement pitched slate roof with raised parapets, rendered copings with kneeler-stones having cross detail, stucco cross finials to nave gables, smooth raised rendered eaves course and cast-iron profiled rainwater goods. Hipped slate roof to apse and pitched slate roof with raised parapets to sacristy and porch. Wet-dashed rendered walls with smooth-rendered raised plinth course and quoins. Pointed-arch windows, double to sides of apse, with smooth chamfered raised render surrounds, integral sills and leaded stained glass with secondary glazing. Trefoil window to apse with chamfered surround. Tudor-arch main doorways to nave and sacristy, with timber battened double-leaf doors and wrought-ironmongery, approached by concrete steps. Interior has gallery to west end. Exposed queen-post truss roof with quatrefoil profiles to cornice, timber panelled balustrade supported on painted cast-iron columns, and with marble altar to apse. Freestanding cast-iron bell-stand to northeast of church, on rendered and glazed structure. Church set perpendicular to road, with low rendered boundary wall to west enclosing grotto with coursed ashlar squared piers and cross finials. Graveyard to south and car park to west.

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 Fanavolty, 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. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Fanavolty · Fán an Bhualtaigh

Area

874,845 m² (87.48 ha, 216.18 acres)

Civil parish

Clondavaddog, and its townlands

Barony

Kilmacrenan

Electoral division

Fanad North, the unit of the census

Census 2022

540 people lived in 209 households in the Fanad North electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 26% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 42% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyhiernan, Carrowkeel Glebe, Coolback, Kindrum, Kinnalough, Toome

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Fanavolty 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.