Fauna
Fauna is a townland in the civil parish of Donaghmore, barony of Talbotstown Upper, Co. Wicklow. Its name in Irish is An Fhána.
- Area
- 95.1 ha
- 235 acres
- Land parcels
- 11
- registered freehold, median 3,295 m² (0.33 ha, 0.81 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 13
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Fauna, from 568 m² to 914,770 m² (91.48 ha, 226.04 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 11 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Fauna 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
14 Jan 2026N/a
construction of a new dwelling, garage, wastewater treatment unit and polishing filter, new well, new entrance onto public road and associate works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2660014
7 Nov 2025Refused
permission for a single storey dwelling with domestic garage, wastewater treatment system, new entrance and all ancillary works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 25318
7 Jul 2025N/a
a single storey dwelling with domestic garage, wastewater treatment system, new entrance, and all ancillary works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 25181
29 Jan 2025Conditional
change of house type and change of site boundaries to that previously granted under planning ref: 23/808 and all associated site works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2522
19 Aug 2024N/a
a single storey dwelling with domestic garage, wastewater treatment system, new entrance, and all ancillary works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 24344
2 Nov 2023Conditional
a part single storey, part storey and a half dwelling, a wastewater treatment system, entrance and all ancillary works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 23808
8 Feb 2023Conditional
a single storey dwelling, domestic garage, a wastewater treatment system, new entrance and all ancillary works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 23104
20 Jan 2023N/a
single storey dwelling, domestic garage, a wastewater treatment system, new entrance and all ancillary works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2342
22 Jun 2022N/a
bungalow, domestic garage , effluent treatment system and ancillary works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 22696
26 May 2022Conditional
change of use (removal of condition 3a of previous grant of permission ref no. 03/9127) which restricted the use to the applicant or to other persons primarily employed or engaged in agriculture in the vicinity or to other such class of persons as the planning authority may agree in writing , to use by all persons
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 22568
12 Apr 2022N/a
single storey dwelling, domestic garage and wastewater treatment system, new entrance and all ancillary works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 22381
27 Oct 2021Refused
change of use (removal of condition no. 3a of previous grant of permission ref no 03/9127) which restricted the use to the applicant or to other persons primarily employed or engaged in agriculture in the vicinity or to other such class of persons as the planning authority may agree in writing, to use by all persons
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 211284
18 Feb 2020Conditional
dwelling, garage, wastewater treatment unit and polishing filter, well, entrance onto public road and associated works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 20154
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Fauna.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Fauna.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Fauna.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Fauna, 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 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 Fauna.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Fauna with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.
The townland
- Name
- Fauna · An Fhána
- Area
- 951,231 m² (95.12 ha, 235.05 acres)
- Civil parish
- Donaghmore, and its townlands
- Barony
- Talbotstown Upper
- Electoral division
- Imael South, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 271 people lived in 98 households in the Imael South electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyvraghan, Deerpark, Donaghmore, Donard Mountain, Kelshamore
- Placenames
- Fauna 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.