# Carlan Lower, Co. Donegal: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Clondavaddog, barony of Kilmacrenan, Co. Donegal. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,025,696 m² (102.57 ha, 253.46 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 37 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 5,968 m² (0.6 ha, 1.47 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 8 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Clondavaddog, https://everytownland.com/donegal/parish/clondavaddog.md - Barony: Kilmacrenan - Electoral division: Carrowkeel, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Carrowkeel electoral division: 881 people in 325 households; 76% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 22% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Donegal, https://everytownland.com/donegal.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/15737 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 50430 - Centre: latitude 55.165117, longitude -7.650438 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 37 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carlan Lower, from 465 m² to 113,376 m² (11.34 ha, 28.02 acres); 33 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1324822: 113,376 m² (11.34 ha, 28.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1324822.md - Parcel 1387010: 107,215 m² (10.72 ha, 26.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1387010.md - Parcel 1411371: 94,058 m² (9.41 ha, 23.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1411371.md - Parcel 1346632: 87,144 m² (8.71 ha, 21.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1346632.md - Parcel 1417353: 71,625 m² (7.16 ha, 17.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1417353.md - Parcel 1428579: 61,268 m² (6.13 ha, 15.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1428579.md - Parcel 1377293: 60,448 m² (6.04 ha, 14.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1377293.md - Parcel 1411370: 54,435 m² (5.44 ha, 13.45 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1411370.md - Parcel 3661536: 46,225 m² (4.62 ha, 11.42 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3661536.md - Parcel 1411373: 40,272 m² (4.03 ha, 9.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1411373.md - Parcel 1310759: 37,142 m² (3.71 ha, 9.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1310759.md - Parcel 1321109: 36,035 m² (3.6 ha, 8.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1321109.md - Parcel 1365239: 35,382 m² (3.54 ha, 8.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1365239.md - Parcel 1378784: 33,160 m² (3.32 ha, 8.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1378784.md - Parcel 1377286: 31,153 m² (3.12 ha, 7.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1377286.md - Parcel 1424204: 29,187 m² (2.92 ha, 7.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1424204.md - Parcel 2733557: 26,559 m² (2.66 ha, 6.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2733557.md - Parcel 1376773: 11,024 m² (1.1 ha, 2.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1376773.md - Parcel 1337678: 5,968 m² (0.6 ha, 1.47 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1337678.md - Parcel 1398302: 5,884 m² (0.59 ha, 1.45 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1398302.md - Parcel 5019614: 5,281 m² (0.53 ha, 1.3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5019614.md - Parcel 1336910: 4,630 m² (0.46 ha, 1.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1336910.md - Parcel 5402347: 3,607 m² (0.36 ha, 0.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5402347.md - Parcel 1428911: 3,226 m² (0.32 ha, 0.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1428911.md - Parcel 1369995: 2,398 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1369995.md - Parcel 2733664: 2,262 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2733664.md - Parcel 1334424: 2,060 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1334424.md - Parcel 1325673: 2,032 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1325673.md - Parcel 2733517: 1,993 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2733517.md - Parcel 1384569: 1,955 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1384569.md - Parcel 1411363: 1,860 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1411363.md - Parcel 2733525: 1,785 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2733525.md - Parcel 1327270: 1,484 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1327270.md - Parcel 3661537: 1,270 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3661537.md - Parcel 1380730: 966 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1380730.md - Parcel 2733531: 685 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2733531.md - Parcel 1407892: 465 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1407892.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Carlan Lower in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 8 applications, newest first. - 15 Jun 2026, Donegal County Council 2661097: Conditional. Permission. (1) RETENTION OF ALTERATIONS TO THE DESIGN AND SITING OF DWELLING HOUSE PREVIOUSLY PERMITTED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 07/50034 INCLUDING THE DEVELOPMENT OF GABLE ENDED WINDOWS AND (2) REMOVAL OF PARTIALLY CONSTRUCTED GARAGE WALLS, SUBSTRUCTURE AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2661097/0 - 8 Dec 2025, Donegal County Council 2562168: N/a. Permission, 1 home. ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND DOMESTIC GARAGE INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2562168/0 - 3 Oct 2025, Donegal County Council 2561721: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2561721/0 - 24 Feb 2025, Donegal County Council 2560242: Conditional. Retention. AGRICULTURAL SHED AND PERMISSION FOR ERECTION OF AN EXTENSION TO EXISTING SHED, WHICH WILL INCORPORATE SLATTED CATTLE PENS, PASSAGE WAY AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560242/0 - 11 Sept 2024, Donegal County Council 2461413: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. CONSTRUCTION OF NEW DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC SHED AND INSTALLATION OF SEPTIC TANK. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2461413/0 - 14 Oct 2020, Donegal County Council 2051508: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. ERECTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2051508/0 - 13 Feb 2018, Donegal County Council 1850186: N/a. Outline permission. ERECTION OF DWELLINGHOUSE AND SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1850186/0 - 21 Jun 2017, Donegal County Council 1750977: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC SHED AND SEPTIC TANK. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1750977/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Carlan Lower. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Carlan Lower. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Carlan Lower. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map. - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1806, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_1806.zip (ZIP). - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/donegal/carlan-lower.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/donegal/carlan-lower.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/donegal/carlan-lower.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Carlan Lower with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal: https://everytownland.com/donegal.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ballymagowan Upper: https://everytownland.com/donegal/ballymagowan-upper.md - Ballynashannagh: https://everytownland.com/donegal/ballynashannagh.md - Carlan Upper: https://everytownland.com/donegal/carlan-upper.md - Drumfad Lower: https://everytownland.com/donegal/drumfad-lower.md - Drumfad Upper: https://everytownland.com/donegal/drumfad-upper.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/donegal/carlan-lower - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/donegal/carlan-lower