Carlan Upper
Townland in the civil parish of Clondavaddog, barony of Kilmacrenan, Co. Donegal
Parcel 1411368
- Area
- 27,463 m² (2.75 ha, 6.79 acres)
- Buildings
- No building touches it.
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Carlan Upper
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately low, low, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1806 (ZIP).
- Flooding
- The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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.
Download this parcel: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program; GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map; KML, for Google Earth.
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. 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.
- Area
- 159.6 ha
- 394 acres
- Land parcels
- 105
- registered freehold, median 2,542 m² (0.25 ha, 0.63 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 10
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
105 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carlan Upper, from 7 m² to 478,148 m² (47.81 ha, 118.15 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 18 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Carlan Upper 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
1 Oct 2025Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A GRANNY FLAT WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2561702
24 Feb 2025Conditional
DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE, REPOSITIONING OF EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2560238
5 Apr 2023Refused
CONSTRUCTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL SHED
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2350457
8 Sept 2021Refused
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2151787
10 May 2021Conditional
ERECTION OF A DOMESTIC GARAGE TO SERVICE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2150873
8 Apr 2021N/a
ERECTION OF A DOMESTIC GARAGE TO SERVICE OUR EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2150610
25 Sept 2019Conditional
ERECTION OF AN AQUA CULTURAL STORAGE SHED
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1951462
21 Jun 2019Conditional
ERECTION OF AN EXTENSION ONTO EXISTING DWELLING AND USE ANCILLARY SERVICES (SEPTIC TANK, PERCOLATION AREA &WATER MAINS)
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1950941
10 Jun 2019N/a
ERECTION OF AN EXTENSION ONTO EXISTING DWELLING AND USE ANCILLARY SERVICES (SEPTIC TANK PERCOLATION AREA, WATER MAINS)
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1950865
22 Aug 2018Conditional
EXISTING DOMESTIC GARAGE ANCILLARY TO DWELLING HOUSE
Retention · Donegal County Council, 1851314
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Mulroy Bay SAC 002159
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Carlan Isles (Mulroy Bay) 002055
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Carlan Upper.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Carlan Upper.
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
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- 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_1785 (ZIP).
- Flooding
- The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Carlan Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Carlan Upper
- Area
- 1,595,522 m² (159.55 ha, 394.26 acres)
- Civil parish
- Clondavaddog, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kilmacrenan
- Electoral division
- Carrowkeel, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 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.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballymagowan Upper, Carlan Lower, Drumfad Upper, Gortnatraw South, Meentagh
- Gaeltacht
- In an Irish-speaking area
- Placenames
- Carlan Upper 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.