Carn

44 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carn, from 51 m² to 544,111 m² (54.41 ha, 134.45 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 39 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Carn 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.

• 9 Mar 2026Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, PROVISION OF MECHANICAL TREATMENT SYSTEM / SOIL POLISHING FILTER AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2660369

• 17 Feb 2026N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE, PROVISION OF MECHANICAL TREATMENT SYSTEM / SOIL POLISHING FILTER AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2660228

• 28 Jan 2026Conditional

  (1) RENOVATION AND EXTENSION OF EXISTING DERELICT DWELLING AND (2) INSTALLATION OF PACKAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM, PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2660105

• 26 Oct 2025Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A PORTAL FRAMED DRY FEED STORAGE & MACHINERY SHED, CONCRETE APRON TO INCLUDE ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2561861

• 8 May 2024Conditional

  REMOVAL OF THE EXISTING SILO PIT AND CONSTRUCTION OF A LOOSE CATTLE HOUSE (SIMILAR TO THAT PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER REF. NO. 23/50989), CONCRETE APRON AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2460675

• 2 May 2024N/a

  (1) REMOVAL OF EXISTING SILO PIT, (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A LOOSE CATTLE HOUSE (SIMILAR TO THAT PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER 23/50989), CONCRETE APRON AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2460636

• 7 Jul 2023Conditional

  ROOFING OVER OF AN EXISTING SILAGE PIT, CONNECTION TO EXISTING SOAK AWAY, CONCRETE APRON INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2350989

• 13 Jun 2023N/a

  ROOFING OVER OF AN EXISTING SILAGE PIT, CONNECTION TO EXISTING SOAK AWAY, CONCRETE APRON INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2350837

• 13 Jun 2023Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A PORTAL FRAMED DRY FEED STORAGE SHED AND CONCRETE APRON, INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2350836

• 26 May 2023N/a

  ROOFING OVER OF AN EXISTING SILAGE PIT AND CONNECTION TO EXISTING SOAK AWAY, CONSTRUCTION OF A PORTAL FRAMED DRY FEED STORAGE SHED AND CONCRETE APRON INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2350730

• 19 Apr 2023N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW PORTAL FRAMED DRY STORAGE SHED OVER AN EXISTING SILAGE PIT INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2350526

• 19 Apr 2023N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW PORTAL FRAMED DRY STORAGE SHED AND EXTERNAL CONCRETE APRON, INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE AND DRAINAGE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2350527

• 5 Jun 2020Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A PORTAL FRAMED SHEEP SHED, WITH STORAGE TANK BELOW, CONCRETE APRON TO INCLUDE ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2050714

• 24 May 2020Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, PROVISION OF MECHANICAL TREATMENT SYSTEM / SOIL POLISHING FILTER AND FOR ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2050656

• 26 Feb 2020Conditional

  (1) EXISTING SAND ARENA TO SERVE EXISTING STABLE (2) ENTRANCE ONTO PUBLIC ROAD AND PERMISSION FOR INSTALLATION OF A TOILET FACILITY WITHIN EXISTING HORSE STABLE AND INSTALLATION OF A SECONDARY AND TERITIARY TREATMENT SYSTEM AND DISCHARGE TO A DISPOSAL/DISTRIBUTION PAD

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2050219

• 23 Aug 2018Conditional

  ERECTION OF A SLATTED AGRICULTURAL BUILDING WITH CONCRETE APRON

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1851301

• 17 May 2018Conditional

  RETENTION AND COMPLETION OF A PORTAL FRAMED SHED TO COVER AN EXISTING SAND ARENA INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1850777

• 23 Mar 2018N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A PORTAL FRAMED SHED TO COVER AN EXISTING SAND ARENA INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1850431

• 29 Sept 2017N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A PORTAL FRAMED SHED TO COVER AN EXISTING SAND ARENA INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1751472

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: River Finn SAC 002301
• Special Protection Area: Lough Derg (Donegal) SPA 004057
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Derg (Donegal) 000162

Recorded monuments

• DG101-010 Ritual site - holy/saint's stone
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• DG101-011 Ritual site - holy/saint's stone
  Description

  On a hilltop on the S shore of Lough Derg. The nature of this monument, named 'St. Dabog's Chair' on the 1838 and 1906 OS 6-inch maps, is uncertain. According to Margaret Stokes (1882), there was a 'Giant's Grave' at Carn. Her small-scale distribution map places it a short distance SE of Lough Derg. It is not known to what site she was referring, but it may have been the feature named 'St. Davog's Chair' on OS 6-inch sheet 101. This is in the townland of Carn. It has been described as consisting of a stone seat in front of a grave-like opening but may no longer survive (Lacy 1983, 282). In the OS Memoir (1835) there is an annotated drawing of a feature named 'St. Deavog's Chair'. This is assigned to a townland named Seadavog Mountain, which, like the townland of Cam, adjoins the southern end of Lough Derg. This drawing shows a small, subrectangular, box-like feature apparently set into the ground. The illustration indicates that it was formed by four stones, one at each of the sides and ends. The recorded measurements show it to have been c. 0.75m long, 0.4m wide at one end, narrowing to 0.2m at the other, and 0.6m deep. Apparently people knelt in this to pray, with feet to the broader end, knees to the narrower end and elbows resting on the sides. There may be two sites named 'St. D(e)avog's Chair' or simply confusion about location. The name assigned to the site links it to the famous pilgrimage centre on Lough Derg. As the supposed 'Giant's Grave' referred to by Stokes cannot reliably be identified, its nature remains uncertain. OS Memoirs, Templecarn parish (1835) [23]; M. Stokes 1882, 17; Lacy 1983, 280-82, no. 1592. The above description was published in the 'Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume VI, County Donegal.' Compiled by: Eamon Cody (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002, 217, no. 112). Located on the summit of a knoll, overlooking the S shore of Lough Derg, in rough, gorse- and heather-covered terrain, broken by rock outcropping. The hill was formerly under forestry, the slopes are dotted with tree stumps, and the ground surface is uneven. Tracts of forestry still stand to N and SW. A concentration (c. 5m NW–SE; c. 2–3m NE–SW) of large and medium-sized stones crowns the narrow summit of the knoll. The highest portion of the concentration forms a low, gently domed stony rise (diam. c. 2m; H c. 0.45m), largely covered by heather and moss. It may be the remnants of a small cairn. On the N side it merges with a sloping rock surface which appears to be natural bedrock. On the SW side, and at a slightly lower level, there is a subrectangular arrangement of stones. It consists of two large stones (L c. 0.75-0.8m; T c. 0.5m; H c. 0.5m) flanking the long sides at E and W of a small open space or cavity (c. 75m N–S; c. 0.2-0.3m E–W; D c. 0.4-0.5m). At its N end the cavity backs on to the gently rising slope of the domed rise mentioned above, and the S end of the cavity is defined by two or three smaller stones. There is a parallel line of low, moss-covered stones on the E side, and other stones protrude randomly from the heather on all sides. It is impossible to determine to what extent this might be a deliberately constructed feature; it may simply be a random arrangement of bedrock. It is likely however, that this is the feature known as ‘St. Dabog’s Chair’, which formed part of the pilgrimage round at Lough Derg. Attached images: DG101-011----_01.JPG Low stony rise crowning summit of hill, from S DG101-011----_02.JPG Low stony rise crowning summit of hill, from N DG101-011----_03.JPG Subrectangular arrangement of stones, from S DG101-011----_04.JPG Subrectangular arrangement of stones, from N DG101-011----_05.JPG Subrectangular arrangement of stones, from S Date of revised upload: 19 November 2019

• DG105-003001 Church
  Description

  Marked on the 2nd edition of the OS 6-inch map as a 'church in ruins', there is now no trace of the church above ground. In the surrounding graveyard (DG105-003003-), there are several grass-grown mounds. O'Connor (1879, 17) says that the church was erected 'towards the latter part of the 15th century' and measured 66ft × 22ft accord-ing to the remains visible when he visited the site. A ringed-cross (DG105-003002-) .76m in height and 0.27m in diameter seems to fit O'Connor's description of an 'ancient Celtic Cross' transferred from Saints Island in Lough Derg. An ancient roadway to the pilgrimage places at Lough Derg passes the site. The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated. Date of upload: 22 September 2008

• DG105-003002 Cross
  Description

  Marked on the 2nd edition of the OS 6-inch map as a 'church in ruins'(DG105-003001-), there is now no trace of the church above ground. In the surrounding graveyard (DG105-003003-), there are several grass-grown mounds. O'Connor (1879, 17) says that the church was erected 'towards the latter part of the 15th century' and measured 66ft × 22ft accord-ing to the remains visible when he visited the site. A ringed-cross (DG105-003002-) .76m in height and 0.27m in diameter seems to fit O'Connor's description of an 'ancient Celtic Cross' transferred from Saints Island in Lough Derg. An ancient roadway to the pilgrimage places at Lough Derg passes the site. The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated. Date of upload: 22 September 2008

• DG105-003003 Graveyard
  Description

  Marked on the 2nd edition of the OS 6-inch map as a 'church in ruins' (DG105-003001-), there is now no trace of the church above ground. In the surrounding graveyard (DG105-003003-), there are several grass-grown mounds. O'Connor (1879, 17) says that the church was erected 'towards the latter part of the 15th century' and measured 66ft × 22ft accord-ing to the remains visible when he visited the site. A ringed-cross (DG105-003002-) .76m in height and 0.27m in diameter seems to fit O'Connor's description of an 'ancient Celtic Cross' transferred from Saints Island in Lough Derg. An ancient roadway to the pilgrimage places at Lough Derg passes the site. The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated. Date of upload: 22 September 2008

Architectural heritage

• Templecarne Graveyard, graveyard/cemetery, 1600–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Graveyard on irregular-plan, laid out c. 1600. Now out of use. Contains a collection of multidenominational cut stone gravemarkers (upstanding, recumbent, and table-type memorials) mainly dating from c. 1750 to c. 1900. Two ashlar limestone mausoleums (on square-plan) to the north of site, dated 1835 and 1898, containing the remains of the Barton family. Rubble stone scalan (covered altar) to the north-west corner of enclosure, built c. 1800, having segmental-headed arch over with roughly dressed voussoirs to arch and with cut stone altar/seat to interior. Site surrounded by rubble stone boundary wall having castellated/Scotch coping over. Gateway to the east comprising a pair of rubble stone gate piers (on square-plan) having pyramidal coping over and with wrought-iron flat-bar gate. Stile located to the east side of gate. Site of earlier church to centre (RMP DG105-003001-) to centre, and remains of ringed cross (RMP DG105-003002-) to site. Located in an elevated site in the rural countryside to the north of Pettigoe.

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

About 1 in 20 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; parts are water.

Terrain model

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

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.

No address of the register names Carn with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Carn · Carna

Area

3,223,499 m² (322.35 ha, 796.54 acres)

Civil parish

Templecarn, and its townlands

Barony

Tirhugh

Electoral division

Pettigoe, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Pettigoe electoral division: 368 people in 170 households; 76% of households own their home; 19% of homes were built since 2001; 19% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballymacavany, Croagh, Drumchrin, Gortinessy, Portcreevy, Sessiaghkeelta, Tawlaght

Placenames

Carn 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.