Carn Low

35 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carn Low, from 145 m² to 173,248 m² (17.32 ha, 42.81 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 12 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 Low 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.

• 1 Apr 2026Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO THE SIDE OF EXISTING COTTAGE, TOGETHER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2660544

• 6 May 2025Conditional

  CONVERSION OF EXISTING DOMESTIC GARAGE TO RESIDENTIAL ACCOMMODATION TO FACILITATE OCCUPANCY FOR THE DEMOLITION AND RECONSTRUCTION OF THE CURRENT ON SITE DWELLING, DUE TO THE PRESENCE OF DEFECTIVE CONCRETE BLOCKS, MAKING USE OF EXISTING SEWAGE SYSTEM, SITE SERVICES AND INCLUDING ANY NECESSARY SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2560706

• 14 Apr 2025Conditional

  DEMOLITION OF EXISTING TWO STOREY DWELLING DUE TO THE PRESENCE OF DEFECTIVE PRECAST CONCRETE BLOCKS AND CONSTRUCTION OF A TWO STOREY REPLACEMENT, REPOSITIONED DWELLING TO MAKE USE OF ALL EXISTING SITE SERVICES INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2560560

• 25 Aug 2020Conditional

  1)CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT (WWTP) IN THE TOWNLAND OF TIRRODDY WITH ASSOCIATED AND ANCILLARY DEVELOPMENT WORKS INCLUDING INTERNAL ACCESS ROAD, INLET WORKS, WWTP PROCESS TANKS, SLUDGE STORAGE TANKS, CHEMICAL STORAGE TANKS, ANCILLARY TREATMENT UNITS, ADMINISTRATION & ESB SUB-STATION BUILDING, SLUDGE PRESS BUILDING, INTERNAL PUMPING STATIONS, SURFACE WATER ATTENUATION POND, 2.4M HIGH BOUNDARY FENCE AROUND THE PERIMITER OF THE WWTP WORKS, 1.2M FENCING AROUND THE SITE BOUNDARY, ENTRANCE VIA AN EXISTING COILLTE ROADWAY AND ENTRANCE ONTO L-5612-1 AND WIDENING AND STRENGHTENING OF L-5612-1 2)CONSTRUCTION OF APPROXIMATELY 1,590M OF TREATED EFFLUENT OUTFALL PIPELINE IN THE TOWNLANDS OF TIRRODDY AND BROWNKNOE, INCLUDING APPROXIMATELY 160M MARINE SECTION & OUTFALL DIFFUSER LOCATED IN LOUGH SWILLY3) CONSTRUCTION OF 1 NO. MAIN WASTEWATER PUMPING STATION AT RAMELTON IN THE TOWNLAND OF RAMELTON INCLUDING ALL ANCILLARY DEVELOPMENT WORKS, DEMOLITION OF EXISTING SINGLE-STOREY BUILDING, FLOOD PROTECTION MEASURES, BELOW GROUND STORAGE TANK & STRUCTURES, PUMP HOUSE BUILDING, ESB SUB-STATION UNIT, RUBBLE STONE PERIMITER WALLS, NEW ENTRANCE ONTO CASTLE STREET, RECONSTRUCTION OF AN EXISTING STONE BOUNDARY WALL APPROXIMATELY 15M LONG ALONg CASTLE STREET AND CONNECTION TO EXISTING STORM OUTFALLS 4)CONSTRUCTION OF 1 NO. MAIN WASTEWATER PUMPING STATION AT RATHMULLAN IN THE TOWNLAND OF RATHMULLAN & BALLYBOE INCLUDING ALL ANCILLARY DEVELOPMENT WORKS, FLOOD PROTECTION MEASURES, BELOW GROUND STORAGE TANK & STRUCTURES, PUMP HOUSE BUILDING, RUBBLE STONE PERIMETER WALLS, ESB SUB-STATION UNIT, DEMOLITION OF AN EXISTING SUBTERRANEAN MUNICIPAL SEPTIC TANK, NEW TURNING HAMMERHEAD AT THE END OF THE EXISTING TURNING CIRCLE AT ABBEY VIEW ESTATE, NEW ENTRANCE TO ABBEY VIEW ESTATE, TEMPORARY WORKING AREA DURING CONSTRUCTION AND CONNECTION TO EXISTING STORM OUTFALLS 5)CONSTRUCTION OF 1 NO. NETWORK WASTEWATER PUMPING STATION AT RATHMULLAN IN THE TOWNLAND OF RATHMULLAN & BALLYBOE INCLUDING ALL ANCILLARY DEVELOPMENT WORKS, FLOOD PROTECTION MEASURES, BELOW GROUND PUMPING STATION, STORAGE TANK & STRUCTURES, LOW-LEVEL CONTROL KIOSK, 7.6M HIGH ORNATE VENTILATION STACK, RUBBLE STONE PERIMETER WALLS, DEMOLITION OF AN EXISTING SUBTERRANEAN MUNICIPAL SEPTIC TANK, NEW ENTRANCE ONTO MAIN STREET, TEMPORARY WORKING AREA DURING CONSTRUCTION, TEMPORARY ENTRANCE ONTO MAIN STREET DURING CONSTRUCTION, RELOCATION AND UPGRADING OF EXISTING STORM DRAIN AND CONNECTION TO EXISTING STORM OUTFALL......

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2051157

• 27 Aug 2019Conditional

  ERECTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1951308

• 15 Jul 2019N/a

  ERECTION OF NEW DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1951071

• 5 Apr 2018Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE/SHED, SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT HAS BEEN SUBMIITED WITH THIS APPLICATION

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1850518

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: Lough Swilly SAC 002287
• Special Protection Area: Lough Swilly SPA 004075
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Swilly Including Big Isle, Blanket Nook & Inch Lake 000166

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Carn Low.

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Carn Low.

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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility 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_1809 (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.

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

Name

Carn Low

Area

968,965 m² (96.9 ha, 239.44 acres)

Civil parish

Tullyfern, and its townlands

Barony

Kilmacrenan

Electoral division

Rathmelton, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Rathmelton electoral division: 2,494 people in 938 households; 71% of households own their home; 42% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyboe, Bridge End or Drummonaghan, Carn High, Clooney, Rossreagh, Roughan

Placenames

Carn Low 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.