Carnboy

43 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carnboy, from 26 m² to 204,708 m² (20.47 ha, 50.58 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Carnboy 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.

• 22 Jun 2026N/a

  DEMOLITION AND REPLACEMENT OF A PRIVATE DWELLING AND DECOMMISSIONING AND PROPOSAL OF A WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM IN A SPECIAL AREA OF CONSERVATION. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) ACCOMPANIES THIS APPLICATION

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2661142

• 11 Jun 2026N/a

  DEMOLITION AND CONSTRUCTION OF REPLACEMENT PRIVATE DWELLING IN A SPECIAL AREA OF CONSERVATION

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2661066

• 4 Dec 2020Conditional

  REFURBISHMENT AND ERECTION OF AN EXTENSION TO AN EXISTING PRIVATE DWELLING. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) ACCOMPANIES THIS APPLICATION

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2051870

• 20 Nov 2020N/a

  REFURBISHMENT AND ERECTION OF AN EXTENSION TO AN EXISTING PRIVATE DWELLING. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) ACCOMPANIES THIS APPLICATION

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2051768

• 9 Sept 2020N/a

  REFURBISHMENT AND EXTENSION TO AN EXISTING PRIVATE DWELLING. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) ACCOMPANIES THIS APPLICATION

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2051260

• 19 May 2020N/a

  REFURBISHMENT AND EXTENSION TO AN EXISTING PRIVATE DWELLING

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2050642

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: Gweedore Bay and Islands SAC 001141
• Special Protection Area: West Donegal Coast SPA 004150
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Gweedore Bay And Islands 001141

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Carnboy.

Architectural heritage

• House, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Three-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c.1800, with later porch to front and with single-bay addition to north end, and extension to rear. Pitched straw thatched roof, roped to stone pegs at eaves, pitched slate roof to addition with rendered copings, and having three low rendered chimneystacks. Flat roofs to porch and rear extension. Smooth-rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows to front elevation of original block and replacement timber casements to porch and addition, with painted concrete sills. Square-headed timber battened door with sidelights. Set within vernacular hamlet, with various other single-storey houses and outbuildings.

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

At the centre of the townland of Carnboy, 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. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1225 (ZIP).

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.

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

Name

Carnboy · An Carn Buí

Area

942,169 m² (94.22 ha, 232.82 acres)

Civil parish

Templecrone, and its townlands

Barony

Boylagh

Electoral division

Annagary, the unit of the census

Census 2022

2,274 people lived in 902 households in the Annagary electoral division. 83% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 24% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Braade, Carrickfin, Dunmore

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Carnboy 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.