# Carngarrow, Co. Donegal: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Clondavaddog, barony of Kilmacrenan, Co. Donegal. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,261,030 m² (126.1 ha, 311.61 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 29 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 7,990 m² (0.8 ha, 1.97 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 4 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Clondavaddog, https://everytownland.com/donegal/parish/clondavaddog.md - Barony: Kilmacrenan - Electoral division: Knockalla, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 286 people lived in 112 households in the Knockalla electoral division. 84% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 19% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 25% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Donegal, https://everytownland.com/donegal.md - Gaeltacht: in an Irish-speaking area - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/15916 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 50452 - Centre: latitude 55.160622, longitude -7.573403 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 29 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carngarrow, from 78 m² to 130,049 m² (13 ha, 32.14 acres); 23 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1424214: 130,049 m² (13 ha, 32.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1424214.md - Parcel 1356756: 124,131 m² (12.41 ha, 30.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1356756.md - Parcel 1421966: 113,348 m² (11.33 ha, 28.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1421966.md - Parcel 1305700: 112,070 m² (11.21 ha, 27.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1305700.md - Parcel 1323596: 111,335 m² (11.13 ha, 27.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1323596.md - Parcel 1391577: 103,148 m² (10.31 ha, 25.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1391577.md - Parcel 1369505: 102,993 m² (10.3 ha, 25.45 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1369505.md - Parcel 1321754: 86,063 m² (8.61 ha, 21.27 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1321754.md - Parcel 1392280: 72,091 m² (7.21 ha, 17.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1392280.md - Parcel 1338254: 66,251 m² (6.63 ha, 16.37 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1338254.md - Parcel 1301703: 63,640 m² (6.36 ha, 15.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1301703.md - Parcel 1395650: 59,979 m² (6 ha, 14.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1395650.md - Parcel 1337031: 44,731 m² (4.47 ha, 11.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1337031.md - Parcel 1340315: 27,390 m² (2.74 ha, 6.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1340315.md - Parcel 1328005: 7,990 m² (0.8 ha, 1.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1328005.md - Parcel 1341120: 7,261 m² (0.73 ha, 1.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1341120.md - Parcel 1413004: 6,204 m² (0.62 ha, 1.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1413004.md - Parcel 1336305: 5,526 m² (0.55 ha, 1.37 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1336305.md - Parcel 4661955: 4,714 m² (0.47 ha, 1.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4661955.md - Parcel 1329873: 3,640 m² (0.36 ha, 0.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1329873.md - Parcel 1334431: 3,428 m² (0.34 ha, 0.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1334431.md - Parcel 4826059: 3,264 m² (0.33 ha, 0.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4826059.md - Parcel 1409156: 1,023 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1409156.md - Parcel 4291019: 832 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4291019.md - Parcel 4746905: 609 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4746905.md - Parcel 2739520: 522 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2739520.md - Parcel 4747274: 463 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4747274.md - Parcel 4747280: 114 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4747280.md - Parcel 1341765: 78 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1341765.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Carngarrow 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) 4 applications, newest first. - 17 Jul 2026, Donegal County Council 2661330: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. ERECTION OF NEW DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2661330/0 - 3 Jun 2026, Donegal County Council 2661016: N/a. Permission, 1 home. ERECTION OF NEW DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE AND SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2661016/0 - 15 Oct 2024, Donegal County Council 2461622: Conditional. Permission. CONSTRUCTION OF A SAND ARENA FOR THE EXERCISING OF HORSES. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2461622/0 - 24 May 2020, Donegal County Council 2050463: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. ERECTION OF DWELLING HOUSE WITH WASTERWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2050463/0 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 Carngarrow. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - DG028-004: Ritual site - holy well, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDG028-004----. This holy well which consists of a hole in the ground measuring 2m by 1.5m across and 1m deep, is revetted by stones. Behind it is a partly grassed-over cairn of loose stones. There is one massive block in the cairn. Beside the well is a waisted stone .22m high. It broadens either side of its constricted middle .22m and 0.12m respectively. It is sited in slightly wettish pasture land and is dedicated to St. Patrick. (Ó Muirgheasa No. 72) 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 - DG028-044: Promontory fort - coastal, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDG028-044----. 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. 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Carngarrow. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Carngarrow, 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: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Carngarrow. - 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/carngarrow.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/donegal/carngarrow.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/donegal/carngarrow.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Carngarrow 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) - Anny Far and Near: https://everytownland.com/donegal/anny-far-and-near.md - Bunnaton: https://everytownland.com/donegal/bunnaton.md - Carrowreagh: https://everytownland.com/donegal/carrowreagh-50531.md - Lurganbrack: https://everytownland.com/donegal/lurganbrack.md - Tirevlin: https://everytownland.com/donegal/tirevlin.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/carngarrow - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/donegal/carngarrow