Carnisk

7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carnisk, from 375 m² to 931,744 m² (93.17 ha, 230.24 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 12 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 Carnisk 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.

• 4 Oct 2022Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DOMESTIC GARAGE

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2251652

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: Leannan River SAC 002176
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Fern 001162

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Carnisk.

Architectural heritage

• Farmyard complex, 1850–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Farm complex, built c.1860, comprising multiple-bay two-storey block with external stone steps to front giving access to first floor, later slightly higher multiple-bay two-storey block attached to southeast having integral vehicular through-way, and detached multiple-bay two-storey house and outbuilding to northeast having lean-to single-storey addition to gable, forming courtyard. House has four-bay ground floor and three-bay first floor, fourth bay being part of two-bay outbuilding at one end of front elevation. Pitched purple slate roofs, outbuildings having one hipped end, exposed rafter ends, and cast-metal rainwater goods; house having replacement rainwater goods and rendered chimneystack. Exposed rubble stone walls, rendered to house addition, and having depressed three-centred arch to through-way with rubble stone voussoirs. Square-headed openings throughout with red brick voussoirs and reveals. House has timber sliding sash windows, two-over-two pane to first floor and six-over-six pane to ground floor, and recent timber door with overlight. Outbuildings have timber battened doors, some timber-louvered windows and some small-pane fixed windows.

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 Carnisk, about 1 in 10 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 low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1789 (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 Carnisk with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Carnisk

Area

942,059 m² (94.21 ha, 232.79 acres)

Civil parish

Conwal, and its townlands

Barony

Kilmacrenan

Electoral division

Rathmelton, the unit of the census

Census 2022

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

Neighbouring townlands

Ards Big, Bayhill, Breaghy, Bridge End or Drummonaghan, Claragh, Glen Lower

Placenames

Carnisk 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.