# Carnisk, Co. Donegal: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Conwal, barony of Kilmacrenan, Co. Donegal. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 942,059 m² (94.21 ha, 232.79 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 1,156 m² - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Conwal, https://everytownland.com/donegal/parish/conwal.md - Barony: Kilmacrenan - Electoral division: Rathmelton, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Donegal, https://everytownland.com/donegal.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/16009 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 50454 - Centre: latitude 55.031603, longitude -7.672371 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carnisk, from 375 m² to 931,744 m² (93.17 ha, 230.24 acres); 12 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1424760: 931,744 m² (93.17 ha, 230.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1424760.md - Parcel 1364405: 4,756 m² (0.48 ha, 1.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1364405.md - Parcel 5333995: 2,994 m² (0.3 ha, 0.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5333995.md - Parcel 1310922: 1,156 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1310922.md - Parcel 4823520: 636 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4823520.md - Parcel 5333994: 399 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5333994.md - Parcel 5994090: 375 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5994090.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 1 application, newest first. - 4 Oct 2022, Donegal County Council 2251652: Conditional. Permission. CONSTRUCTION OF A DOMESTIC GARAGE. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2251652/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: Leannan River SAC, site code 002176, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/002176 - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Fern, site code 001162 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Carnisk. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Farmyard complex, 1850–1870, Regional interest, registry number 40904533, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=DG®no=40904533. 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. ## 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 Carnisk, 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1789, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_1789.zip (ZIP). - 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/carnisk.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/donegal/carnisk.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/donegal/carnisk.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Carnisk 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) - Ards Big: https://everytownland.com/donegal/ards-big.md - Bayhill: https://everytownland.com/donegal/bayhill.md - Breaghy: https://everytownland.com/donegal/breaghy-50378.md - Bridge End or Drummonaghan: https://everytownland.com/donegal/bridge-end-or-drummonaghan.md - Claragh: https://everytownland.com/donegal/claragh.md - Glen Lower: https://everytownland.com/donegal/glen-lower.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/carnisk - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/donegal/carnisk