Carntressy
Townland in the civil parish of Templecarn, barony of Tirhugh, Co. Donegal
- Area
- 203.8 ha
- 504 acres
- Land parcels
- 44
- registered freehold, median 24,802 m² (2.48 ha, 6.13 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 7
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
44 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carntressy, from 174 m² to 276,096 m² (27.61 ha, 68.22 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 31 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Carntressy 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
6 Nov 2023Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A FOUR BY TWO BAY SHEEP SHED, STORAGE TANK BELOW, SOAKAWAY AND HANDLING PEN INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2351682
30 Mar 2021Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A FOUR BAY SLATTED SHED WITH TANK BELOW FOR ANIMAL WASTE STORAGE, WITH CONCRETE APRON AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2150549
1 Feb 2021Conditional
CHANGE OF HOUSE DESIGN TO PREVIOUS PLANNING REFERENCE NO: 17/50913
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2150114
28 Nov 2019Refused
ERECTION OF A SINGLE STOREY DWELLING, NEW SITE ENTRANCE, EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM & PERCOLATION AREA AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1951843
21 Oct 2019N/a
ERECTION OF A SINGLE STOREY DWELLING, NEW SITE ENTRANCE, EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM & PERCOLATION AREA AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1951581
12 Dec 2018Conditional
THE DEMOLITION OF AN EXISTING DILAPIDATED RUN DOWN BUILDING & THE ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND POLISHING FILTER
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1851874
13 Jun 2017Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, AND INSTALLATION OF A SECONDARY AND TERTIARY TREATMENT SYSTEM AND DISCHARGE TO A DISPOSAL/DISTRIBUTION PAD
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1750913
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Carntressy.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Carntressy.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Carntressy.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Carntressy.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Carntressy with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Carntressy
- Area
- 2,038,177 m² (203.82 ha, 503.64 acres)
- Civil parish
- Templecarn, and its townlands
- Barony
- Tirhugh
- Electoral division
- Templecarn, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Templecarn electoral division: 105 people in 46 households; 80% of households own their home; 30% of homes were built since 2001; 26% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Bannus, Belalt North, Belalt South, Fincashel, Loughultan, Mulnagoad
- Placenames
- Carntressy 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.