Carran Upper and Lower
Townland in the civil parish of Clondavaddog, barony of Kilmacrenan, Co. Donegal
- Area
- 124.7 ha
- 308 acres
- Land parcels
- 67
- registered freehold, median 1,343 m²
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
67 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carran Upper and Lower, from 24 m² to 169,236 m² (16.92 ha, 41.82 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 24 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 Carran Upper and Lower 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
31 Jul 2026N/a
(1) REMOVAL OF PORTION OF WALL TO PROVIDE NEW DOOR TO EXISTING BAY WINDOW, (2) RELOCATION OF EXISTING SUNROOM DOORS TO REAR ELEVATION, (3) RECONFIGURATION OF EXISTING GROUND AND FIRST FLOOR PLANS, (4) REMOVAL OF EXISTING GAS STORAGE TANK AND (5) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND CONNECTION TO ALL EXISTING SERVICES
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2661440
24 May 2020Conditional
DEMOLITION OF EXISTING UNINHABITABLE DWELLING HOUSE & BARN AND CONSTRUCTION OF NEW DWELLING HOUSE & INSTALLATION OF A NEW ON SITE SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2050507
7 Apr 2020N/a
DEMOLITION OF EXISTING UNINHABITABLE DWELLING HOUSE & BARN AND CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING & INSTALLATION OF NEW SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2050465
9 Aug 2019Conditional
ERECTION OF EXTENSION ONTO EXISTING DWELLING AND CONNECTION TO EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND ERECTION OF GARDEN ROOM AND SHED AT REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1951225
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
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Ballymastocker Dunes 001089
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Carran Upper and Lower.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Carran Upper and Lower.
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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Carran Upper and Lower.
- 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 Carran Upper and Lower with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Carran Upper and Lower
- Area
- 1,247,338 m² (124.73 ha, 308.22 acres)
- Civil parish
- Clondavaddog, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kilmacrenan
- Electoral division
- Carrowkeel, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Carrowkeel electoral division: 881 people in 325 households; 76% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 22% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballycallan, Drumany, Drumfad Lower, Knockbrack, Magherawardan
- Placenames
- Carran Upper and Lower 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.