Carrick East
Townland in the civil parish of Drumhome, barony of Tirhugh, Co. Donegal
- Area
- 49 ha
- 121 acres
- Land parcels
- 24
- registered freehold, median 9,403 m² (0.94 ha, 2.32 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carrick East, from 143 m² to 77,736 m² (7.77 ha, 19.21 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 28 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 Carrick East 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
1 Apr 2026Conditional
(1) RETENTION OF (A) EXISTING GARDEN CENTRE TO THE EAST ELEVATION OF EUROSPAR SHOP, AND (B) EXISTING GARDEN CENTRE CANOPY TO THE EAST ELEVATION OF GARDEN CENTRE, (2) REPLACEMENT OF EXISTING ENTRANCE TO EUROSPAR, (3) CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW SINGLE-STOREY EXTENSION TO THE SOUTH ELEVATION OF EUROSPAR SHOP, (4) ADDITIONAL TIMBER CLADDING TO EUROSPAR WEST FACADE, AND (5) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND CONNECTION TO ALL EXISTING SERVICES
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2660536
17 Jan 2019Conditional
(1) OMISSION OF SURFACE WATER ATTENUATION TANK GRANTED UNDER PLANNING PERMISSION REFERENCE 17/50501, (2) INSTALLATION OF NEW 40,000 LITRE UNDERGROUND DIESEL STORAGE TANK WITH ASSOCIATED PIPEWORK TO OFFSET FILL POINTS AND VENTS AND (3) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1950031
6 Apr 2017Conditional
REDEVELOPMENT OF THE EXISTING SERVICE STATION TO COMPRISE: (1)THE DEMOLITION AND REDEVELOPMENT OF THE EXISTING FORECOURT AMENITY BUILDING TO INCLUDE A CONVENIENCE SHOP (92SQM NET RETAIL AREA), A HOT FOOD DELI, SEATING AREAS, ANCILLARY STORAGE, TOILETS, FOOD PREPARATION, STAFF AND SERVICE AREAS; (2) THE REALIGNMENT AND WIDENING OF EXISTING SITE ENTRANCES; (3) THE REALIGNMENT OF EXISTING INTERNAL ROADS; (4) THE RELOCATION OF EXISTING HCV FUEL PUMPS AND THE PROVISION OF A NEW HCV FUEL PUMP (5) THE REORGANISATION OF EXISTING CAR PARKING TO PROVIDE 4 NO. HCV PARKING SPACES AND 24 NO. CAR PARKING SPACES; (6) THE RELOCATION OF EXISTING SERVICES INCLUDING AIR AND WATER AND E-CHARGE POINTS AND THE REMOVAL OF EXISTING CAR WASH; (7) ATTENUATION AND DRAINAGE WORKS; AND (8) ALL ASSOCIATED BOUNDARY TREATMENTS, LANDSCAPING SIGNAGE AND SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1750501
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 Carrick East.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Carrick East.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Carrick East.
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 5 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.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Carrick East.
- 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 Carrick East with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Carrick East
- Area
- 490,085 m² (49.01 ha, 121.1 acres)
- Civil parish
- Drumhome, and its townlands
- Barony
- Tirhugh
- Electoral division
- Laghy, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Laghy electoral division: 799 people in 290 households; 81% of households own their home; 32% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 15% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Carrick West, Laghy, Oughtnadrin, Trumman East, Trumman West
- Placenames
- Carrick East 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.