Carrick Upper and Lower Barr
Townland in the civil parish of Drumhome, barony of Tirhugh, Co. Donegal
- Area
- 460.7 ha
- 1,138 acres
- Land parcels
- 29
- registered freehold, median 30,322 m² (3.03 ha, 7.49 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
29 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carrick Upper and Lower Barr, from 1,179 m² to 1,621,757 m² (162.18 ha, 400.74 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 25 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 Upper and Lower Barr 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
23 Dec 2025Conditional
(1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING COMMERCIAL GARAGE, (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW COMMERCIAL GARAGE ON FOOTPRINT OF EXISTING, (3) PROVISION OF A NEW SITE ENTRANCE AND ACCESS ROAD ALONG WITH ONSITE PARKING AND (4) CONNECTION TO ALL EXISTING SITE SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2562334
16 Mar 2017Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A GARAGE/WORKSHOP AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Retention · Donegal County Council, 1750399
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Dunragh Loughs/Pettigo Plateau SAC 001125
- Special Protection Area: Pettigo Plateau Nature Reserve SPA 004099
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Dunragh Loughs/Pettigo Plateau 001125
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Carrick Upper and Lower Barr.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Carrick Upper and Lower Barr.
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 Carrick Upper and Lower Barr.
- 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 Upper and Lower Barr with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Carrick Upper and Lower Barr
- Area
- 4,607,130 m² (460.71 ha, 1,138.45 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
- Ardbane or Laghy Barr, Ballynakillew Mountain, Cormullin, Meenacargagh or Raneany Barr, Meenanellison, Meenavanaghan or Greaghs Barr, Mullanasole Barr, Oughtcarn, Rossilly Barr, Trumman West Barr
- Placenames
- Carrick Upper and Lower Barr 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.