# Carrick Upper and Lower Barr, Co. Donegal: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Drumhome, barony of Tirhugh, Co. Donegal. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 4,607,130 m² (460.71 ha, 1,138.45 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 29 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 30,322 m² (3.03 ha, 7.49 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Drumhome, https://everytownland.com/donegal/parish/drumhome.md - Barony: Tirhugh - Electoral division: Laghy, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Donegal, https://everytownland.com/donegal.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/14137 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 50472 - Centre: latitude 54.613399, longitude -7.997811 (WGS 84) ## 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); 25 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1369981: 1,621,757 m² (162.18 ha, 400.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1369981.md - Parcel 1417387: 943,223 m² (94.32 ha, 233.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1417387.md - Parcel 1422117: 656,275 m² (65.63 ha, 162.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1422117.md - Parcel 1422350: 224,238 m² (22.42 ha, 55.41 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1422350.md - Parcel 1314911: 202,160 m² (20.22 ha, 49.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1314911.md - Parcel 1323012: 145,709 m² (14.57 ha, 36.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1323012.md - Parcel 1389204: 111,873 m² (11.19 ha, 27.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1389204.md - Parcel 1342848: 83,079 m² (8.31 ha, 20.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1342848.md - Parcel 1427097: 70,672 m² (7.07 ha, 17.46 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1427097.md - Parcel 1319355: 50,800 m² (5.08 ha, 12.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1319355.md - Parcel 1371794: 46,334 m² (4.63 ha, 11.45 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1371794.md - Parcel 1340610: 41,684 m² (4.17 ha, 10.3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1340610.md - Parcel 1320209: 32,648 m² (3.26 ha, 8.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1320209.md - Parcel 1319599: 30,343 m² (3.03 ha, 7.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1319599.md - Parcel 1369517: 30,322 m² (3.03 ha, 7.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1369517.md - Parcel 1362148: 17,430 m² (1.74 ha, 4.31 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1362148.md - Parcel 1303215: 15,561 m² (1.56 ha, 3.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1303215.md - Parcel 1380799: 10,416 m² (1.04 ha, 2.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1380799.md - Parcel 1387481: 7,977 m² (0.8 ha, 1.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1387481.md - Parcel 1360400: 7,243 m² (0.72 ha, 1.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1360400.md - Parcel 5150346: 5,144 m² (0.51 ha, 1.27 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5150346.md - Parcel 1304477: 3,748 m² (0.37 ha, 0.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1304477.md - Parcel 1310829: 2,581 m² (0.26 ha, 0.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1310829.md - Parcel 1347424: 1,931 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1347424.md - Parcel 1316380: 1,771 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1316380.md - Parcel 1415611: 1,687 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1415611.md - Parcel 1359767: 1,562 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1359767.md - Parcel 1397906: 1,489 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1397906.md - Parcel 1364877: 1,179 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1364877.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 2 applications, newest first. - 23 Dec 2025, Donegal County Council 2562334: Conditional. Permission. (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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2562334/0 - 16 Mar 2017, Donegal County Council 1750399: Conditional. Retention. CONSTRUCTION OF A GARAGE/WORKSHOP AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1750399/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: Dunragh Loughs/Pettigo Plateau SAC, site code 001125, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/001125 - Special Protection Area: Pettigo Plateau Nature Reserve SPA, site code 004099, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/spa/004099 - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Dunragh Loughs/Pettigo Plateau, site code 001125 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Carrick Upper and Lower Barr. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Carrick Upper and Lower Barr. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: About 1 in 20 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: 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, 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/carrick-upper-and-lower-barr.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/donegal/carrick-upper-and-lower-barr.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/donegal/carrick-upper-and-lower-barr.kml ## Homes sold (Residential 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: https://everytownland.com/donegal.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ardbane or Laghy Barr: https://everytownland.com/donegal/ardbane-or-laghy-barr.md - Ballynakillew Mountain: https://everytownland.com/donegal/ballynakillew-mountain.md - Cormullin: https://everytownland.com/donegal/cormullin.md - Meenacargagh or Raneany Barr: https://everytownland.com/donegal/meenacargagh-or-raneany-barr.md - Meenanellison: https://everytownland.com/donegal/meenanellison.md - Meenavanaghan or Greaghs Barr: https://everytownland.com/donegal/meenavanaghan-or-greaghs-barr.md - Mullanasole Barr: https://everytownland.com/donegal/mullanasole-barr.md - Oughtcarn: https://everytownland.com/donegal/oughtcarn.md - Rossilly Barr: https://everytownland.com/donegal/rossilly-barr.md - Trumman West Barr: https://everytownland.com/donegal/trumman-west-barr.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/carrick-upper-and-lower-barr - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/donegal/carrick-upper-and-lower-barr