Carrickafodan

175 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carrickafodan, from 26 m² to 529,182 m² (52.92 ha, 130.76 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 47 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Carrickafodan 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.

• 17 Sept 2026N/a

  DEMOLITION OF EXISTING MICA AFFECTED DWELLING HOUSE AND CONSTRUCTION OF A REPLACEMENT DORMER DWELLING HOUSE UNDER THE DCBGS (MICA SCHEME) PLUS ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2661731

• 3 Jun 2026Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE, INSTALLATION OF ON-SITE WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2661021

• 3 Jun 2026N/a

  CHANGE OF USE OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE TO CHILDCARE FACILITY, INCLUDING ON SITE CAR PARKING AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2661019

• 15 Sept 2025Conditional

  EXTENSION OF EXISTING HURLING WALL AND PROVISION OF A GYM WITHIN THE EXISTING SPORTS GROUNDS AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2561580

• 30 Apr 2025Conditional

  (1) TEMPORARY CHANGE OF USE FROM SHED AND GAMES ROOM PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 14/50829 TO TEMPORARY ACCOMMODATION AND (2) MINOR ELEVATIONAL CHANGES TO EXISTING SHED, CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS AND PERMISSION FOR (1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING DUE TO DEFECTIVE BLOCKS (PLANNING REF. NO. 04/4862 REFERS) AND (2) ERECTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING WITH CHANGE OF HOUSE TYPE

  Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2560673

• 21 Feb 2025Conditional

  CREATION OF A NEW ENTRANCE AND ACCESS LANE ONTO THE COUNTY ROAD TOGETHER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2560230

• 29 Nov 2024Conditional

  (1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING SHED, (2) CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO THE SIDE AND REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING AND (3) CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW AGRICULTURAL SHED TOGETHER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2461961

• 16 Apr 2024Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING WITH CONNECTION TO NEW ONSITE EFFLUENT TREATMENT PLANT, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2460522

• 9 Apr 2024N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING WITH CONNECTION TO NEW ONSITE EFFLUENT TREATMENT PLANT, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2460485

• 8 Apr 2024Conditional

  REPLACEMENT OF EXISTING WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT AND PERCOLATION AREA ON SITE WITH A SEPTIC TANK AND INTEGRATED CONSTRUCTED WETLAND AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2460466

• 13 Apr 2023Conditional

  DOMESTIC GARAGE AT REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2350494

• 28 Mar 2023N/a

  DOMESTIC GARAGE AT REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2350389

• 23 Dec 2022Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW 2 STOREY CLUBHOUSE AND SPORTS HALL, WITH CHANGING/SHOWERING FACILITIES, FUNCTION ROOM, INDOOR TRAINING PITCH AND ASSOCIATED ACCOMMODATION, 3 NO. OUTDOOR FOOTBALL PITCHES CONSISTING OF A MAIN GRASS PLAYING PITCH, A GRASS TRAINING PITCH AND A 3G PITCH, WALKING TRACK, A NEW WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT WITH PERCOLATION AREA ALONG WITH ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS AND CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2252098

• 12 Sept 2022Conditional

  (1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING MICA DEFECTIVE BLOCK DORMER STYLE DWELLING HOUSE, GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF: 02/4892 (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A REPLACEMENT SIMILAR IN STYLE DWELLING HOUSE WITH ATTIC VELUX WINDOWS IN LIEU OF DORMERS, WITH NEW REPLACEMENT DWELLING FOUL DRAINAGE PIPEWORK TO BE CONNECTED TO EXISTING PREVIOULSY APPROVED FOUL SYSTEM AS GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF:02/4892

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2251525

• 21 Mar 2022Conditional

  RETENTION AND COMPLETION OF A DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2250495

• 19 Nov 2021Conditional

  EXISTING GARAGE, CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS AND PERMISSION FOR (1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING, PLANNING REF: 02/5092 (2) ERECTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING WITH CHANGE OF HOUSE TYPE

  Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2152318

• 22 Oct 2021Conditional

  EXISTING HAIR SALON AND DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH LIVING ACCOMMODATION ABOVE AND PERMISSION FOR COMPLETION OF WORKS, CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2152090

• 20 Oct 2021Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING WITH EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2152087

• 21 Sept 2021N/a

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING WITH EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2151879

• 15 Jul 2021Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING AND DETACHED GARAGE WITH WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM & PERCOLATION AREA, CONNECTION TO PUBLIC SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS

  Outline permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2151426

• 23 Jun 2021Conditional

  DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING PLANNING REF 03/5220, ERECTION OF REPLACEMENT DWELLING WITH CHANGE OF HOUSE TYPE, CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2151237

• 3 Feb 2021Conditional

  (1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING MICA DEFECTIVE BLOCK SINGLE STOREY STYLE, DWELLING HOUSE INCLUDING ATTIC CONVERSION, GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF: 00/5192 (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A REPLACEMENT SINGLE STOREY STYLE DWELLING HOUSE WITH ATTIC BEDROOMS & SANITARY FACILITIES, WITH REPLACEMENT DWELLING FOUL DRAINAGE TO BE CONNECTED TO EXISTING PREVIOUSLY APPROVED FOUL SYSTEM GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF: 00/5192

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2150144

• 28 Jul 2020Conditional

  DOMESTIC GARAGE AT REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2051016

• 24 May 2020Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC OUTBUILDING TOGETHER WITH AN ONSITE SEWERAGE SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2050585

• 8 Jul 2019Conditional

  ERECTION OF AN ATTACHED STORAGE SHED TO THE REAR OF EXISTING SPORTS HALL, AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1951044

The 25 most recent of 28 applications.

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: North Inishowen Coast SAC 002012
• Special Protection Area: Trawbreaga Bay SPA 004034
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: North Inishowen Coast 002012

Recorded monuments

• DG011-041 Cairn - unclassified
  Description

  An oval cairn 10m N-S, 6m E-W and 1m high composed of small stones with larger field clearance stones on top. It is situated on grazing land sloping to the N. The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated. Date of upload: 22 September 2008

• DG011-042 Megalithic tomb - court tomb
  Description

  This monument, 1.7km E of Carndonagh, is on good, generally level pasture and commands a view over Trawbreaga Bay, the inner reaches of which are 2.7km to the NNW. The view southward is limited by a nearby stretch of higher ground. The monument is partially ruined. It consists of a roofless gallery, at least 4.5m long, preceded at the NNE by the remains of a court. Little survives of the W side of the gallery, but the E side is well preserved. The structure stands toward the N end of a long mound, the eastern side of which is incorporated in a massive stone wall that rises above the tomb orthostats. The mound is c. 34m long, although its outline is somewhat uncertain at the S, and it reaches a maximum height of c. 1m above present ground level at the W. The E side of the enveloping wall and the W side of the mound converge toward the SSW, indicating an original cairn outline of generally trapezoidal shape. Five stones form the E arm of the court, but only three stones of the W arm survive. The innermost stone of the E arm is 1m high. The other four here decline in height toward the front by intervals of 0.1-0.25m. The outermost is 0.3m high. The three courts tones of the W arm stand at its outer end and are partly concealed by loose stones. The outermost, 0.5m in exposed height, rises 0.1m above the tops of the other two, which rise 0.2m and 0.15m clear of the stones at their base. The court is c. 4.5m long and 5m wide at its outer end. Two prostrate slabs lie within it, and there are two more in the front chamber. The gallery is divided by a jamb and septal-stone arrangement into two chambers, but there is a possibility that there was a third chamber here (see below). The front chamber is c. 2.5m long. The surviving entrance jamb, transversely set, is on the court perimeter. It is l.1m high and rises 0.1m above the top of the adjoining courtstone. Two slightly overlapping stones form the E side of the chamber. The outer one is 0.8m high and supports three steeply inclined corbels. The outer ends of the corbels are embedded in the stone wall beside the gallery. The inner sidestone here is 1.1m high and partly overlaps a longitudinally set segmenting jamb of similar height. This jamb rises between 0.1m and 0.25m above the top of the tall septal-stone. A large stone (shown on section) protruding from the wall overlying the E side of the gallery is probably displaced. The second chamber is c. 1.8m long and 1.4m wide. A single orthostat, 0.1m taller than the segmenting jamb, forms the E side of this chamber. A packing-stone is exposed at its outer end. A lone orthostat, 0.6m high, remains on the W side. A flat-topped stone, 0.95m high, crosses the S end of the gallery. Its base is exposed at the E, and the space beneath is filled by a small, firmly set stone (not hatched on plan). The crossing-stone may be the gallery backstone or may mark a point of segmentation. The possibility that there is a further tomb structure is suggested by a stone set transversely to the line of the gallery 1.7m beyond the crossing-stone. This is 1.6m long and 0.25m thick and rises 0.3m above the top of the mound. Excavation would be required to confirm its status, but it may mark the end of a third chamber. A brief description of the monument in an OS Revision Name Book (1848) records that 'the flag or covering on top' was removed by the landowner for use in the construction of a limekiln. On removing this, he is reported to have found a small metal cup, c. 9 inches (c. 0.23m) in diameter, said to be 'not unlike' the bottom part of a pot. It contained only earth. In or around 1974 a plano-convex flint knife and the butt portion of a Bann Flake were unearthed at this site. These are now in the National Museum of Ireland, Dublin, under the reference numbers 1974:84 and 1974:85. When the tomb was surveyed in 1982 signs of this disturbance were still visible along the W side of the gallery and in the greater part of the second chamber as indicated in dotted outline on the plan. OS Revision Name Book, sheet 11 (1848), 90; Ó Nualláin 1983a, 18, no. 10; SMR 1987, 11:42; Ó Nualláin 1989, 117; Colhoun 1995, 32; RMP 1995, 11:42. The above description was published in the 'Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume VI, County Donegal.' Compiled by: Eamon Cody (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). Date of upload: 22 September 2008 See linked document with details from Eamon Cody, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume VI. County Donegal. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002)

Architectural heritage

• House, 1840–1880
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c. 1860, with windbreak porch to front. Rounded straw thatched roof with netting restraint and timber and metal rope stays to eaves, flat concrete roof to porch. Painted rubble stone walls with smooth rendered walls to porch. Square-headed window openings with one-over-one horned timber sash windows and painted stone sills. Square-headed door opening with battened timber door. Set within own grounds. Detached two-bay two-storey outbuilding to west comprising of pitched slate roof with gable-coping and cast-iron rainwater-goods; roughcast rendered walls and square-headed door and window openings. Roughcast rubble walls and gate-piers to west with strap iron gates to road. Located to west side of road to north of Carndonagh.

• Strawbridge Bridge, bridge, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Double-arch road bridge over Glennagannon River, erected c. 1800. Segmental arches with ashlar stone voussoirs. Squared tooled limestone to walls and parapets with large rubble-stone coping. Ashlar limestone plinths to piers. Squared rubble to vaults. Ashlar coping and base to rounded triangular cutwaters to east and west piers. Double carriageway with tarmac to deck. Water-pipe running to east side of east parapet. Located to north of Carndonagh, on the principal approach to the town from the north.

• House, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c. 1820, with projecting porches to front and rear elevations, single-bay single-storey and modern flat-roofed extensions to north. Rounded pitched thatched roof with netting restraint and timber and metal rope stays to eaves, slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles to extension, smooth rendered chimneystacks with stepped cornices to gables. Roughcast rendered walls with smooth rendered plinth; smooth rendered walls to porches. Square-headed window openings with six-over-six horned timber sash and multi-paned timber casement windows, and painted concrete sills. Square-headed door openings with battened timber doors. Set within own grounds with modern bungalow to west. Roughcast rendered wall to road with mild-steel gates mounted on rendered piers.

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).

Radon

At the centre of the townland of Carrickafodan, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2154 (ZIP).

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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.

No address of the register names Carrickafodan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Carrickafodan

Area

3,125,543 m² (312.55 ha, 772.34 acres)

Civil parish

Donagh, and its townlands

Barony

Inishowen East

Electoral division

Gleneganon, the unit of the census

Census 2022

791 people lived in 259 households in the Gleneganon electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cashel, Churchland Quarters(Carrowtemple Moneyshandoney and Carrick), Drumaville, Drumballycaslan, Tullanree

Placenames

Carrickafodan 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.