Carrickart

314 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carrickart, from 11 m² to 185,921 m² (18.59 ha, 45.94 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 59 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Carrickart 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.

• 28 May 2026Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO THE SIDE AND REAR OF EXISTING DOMESTIC DWELLING, AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2660983

• 19 Jan 2026Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF 17 NO. DWELLING HOUSES (2 & 3 BEDS), ACCESS VIA R245 THROUGH THE EXISTING MULROY PARK HOUSING ESTATE, AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 17 homes · Donegal County Council, 2660048

• 23 Oct 2025Conditional

  DOMESTIC SHED

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2561847

• 1 Sept 2025Unconditional

  DEMOLITION OF EXISTING AGRICULTURAL SHEDS AND CONSTRUCTION OF 34 NO. DWELLINGS (2, 3 & 4 BEDS) ON LANDS ADJACENT TO MULROY PARK AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND DEVELOPMENT WORKS ASSOCIATED WITH ADDITIONAL CAR PARKING, VEHICULAR AND PEDESTRIAN CIRCULATION AT EXISTING ENTRANCE TO MULROY PARK

  Extension of duration, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2550118

• 29 May 2025N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH ON-SITE SEWERAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2550075

• 26 Mar 2025N/a

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2560440

• 10 Mar 2025Conditional

  ERECTION OF NEW DWELLING HOUSE WITH CONNECTION TO PUBLIC SERVICES AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2560332

• 18 Feb 2025Refused

  DEMOLITION OF 2 NO. OUTHOUSES AS PART OF THE SITE CLEARANCE TO PROVIDE FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF A TERRACE OF 4 NO. DWELLING HOUSES WITH ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS AND CONNECTIONS TO THE EXISTING PUBLIC SEWER AND UTILITIES. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) ACCOMPANIES THIS APPLICATION

  Permission, 4 homes · Donegal County Council, 2560197

• 4 Nov 2024Conditional

  ERECTION OF DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ATTACHED ANCILLARY ACCOMMODATION WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2461768

• 12 Sept 2024Conditional

  EXTENSION AND COMPLETION OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE UNDER CONSTRUCTION AND TO CONNECT TO PUBLIC SEWER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2461425

• 24 Apr 2024Conditional

  CHANGES TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE CARRIED OUT DURING CONSTRUCTION OF A REAR EXTENSION

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2460574

• 2 Mar 2024Conditional

  (1) CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO THE FRONT OF THE SHOP TO ACCOMMODATE INTERNAL ALTERATIONS, A DRAUGHT LOBBY AREA AND A NEW FRONT ENTRANCE, (2) CONSTRUCTION OF SLATED PITCHED ROOFS TO REPLACE PART OF EXISTING FLAT ROOFS WITH TRADITIONAL DORMER WINDOWS AND PROJECTING FEATURE WALL. ALL WORKS TO BE COMPLETED WITH THE ASSOCIATED INTERNAL RENOVATIONS, REPOSITIONING OF EXISTING SOLAR PANELS AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2460263

• 14 Feb 2024Conditional

  CHANGE OF USE OF EXISTING OUTHOUSES TO A DWELLING HOUSE AND ERECTION OF AN EXTENSION AND REFURBISHMENT OF EXISTING BUILDING WITH CONNECTION TO PUBLIC SEWER AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2460150

• 22 Dec 2023Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING WITH ON SITE SEWAGE TREATMENT

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2352018

• 18 Oct 2023Conditional

  TEACH CÓNAITHE, GARÁISTE AGUS DABHACH SEARCHAIS Á THÓGÁIL

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2351584

• 29 Sept 2023Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF 1.5 STOREY DWELLING HOUSE, CONNECTION TO THE PUBLIC SEWER AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2351463

• 26 Sept 2023N/a

  DEMOLITION OF 2 NO. OUTHOUSES AS PART OF THE SITE CLEARANCE TO PROVIDE FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF A TERRACE OF 4 NO. DWELLING HOUSES WITH ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND CONNECTIONS TO THE EXISTING PUBLIC SEWER AND UTILITIES

  Permission, 2 homes · Donegal County Council, 2351431

• 30 Jun 2023N/a

  DEMOLITION OF 2NO. OUTHOUSES AS OF THE SITE CLEARANCE TO PROVIDE FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF A TERRACE OF FOUR NUMBER DWELLING HOUSES WITH ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS AND CONNECTIONS TO THE EXISTING PUBLIC SEWER AND UTILITIES

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2350944

• 15 Mar 2023N/a

  TEACH CÓNAITHE NUA AGUS IONAD CÓIRLÉALA SÉARACHAIS A THÓGÁIL

  Outline permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2350332

• 9 Mar 2023Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC SHED AND INSTALLATION OF SEPTIC TANK

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2350295

• 21 Feb 2023Refused

  CONSTRUCTION OF A TWO-STOREY DWELLING HOUSE, ATTACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE, CONNECTION TO THE PUBLIC SEWER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2350197

• 1 Feb 2023N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC SHED AND INSTALLATION OF SEPTIC TANK

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2350114

• 25 Oct 2022Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE AND SEPTIC TANK

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2251766

• 9 Mar 2022Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING WITH ON SITE SEWAGE TREATMENT

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2250407

• 16 Feb 2022Conditional

  ERECTION OF DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2250249

The 25 most recent of 62 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: Mulroy Bay SAC 002159
• Special Area of Conservation: Sheephaven SAC 001190
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Sheephaven 001190

Recorded monuments

• DG017-021 Church
  Description

  In the Church of Ireland Church at Carrickart, built in 1895 (Rowan 1979, 168) is a 17th century marble font (DG017-021001-), 1.16m high. The upper section of the octagonal shaft is squared to a flat surface on which is carved, in false relief, the inscription: EX: DONO R:A 1681. There is a quartered coat-of-arms below. The square base has four raised bosses on the corners of its octagonally-chamfered upper surface. The sixteen sided bowl has a tapering base. According to Lucas the first church at Carrickart was built in 1674 or 1675 and this has since been removed and its site is used as part of the graveyard (DG017-021002-) (Donegal Archaeological Survey field notes) 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

• DG017-021001 Font
  Description

  In the Church of Ireland Church at Carrickart, built in 1895 (Rowan 1979, 168) is a 17th century marble font (DG017-021001-), 1.16m high. The upper section of the octagonal shaft is squared to a flat surface on which is carved, in false relief, the inscription: EX: DONO R:A 1681. There is a quartered coat-of-arms below. The square base has four raised bosses on the corners of its octagonally-chamfered upper surface. The sixteen sided bowl has a tapering base. According to Lucas the first church (DG017-021) at Carrickart was built in 1674 or 1675 and this has since been removed and its site is used as part of the graveyard (DG017-021002-) (Donegal Archaeological Survey field notes) 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

• DG017-021002 Graveyard
  Description

  In the Church of Ireland Church at Carrickart, built in 1895 (Rowan 1979, 168) is a 17th century marble font (DG017-021001-), 1.16m high. The upper section of the octagonal shaft is squared to a flat surface on which is carved, in false relief, the inscription: EX: DONO R:A 1681. There is a quartered coat-of-arms below. The square base has four raised bosses on the corners of its octagonally-chamfered upper surface. The sixteen sided bowl has a tapering base. According to Lucas the first church (DG017-021) at Carrickart was built in 1674 or 1675 and this has since been removed and its site is used as part of the graveyard (Donegal Archaeological Survey field notes)

Architectural heritage

• Carrickart Presbyterian Church, church/chapel, 1895–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay Presbyterian church, dated 1896, having two-stage bell tower (on square-plan) attached to the north-west with broached spire (on octagonal-plan) over, projecting gable-fronted single-bay single-storey entrance porch to the north-east corner porch, and with two single-storey extensions to the rear (south). Pitched artificial slate roofs with decorative ridge tiles, raised pitched verges to the gable ends having kneeler stones at eaves level and with gable-fronted finials over having recessed trefoil motifs, pedestals (on square-plan) over gable apexes, corbelled eaves course, and with gable-fronted motifs along raised verges to gable ends of main body of church having inset trefoil motifs. Rendered spire to tower with metal weathervane finial over. Roughcast rendered walls over projecting smooth rendered plinth course, and with raised smooth rendered block-and-start quoins to the corners. Stepped clasping smooth rendered buttresses to the west gable end of main body of building and to the south side of nave between bays. Date plaque to the north face of tower incised ‘1896’. Pointed-arched window openings having chamfered smooth rendered surrounds with cusped\trefoilated heads to the side elevations of nave (north and south), gable ends (east and west), and to porch having chamfered stone sills, stained glass and leaded glass windows, and with outer storm glazing. Round-headed window to the centre of the east gable end having smooth rendered octofoil reveal, and leaded stained glass window; pointed-arched window opening to the centre of the west gable end having smooth rendered multifoil surround, and leaded stained glass window. Pointed-arched openings to tower at belfry level having timber louvered fittings. Pointed-arched doorway to the east face of tower having staged rendered surround, plinth blocks, render hoodmoulding over with label stops, and with battened timber door. Pointed-arched doorway to the west side of porch having smooth rendered surround and reveals, and timber door. Set back from road in mature grounds to the east of Carraig Art [Carrickart]. Rubble stone boundary wall with cement rendered coping over to road-frontage to the north. Main gateway to the north-west comprising a pair of rubble stone gate piers (on square-plan) having cement rendered pyramidal coping over, and with a pair of hooped wrought-iron gates. Gravemarker to the west of church having metal railed enclosure. Associated single-storey manse with dormer attic level to the south-east having gable-fronted dormers, pitched slate roof, rendered walls, and square-headed openings with red brick surrounds and replacement fittings. Gateway to manse to the east of church comprising a pair of rubble stone gate piers (on square-plan) with a pair of hooped wrought-iron gates.

• Holy Trinity Church (Mevagh), church/chapel, 1890–1905 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached double-height Church of Ireland church, built 1895-1902, having five-bay nave, two-bay chancel to the east end having two-bay single-storey sacristy attached to the north side, single-storey side aisle to the north, single-bay single-storey gable-fronted entrance porch to the south side of nave, and with four-stage tower (on square-plan) to the north-west having projecting cylindrical stair turret attached to the south-west corner. Pitched natural slate roofs with terracotta ridge tiles, moulded sandstone eaves course, cut sandstone verges to gable ends with decorative kneeler stones to eaves having gable-fronted finials over with inset trefoil motifs, and with cast-iron rainwater goods. Pyramidal natural slate roof to tower with metal finial over; conical cut sandstone roof over stair turret. Raised parapet to tower having cut stone crenellations over with ashlar coping, and with moulded stringcourse at base of parapet. Squared and snecked stone walls with flush dressed sandstone block-and-start quoins to corners, and with chamfered sandstone plinth course. Stepped ashlar sandstone clasping buttresses with feathered ashlar coping over to corners to nave gable (west) and nave (west) gable ends, to corners of tower, and to side elevations (north and south) at junction of nave and chancel, and with splayed stepped ashlar sandstone clasping buttresses with feathered ashlar coping over to corners of porch to the south elevation. Cut sandstone clock faces with moulded sandstone surrounds to each face of tower at third stage level. Moulded sandstone stringcourse to tower above first stage level. Pointed-arched window openings having chamfered ashlar sandstone block-and-start surrounds with cusped heads, chamfered ashlar sandstone sills, cut sandstone hoodmouldings, and with leaded coloured glass and stained glass windows. Three graded window openings to the chancel gable and two paired openings to the nave gable (west); some paired window openings to side aisle. Paired pointed-arch openings to tower at belfry level having chamfered staged ashlar sandstone block-and-start reveals with cusped head, continuous cut sandstone hoodmoulding brought around faces of tower as stringcourse, and with timber louvered fittings. Sill courses to the west and east elevations and to the south side of chancel. Some square-headed window openings to tower having ashlar sandstone block-and-start surrounds. Pointed-arched doorway to the east face of tower having chamfered ashlar sandstone block-and-start surrounds with staged head, cut sandstone hoodmoulding, and timber panelled double-doors. Pointed-arched doorway to the south face of porch to the south elevation having chamfered ashlar sandstone block-and-start surrounds with staged head, cut sandstone hoodmoulding, and with battened timber door wrought-iron strap hinges. Square-headed doorway to the north face of vestry having chamfered ashlar sandstone block-and-start surround and timber door. Stone steps to entrances. Set back from road in polygonal enclosure to the north-east end of Carrickart. Graveyard to south and west of site with collection of cut stone gravemarkers of mainly nineteenth and twentieth century markers of upstanding and recumbent types, some in metal railed enclosures. Family plot of the Clement family including graves of the Fourth (1892) and Fifth (1952) Earls of Leitrim of Mulroy House (see 40901712) to the west side of graveyard. Some eighteenth-century gravemarkers to site including memorial to former parish priest Revd. Dominick O'Donnell, buried 1793. Lawned areas to the north and to the north-east of church. Site surrounded by rubble stone boundary walls to ancillary elevations. Main gateway to the north-east of site comprising a pair of decorative cast-iron gate posts with decorative wrought-iron gates. Gateway flanked to either side by sections of curved rubble stone boundary wall having chamfered sandstone coping and wrought-iron railings over with cast-iron finials. Park adjacent to the west containing memorial cross (see 40808005) to the Fourth Earl of Leitrim.

• The Old Rectory, rectory/glebe/vicarage/curate's house, 1890–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey former Church of Ireland rectory, built c. 1895, having complex of two-storey outbuildings to the north-east. Originally associated with the Holy Trinity Church of Ireland church (see 40808002) located a short distance to the south. Now in use as a community centre. Hipped natural slate roof with four rendered chimneystacks, two central chimneystacks to the front and two central to the rear. Smooth rendered ruled-and-lined walls to front elevation (south-east) with raised smooth rendered (or ashlar) block-and-start quoins to the corners of the front elevation. Exposed rubble stone walls to rear with ashlar block-and-start quoins to corners. Square-headed window openings with projecting smooth rendered surrounds, stone sills and with two-over-four pane timber sliding sash windows to the front elevation. Replacement windows to majority of openings to the side elevations; exposed red brick block-and-start surrounds to window openings to rear. Central round-headed doorway to the front elevation having smooth rendered reveal, replacement timber door, overlight, and replacement sidelights. Single stone step to the entrance door. Attached six-bay two-storey outbuilding\service wing to the north-east (on L-shaped plan) having pitched natural slate roofs, random rubble sandstone walls, square-headed window and door openings some with timber and red brick lintels, and with replacement windows and doors. Infilled former segmental-headed carriage-arch having roughly dressed voussoirs. Section of rubble stone boundary wall to the north-east side of dwelling creating courtyard with outbuilding. Gateway to the south-east corner of courtyard comprising a pair of ashlar limestone gate piers (on square-plan) having rendered coping and modern metal gates. Set well back from road in extensive grounds to the north-east of the centre of Carrickart and to the north of associated church. Site overlooks Mulroy Bay to the west. Long approach avenue to house from the south having gateway at entrance comprising a pair of rendered gate piers (on circular-plan) with a pair pf decorative cast- and wrought-iron gates.

• Earl of Leitrim Monument, monument, 1890–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding Celtic high cross memorial, dated 1895, commemorating the Fourth Earl of Leitrim of nearby Mulroy House (see 40901712). Restored and re-erected in 1997. Sicilian white marble cross with Celtic interlacing in relief to faces and sides, and with carved heads and zoomorphic figures to bosses to arms of cross. Cross set on splayed marble pedestal with Celtic interlacing to three sides and inset leaded lettering to front face (north) reading "This cross was erected to the memory of Robert Bermingham Clements, 4th Earl of Leitrim, by his grateful tenants and many devoted friends, in recognition of his sterling character and valuable public services. He loved his people and by his own request lies in the adjoining churchyard". Cross set on rendered plinth (on square-plan) having three steps. Monument set in rectangular enclosure having wrought-iron railings with cast-iron finials over rendered plinth wall. Gateway to the north side comprising a pair of cast-iron gate posts with wrought-iron pedestrian gate. Located on a corner site in the centre of Carraig Art [Carrickart] with green area\park adjacent to the south with Church of Ireland church (see 40808002) located to the south side.

• Shop/retail outlet, 1880–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  End-of-terrace attached two-bay single-storey house and former shop with dormer attic level, built c. 1890, having shopfront, two gable-fronted dormer windows to the front elevation (north-west) and with later single-storey extension to the rear (south-east). One of a pair of structures with building adjoining to the north-east (see 40808010). Pitched natural slate roof with overhanging eaves having exposed rafter ends, terracotta ridge tiles, raised smooth rendered coping to the south-west gable end having rendered kneeler stone detailing at eaves level, two yellow brick chimneystacks with rendered cornice coping over, and with some surviving cast-iron hoppers and downpipes. Decorative curvilinear timber bargeboards to dormer openings, decorative timber fretwork to gable apex of dormer opening to the north-east. Smooth rendered ruled-and-lined walls over projecting smooth rendered plinth. Square-headed window openings to dormers having paired one-over-one timber sliding sash windows with central timber mullion to opening to the north-east end and one-over-one pane timber sliding sash window with margin glazing bars to opening to the south-west. Square-headed window openings to shopfront having fixed-pane display windows with decorative metal grilles over. Central square-headed doorway to shopfront having glazed timber door with plain overlight. Shopfront comprising render or timber pilasters with fluted console brackets over surmounted by pedimented finials to either end, and with moulded render fascia over openings having cornice above. Set slightly back from road with pathway and forecourt to the front (north-west). Located to the south-west end of Carraig Art [Carrickart] with laneway adjacent to the south-west having access to rear.

• House, 1880–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Mid-terrace attached two-bay single-storey house with dormer attic level, built c. 1890, having two gable-fronted dormer windows to the front elevation (north-west) and with later two-storey extension to the rear (south-east). One of a pair of structures with building adjoining to the south-west (see 40808009). Pitched natural slate roof with overhanging eaves having exposed rafter ends, terracotta ridge tiles, yellow brick chimneystacks with rendered cornice coping over to the north-east end, and with some surviving cast-iron hoppers and downpipes. Decorative curvilinear timber bargeboards to dormer openings. Smooth rendered ruled-and-lined walls over projecting smooth rendered plinth. Square-headed window openings to dormers having painted sills and with one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows with margin glazing bars. Square-headed window opening at ground floor level having paired six-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows with continuous painted stone sill. Square-headed doorway to the south-west end of the front elevation having battened timber door with plain overlight. Set slightly back from road with pathway and forecourt to the front (north-west). Located to the south-west end of Carraig Art [Carrickart].

• Hotel, 1900–1920 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay two-storey hotel with dormer attic level, built c. 1910, having two-storey canted bay window with balustraded parapet over to the east end of the front elevation (south), and with later single-storey entrance porch. Later two-storey extension to the north-west having hipped roof, built c. 1930, and with large two-storey extension to the north-east, built c. 1970. Steeply-pitched roof to original building having moulded bracketed eaves cornice, two yellow brick chimneystacks with render cornice coping over (to either end, east and west), decorative round-headed dormer openings with smooth rendered architraved surrounds, scrolled brackets to either side of bases, anthemion motif finials over, and with raised boss motifs. Smooth rendered walls over projecting smooth rendered plinth, and with raised smooth rendered block quoins to the corners. Moulded rendered cornices over first floor windows, over ground floor openings to canted bay, and at sill course level at first floor level. Paired square-headed window openings at ground and first floor level with eight-over-two pane timber casement windows; square-headed window openings to canted bay window having six-over-one pane timber casement and fixed-pane windows. Round-headed openings to dormers having timber casement windows with round-headed overlight. Painted stone sills at ground floor level. Square-headed doorway to later porch having glazed timber double-doors and plain sidelights and overlights. Some original features to interior. Attached two-bay two-storey block to the west having hipped natural slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles, bracketed eaves course, cast-iron rainwater goods and rendered chimneystack, smooth rendered walls with moulded cornice above ground floor level and render pilaster to the south-west corner, square-headed window openings at first floor level with timber sliding sash windows, and enlarged square-headed windows at ground floor level with modern fittings. Recessed three-storey block to the north-east, built c. 1970 and altered c. 2008. Two-storey flat-roofed block attached to the east corner of original building. Corner-sited to the north-east end of Main Street, Carraig Art [Carrickart], terminating the streetscape to the north end of the village.

• The Old Dispensary, building misc, surgery/clinic, 1870–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey former dispensary, built c. 1880, having central gable-fronted entrance porch to the front elevation (north-west), and with single-storey single-bay outbuilding attached to the south-west gable end. Extended with single-storey blocks added to either side of the entrance porch to front. Pitched natural slate roof with projecting eaves course, raised brick verges to gable ends, four smooth rendered chimneystacks (to central and one to either gable end, cast-iron rainwater goods, and with decorative curvilinear timber bargeboards and wrought-iron finial to porch. Mono-pitched slate roofs to single-storey extensions to front with decorative curvilinear timber bargeboards to end elevations. Rubble stone walls (formerly rendered) to front elevation with projecting stone plinth. Rendered walls to gable elevations and extensions. Rendered sill course to ground floor. Square-headed window openings with brick reveals to main body of building, brick reveals, and with paired one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed window openings to front extensions having smooth rendered reveals and one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed doorway to the front elevation of porch having replacement timber doors, sidelights and overlights. Set slightly back from road along laneway to the north-west of the centre of Carraig Art [Carrickart]. Modern timber picket fence and pedestrian entrance to boundary to the north-west. Gateway to the south-west, giving access to yard to the rear, comprising a pair of rock-faced ashlar granite gate piers (on square-plan) having rock-faced granite capstones. Section of rubble stone boundary wall to the south-west of gateway having pebble stone coping over.

• Teach John Mici Bán, house, 1870–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey vernacular house, built c. 1880, having projecting single-storey flat-roofed entrance porch to the centre of the front elevation (north) and with single-bay extension with mono-pitched roof attached to the west gable end. Possibly originally a single-storey house with the upper floor added at a later date. Pitched natural slate roof with projecting rendered eaves course, and with rendered verges and rendered chimneystacks to the gable ends (east and west). Roughcast rendered rubble stone walls, rubble stone construction exposed to the east gable end. Square-headed window openings with stone sills and two-over-two pane timber sliding sash window. Square-headed doorway to the front elevation of porch (north) having battened timber half-doors. Set back from the road with concrete path and open gravel courtyard to the front, and yard to the rear with single-storey outbuildings. Located in the rural countryside to the east of Carraig Art [Carrickart].

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

About 1 in 10 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 Carrickart.

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.

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

Name

Carrickart · Carraig Airt

Area

3,528,170 m² (352.82 ha, 871.83 acres)

Civil parish

Mevagh, and its townlands

Barony

Kilmacrenan

Electoral division

Carrickart, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Carrickart electoral division: 965 people in 353 households; 73% of households own their home; 37% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 40% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Downies Barr, Glenkeo, Gortnabrade, Tirloughan, Tullagh, Umlagh

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Carrickart 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.