Carrickbrack
Townland in the civil parish of Raphoe, barony of Raphoe North, Co. Donegal
- Area
- 29.1 ha
- 72 acres
- Land parcels
- 12
- registered freehold, median 2,702 m² (0.27 ha, 0.67 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carrickbrack, from 918 m² to 165,653 m² (16.57 ha, 40.93 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 9 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 Carrickbrack 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
13 Jun 2019Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO THE SIDE AND REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, WORKS INCLUDE AMENDMENTS TO THE INTERNAL LAYOUT AND EXTERNAL ELEVATIONS OF EXISTING PROPERTY AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1950898
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 Carrickbrack.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Carrickbrack.
Architectural heritage
- Bridge, 1820–1870 · Regional interest
Description
Double-arched bridge carrying road over the Deele River, built c. 1820 and altered/rebuilt c. 1860, having semi-circular ashlar cutwater to central pier to both upstream and downstream elevations. Segmental-headed arches having mildly rock-faced ashlar sandstone voussoirs to arch with rock-faced keystone detail; squared rubble stone construction to the arch barrel. Squared and coursed mildly rock-faced rubble stone construction to pier and spandrels with projecting squared and coursed mildly rock-faced rubble stone piers (on square-plan) to either end of bridge rising to parapet level with cement coping over. Squared rubble stone construction to parapets with projecting cut stone stringcourse at road deck level carried around piers. Tarmacadam deck. Squared rubble stone wing walls to ends of parapets. Located in the rural countryside to the north-east of Convoy and to the south-west of Raphoe.
- Bridge, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
Description
Single-arched bridge carrying road over small tributary flowing into the Deele River, built c. 1800. Segmental-headed arch with roughly squared rubble stone voussoirs; rubble stone construction to arch barrel. Rubble stone construction to spandrels and to parapets. Parapets largely overgrown with ivy. Tarmacadam deck with grass verges. Located in the rural countryside to the south-west of Raphoe.
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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1813 (ZIP).
- 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 Carrickbrack with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Carrickbrack
- Area
- 291,093 m² (29.11 ha, 71.93 acres)
- Civil parish
- Raphoe, and its townlands
- Barony
- Raphoe North
- Electoral division
- Convoy, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Convoy electoral division: 2,559 people in 926 households; 72% of households own their home; 38% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Carrickbrack, Kiltole, Magherahee, Roosky Lower
- Placenames
- Carrickbrack 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.