Carrickbrack

47 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carrickbrack, from 149 m² to 300,616 m² (30.06 ha, 74.28 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 18 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

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.

• 15 Nov 2024Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH A PROPOSED WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM, AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2461853

• 29 Mar 2024Conditional

  (1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING MICA DEFECTIVE DWELLING, (2) ERECTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING WITH CONNECTION TO ALL EXISTING ON SITE SERVICES

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2460421

• 16 Oct 2023Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2351554

• 14 Dec 2022Conditional

  EXISTING VEHICULAR ENTRANCE ONTO THE L-6814-1 COUNTY ROAD AND PERMISSION FOR CONSTRUCTION OF DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2251995

• 16 May 2022Conditional

  (1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING SHED (2) CONSTRUCTION OF (A) AN EXTENSION TO DWELLING HOUSE INCORPORATING ELEVATIONAL AMENDMENTS (B) A DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE (3) DECOMMISSIONING OF EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND PROVISION OF A NEW REPLACEMENT SEPTIC TANK / SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2250849

• 1 Mar 2022Refused

  CONSTRUCTION OF DWELLING HOUSE WITH ONSITE EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM INCLUDING PERCOLATION AREA

  Extension of duration, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2250343

• 30 Aug 2021Conditional

  DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING AND CONSTRUCTION OF A PART SINGLE STOREY, PART TWO STOREY DWELLING WITH DETACHED GARAGE, PROVISION OF A NEW REPLACEMENT SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2151720

• 19 Feb 2021Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DOMESTIC GARAGE/STORE AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED STIE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2150276

• 28 May 2019Conditional

  DEMOLITION OF EXISTING GABLE EXTENSION & SHED, CARRY OUT RENOVATIONS AND ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING BUNGALOW, CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW STOREY AND A HALF EXTENSION TO THE REAR OF EXISTING BUNGALOW & INSTALLATION OF A WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND SOIL POLISHING, WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1950779

• 26 Apr 2019Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE, ONE STOREY DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1950604

• 9 Apr 2019N/a

  ERECTION OF A SINGLE, ONE STOREY DOMESTIC GARAGE & ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1950483

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

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

• DG069-020 Cist
  Description

  This monument was uncovered in December 1962 during the removal of stones prior to ploughing and investigated on behalf of the National Museum of Ireland by O Riordáin in January 1963. Rectangular short cist (dims. 0.54m N-S; 0.25m E-W; H 0.36m) whose sides were defined principally by four principal slabs set on edge. The floor was composed of a single, oval-shaped slab (dims. 0.48m x 0.24m; T 0.08cm). The capstone was triangular (dims. 0.97m x 0.88m; H 0.15cm). No human remains or artifacts were identified. (Cahill and Sikora 2011, Vol 1, 127-129) Compiled by: Patrick F. O’Donovan Date of upload: 13 February 2013

• DG069-026 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  There is now no trace of the oval 'Fort' marked on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map. It is situated in excellent land with extensive views. 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

• DG069-027 Standing stone
  Description

  There is no trace of the 'Standing Stone' marked on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map. Situated on good land with extensive views except to S. 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

• DG070-019 Cist
  Description

  Two cists were found in a field here. There are no contents recorded from the first cist found c. 1895 (JRSAI 1896, 382). The second cist was .64m E-W × 0.48m. It had a slab floor and contained a bowl foodvessel, a flint flake, a thumb-scraper and some quartz chips (JRSAI 1958, 145). 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

Architectural heritage

• House, farm house, 1850–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached two-storey three-bay house, built c. 1860 and altered c. 1900, having single-bay single-storey flat-roofed canted bay windows to either side of doorway to the main elevation (south-east) and with various two-storey returns and additions to the rear (north-west). Hipped natural slate roof with projecting eaves course, surviving sections of cast-iron rainwater goods, and with a central pair of smooth rendered chimneystacks having decorative clay pots over. Roughcast walls over smooth rendered plinth course. Square-headed window openings having painted stone sills, rendered reveals, and with three-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows at first floor level to main elevation; one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows to canted bays having decorative smooth rendered surrounds, and with moulded cornice over. Three-over-six and two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows to side elevations and mainly one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows to returns, extensions and to the side and rear elevations. Central shallow segmental-headed doorway to the main elevation (south-east) having a pair of timber panelled doors, square-headed sidelights with one-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows, and with spider’s web fanlight over. Set back from road in extensive mature grounds to the south-east of Convoy. Garden to front of site (east) and enclosed yard to the rear (west). Bounded on road-frontage to the north by smooth rendered brick and rubble stone boundary walls. Gateway to the east comprising a pair of smooth rendered ruled-and-line gate piers (on square-plan) having projecting plinth course, moulded capstones, and with a pair of decorative cast-iron gates. Collection of two five-bay two-storey outbuildings to rear having limewashed rubblestone walls, pitched corrugated-metal roofs, square-headed window openings with wrought-iron security bars, square-headed doorways and loading bays with battened timber doors, and with external staircases giving access to doorway at first floor level having wrought-iron railings. Single-bay single-storey rubble stone outbuilding to gable end of one outbuilding having rubble stone walls. Single-storey outbuilding to site having pitched corrugated-metal roof, rendered walls, and square-headed doorways with battened timber fittings.

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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, 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_1792 (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.

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

Name

Carrickbrack

Area

2,088,501 m² (208.85 ha, 516.08 acres)

Civil parish

Convoy, and its townlands

Barony

Raphoe South

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

Ballyboe, Blackrepentance, Carrickbrack, Findrum, Kiltole, 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.