Carrickmagrath

226 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carrickmagrath, from 27 m² to 323,105 m² (32.31 ha, 79.84 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 48 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 Carrickmagrath 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.

• 21 Aug 2026N/a

  ERECTION OF A DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2661560

• 28 May 2026Conditional

  (1) RETENTION OF (A) DETACHED GARAGE AND (B) SEPTIC TANK SYSTEM WITH ASSOCIATED DRAINAGE AND (2) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE CONSTRUCTED WITH DEFECTIVE CONCRETE BLOCKWORK AND CONSTRUCTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING HOUSE AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2660985

• 24 Apr 2026Conditional

  (1) RETENTION OF DETACHED GARAGE / STORAGE SHED, (2) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE CONSTRUCTED WITH DEFECTIVE CONCRETE BLOCKWORK AND CONSTRUCTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING HOUSE AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS AND (3) PLACEMENT OF A MOBILE HOME STRUCTURE WITHIN THE SITE TO BE USED AS TEMPORARY ACCOMMODATION FOR THE DURATION OF CONSTRUCTION WORKS RELATING TO THE REPLACEMENT DWELLING HOUSE SOUGHT HEREIN

  Permission, 2 homes · Donegal County Council, 2660716

• 2 Apr 2026Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK/SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2660553

• 1 Oct 2025Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK / SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2561701

• 1 Apr 2025Conditional

  ROOFLIGHTS TO EXISTING PITCHED ROOF AND PERMISSION FOR (1) DEMOLITION OF SCULLERY AND CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSIONS TO THE SIDE GABLES OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND (2) DECOMMISSIONING OF EXISTING SEPTIC TANK SYSTEM AND INSTALLATION OF REPLACEMENT SEPTIC TANK / SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2560470

• 11 Mar 2025Conditional

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

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2560338

• 7 Mar 2025Conditional

  (1) EXTENSION TO DWELLING HOUSE AND (2) GARAGE / SHED

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2560323

• 20 Jan 2025Conditional

  CHANGE OF HOUSE DESIGN FROM THAT PREVIOUSLY PERMITTED (PLANNING REF. NO. 21/50997 REFERS) AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2560041

• 6 Nov 2024Conditional

  (1) AN EXISTING SINGLE STOREY DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH A 'LEAN TO' ROOF CANOPY, AND (2) A DETACHED SINGLE STOREY GARDEN ROOM OPPOSITE THE WEST FACING GABLE OF DWELLING HOUSE

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2461782

• 12 Feb 2024N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, SEPTIC TANK/SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2460135

• 28 Aug 2023Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, SEPTIC TANK/SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Outline permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2351275

• 12 Jul 2023N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, SEPTIC TANK/ SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2351025

• 14 Nov 2022Conditional

  (1) DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE AND STORAGE SHED (2) SINGLE STOREY SUN LOUNGE TO SIDE OF DWELLING HOUSE AND PERMISSION FOR CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO THE FRONT OF EXISTING SUN LOUNGE AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2251845

• 7 Sept 2022Conditional

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

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2251498

• 12 Aug 2022N/a

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

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2251371

• 16 Feb 2022Conditional

  DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE AND STORE WITH ATTACHED FUEL STORE AND COVERED PLAY AREA/TOY STORAGE SPACE AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS AND PERMISSION FOR CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2250252

• 8 Oct 2021Conditional

  ERECTION OF A SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION INCLUDING LIVING ROOM, ENTRANCE HALL, UTILITY ROOM & WC TO AN EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2151992

• 24 May 2021Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, SEPTIC TANK / SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2150997

• 17 May 2021Conditional

  (1) CONSTRUCTION OF A TWO STOREY DWELLING AND DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE (2) PROVISION OF AN ONSITE EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PECOLATION AREA (3) DEVELOPMENT OF A NEW VEHICULAR ACCESS ROAD FROM LOCAL ROAD L-3014-3 (4) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2150926

• 18 Mar 2021N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, SEPTIC TANK / SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2150475

• 24 May 2020Conditional

  DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE AND TEMPORARY USE OF GARAGE STRUCTURE AS ACCOMODATION FOR THE APPLICANT DURING CONSTRUCTION OF THE PROPOSED DWELLING HOUSE AND PERMISSION FOR (A) CHANGE OF HOUSE DESIGN FOR DWELLING PREVIOUSLY APPROVED UNDER PLANNING REF 13/51388 AND 18/51122 (B) DECOMMISSIONING OF EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND INSTALLATION OF A REPLACEMENT SWEAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2050450

• 13 Sept 2019Refused

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE AND REVISED LOCATION OF SEPTIC TANK SYSTEM PREVIOUSLY APPROVED UNDER PLANNING REF 13/51388 AND 18/51122 AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS AND PERMISSION FOR CHANGE OF HOUSE DESIGN FOR DWELLING HOUSE PREVIOUSLY APPROVED UNDER PLANNING REF: 13/51388 AND 18/51122

  Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1951388

• 27 Jul 2018Conditional

  ERECTION OF A TOILET & SHOWER ROOM EXTENSION TO THE SIDE OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1851158

• 23 Jul 2018Unconditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, INSTALLATION OF A SEPTIC TANK/SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Extension of duration, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1851122

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 Carrickmagrath.

Recorded monuments

• DG077-016 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  Internal diam. 16m-20m. An oval-shaped area enclosed by a collapsed stone wall surviving in places up to .5m in height. A gap 2.8m on the SW side might indicate the entrance. It is situated in very marshy uplands. 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

• DG077-021 Megalithic tomb - portal tomb
  Description

  This monument, not shown on any edition of the OS 6-inch map, first came to notice in 1988. It stands in a mature forest on a little ledge of a rocky SE-facing slope among the hills forming the S side of the basin of the River Finn, c. 4km SW of Ballybofey. The monument consists of a roofed chamber facing NE, which stands toward one end of a long cairn. The chamber is 1.7m long and 1m wide internally and stands 2.5m from the NE end of the cairn, which is set along the contour of the slope. The stone-built cairn is almost wholly covered by moss, and a layer of peat has formed along its western edge. Some fallen trees and undergrowth of bushes and rough grass obscure its perimeter in places, but its essential shape is clear. It is subrectangular in outline, measures 17m NE-SW by 8m NW-SE and reaches c. 0.7m high. Some stones have rolled downslope from its eastern and southern edges. Two longitudinally set portal-stones either side of a sillstone mark the front of the chamber. A single orthostat forms each side of the chamber, and another closes its SW end. The top of the eastern sidestone dips toward the front, and the space thus left between it and the roofstone is blocked by a corbel laid against the outer face of the sidestone. A slab, now broken in two, rests against the end of the backstone. Its original function is not clear. The roofstone has been dislodged slightly and now rests in a sloping position across the chamber. At the N it has slipped down the inner face of the western portal-stone, and its opposite side is tilted upward. It rests on the inner end of the eastern portal-stone, on both sidestones and on the corbel above the eastern sidestone. The portal-stones are 0.45m apart at their outer ends but diverge toward the S, where the gap between them is 0.7m. The western portal-stone is 0.7m high. Its top, which may be broken, is 0.3m below that of the eastern portal-stone, which is 1.05m high. The thin intervening sillstone is 0.5m long, 0.1m thick and 0.35m high. Both sidestones are in line with their respective portal-stones and lean inward against the backstone. The eastern sidestone increases in height from only c. 0.1m at its outer end to 0.4m at its inner, or southern, end. The top of the western sidestone is hidden by a layer of peat, but it appears to be c. 0.4m high. There is a gap of 0.3m between this and the inward-leaning backstone, which is 0.7m high. The corbel on the eastern sidestone measures 1m by 0.95m and is up to 0.3m thick. When intact the broken slab leaning against the end of the backstone measured 1.3m by 1m by 0.2m thick. The position of the break in this stone is indicated by a pecked line on the plan. The roofstone, its western edge obscured by the layer of peat mentioned above, is 1.9m long, 1.6m wide and up to 0.6m thick at the front. Ó Nualláin 1989, 124; Verling 1990, 126; RMP 1995, 77:21. 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

• Church of the Ascension, church/chapel, 1960–1965 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding Church of Ireland church, built c. 1961, comprising three-bay hall with projecting single-bay gable-fronted entrance porch to the north-west gable end, bellcote over gable apex to south-east gable end, and with projecting single-bay shed attached to the south-east gable end. Modern boiler room attached to the south-east gable. Pitched concrete tiled roofs with wrought-iron\metal cross finial to north-west gable apex, and with gable-fronted rock-faced\split concrete bellcote to south-east gable apex having round-headed opening with bell-metal bell, and with moulded cement render hoodmoulding over. Rock-faced\split concrete block walls over smooth centre rendered or concrete plinth course. Round-headed window openings with raised smooth rendered block-and-start surrounds, leaded plate glass diamond pane windows, and with cement rendered hoodmouldings over. Round-headed doorway to the north-east face of porch having raised smooth rendered block-and-start surrounds, battened timber door, and with cement rendered hoodmouldings over. Interior with moulded plaster arched panel to chancel, carved limestone font. Set well back from road in isolated wooded upland location to the south-west of Ballybofey. Site bounded by post-and-wire fence. Gateway to the north-west comprising a pair of rock-faced\split concrete gate piers (on square-plan) having pyramidal coping over, and with modern mild steel gates. Graveyard to the south-east of church with collection of late nineteenth and early twentieth-century gravemarkers associated with earlier church to site (now demolished).

• Meenglass Station Bridge, bridge, 1880–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch former railway bridge, built c. 1882 or c. 1891, carrying road over the former Stranorlar to Druminin (Later Lough Eske Halt) section of the Derry (Victoria Road) to Killybegs railway line. Railway lines now out of use with tracks removed (c. 1960). Rubble limestone construction to spandrels and parapets, rock-faced stone coping over parapets. Coursed and squared mildly rock-faced terminating piers (on square-plan) to parapets having roughly dressed stone coping over. Segmental-headed arch having cement arch and cement lining to soffit; coursed rock-faced limestone construction to piers. Mildly rock-faced quoins to bases of piers. Tarmacadam deck with grass verges. Located adjacent to the site of the former Meenglass Railway Station\Halt (no remains), and in the rural countryside to the north-east of the Barnesmore Gap, and to the south-west of Ballybofey.

• Bridge, 1880–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch former railway bridge, built c. 1882, carrying road over the former Stranorlar to Druminin (Later Lough Eske Halt) section of the Derry (Victoria Road) to Killybegs railway line. Railway lines now out of use with tracks removed (c. 1960). Bridge now largely overgrown with vegetation. Roughly coursed rubble limestone construction to spandrels and parapets, ashlar coping over parapets. Segmental-headed arch having cement arch and cement lining to soffit; coursed rock-faced limestone construction to piers. Mildly rock-faced quoins with drafted margins to bases of piers. Tarmacadam deck with grass verges. Located to the south-west of Ballybofey.

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 moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Carrickmagrath.

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.

• Carrickmagrath, Ballybofey6 sales

Name

Carrickmagrath · Carraig Mhic Craith

Area

3,559,763 m² (355.98 ha, 879.64 acres)

Civil parish

Donaghmore, and its townlands

Barony

Raphoe South

Electoral division

Goland, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Goland electoral division: 359 people in 123 households; 97% of households own their home; 37% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballybofey, Corgary, Goland, Meenbog, Sessiagh (O'Neill), Taughboy, Trusk

Placenames

Carrickmagrath 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.