Carricknahorna

67 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carricknahorna, from 325 m² to 2,557,401 m² (255.74 ha, 631.95 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 41 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 Carricknahorna 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.

• 26 May 2025Conditional

  (1) ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND INSTALLATION OF AN EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH INFILTRATION AREA AND (2) ALTERATIONS AND WIDENING OF THE EXISTING SITE ENTRANCE ONTO THE ADJOINING ROAD AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2560841

• 15 Apr 2025Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF DWELLING HOUSE WITH A WASTE WATER TREATMENT UNIT AND POLISHING FILTER ALONG WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2560572

• 19 Dec 2024Conditional

  (1) COMPLETION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WHICH WAS PREVIOUSLY GRANTED PERMISSION UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. T.1104/81, (2) ALTERATIONS TO THE ELEVATIONS OF THE DWELLING HOUSE, (3) CONSTRUCTION OF A DOMESTIC GARAGE AND (4) INSTALLATION OF A NEW WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA TOGETHER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2462129

• 9 Apr 2024N/a

  (1) RETENTION AND COMPLETION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WHICH WAS PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. T.1104/81, (2) ALTERATIONS TO THE ELEVATIONS OF THE HOUSE, (3) CONSTRUCTION OF DOMESTIC GARAGE, (4) INSTALLATION OF A NEW WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA TOGETHER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2460482

• 3 Apr 2024Conditional

  (1) CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE AND GARAGE, (2) ERECTION OF DOMESTIC STORE AND HOBBY ROOM, (3) INSTALLATION OF SEWAGE EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM, (4) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND LANDSCAPING

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2460432

• 28 Mar 2024N/a

  (1) CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE AND GARAGE, (2) INSTALLATION OF NEW SUITABLE EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM, (3) ERECTION OF DOMESTIC STORE AND HOBBY ROOM, (4) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND LANDSCAPING

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2460418

• 22 Feb 2024Conditional

  ERECTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL BUILDING CONSISTING OF SLATTED UNIT AND CONCRETE APRON

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2460196

• 22 Feb 2024N/a

  (1) CONSTRUCTION OF NEW DWELLING HOUSE AND GARAGE, (2) INSTALLATION OF SEWAGE EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM, (3) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND LANDSCAPING, (4) ERECTION OF DOMESTIC STORE AND HOBBY ROOM

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2460200

• 2 Feb 2024N/a

  ERECTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL BUILDING CONSISTING OF SLATTED UNIT AND CONCRETE APRON

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2460082

• 23 Dec 2019Conditional

  CHANGE OF HOUSE DESIGN FROM THAT GRANTED UNDER 17/51224

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1952021

• 23 May 2018Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A 4 BAY SLATTED SHED WITH LIEBACK AREA TO HOUSE CATTLE AND ANCILLARY WORKS (.I.E. CONCRETE YARDS, GATES AND BOUNDARIES) ALL FOR AGRICULTURAL PURPOSES ONLY IN EXISTING FARMYARD

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1850808

• 11 May 2018Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DOMESTIC GARAGE AND HORSE STABLES ON EXISTING FARM ADJACENT TO EXISTING DWELLING

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1850729

• 3 Aug 2017Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM & POLISHING FILTER AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF A DOMESTIC GARAGE TO SERVE THE PROPOSED DWELLING

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1751224

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: Lough Golagh and Breesy Hill SAC 002164
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Carricknahorna Lough And Lough Gorman 002068

Recorded monuments

• DG103-042 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Internal diam. c. 30m. A circular, apparently artificially levelled, area enclosed by slight traces of an earthern bank. No sign of the fosse recorded by Davies survives. It was situated on top of a ridge with excellent views of the surrounding area. 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

• DG104-009 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  Internal diam. 23.3m. A subcircular area enclosed by a collapsed stone wall up to 1.5m in height and spreading in some places over 8m in width. The wall has disappeared along the SW sector but its outline can still be traced. Evidence for a fosse can be detected on the W side. There is a gap 2m wide to ESE and another to the NW. The interior is uneven. It is situated on the ridge of a rocky plateau surrounded by rough pasture and some steep drops. 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

• DG104-010 Megalithic tomb - unclassified
  Description

  This monument stands on a slight E-W-aligned ridge, on which there is outcropping rock, in rolling pasture c. 7.5km NE of Ballyshannon. There is a good outlook from the site. The tomb consists of three stones, two beside each other, and the third 1.5m N of and opposite the eastern of the other two. There is a poorly defined, slightly raised stony area to the W, possibly the remains of a cairn (not on plan). The western of the two stones at the S is 1.25m high. It rises 0.4m above the top of the adjoining stone, which rests against it. The eastern stone is skewed to the N from the line described by the western and leans in the same direction. The lone stone at the N is 1.3m high. The three stones are of split-boulder type. The split faces of the two at the S are opposed to that of the one at the N. Approximately 10m to the SW is a large boulder measuring 1.4m by 0.6m by 1m high in a field fence. This may have been taken from the tomb. The monument was in its present state when Thomas Fagan (1845-8) visited it in 1847. He recorded that many stones had been removed from it within local memory. The surviving stones, clearly the remains of a megalithic tomb, may represent the Nand S sides of a chamber. Fagan 1845-8, book 15, 30; Ó Nualláin 1983a, 44, no. 119 (plan); SMR 1987, 104:10; Ó Nualláin 1989, 142; RMP 1995, 104:10. 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)

• DG104-018 Enclosure
  Description

  In pasture, located on a gentle S-facing slope on the top of a ridge, in undulating, hilly limestone terrain. Circular area (19.5m N-S; 20m E-W) defined by a stone bank (Wth 2-2.5m; H 0.3m) which is evident as a low, sod- and moss-covered rise. On the N (upslope) half of the enclosure, the stone bank is almost flush with exterior ground level but has a broad internal slump, reflecting the natural slope. At SE-SW the stone bank is overlain by a field wall/property boundary. The interior has a gentle slope from N down to S. A low area or gap (Wth c. 3m) in the stone bank at SE may indicate the original entrance. Remnants of a field boundary, visible as a slight grass-covered rise (Wth c. 1-1.2m), extend to E-ENE from the E side of the enclosure. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 18 May 2015

• DG104-019 Enclosure
  Description

  In pasture, in hilly limestone terrain, located on a spur of elevated ground defined at W-NW by a fall of ground into a wet, boggy valley. Subcircular or broadly oval area (20m E-W; 16.5m N-S) defined by remnants of a wall or bank which is evident as a barely discernible, grass-covered rise. There is a break (Wth 4-5m) at SSE–S. At SW–W the bank/wall coincides with the break of slope at the edge of the ridge where the ground slopes down into the valley. At NW it appears to be overlain by a later, now ruined, field wall. A cashel (DG104-009----) is located 240m to E. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 18 May 2015

• DG104-020 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  In rocky pasture, located at the W edge of a limestone ridge, where ground falls abruptly giving excellent views SW-NW over lower-lying undulating pasture, with an expanse of marsh at NW. A gently undulating plateau of karst extends to N and E of the cashel, overlooked by higher hills at N and at ESE. Circular area (20m N-S; c. 19m E-W) enclosed by the collapsed and robbed-out remnants of a drystone wall. The wall is evident as a very low, moss-covered stone bank or spread, varying in width from c. 3m at N-NE to c. 5-6m at SE. A short section of more clearly defined wall footings at E suggests that the original width of the wall may have been c. 2m. At SW-NW the curve of the external wall face coincides with the natural break of slope at the W edge of the ridge. The remnants of a later N-S field wall overlie the cashel wall here. There are very low areas or breaks in the wall at S (Wth 1m) and at NW (Wth 2m). Another gap at E is now partly blocked by a rectangular stone-built vernacular structure (4m E-W, c. 5m N-S) which is built into the external rubble face of the cashel wall. A low bank (Wth c. 1- 1.5m) of loose rubble/large stones lies 3m outside the cashel wall, curving from SE-S and intersecting at SW with an extant field wall. It is not clear if this is the remnants of an external cashel wall, or merely a later field wall that respected the curve of the cashel. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 18 May 2015

Architectural heritage

• Carricknahorna Orange Hall, Orange Hall, 1900–1910 · Regional interest
  Description

  Attached two-bay single-storey gable-fronted former parochial hall, dated 1906, having bellcote over the north gable end (added 1919) crowned with pyramidal coping with detail course and with ball finial over, and with single-storey former Masonic lodge (see 40910416) attached to the west elevation. Pitched natural slate roof having raised verge over the north gable end having kneeler stone detail at eaves level with incised star motifs, cast-iron rainwater goods, and with corbelled eaves course. Roughcast rendered walls over projecting smooth rendered plinth course with smooth rendered ruled-and-lined pilaster strips to the corners and between bays to the west elevation. Smooth rendered eaves course with ‘peg’-type rendered corbels to the north, south and west elevations. Smooth rendered ruled-and-lined strips to the corners of projecting bellcote having rendered stringcourses. Recessed paired round-headed window openings to the west side elevation having continuous stone sill, openings now blocked. Round-headed window opening to the south gable end having leaded stained glass window. Round-headed opening to bellcote at belfry level with remnants of former bell mechanism and pulley system below. Round-headed door opening to the east side of projecting bellcote to the north elevation having flanking fluted pilasters over plinth blocks with corbels over supporting open bed segmental-pediment/hood over. Timber panelled door with stone steps. Plaque over door inscribed ‘Carricknahorna Parochial (overwriting ‘Orange’) Hall A.D. 1906. R. Lowry Architect, D.Corscadden and R. Lowry Builders’. Set slightly back from road with west side elevation aligned along with road-alignment. Rubble stone boundary wall to the rear (south). Located in the rural landscape to the north-east of Ballyshannon and to the south-east of Ballintra.

• Carricknahorna Masonic Hall, Orange Hall, masonic lodge/hall, 1900–1920 · Regional interest
  Description

  Attached gable-fronted single-storey Masonic hall on L-shaped plan, built in 1906 or 1919. Attached to the west side of Carricknahorna Orange hall (see 40910409). Pitched natural slate roofs having raised verge over the north gable end of advanced bay and to the east elevation having gable-fronted blocks to either end with incised star motifs, scrolled corbels/kneeler stones at eaves level to north elevation, cast-iron rainwater goods, and with corbelled eaves course to the main elevation. Tapered smooth rendered chimneystack with terracotta pots over to the west end of recessed bay. Roughcast rendered walls over projecting smooth rendered plinth course with smooth rendered ruled-and-lined pilaster strips to the corners of the advanced bay to north. Smooth rendered eaves course with ‘peg’-type rendered corbels to the north elevations; smooth rendered sill course to advanced bay. Raised rendered Masonic ‘square and compass’ motif to gable apex of advanced bay. Smooth rendered ruled-and-line walls to the west elevation of advanced bay. Square-headed window opening to advanced bay having smooth rendered surround and stone sill; opening now blocked. Roundel opening over window opening having smooth render surround. Square-headed doorway to the west elevation of advanced bay having timber panelled door. Roughcast rendered wall to the west side of advanced bay, enclosing small yard, having smooth rendered plinth course and with cut stone coping over. Pedestrian gateway within wall comprising a pair of smooth rendered ruled-and-lined gate piers (on square-plan) having moulded cut stone capstones with ball finials over, and with wrought-iron gate with cast-iron fleur-de-lys-type finials. Set slightly back from road with Carricknahorna Orange Hall (see 40910409) adjoining to the west. Located in the rural landscape to the north-east of Ballyshannon and to the south-east of Ballintra.

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 20 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 Carricknahorna.

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 Carricknahorna with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Carricknahorna

Area

9,501,166 m² (950.12 ha, 2,347.79 acres)

Civil parish

Kilbarron, and its townlands

Barony

Tirhugh

Electoral division

Cavangarden, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Cavangarden electoral division: 464 people in 153 households; 90% of households own their home; 40% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cashelard, Croaghbreesy, Garvanagh, Laheen, Tober

Placenames

Carricknahorna 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.