# Carrickshandrum, Co. Donegal: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Donaghmore, barony of Raphoe South, Co. Donegal. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 751,360 m² (75.14 ha, 185.67 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 27 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 3,624 m² (0.36 ha, 0.9 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Donaghmore, https://everytownland.com/donegal/parish/donaghmore.md - Barony: Raphoe South - Electoral division: Gleneely, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Gleneely electoral division: 1,672 people in 557 households; 89% of households own their home; 41% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Donegal, https://everytownland.com/donegal.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/16393 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 50502 - Centre: latitude 54.796669, longitude -7.721034 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 27 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carrickshandrum, from 208 m² to 148,993 m² (14.9 ha, 36.82 acres); 5 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1359906: 148,993 m² (14.9 ha, 36.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1359906.md - Parcel 1359953: 102,008 m² (10.2 ha, 25.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1359953.md - Parcel 1301479: 88,509 m² (8.85 ha, 21.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1301479.md - Parcel 1362723: 76,998 m² (7.7 ha, 19.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1362723.md - Parcel 1352986: 66,038 m² (6.6 ha, 16.32 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1352986.md - Parcel 1359908: 64,082 m² (6.41 ha, 15.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1359908.md - Parcel 1303435: 53,454 m² (5.35 ha, 13.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1303435.md - Parcel 1362724: 36,359 m² (3.64 ha, 8.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1362724.md - Parcel 1524196: 32,538 m² (3.25 ha, 8.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1524196.md - Parcel 1303437: 28,312 m² (2.83 ha, 7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1303437.md - Parcel 1524197: 17,083 m² (1.71 ha, 4.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1524197.md - Parcel 1359909: 4,607 m² (0.46 ha, 1.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1359909.md - Parcel 1329759: 3,930 m² (0.39 ha, 0.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1329759.md - Parcel 1388775: 3,624 m² (0.36 ha, 0.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1388775.md - Parcel 4823444: 3,098 m² (0.31 ha, 0.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4823444.md - Parcel 3661292: 2,714 m² (0.27 ha, 0.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3661292.md - Parcel 1414841: 2,551 m² (0.26 ha, 0.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1414841.md - Parcel 1410595: 2,493 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1410595.md - Parcel 1366482: 2,373 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1366482.md - Parcel 1366498: 2,198 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1366498.md - Parcel 1305371: 2,090 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1305371.md - Parcel 1375032: 2,014 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1375032.md - Parcel 1321447: 1,484 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1321447.md - Parcel 1402509: 1,447 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1402509.md - Parcel 1378594: 1,198 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1378594.md - Parcel 1386745: 785 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1386745.md - Parcel 3661293: 208 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3661293.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Carrickshandrum in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 2 applications, newest first. - 12 Sept 2025, Donegal County Council 2561567: Conditional. Retention. DETACHED GARAGE / STORAGE SHED AND PERMISSION FOR RETENTION AND COMPLETION OF A NEW VEHICULAR ENTRANCE TO SERVICE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, WORKS SHALL INCLUDE CLOSING EXISTING APPROVED VEHICULAR ENTRANCE AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2561567/0 - 9 Dec 2019, Donegal County Council 1951911: Conditional. Permission. DEVELOPMENT OF A VEHICULAR ENTRANCE INTO AGRICULTURAL LANDS AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1951911/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: River Finn SAC, site code 002301, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/002301 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - DG078-028: Ringfort - unclassified, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDG078-028----. There is no trace of the 'Fort' marked on the 1st and 2nd editions of the OS 6-inch map. It was situated in gently rolling good pasture with good views along the Finn Valley. 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 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Carrickshandrum. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: Susceptibility 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 Carrickshandrum. - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/donegal/carrickshandrum.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/donegal/carrickshandrum.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/donegal/carrickshandrum.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Carrickshandrum with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal: https://everytownland.com/donegal.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Carn: https://everytownland.com/donegal/carn-50433.md - Carricknamanna: https://everytownland.com/donegal/carricknamanna.md - Cavan Lower: https://everytownland.com/donegal/cavan-lower.md - Drumavish: https://everytownland.com/donegal/drumavish.md - Kilcaddan: https://everytownland.com/donegal/kilcaddan.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/donegal/carrickshandrum - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/donegal/carrickshandrum