Carrigans

54 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carrigans, from 54 m² to 234,344 m² (23.43 ha, 57.91 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 11 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Carrigans 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.

• 2 Apr 2025Conditional

  (1) RENOVATIONS AND ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING DERELICT DWELLING INCLUDING REPLACEMENT ROOF, (2) CONSTRUCTION OF (A) PART STOREY AND A HALF, PART SINGLE STOREY CONTEMPORARY EXTENSION TO THE REAR OF THE EXISTING DERELICT DWELLING AND (B) SINGLE STOREY DETACHED CARPORT AND DOMESTIC GARAGE/STORE IN REAR GARDEN AREA AND (3) CONNECTION TO EXISTING PUBLIC SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2560482

• 31 Mar 2025N/a

  (1) RENOVATIONS AND ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING DERELICT DWELLING INCLUDING REPLACEMENT ROOF, (2) CONSTRUCTION OF (A) PART STOREY AND A HALF, PART SINGLE STOREY CONTEMPORARY EXTENSION TO THE REAR OF THE EXISTING DERELICT DWELLING AND (B) SINGLE STOREY DETACHED CARPORT AND DOMESTIC GARAGE/STORE IN REAR GARDEN AREA AND (3) CONNECTION TO EXISTING PUBLIC SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2560464

• 10 Feb 2025N/a

  (1) CONSTRUCTION OF 6 NO. SEMI-DETACHED DWELLING HOUSES, (2) EXTENSION OF EXISTING SERVICE ROADWAY AND (3) EXTENSION AND CONNECTION TO ALL MAIN SERVICES ON SITE, BOUNDARY TREATMENTS AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 6 homes · Donegal County Council, 2560154

• 5 Dec 2024N/a

  (1) CONSTRUCTION OF 6 NO. SEMI-DETACHED DWELLING HOUSES, (2) EXTENSION OF EXISTING SERVICE ROADWAY AND (3) EXTENSION AND CONNECTION TO ALL MAIN SERVICES ON SITE, BOUNDARY TREATMENTS AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 6 homes · Donegal County Council, 2462006

• 22 Oct 2024N/a

  (1) CONSTRUCTION OF 6 NO. SEMI-DETACHED DWELLING HOUSES, (2) EXTENSION OF EXISTING SERVICE ROADWAY AND (3) EXTENSION AND CONNECTION TO ALL MAIN SERVICES ON SITE, BOUNDARY TREATMENTS AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 6 homes · Donegal County Council, 2461677

• 1 Sept 2024Refused

  ERECTION OF A STEEL FRAMED DOMESTIC SHED AT THE REAR OF DWELLING

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2461332

• 11 Mar 2024N/a

  STEEL FRAMED DOMESTIC SHED AT THE REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2460298

• 10 Jan 2018Conditional

  DEVELOPMENT CONSISTING OF RESTORATION OF FARM BUILDINGS AND DEVELOPMENT OF FACILITIES TO HOST WEDDINGS AND OTHER TEMPORARY EVENTS WITHIN THE CURTILAGE OF A PROTECTED STRUCTURE (REG. NO. 40905503), INCLUDING A TEMPORARY MARQUEE STRUCTURE; CHANGE OF USE OF FORMER BARN TO TEMPORARY LICENSED BAR AND DANCE FLOOR; CONVERSION OF PUMP HOUSE AND OUTBUILDING TO LAVATORY ACCOMMODATION; PROVISION OF ADDITIONAL TEMPORARY UNISEX WC FACILITY; PLUS ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS INCLUDING RENEWAL OF WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM, CAR PARKING WITHIN FARM YARD AREA AND LANDSCAPING

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1850012

• 22 Nov 2017N/a

  DEVELOPMENT CONSISTING OF RESTORATION OF FARM BUILDINGS AND DEVELOPMENT OF FACILITIES TO HOST WEDDINGS AND OTHER TEMPORARY EVENTS WITHIN THE CURTILAGE OF A PROTECTED STRUCTURE (REG. NO. 40905503), INCLUDING A TEMPORARY MARQUEE STRUCTURE; CHANGE OF USE OF FORMER BARN TO TEMPORARY LICENSED BAR AND DANCE FLOOR; CONVERSION OF PUMP HOUSE AND OUTBUILDING TO LAVATORY ACCOMMODATION; PROVISION OF ADDITIONAL TEMPORARY UNISEX WC FACILITY; PLUS ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS INCLUDING RENEWAL OF WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM, CAR PARKING WITHIN FARM YARD AREA AND LANDSCAPING

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1751754

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: River Finn SAC 002301
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: River Foyle, Mongavlin To Carrigans 002067

Recorded monuments

• DG055-022 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  Carrigans Castle: Marked on Mercator's map of 1580, this castle was built by O'Donnell and occupied by his mother until 1600. It was sold by Chichester to Sir Ralph Bingley in 1610 but the former did not have proper title and Bingley was dispossessed. No visible trace of this castle survives and its exact location is unknown (Davies and Swan 1939, 197-8). 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

• St. Fiach's Church of Ireland Church, church/chapel, 1763–1768 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding Church of Ireland church, built 1765; repaired c. 1830, extended 1856 and altered 1900, comprising three-bay double-height nave with shallow projecting chancel to the east (added 1856), single-bay single-storey entrance porch to the west gable end (added 1856), and with single-bay single-storey vestry attached to the south-east corner of nave (c. 1856). Modern boiler\plant room attached to the south elevation of porch. Pitched artificial slate roof to nave having terracotta ridge tiles, and with smooth rendered bellcote to the gable apex to the west end having bell metal bell and metal pull mechanism. Pitched natural slate roof to porch and to chancel having terracotta ridge tiles, and mono-pitched natural slate roof to vestry. Cast-iron rainwater goods to chancel, vestry and porch; gutters supported on carved stone modillions to vestry. Smooth rendered ruled-and-lined walls to nave and porch; random coursed rubble stone walls with splayed tooled ashlar stone quoins to chancel and vestry; modern lined-and-ruled cement rendered bellcote to west gable with flat concrete coping; chamfered rendered plinth to nave, rubble stone plinth with chamfered tooled ashlar stone coping to chancel and vestry. Round-headed window openings to side elevations of nave having cast-iron quarry-glazed windows with timber Y-tracery, smooth rendered reveals and cut stone sills; paired round-headed window openings to the south elevation of vestry having fixed-frame windows with cast-iron diamond-shaped and margin-light glass panes, splayed ashlar stone block-and-start reveals, and cut stone sills; Three graded round-headed window openings to the chancel gable, added 1900, having flush chamfered ashlar surrounds and sills, and with leaded figurative stained glass windows. Pointed-arched window opening to the west elevation of porch having painted splayed rendered surround and sill, and with fixed-frame cast-iron quarry-glazed window. Pointed-arched door opening to the north elevation of porch having chamfered rendered cut stone reveals, cut stone plinth blocks, and with replacement timber door. Shouldered door opening to the west elevation of vestry having chamfered cut stone surround, ashlar stone threshold, and with battened timber door. Cast-iron roof trusses to interior with timber panelling to chancel, and with timber pews and wall memorials. Set back from road in irregular site to the east end of Carrigans. Graveyard to site having collection of memorials of mainly upstanding type dating from late-eighteenth century to c. 2007. Table and recumbent-type gravemarkers to site. Roughcast rendered and rubble stone boundary walls to site. Pedestrian gateway to the north-west corner of site comprising a pair of roughcast rendered rubble stone gate piers (on square-plan) having capstones over, and with wrought-iron gate. Gateway to the north of site (serving former school) comprising a pair of cast-iron gate posts with decorative wrought-iron gate. Detached three-bay single-storey former school (on L-shaped plan) to the north of site, now in use as a church hall.

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

At the centre of the townland of Carrigans, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Carrigans with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Carrigans · An Carraigín

Area

338,520 m² (33.85 ha, 83.65 acres)

Civil parish

Killea, and its townlands

Barony

Raphoe North

Electoral division

Killea, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,802 people lived in 681 households in the Killea electoral division. 80% of households owned their home. 49% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cloghfin, Dunmore, Magheraboy, Toberslane, Tonagh

Placenames

Carrigans 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.