# Carrigans, Co. Donegal: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Killea, barony of Raphoe North, Co. Donegal; in Irish An Carraigín. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 338,520 m² (33.85 ha, 83.65 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 54 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 467 m² - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 9 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Killea, https://everytownland.com/donegal/parish/killea.md - Barony: Raphoe North - Electoral division: Killea, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Donegal, https://everytownland.com/donegal.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/15276 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 50505 - Centre: latitude 54.955043, longitude -7.429078 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 54 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carrigans, from 54 m² to 234,344 m² (23.43 ha, 57.91 acres); 11 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1331784: 234,344 m² (23.43 ha, 57.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1331784.md - Parcel 1322917: 11,571 m² (1.16 ha, 2.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1322917.md - Parcel 3657713: 7,119 m² (0.71 ha, 1.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3657713.md - Parcel 1393933: 5,232 m² (0.52 ha, 1.29 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1393933.md - Parcel 3105699: 4,699 m² (0.47 ha, 1.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3105699.md - Parcel 5200769: 2,563 m² (0.26 ha, 0.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5200769.md - Parcel 4632762: 2,427 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4632762.md - Parcel 1366924: 2,185 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1366924.md - Parcel 3105719: 2,001 m² (0.2 ha, 0.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3105719.md - Parcel 5521400: 1,428 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5521400.md - Parcel 4633571: 1,020 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4633571.md - Parcel 1324058: 979 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1324058.md - Parcel 4632828: 866 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4632828.md - Parcel 5367571: 765 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5367571.md - Parcel 5885938: 657 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5885938.md - Parcel 5478023: 618 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5478023.md - Parcel 4941174: 587 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4941174.md - Parcel 1405645: 580 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1405645.md - Parcel 1337772: 575 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1337772.md - Parcel 4632849: 574 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4632849.md - Parcel 4912298: 562 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4912298.md - Parcel 5140848: 552 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5140848.md - Parcel 1321523: 528 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1321523.md - Parcel 4930816: 502 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4930816.md - Parcel 3013887: 488 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3013887.md - Parcel 1336298: 485 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1336298.md - Parcel 1421898: 475 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1421898.md - Parcel 4753975: 458 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4753975.md - Parcel 1427935: 447 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1427935.md - Parcel 1369250: 436 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1369250.md - Parcel 4656829: 422 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4656829.md - Parcel 4633910: 415 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4633910.md - Parcel 3013882: 410 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3013882.md - Parcel 1391321: 401 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1391321.md - Parcel 1388892: 381 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1388892.md - Parcel 5059751: 374 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5059751.md - Parcel 1408936: 374 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1408936.md - Parcel 1352678: 371 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1352678.md - Parcel 4715779: 366 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4715779.md - Parcel 4633918: 345 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4633918.md - Parcel 4991885: 311 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4991885.md - Parcel 4633913: 306 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4633913.md - Parcel 4633870: 291 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4633870.md - Parcel 5691008: 262 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5691008.md - Parcel 4988891: 249 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4988891.md - Parcel 6060846: 234 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6060846.md - Parcel 4885937: 153 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4885937.md - Parcel 4747646: 133 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4747646.md - Parcel 4988889: 128 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4988889.md - Parcel 5894847: 122 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5894847.md - Parcel 5894829: 104 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5894829.md - Parcel 5059749: 94 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5059749.md - Parcel 5209737: 69 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5209737.md - Parcel 1399169: 54 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1399169.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 9 applications, newest first. - 2 Apr 2025, Donegal County Council 2560482: Conditional. Permission. (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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560482/0 - 31 Mar 2025, Donegal County Council 2560464: N/a. Permission. (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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560464/0 - 10 Feb 2025, Donegal County Council 2560154: N/a. Permission, 6 homes. (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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560154/0 - 5 Dec 2024, Donegal County Council 2462006: N/a. Permission, 6 homes. (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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2462006/0 - 22 Oct 2024, Donegal County Council 2461677: N/a. Permission, 6 homes. (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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2461677/0 - 1 Sept 2024, Donegal County Council 2461332: Refused. Retention. ERECTION OF A STEEL FRAMED DOMESTIC SHED AT THE REAR OF DWELLING. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2461332/0 - 11 Mar 2024, Donegal County Council 2460298: N/a. Retention. STEEL FRAMED DOMESTIC SHED AT THE REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460298/0 - 10 Jan 2018, Donegal County Council 1850012: Conditional. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1850012/0 - 22 Nov 2017, Donegal County Council 1751754: N/a. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1751754/0 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 - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: River Foyle, Mongavlin To Carrigans, site code 002067 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - DG055-022: Castle - unclassified, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDG055-022----. 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 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) - St. Fiach's Church of Ireland Church, church/chapel, 1763–1768, Regional interest, registry number 40828001, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=DG®no=40828001. 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. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - 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: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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 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/carrigans.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/donegal/carrigans.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/donegal/carrigans.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Carrigans 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) - Cloghfin: https://everytownland.com/donegal/cloghfin-50643.md - Dunmore: https://everytownland.com/donegal/dunmore-51175.md - Magheraboy: https://everytownland.com/donegal/magheraboy-51831.md - Toberslane: https://everytownland.com/donegal/toberslane.md - Tonagh: https://everytownland.com/donegal/tonagh.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/carrigans - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/donegal/carrigans