Carroghill
Carroghill is a townland in the civil parish of Mintiaghs or Barr of Inch, barony of Inishowen West, Co. Donegal.
- Area
- 124.4 ha
- 307 acres
- Land parcels
- 54
- registered freehold, median 4,186 m² (0.42 ha, 1.03 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
54 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carroghill, from 83 m² to 1,154,158 m² (115.42 ha, 285.2 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 10 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Carroghill 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
22 Jan 2025Conditional
ERECTION OF SHED TOGETHER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2560066
20 Jul 2021Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH A WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND CONNECTION TO ALL PUBLIC SERVICES
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2151447
17 Aug 2020Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, TREATMENT PLANT AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2051125
23 Dec 2019Refused
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, TREATMENT PLANT AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1952026
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Carroghill.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Carroghill.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Carroghill.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Carroghill, about 1 in 20 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Carroghill.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Carroghill with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Carroghill
- Area
- 1,244,144 m² (124.41 ha, 307.43 acres)
- Civil parish
- Mintiaghs or Barr of Inch, and its townlands
- Barony
- Inishowen West
- Electoral division
- Mintiaghs, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 890 people lived in 283 households in the Mintiaghs electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 38% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballinlough, Glasmullan, Owenboy, Shandrim
- Placenames
- Carroghill 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.