Carrowbeg

44 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carrowbeg, from 15 m² to 361,820 m² (36.18 ha, 89.41 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 53 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 Carrowbeg 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.

• 19 Sept 2025Conditional

  DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, ENTRANCE, INSTALLATION OF WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS

  Outline permission · Donegal County Council, 2561626

• 30 Jul 2024N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY BUILDING WITH A KITCHEN, TOILETS, SHOWERS, LAUNDRY AND STORAGE (115M2) FOR A RETREAT FACILITY FOR GROUP WELLNESS/YOGA/CREATIVE ACTIVITIES, 20 SOLAR PANELS AND 5 NO. 'BOTHY' TYPE GLAMPING PODS (EACH 16M2) WITH ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS FOR A NEW VEHICULAR ENTRANCE, CAR PARKING, REPLACEMENT/UPGRADE OF AN EXISTING WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT AND LANDSCAPING, ALL AT THE REAR OF THE SITE

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2450192

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: North Inishowen Coast SAC 002012

Recorded monuments

• DG012-016 Children's burial ground
  Description

  There are no surface indications of the 'Children's Burial Ground' at this point. It was situated in generally poor land overlooking Tremone Bay to the N. 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 Excavation licence number 01E0451 Monitoring of groundworks associated with a housing development took place on 31 May and 1 June 2001 at Ballymagaraghy townland, Carrowmenagh, Co. Donegal. The development consisted of the construction of three holiday dwellings and a biofilter package sewerage treatment plant. The proposed development is at the top of a steep, north-facing slope on the shore of Tremone Bay, on the north-east coast of the Inishowen Peninsula. The nearest monument to the development site was a children's burial-ground, RMP 12:16, 60m to the west. A number of outhouses were recently demolished on the development site. The area of the housing development measured 36m west-north-west/east-south-east by up to 12m wide. Most of this area was excavated for foundations, which were 0.7-2.1m deep. The biofilter treatment plant was located c. 40m to the north-west and was 3.2m east-west, 1.8m wide and up to 1.2m deep. The stratigraphy encountered during excavation of the foundations consisted of rubble and topsoil on the surface, above rubble fill, a mortar floor, orange/brown natural subsoil and bedrock. The stratigraphy at the site of the biofilter treatment plant was topsoil on the surface above rust-coloured natural subsoil. The rubble, rubble fill and mortar floor were the remains of the outhouses recently demolished on the site. The topsoil, rubble and rubble fill contained modern artefacts. (Excavations Bulletin 2001) Richard Crumlish, Archaeological Services Unit Ltd, Purcell House, Claregalway Road, Oranmore, Co. Galway.

Architectural heritage

• Carrowbeg National School, school, 1870–1875 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey former national school, dated 1873, on T-plan, with gabled projection to front elevation, now in use as house. Hipped slate roof, pitched to gabled projection with ashlar sandstone gable coping, yellow brick on stretcher bond chimneystack with brick stringcourse and chamfered ashlar coping, replacement rainwater-goods. Roughly squared uncoursed limestone walls with tooled ashlar limestone block-and-start quoins and plinth. Dated sandstone plaque to front reading ‘CARROWBEG NATIONAL SCHOOL 1873’. Square-headed window openings with red brick block-and-start surround and arch, ashlar sandstone sills and uPVC windows. Square-headed door opening with red brick block-and-start surround and arch, rendered patent surround, and replacement timber panelled door and ashlar stone threshold. Set within own grounds with random rubble wall to west and timber gate mounted on random rubble gate piers with rendered coping. Random rubble wall dividing former schoolyard to rear with two-bay single-storey former toilet block comprising of flat corrugated-metal roof, limestone rubble walls with red brick dressings, surmounted by ashlar coping. Square-headed door openings with red brick dressings and battened timber door.

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 Carrowbeg, 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Carrowbeg

Area

1,868,328 m² (186.83 ha, 461.67 acres)

Civil parish

Lower Moville, and its townlands

Barony

Inishowen East

Electoral division

Turmone, the unit of the census

Census 2022

316 people lived in 120 households in the Turmone electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 19% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballycharry, Ballymagaraghy, Carrowmenagh, Drumaville, Meenletterbale

Placenames

Carrowbeg 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.