# Carrowbeg, Co. Donegal: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Lower Moville, barony of Inishowen East, Co. Donegal. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,868,328 m² (186.83 ha, 461.67 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 44 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,450 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Lower Moville, https://everytownland.com/donegal/parish/lower-moville.md - Barony: Inishowen East - Electoral division: Turmone, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Donegal, https://everytownland.com/donegal.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/15398 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 50508 - Centre: latitude 55.259536, longitude -7.056401 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 44 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carrowbeg, from 15 m² to 361,820 m² (36.18 ha, 89.41 acres); 53 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1318106: 361,820 m² (36.18 ha, 89.41 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1318106.md - Parcel 1395716: 204,515 m² (20.45 ha, 50.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1395716.md - Parcel 1330702: 182,640 m² (18.26 ha, 45.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1330702.md - Parcel 3664302: 161,214 m² (16.12 ha, 39.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3664302.md - Parcel 1355414: 147,157 m² (14.72 ha, 36.36 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1355414.md - Parcel 1343902: 127,840 m² (12.78 ha, 31.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1343902.md - Parcel 1318028: 97,489 m² (9.75 ha, 24.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1318028.md - Parcel 1343741: 91,150 m² (9.11 ha, 22.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1343741.md - Parcel 1356534: 91,002 m² (9.1 ha, 22.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1356534.md - Parcel 1361079: 73,734 m² (7.37 ha, 18.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1361079.md - Parcel 1343761: 71,948 m² (7.19 ha, 17.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1343761.md - Parcel 1344192: 70,845 m² (7.08 ha, 17.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1344192.md - Parcel 3664301: 64,228 m² (6.42 ha, 15.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3664301.md - Parcel 1339480: 50,789 m² (5.08 ha, 12.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1339480.md - Parcel 1306870: 36,030 m² (3.6 ha, 8.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1306870.md - Parcel 1344193: 30,251 m² (3.03 ha, 7.48 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1344193.md - Parcel 1343901: 24,621 m² (2.46 ha, 6.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1343901.md - Parcel 1355413: 11,784 m² (1.18 ha, 2.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1355413.md - Parcel 1307127: 10,749 m² (1.07 ha, 2.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1307127.md - Parcel 1357994: 5,377 m² (0.54 ha, 1.33 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1357994.md - Parcel 1354434: 3,786 m² (0.38 ha, 0.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1354434.md - Parcel 1311232: 2,768 m² (0.28 ha, 0.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1311232.md - Parcel 1524065: 2,132 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1524065.md - Parcel 5245440: 2,112 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5245440.md - Parcel 1307726: 1,986 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1307726.md - Parcel 1399541: 1,693 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1399541.md - Parcel 1308765: 1,684 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1308765.md - Parcel 5816645: 1,683 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5816645.md - Parcel 3664303: 1,574 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3664303.md - Parcel 1427457: 1,400 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1427457.md - Parcel 1311922: 1,113 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1311922.md - Parcel 1524066: 915 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1524066.md - Parcel 1401954: 883 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1401954.md - Parcel 2429049: 554 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2429049.md - Parcel 1318092: 520 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1318092.md - Parcel 1350107: 412 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1350107.md - Parcel 4612621: 339 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4612621.md - Parcel 5245439: 317 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5245439.md - Parcel 1403781: 292 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1403781.md - Parcel 1312659: 145 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1312659.md - Parcel 1343762: 127 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1343762.md - Parcel 1346510: 53 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1346510.md - Parcel 1317953: 23 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1317953.md - Parcel 5245438: 15 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5245438.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 2 applications, newest first. - 19 Sept 2025, Donegal County Council 2561626: Conditional. Outline permission. DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, ENTRANCE, INSTALLATION OF WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2561626/0 - 30 Jul 2024, Donegal County Council 2450192: N/a. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2450192/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: North Inishowen Coast SAC, site code 002012, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/002012 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - DG012-016: Children's burial ground, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDG012-016----. 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. 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) - Carrowbeg National School, school, 1870–1875, Regional interest, registry number 40901251, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=DG®no=40901251. 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. ## 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 Carrowbeg, 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 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 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/carrowbeg.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/donegal/carrowbeg.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/donegal/carrowbeg.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Carrowbeg 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) - Ballycharry: https://everytownland.com/donegal/ballycharry.md - Ballymagaraghy: https://everytownland.com/donegal/ballymagaraghy.md - Carrowmenagh: https://everytownland.com/donegal/carrowmenagh.md - Drumaville: https://everytownland.com/donegal/drumaville-50993.md - Meenletterbale: https://everytownland.com/donegal/meenletterbale.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/carrowbeg - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/donegal/carrowbeg