Carrowblagh
Carrowblagh is a townland in the civil parish of Donagh, barony of Inishowen East, Co. Donegal.
- Area
- 976.8 ha
- 2,414 acres
- Land parcels
- 152
- registered freehold, median 13,280 m² (1.33 ha, 3.28 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 39
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
152 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carrowblagh, from 210 m² to 2,119,968 m² (212 ha, 523.86 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 30 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 Carrowblagh 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
25 Sept 2026N/a
ERECTION OF A DWELLING WITH EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2661785
13 Sept 2026N/a
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH EFFLUENT TREATMENT PLANT AND ALL ASSOCIATED SERVICES
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2661692
30 Jul 2026N/a
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH EFFLUENT TREATMENT PLANT AND ALL ASSOCIATED SERVICES
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2661423
18 Jul 2026N/a
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH EFFLUENT TREATMENT PLANT AND DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SERVICES
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2661334
15 Mar 2026Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2660419
30 Jan 2026Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH EFFLUENT TREATMENT PLANT AND ALL ASSOCIATED SERVICES
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2660123
16 Dec 2025Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL DRY SHED
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2562237
3 Oct 2025Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH ON-SITE WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2561723
12 Sept 2025Conditional
DEMOLITION OF EXISTING MICA AFFECTED HOUSE AND CONSTRUCTION OF NEW DWELLING HOUSE, IN A NEW LOCATION WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING SEPTIC TANK ON SITE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2561572
12 Jun 2025Conditional
ERECTION OF A SHEEP HANDLING FACILITY AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2560988
10 Apr 2025Refused
METAL STORAGE CONTAINER AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2560540
18 Mar 2025Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING WITH EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2560375
11 Mar 2025Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING WITH EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2560341
23 Sept 2024Conditional
FIRST FLOOR AND ALTERATIONS TO ELEVATIONS AND PERMISSION FOR (1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING DUE TO DEFECTIVE MICA BLOCKWORK AND (2) ERECTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING AND CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2461500
23 Sept 2024N/a
(1) IMPROVEMENT OF AN EXISTING VEHICULAR ACCESS ONTO THE PUBLIC ROAD, (2) A TIMBER FENCE, (3) AGRICULTURAL STORAGE YARD AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2461494
17 Sept 2024Conditional
ATTIC CONVERSION INCLUDING SKYLIGHTS TO THE FRONT AND A FIRST FLOOR GABLE WINDOW
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2461469
14 Mar 2022Conditional
DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING DUE TO DEFECTIVE MICA BLOCKWORK AND ERECTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2250438
20 Jan 2022Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING WITH EFFLUENT TREATMENT PLANT AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2250049
20 Dec 2021N/a
ERECTION OF A DWELLING WITH EFFLUENT TREATMENT PLANT AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2152558
3 Aug 2021Conditional
(1) ERECTION OF A SUN ROOM TO THE NORTH ELEVATION (2) AMENDMENT OF FIRST FLOOR WINDOW ON NORTH ELEVATION TO ACCOMMODATE SUN ROOM, TO APPROVED PLANS AND ELEVATIONS GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REFERENCE 21/50693
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2151549
19 Jul 2021N/a
DOMESTIC SHED
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2151449
5 Jul 2021Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH CONNECTION TO PROPOSED SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2151336
5 Jul 2021Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING WITH TREATMENT PLANT AND DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH ACCESS VIA EXISTING SHARED ENTRANCE
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2151332
19 Apr 2021Conditional
(1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF: 99/1999 (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING HOUSE WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING SEPTIC TANK GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF: 99/1999
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2150693
22 Jan 2021Conditional
(A) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING & OUT BUILDINGS (B) ERECTION OF A NEW SHEEP SHED
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2150071
The 25 most recent of 39 applications.
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
- Natural Heritage Area: Slieve Snaght Bogs NHA 002322
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Carrowblagh.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Carrowblagh.
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 Carrowblagh, 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, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Carrowblagh.
- 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 Carrowblagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Carrowblagh
- Area
- 9,767,959 m² (976.8 ha, 2,413.72 acres)
- Civil parish
- Donagh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Inishowen East
- Electoral division
- Glentogher, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,240 people lived in 445 households in the Glentogher electoral division. 54% of households owned their home. 43% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Carrowmore or Glentogher, Cashel, Churchland Quarters(Carrowtemple Moneyshandoney and Carrick), Evishbreedy, Meendacalliagh, Owenboy
- Placenames
- Carrowblagh 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.