# Carrowcashel, Co. Donegal: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Aughnish, barony of Kilmacrenan, Co. Donegal.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,168,358 m² (116.84 ha, 288.71 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 7,723 m² (0.77 ha, 1.91 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 3 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Aughnish, https://everytownland.com/donegal/parish/aughnish.md
- Barony: Kilmacrenan
- Electoral division: Rathmelton, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Rathmelton electoral division: 2,494 people in 938 households; 71% of households own their home; 42% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.
- County: Co. Donegal, https://everytownland.com/donegal.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/15981
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 50513
- Centre: latitude 55.012032, longitude -7.618627 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carrowcashel, from 313 m² to 263,331 m² (26.33 ha, 65.07 acres); 24 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 1409604: 263,331 m² (26.33 ha, 65.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1409604.md
- Parcel 1404197: 210,107 m² (21.01 ha, 51.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1404197.md
- Parcel 1377872: 137,323 m² (13.73 ha, 33.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1377872.md
- Parcel 1377873: 91,284 m² (9.13 ha, 22.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1377873.md
- Parcel 5166494: 72,799 m² (7.28 ha, 17.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5166494.md
- Parcel 5910492: 59,089 m² (5.91 ha, 14.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5910492.md
- Parcel 1376008: 51,558 m² (5.16 ha, 12.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1376008.md
- Parcel 1346772: 39,478 m² (3.95 ha, 9.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1346772.md
- Parcel 1369936: 28,546 m² (2.85 ha, 7.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1369936.md
- Parcel 1412983: 24,421 m² (2.44 ha, 6.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1412983.md
- Parcel 1409981: 9,775 m² (0.98 ha, 2.42 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1409981.md
- Parcel 1329839: 8,837 m² (0.88 ha, 2.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1329839.md
- Parcel 1405694: 6,608 m² (0.66 ha, 1.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1405694.md
- Parcel 1428520: 6,315 m² (0.63 ha, 1.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1428520.md
- Parcel 1403199: 5,028 m² (0.5 ha, 1.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1403199.md
- Parcel 1335493: 4,390 m² (0.44 ha, 1.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1335493.md
- Parcel 1370727: 4,055 m² (0.41 ha, 1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1370727.md
- Parcel 1321648: 3,820 m² (0.38 ha, 0.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1321648.md
- Parcel 4749698: 3,318 m² (0.33 ha, 0.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4749698.md
- Parcel 3664050: 3,138 m² (0.31 ha, 0.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3664050.md
- Parcel 1336353: 2,510 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1336353.md
- Parcel 1326291: 2,483 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1326291.md
- Parcel 1409980: 426 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1409980.md
- Parcel 1333660: 313 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1333660.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

No zone of a development plan covers Carrowcashel 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)

3 applications, newest first.

- 24 Feb 2025, Donegal County Council 2560240: Conditional. Retention, 1 home. DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE / STORE AND PERMISSION FOR DEMOLITION OF A PART TWO STOREY PART STOREY AND A HALF DWELLING DUE TO THE PRESENCE OF DEFECTIVE CONCRETE BLOCKS AND CONSTRUCTION OF A NEWLY DESIGNED REPLACEMENT PART TWO STOREY PART STOREY AND A HALF DWELLING WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING SITE SERVICES INCLUDING ALL SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560240/0
- 7 Feb 2024, Donegal County Council 2460100: Conditional. Permission. ERECTION OF AGRICULTURAL SHED WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460100/0
- 1 Dec 2023, Donegal County Council 2351848: Conditional. Retention. HORSE TRAINING PADDOCK. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2351848/0

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## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

- Special Area of Conservation: Lough Swilly SAC, site code 002287, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/002287
- Special Protection Area: Lough Swilly SPA, site code 004075, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/spa/004075
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Swilly Including Big Isle, Blanket Nook & Inch Lake, site code 000166

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- DG046-018: Standing stone, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDG046-018----. There is no trace of the 'Standing Stone' marked on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map. Situated on level arable land close to the shore of Lough Swilly. 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
- DG046-019: Souterrain, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDG046-019----. An 11m stretch of souterrain aligned NNW-SSE is open here. It is partly filled with clay and stones and is now only 1.2m in height. It is 1.6m wide at its NNW opening but 1m from the present end, narrows to .5m. The walls are mainly of drystone construction but the lower sections appear to be rock-cut. The roof is composed of slabstones. The end consists of a clay and stone bank and it is not clear if the passage extended further. 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
- DG046-034: Anomalous stone group, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDG046-034----. Depicted on the current edition of the Ordnance Survey 6-inch map in gothic script as 'Friar's Seat' and partially hachured as a cliff-face. The potential monument has not been visited and it is possible that this could be a geological feature rather than a natural feature. Described in 1886 as 'on a crag, a little to the N. W. of the abbey, is a flat stone called the "Friar's Seat" ' (Kinahan 1886, 424). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload/revision: : 17 November 2011

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)

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Carrowcashel.

## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland)

- Radon: 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: Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Carrowcashel.
- 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/carrowcashel.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/donegal/carrowcashel.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/donegal/carrowcashel.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Carrowcashel 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)

- Ardrumman: https://everytownland.com/donegal/ardrumman.md
- Carnhill: https://everytownland.com/donegal/carnhill.md
- Glenleary: https://everytownland.com/donegal/glenleary.md
- Killydonnell: https://everytownland.com/donegal/killydonnell.md
- Prablin: https://everytownland.com/donegal/prablin.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.

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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.

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