Carrowen

43 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carrowen, from 180 m² to 369,140 m² (36.91 ha, 91.22 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 15 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Carrowen 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.

• 23 Mar 2026Conditional

  (1) RETENTION OF DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS AND (2) CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE PREVIOUSLY APPROVED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 06/70412 AND PLANNING EXEMPTIONS AND NON-MATERIAL CHANGES PERMITTED UNDER DCB SCHEME REF. DCB25.46

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2660477

• 16 Sept 2024Conditional

  RETENTION AND COMPLETION OF DOMESTIC EXTENSION TO REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING AND ALL ASSOCIATED GROUND WORKS, CHANGES TO EXISTING RIDGE HEIGHT AND EXISTING ELEVATIONS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2461458

• 12 Sept 2024N/a

  (1) CHANGES TO EXISTING RIDGE HEIGHT, (2) CHANGES TO EXISTING ELEVATIONS AND RETENTION AND COMPLETION OF DOMESTIC EXTENSION TO REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING AND ALL ASSORTED GROUND WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2461421

• 20 Dec 2023Conditional

  RENOVATION AND EXTENSION OF EXISTING TWO STOREY DWELLING LISTED ON NIAH WITH REGISTER NUMBER 40904645 INCLUDING (1) DEMOLITION OF SMALL SINGLE STOREY LEAN-TO-EXTENSION TO REAR AND ERECTION OF NEW FLAT ROOF SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION AND (2) CONVERSION OF EXISTING ATTACHED GARAGE TO LIVING ACCOMMODATION AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2351954

• 5 Jul 2023Conditional

  ERECTION OF A TWO STOREY DWELLING WITH EFFLUENT TREATMENT PLANT, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2350971

• 21 Oct 2022N/a

  ERECTION OF A 2 STOREY DWELLING WITH EFFLUENT TREATMENT PLANT AND DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2251753

• 14 Feb 2022N/a

  PERMISSION FOR ERECTION OF FENCING AND FARM GATES

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2250234

• 10 Jul 2017Conditional

  ERECTION OF A 2 STOREY DWELLING WITH EFFLUENT TREATMENT PLANT AND DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1751097

• 17 Feb 2017Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK WITH PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1750217

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: Lough Swilly SAC 002287
• Special Protection Area: Lough Swilly SPA 004075
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Swilly Including Big Isle, Blanket Nook & Inch Lake 000166

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Carrowen.

Architectural heritage

• Carrowen, farm house, 1760–1800 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached seven-bay two-storey farm house, now vacant, built c. 1780, on a rectangular plan with single-storey lean-to extension, built c. 1900, to north and single-storey pitched roof extension to north-east corner and attached single-storey corrugated-metal roofed outbuilding to west. Front elevation partially remodelled c. 1860. Pitched slate roof with corbelled eaves to south and timber fascia board to eaves to north, roll-top red clayware ridge tiles, buff coloured brick chimneystacks to gables and centrally located, all with yellow clay pots, replacement rainwater goods to north, cast-iron to south. smooth rendered ruled-and-lined walls with block-and-start quoins to front and east elevations, unpainted roughcast render to rear and west elevations. Square-headed window openings with smooth rendered reveals and dressed stone sills containing six-over-six hornless and one-over-one horned timber sash windows to front; square-headed window openings to rear with smooth rendered reveals and painted sills containing mainly six-over-six horned and hornless timber sash windows with some early crown glass, one with coloured margins. Segmental-headed door opening containing a timber doorcase with side pilasters with glazed timber fanlight over a timber door and stone threshold. Set back from road along a farm lane with overgrown front garden area; wrought-iron double gates mounted on rendered pillars with pyramidal copings and flanking random rubble walls fronting lane. Rectangular farmyard area to north with outbuildings. Two-storey outbuilding with pitched slate roof, corrugated-metal roofed lean-to to east, grey clayware ridge tiles on random coursed rubble walls, square-headed openings with remains of timber vertically-sheeted shutters and doors.

• Drumgowan, farm house, 1830–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay two-storey with attic farm house, built c. 1845, with single-storey extension with dormer attic to north gable. Pitched artificial slate roof, slate roof to extension, smooth rendered gable ended chimneystacks with cornice coping and replacement rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls with eaves course hidden by wooden facia boards. Square-headed window openings with six-over-six timber sashes and stone sills. Three-centred arch-headed door opening with timber panelled door with glazed fanlight and Doric doorcase surrounds. Set within own grounds with farm buildings to rear, bounded by wooden fence and roughcast rendered walls with double leaf cast-iron gates mounted on pointed stone piers with pyramidal coping to south. Complex of contemporaneous single and two-storey outbuildings to rear, with pitched slate roofs and rubble stone walls, greatly augmented with modern farm buildings.

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

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are made ground.

Terrain model

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

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Carrowen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Carrowen

Area

1,789,494 m² (178.95 ha, 442.19 acres)

Civil parish

Burt, and its townlands

Barony

Inishowen West

Electoral division

Burt, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Burt electoral division: 1,333 people in 494 households; 78% of households own their home; 40% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballymoney, Grange, Inch Level, Mulleny

Placenames

Carrowen 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.