# Carrowen, Co. Donegal: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Burt, barony of Inishowen West, Co. Donegal. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,789,494 m² (178.95 ha, 442.19 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 43 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 3,318 m² (0.33 ha, 0.82 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 9 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Burt, https://everytownland.com/donegal/parish/burt.md - Barony: Inishowen West - Electoral division: Burt, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 1,333 people lived in 494 households in the Burt electoral division. 78% of households owned their home. 40% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Donegal, https://everytownland.com/donegal.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/15090 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 50514 - Centre: latitude 55.036901, longitude -7.48733 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 43 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carrowen, from 180 m² to 369,140 m² (36.91 ha, 91.22 acres); 15 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1331916: 369,140 m² (36.91 ha, 91.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1331916.md - Parcel 1340371: 332,529 m² (33.25 ha, 82.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1340371.md - Parcel 1309990: 263,328 m² (26.33 ha, 65.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1309990.md - Parcel 1393961: 204,940 m² (20.49 ha, 50.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1393961.md - Parcel 1341806: 178,582 m² (17.86 ha, 44.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1341806.md - Parcel 1331482: 141,421 m² (14.14 ha, 34.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1331482.md - Parcel 1357554: 109,448 m² (10.94 ha, 27.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1357554.md - Parcel 1315322: 101,722 m² (10.17 ha, 25.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1315322.md - Parcel 1356880: 82,618 m² (8.26 ha, 20.42 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1356880.md - Parcel 1339770: 75,147 m² (7.51 ha, 18.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1339770.md - Parcel 5622880: 59,180 m² (5.92 ha, 14.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5622880.md - Parcel 1316121: 30,459 m² (3.05 ha, 7.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1316121.md - Parcel 1320390: 12,756 m² (1.28 ha, 3.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1320390.md - Parcel 1394813: 11,190 m² (1.12 ha, 2.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1394813.md - Parcel 1321064: 7,858 m² (0.79 ha, 1.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1321064.md - Parcel 5297765: 6,561 m² (0.66 ha, 1.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5297765.md - Parcel 1336354: 4,453 m² (0.45 ha, 1.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1336354.md - Parcel 4757569: 4,019 m² (0.4 ha, 0.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4757569.md - Parcel 5623352: 4,015 m² (0.4 ha, 0.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5623352.md - Parcel 5144966: 3,784 m² (0.38 ha, 0.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5144966.md - Parcel 4856355: 3,358 m² (0.34 ha, 0.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4856355.md - Parcel 4856341: 3,318 m² (0.33 ha, 0.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4856341.md - Parcel 1400147: 3,196 m² (0.32 ha, 0.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1400147.md - Parcel 1328829: 3,060 m² (0.31 ha, 0.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1328829.md - Parcel 3013333: 2,990 m² (0.3 ha, 0.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3013333.md - Parcel 1342444: 2,940 m² (0.29 ha, 0.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1342444.md - Parcel 1301613: 2,715 m² (0.27 ha, 0.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1301613.md - Parcel 2744721: 2,656 m² (0.27 ha, 0.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2744721.md - Parcel 2390776: 2,628 m² (0.26 ha, 0.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2390776.md - Parcel 3658025: 2,613 m² (0.26 ha, 0.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3658025.md - Parcel 1310696: 2,579 m² (0.26 ha, 0.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1310696.md - Parcel 1343584: 2,510 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1343584.md - Parcel 1344621: 2,486 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1344621.md - Parcel 1327971: 2,442 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1327971.md - Parcel 1317729: 2,351 m² (0.24 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1317729.md - Parcel 1326297: 2,153 m² (0.22 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1326297.md - Parcel 2744728: 2,121 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2744728.md - Parcel 1327147: 2,061 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1327147.md - Parcel 4856358: 1,769 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4856358.md - Parcel 1323545: 1,274 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1323545.md - Parcel 2744724: 441 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2744724.md - Parcel 5231730: 327 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5231730.md - Parcel 5231732: 180 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5231732.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 9 applications, newest first. - 23 Mar 2026, Donegal County Council 2660477: Conditional. Permission. (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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660477/0 - 16 Sept 2024, Donegal County Council 2461458: Conditional. Permission. RETENTION AND COMPLETION OF DOMESTIC EXTENSION TO REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING AND ALL ASSOCIATED GROUND WORKS, CHANGES TO EXISTING RIDGE HEIGHT AND EXISTING ELEVATIONS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2461458/0 - 12 Sept 2024, Donegal County Council 2461421: N/a. Retention. (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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2461421/0 - 20 Dec 2023, Donegal County Council 2351954: Conditional. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2351954/0 - 5 Jul 2023, Donegal County Council 2350971: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. ERECTION OF A TWO STOREY DWELLING WITH EFFLUENT TREATMENT PLANT, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2350971/0 - 21 Oct 2022, Donegal County Council 2251753: N/a. Permission, 1 home. ERECTION OF A 2 STOREY DWELLING WITH EFFLUENT TREATMENT PLANT AND DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2251753/0 - 14 Feb 2022, Donegal County Council 2250234: N/a. Permission. PERMISSION FOR ERECTION OF FENCING AND FARM GATES. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2250234/0 - 10 Jul 2017, Donegal County Council 1751097: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. ERECTION OF A 2 STOREY DWELLING WITH EFFLUENT TREATMENT PLANT AND DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1751097/0 - 17 Feb 2017, Donegal County Council 1750217: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK WITH PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1750217/0 Applicants are not shown. ## 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) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Carrowen. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Carrowen, farm house, 1760–1800, Regional interest, registry number 40904645, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=DG®no=40904645. 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, registry number 40904706, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=DG®no=40904706. 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. ## 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 Carrowen, 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land 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, 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/carrowen.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/donegal/carrowen.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/donegal/carrowen.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Carrowen 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) - Ballymoney: https://everytownland.com/donegal/ballymoney.md - Grange: https://everytownland.com/donegal/grange-51453.md - Inch Level: https://everytownland.com/donegal/inch-level-51488.md - Mulleny: https://everytownland.com/donegal/mulleny.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/carrowen - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/donegal/carrowen