Carrowmenagh

134 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carrowmenagh, from 44 m² to 178,834 m² (17.88 ha, 44.19 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 33 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Carrowmenagh 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.

• 1 Feb 2026Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING WITH AN ON-SITE EFFLUENT TREATMENT PLANT, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2660126

• 19 Aug 2025N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING WITH AN ON-SITE EFFLUENT TREATMENT PLANT, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2561428

• 25 Jul 2025Conditional

  REFURBISHMENT OF A DILAPIDATED DWELLING, PROVISION OF EXTENSION TO SIDE AND REAR AND INSTALLATION OF SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2561283

• 24 Jul 2024Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION AND ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING COMMUNITY CENTRE WITH CONNECTION TO ALL EXISTING SERVICES

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2461128

• 27 Jul 2020Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING & ATTACHED LOWER LEVEL GARAGE WITH WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM & PERCOLATION AREA, CONNECTION TO PUBLIC SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2051001

• 8 Oct 2018Conditional

  EXTENSION TO EXISTING AGRICULTURAL SHED, SILAGE PIT AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1851559

• 1 Feb 2018Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE TOGETHER WITH INSTALLATION OF AN ONSITE SEPTIC TANK

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1850114

• 26 Jan 2018N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE TOGETHER WITH INSTALLATION OF AN ONSITE SEPTIC TANK

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1850077

• 27 Mar 2017Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A TWO STOREY DWELLING HOUSE WITH EFFLUENT TREATMENT PLANT AND ASSOCIATED POLISHING FILTER SYSTEM AND SINGLE STOREY DOMESTIC GARAGE

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1750451

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Carrowmenagh.

Recorded monuments

• DG012-043 Standing stone
  Description

  A standing stone 2.44m high × 1m wide at base × 0.29m thick. Situated on open mountain terrain to the SE of Crocknageeha. 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

Architectural heritage

• House, 1770–1790 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c. 1780, with two-bay single-storey outbuildings to both ends with thatched and corrugated-metal roofs, modern two-bay single-storey extension to rear. Rounded thatched roof with netting restraint and metal rope stays to eaves, smooth rendered chimneystacks with stepped coping and terracotta pots. Smooth rendered and random rubble walls. Square-headed window openings with replacement uPVC windows. Square-headed door opening with replacement uPVC door. Detached three-bay single-storey outbuilding to south-west comprising of pitched corrugated-cement roof with cast-iron rainwater goods, with roughcast rendered random rubble walls. Set within own grounds on elevated site. Extensive series of dry-stone walls to north and lining driveway to south. Strap-iron gate mounted on vernacular square-plan rubble gate piers to south.

• Kiln, 1830–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding lime kiln, arranged on circular plan, erected c. 1850, comprising of dry random rubble stone walls, rounded to parapet. Square-headed opening to north with flat stone lintel. Flue largely filled-in and partially overgrown. Located to side of road, south of Carrowmenagh. Site bounded by modern rubble wall and circular gate piers.

• House, 1770–1800 · Regional interest
  Description

  Attached five-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c. 1780. Rounded thatched roof with netting restraint and metal rope stays to eaves, and concrete block chimneystacks with stepped coping. Roughcast rendered walls, random rubble walls to rear. Square-headed window openings with two-over-two horned timber sash windows. Square-headed door openings to front and rear with stone lintels and battened timber doors. Attached single-bay single-storey outbuilding to south comprising of pitched corrugated-metal roof and random rubble walls. Detached single-storey farmyard outbuildings to rear and south. Fronts directly onto west side of street.

• Outbuilding, 1770–1800 · Regional interest
  Description

  Attached three-bay single-storey vernacular outbuilding, built c. 1780. Rounded thatched roof with netting restraint and timber and metal rope stays to eaves, and concrete block chimneystacks with stepped coping. Whitewashed random rubble walls with random rubble walls to rear. Square-headed window openings with horned timber sash windows. Square-headed door openings with stone lintels and battened timber doors. Detached single-storey farmyard outbuildings to rear. Fronts directly onto west side of street.

• House, 1770–1800 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c. 1780, with modern extension to rear. Rounded thatched roof with netting restraint and metal stays to eaves, and smooth rendered chimneystacks with stepped coping. Roughcast rendered walls with smooth rendered plinth. Whitewashed rubble walls with thin smooth render to rear elevation and south gable. Square-headed window openings with two-over-two horned timber sash windows and timber casement windows to rear extension. Square-headed door opening with replacement half-glazed timber panel door. Detached four-bay single-storey outbuilding directly to north comprising of pitched corrugated-cement roof, roughcast rendered walls, square-headed window openings with timber-framed windows and ashlar sandstone sills. Detached single-bay single-storey outbuilding to rear comprising of pitched corrugated-metal roof, and with roughcast rendered random rubble walls. Fronts directly onto east side of street.

• Water pump, 1870–1910 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding cast-iron water pump, erected c. 1890, now disused. Cylindrical shaft with raised horizontal banding, fluted upper section, fluted spout, and cow-tail handle. Set onto concrete base, to west side of street with random rubble wall recessed to accommodate pump.

• Outbuilding, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey vernacular outbuilding, built c. 1800, with single-bay single-storey lean-to extension to south gable. Rounded pitched straw thatched roof with net restraint and metal rope-stays to eaves, smooth rendered chimneystack with terracotta pot to south gable. corrugated-metal roof to extension. Square-headed window openings with stone lintel, now boarded up. Square-headed door openings with stone lintels and battened timber doors. Fronts directly onto street to north end of village.

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

At the centre of the townland of Carrowmenagh, about 1 in 10 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 Carrowmenagh.

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.

No address of the register names Carrowmenagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Carrowmenagh · Ceathrú Meánach

Area

2,889,933 m² (288.99 ha, 714.12 acres)

Civil parish

Lower Moville, and its townlands

Barony

Inishowen East

Electoral division

Turmone, the unit of the census

Census 2022

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.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrowbeg, Carrowblagh or Leckemy, Drumaville, Gulladoo, Leitrim, Meenletterbale

Placenames

Carrowmenagh 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.