Carrownamaddy

65 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carrownamaddy, from 27 m² to 617,941 m² (61.79 ha, 152.7 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 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 Carrownamaddy 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.

• 4 Mar 2026Refused

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

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2660324

• 11 Feb 2025Conditional

  RELOCATION OF ACCESS ROAD PREVIOUSLY APPROVED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 21/52163 AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2560162

• 8 Apr 2024Refused

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

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2460465

• 17 Oct 2023Conditional

  (1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING DUE TO DEFECTIVE CONCRETE BLOCKWORK AND (2) ERECTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING EFFLUENT TREATMENT PLANT, SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2351568

• 7 Jul 2023Refused

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

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2350996

• 15 Dec 2022Conditional

  CHANGE OF USE OF EXISTING GARAGE OUTBUILDING TO PROVIDE FOR ANCILLARY ACCOMMODATION IN CONJUNCTION WITH EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, TO INCLUDE AN EXTENSION AND FACILITIES, TOGETHER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS AND CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2252006

• 25 Apr 2022Conditional

  (1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING EXTENSION TO THE REAR OF THE DWELLING (2) ERECTION OF (A) A TWO STOREY EXTENSION TO THE REAR OF THE EXISTING DWELLING (B) A DOMESTIC SHED AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2250723

• 14 Feb 2022N/a

  PERMISSION FOR ERECTION OF FENCING AND FARM GATES

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2250234

• 23 Dec 2021N/a

  (A) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING EXTENSION TO THE REAR OF THE DWELLING (B) ERECTION OF A TWO STOREY EXTENSION TO THE REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2152631

• 8 Dec 2021N/a

  ERECTION OF AN EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2152432

• 3 Nov 2021Conditional

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

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2152163

• 11 Oct 2021N/a

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

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2152020

• 10 Sept 2019Refused

  ERECTION OF A SINGLE STOREY BUNGALOW TYPE DWELLING, TREATMENT PLANT AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1951373

• 11 Apr 2019Refused

  ERECTION OF A SINGLE STOREY BUNGALOW TYPE DWELLING, TREATMENT PLANT AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1950514

• 30 Jul 2018Conditional

  (A) ORIENTATION OF EXISTING DWELLING, (B) PORCH ON THE NORTH FACING ELEVATION, (C) DOOR FROM THE CONSERVATORY ON THE NORTH FACING ELEVATION, (D) ATTIC CONVERSION WITH 4 NO. ROOFLIGHTS AND 2 NO. GABLE WINDOWS, (E) RETAINING WALLS AND FENCING FORMING COURTYARDS TO THE SOUTH , EAST AND WEST OF THE EXISTING DWELLING AND (F) ASSOCIATED WORKS AND SITE WORKS, ALL CONSTRUCTED UNDER APPROVED PLANNING APPLICATION REF: 00/4045

  Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1851181

• 12 Dec 2017Conditional

  (1) THE CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO THE REAR OF EXISTING DWELLIING AND (2) MINOR ALTERATIONS TO THE EXISTING ELEVATIONS INCLUDING THE INSTALLATION OF 2 NO. FLAT ROOF DORMERS TO THE DWELLING

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1751858

• 14 Nov 2017N/a

  DEVELOPMENT CONSISTING OF THE FOLLOWING WORKS TO AN EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE (1) THE CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO THE REAR OF THE DWELLING (2) WITH MINOR ALTERATIONS TO THE EXISTING ELEVATIONS INCLUDING THE INSTALLATION OF 2 NO. FLAT ROOF DORMERS TO THE DWELLING

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1751716

• 13 Jan 2017N/a

  DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING AND ERECTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING WITH SEPTIC TANK AND DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1750029

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

Designated sites

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

Recorded monuments

• DG047-005 Souterrain
  Description

  A souterrain recorded here is said to have been L--shaped each leg being at least 12ft. long. It was flagstone roofed (M. R. Colhoun). Swan (1949, 120) recorded that 'over a dozen' souterrains had been reported in this general area and also refers to a description of several others near the base of the mountain on which the Grianán of Aileach is situ-ated. (Maghtochair 1935, 18-20). 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 Excavation Number 97E0120 An archaeological assessment was carried out at Carrownamaddy townland, Burt, Co. Donegal, on 23 April 1997, of a field containing a partially uncovered souterrain, in order that any associated archaeological remains might be brought to the attention of the planning authority prior to a decision being made on the erection of a house within the field. The souterrain is located in the south-west corner of the field, where ground level is slightly higher than elsewhere. As first observed, a small portion of the eastern passage wall was visible at the extreme south-east end of the exposed souterrain. Several courses of drystone walling, to a depth of approximately 0.4m below modern field level, were recorded. At the other side of this part of the monument collapsed capstones overlay the western wall, which was not visible but could be located by hand. Further along the souterrain to the north, two in situ lintel stones were exposed to a length of 0.8m and 0.5m respectively. Several disturbed capstones were also noted. The method of roofing appeared to be that a double course of capstones were set on slight corbelling. These were in turn covered with smaller stones and a gravelly soil deposit. Above this level was an extremely thin depth of topsoil, a mixture of the gravel, turf and grass. The souterrain seems to have a drop-creep entrance, located at the extreme north-east of the visible monument. This appeared as two substantial sidestones demarcating a roughly square depression in the souterrain mound. The passage appeared to narrow before turning and widening out towards the hedge-line (the western limit of the development site). Where the in situ capstones survive, the passage appeared to be approximately 1.1m wide. Further along, at the point where the walling was exposed, the passage appeared to be roughly 1.3m wide. No visible habitation structures associated with the souterrain were located and the full extent of the monument could not be clearly defined. In the course of the assessment seven trenches, all roughly 2m wide, were excavated by a mixture of machine and manually, along the line of the proposed driveway of the house (east of the souterrain) as far as the location of the proposed garage and septic tank. Six of these were excavated parallel to each other, roughly east-west, across the southern half of the field. The trenches varied in length from 34m to 40m. The seventh trench, 20m long, was excavated along the western field boundary, north of the souterrain. Nothing of archaeological significance was observed in any of the trenches apart from Trench 2. Here, at the western end of the cutting and some 12m east of the souterrain, were uncovered two deposits within a shallow cut. A sherd of late medieval pottery was recovered in one of the cut fills, along with burnt bone and slag. Given the presence of these, it may be that the area was used for metalworking in the late medieval period. It is unlikely that this activity was contemporary with the souterrain usage. A zone of potential archaeological sensitivity around the souterrain was recommended as a result of the assessment and was incorporated into the planning condition for the proposed development.(Excavations Bulletin 1997) Ruairí Ó Baoill and Paul Logue, Archaeological Development Services Ltd, Westlink Enterprise Centre, 30-50 Distillery Street, Belfast BT

Architectural heritage

• Saint Aengus' Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1960–1970 · National interest
  Description

  Freestanding single-bay double-height single-cell Catholic church, built 1964-7, on a circular plan. Copper-clad curvilinear conical roof with Cross finial to apex. Sheared rubble stone-clad battered walls jutting over cut-granite plinth on cobbled drain. Pseudo three centre-headed central door opening with two concrete flagged steps, and reinforced concrete canopy framing bronze-clad double doors having sidelights. Clerestorey with leaded stained glass panels behind fixed-pane fittings. Full-height interior with tiled central aisle between timber pews, carpeted stepped dais to sanctuary (west) with Portland stone altar table below silver leaf carved timber crucifix, and stained glass clerestorey below top-lit plastered ceiling on circle of plastered steel pillars. Set in landscaped grounds with rubble stone cylindrical piers to perimeter having conical capping.

• Burt Presbyterian Church, church/chapel, 1890–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding gable-fronted five-bay Presbyterian church, built c. 1893, with central breakfront porch, and with vestry to rear. Pitched slate roof with grey clayware ridge tiles and cresting, rendered gable coping and skew ends, replacement rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls with smooth rendered perpendicular buttresses to south, east and west elevations and diagonal buttresses to front with conical finials topped with flower motifs, smooth rendered plinth course and stone brackets to eaves. Pointed arch-headed mullioned window openings with internal embrasure, chamfered smooth rendered surrounds, hoodmoulding and leaded stained glass set in cast-iron quarries; octofoil sandstone tracery, rose windows with moulded surrounds high up on front and rear gable elevations. Segmental arch-headed door opening with paired diagonal boarded timber doors with stucco surrounds and hoodmoulding, over steps. Wainscoted interior with paired side aisles leading up to altar area with timber pulpit; timber gallery to rear with timber columns. Set within large grounds with gravemarkers to north, Sunday school and caretaker's house to north, rubble stone boundary wall with smooth rendered coping to east and south, high beech hedge to west and smooth rendered ruled-and-lined gate piers with rendered pyramidal coping and double cast-iron gates, to north.

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.

Terrain model

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

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 Carrownamaddy with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Carrownamaddy · Ceathrú na Madaí

Area

1,633,312 m² (163.33 ha, 403.6 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

Carrowreagh, Inch Level, Lisfannan, Speenoge

Placenames

Carrownamaddy 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.