Carrownamaddy
Townland in the civil parish of Clondahorky, barony of Kilmacrenan, Co. Donegal; in Irish Ceathrú na Madaí
- Area
- 889.1 ha
- 2,197 acres
- Land parcels
- 90
- registered freehold, median 10,981 m² (1.1 ha, 2.71 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 15
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
90 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carrownamaddy, from 27 m² to 4,001,491 m² (400.15 ha, 988.79 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 37 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
5 Dec 2025Conditional
ERECTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL STORAGE SHED WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2562154
10 Nov 2025Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2561957
9 Sept 2025Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND DOMESTIC GARAGE INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2561540
10 Feb 2025Conditional
(1) ALTERATION AND RENOVATION WORKS TO EXISTING DERELICT COTTAGE AND CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW TWO STOREY EXTENSION WITH SINGLE STOREY LINK TO THE SOUTHERN SIDE OF THE EXISTING STRUCTURE, (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW REPOSITIONED VEHICULAR ENTRANCE AND (3) INSTALLATION OF A NEW SEPTIC TANK / SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2560159
16 Oct 2024Conditional
RELOCATION OF DWELLING HOUSE APPROVED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 22/51966 AND ERECTION OF A DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2461640
21 Dec 2023Conditional
EXISTING DOMESTIC GARAGE AND PERMISSION FOR (1) ERECTION OF AN EXTENSION AND CONVERSION OF PART OF EXISTING DOMESTIC GARAGE TO A GRANNY FLAT TO PROVIDE INDEPENDENT LIVING ACCOMMODATION AND (2) UPGRADING OF EXISTING SEPTIC TANK WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2352000
27 Oct 2023N/a
ERECTION OF AN EXTENSION AND CONVERSION OF PART OF EXISTING DOMESTIC GARAGE TO A GRANNY FLAT TO PROVIDE INDEPENDENT LIVING ACCOMMODATION AND UPGRADE OF EXISTING SEPTIC TANK WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2351648
8 Dec 2022Conditional
ERECTION OF DWELLING HOUSE WITH WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2251966
9 Nov 2022N/a
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH PROPRIETARY WASTEWATER TREATEMENT SYSTEM AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2251831
17 Feb 2021Conditional
RETENTION & CONTINUATION OF USE OF (1) EXISTING STONE CRUSHING & SCREENING PLANT (2) EXISTING WET BATCHING PLANT (3) EXISTING DRY BATCHING PLANT & BINS (4) EXISTING WET BATCHING PLANT SWITCH ROOM, CONTROL ROOM, CANTEEN & STORE FOR BLOCK TYING MACHINE (5) EXISTING DRY BATCHING PLANT ROOM & GENERATOR ROOM (6) EXISTING PLANT REPAIR SHED WITH HYDROCARBON OIL INTERCEPTOR (7) EXISTING FOUL STORAGE TANKS WITH BUND WALL (8) EXISTING CRUSHER PLANT SWITCH ROOM & CONTROL ROOM (9) EXISTING DOMESTIC WASTEWATER HOLDING TANK (10) ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS INCLUDING SETTLEMENT POND NETWORK
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2150257
17 Feb 2021Conditional
(1) 25 YEAR PERMISSION TO EXTRACT & BLAST ROCK (2) RELOCATION OF STONE CRUSHING & SCREENING PLANT (3) ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. AN ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT (EIAR) & A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) ACCOMPANY THIS APPLICATION
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2150256
14 Sept 2020N/a
QUARRY YARD TO INCLUDE ALL RELATED MANUFACTURING & PROCESSING WORKS WITH ANCILLARY FACILITIES RELATING TO THE QUARRY ACTIVITY AND PERMISSION FOR (1) 25 YEAR PERMISSION TO EXTRACT & BLAST ROCK (2) RELOCATION OF STONE CRUSHING & SCREENING PLANT AND (3) ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED WORKS INCLUDING SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS AS DETAILED IN THE APPLICATION. A NATURA IMPACT STATMENT (NIS) ACCOMPANIES THE APPLICATION
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2051287
9 Sept 2020N/a
QUARRY YARD TO INCLUDE ALL RELATED MANUFACTURING & PROCESSING WORKS WITH ANCILLARY FACILITIES RELATING TO THE QUARRY ACTIVITY AND PERMISSION FOR (1) 25 YEAR PERMISSION TO EXTRACT & BLAST ROCK (2) RELOCATION OF STONE CRUSHING & SCREENING PLANT AND (3) ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED WORKS AS DETAILED IN THE APPLICATION. A NATURA IMPACT STATMENT (NIS) ACCOMPANIES THE APPLICATION
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2051265
24 Sept 2018Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1851486
13 Jan 2017N/a
(1) CONTINUATION OF QUARRYING ACTIVITY INCLUDING EXTRACTION AND ROCK BLASTING (2) ALL RELATED MANUFACTURING AND PROCESSING WORKS WITH ANCILLARY FACILITIES RELATING TO THE QUARRYING ACTIVITY (3) ERECTION OF A NEW GARAGE/ WORKSHOP WITH BUNDED FUEL STORAGE AND WASH BAY (4) RELOCATION OF EXISTING STONE CRUSHING AND SCREENING PLANT (5) ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED WORKS AS DETAILED IN THE APPLICATION
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1750038
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
- Special Area of Conservation: Muckish Mountain SAC 001179
- Special Protection Area: Derryveagh And Glendowan Mountains SPA 004039
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Muckish Mountain 001179
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Carrownamaddy.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Carrownamaddy.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, moderately low (inferred), low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Carrownamaddy with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Carrownamaddy · Ceathrú na Madaí
- Area
- 8,890,796 m² (889.08 ha, 2,196.96 acres)
- Civil parish
- Clondahorky, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kilmacrenan
- Electoral division
- Creenasmear, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Creenasmear electoral division: 314 people in 109 households; 92% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 15% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Creenasmear, Derryharriff Glebe, Faymore, Gortnaleck, Kildarragh, Ray, Swillybrin
- Gaeltacht
- In an Irish-speaking area
- 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.