Carrowtrasna
Townland in the civil parish of Lower Moville, barony of Inishowen East, Co. Donegal; in Irish An Cheathrú Trasna
- Area
- 326.2 ha
- 806 acres
- Land parcels
- 139
- registered freehold, median 2,462 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 16
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
139 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carrowtrasna, from 52 m² to 414,825 m² (41.48 ha, 102.51 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 22 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 Carrowtrasna 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
9 Jun 2026Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING WITH CONNECTION TO AN ON-SITE EFFLUENT TREATMENT PLANT, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2661046
28 Nov 2025Conditional
DEMOLITION OF EXISTING MICA AFFECTED HOUSE AND CONSTRUCTION OF NEW DWELLING HOUSE WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2562099
5 Aug 2025Refused
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING WITH CONNECTION TO AN ON-SITE EFFLUENT TREATMENT PLANT, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2561339
1 Aug 2025Conditional
(A) ENTRANCE, (B) 2 NO. EXTENSIONS TO SIDE ELEVATIONS OF EXISTING DWELLING AS PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 04/5243 AND (C) MINOR ELEVATIONAL CHANGES, CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2561324
3 Mar 2025Conditional
DEMOLITION OF EXISTING MICA AFFECTED HOUSE AND CONSTRUCTION OF NEW DWELLING HOUSE, CONNECTION TO EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2560285
21 Jul 2024Conditional
ATTIC CONVERSION INCLUDING A SKYLIGHT WITHIN THE ROOF AND FIRST FLOOR GABLE WINDOWS
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2461109
2 Oct 2023Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND STORAGE, ON SITE WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT, PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2351477
30 Jul 2021Unconditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A ONE AND A HALF STOREY DORMER TYPE DWELLING, DOMESTIC GARAGE, WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM & PERCOLATION AREA, CONNECTION TO PUBLIC SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS
Extension of duration, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2151538
28 Aug 2020N/a
ERECTION OF A DWELLING WITH CONNECTION TO PROPOSED SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA ALONG WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2051189
27 Mar 2020Conditional
(1) PRECAST CONCRETE RETAINING WALL TO NORTH WEST SIDE AND PART OF SOUTH WEST SIDE OF SITE (2) IMPORTED SOIL AND STONE FILL (3) AN AGRICULTURAL EQUIPMENT & MACHINERY STORAGE SHED
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2050422
9 Dec 2019Refused
(1) PRECAST CONCRETE RETAINING WALL TO NORTH WEST SIDE AND PART OF SOUTH WEST SIDE OF SITE (2) IMPORTED SOIL AND STONE FILL AND PERMISSION FOR ERECTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL EQUIPMENT AND MACHINERY STORAGE SHED AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Retention · Donegal County Council, 1951920
8 Nov 2019N/a
CONSTRUCTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY STORAGE SHED AND ALL ASSOCIATED DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1951712
18 Oct 2019N/a
CONSTRUCTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY STORAGE SHED AND ALL ASSOCIATED DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1951574
23 Sept 2019Conditional
OF NATURAL STONE AND SLATE ROOFED PORCH TO THE FRONT SOUTH FACING ELEVATION OF DWELLING HOUSE
Retention · Donegal County Council, 1951453
2 Feb 2017Unconditional
ERECTION OF 1 NO. HOUSE AND SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT (OUTLINE REF 08/70708)
Extension of duration, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1750129
2 Feb 2017Unconditional
ERECTION OF 1 NO. HOUSE AND SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT (OUTLINE REF 08/70709)
Extension of duration, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1750128
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: North Inishowen Coast SAC 002012
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: North Inishowen Coast 002012
Recorded monuments
- DG013-009 Enclosure
Description
Very little survives to indicate the single-ringed, 'Fort' marked on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map. A portion of an earthen bank and fosse may be original but the site has been built on. It was situated on good land. 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
- DG022-001 Burial ground
Description
A rectangular enclosure defined on three sides by rock outcrop and on the fourth by a stone wall .5m high. A ledge of rock to the N was allegedly used as a mass rock. Situated in an area of rock outcrop. 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
- St. Michall's, house, 1850–1890 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1870, with paired canted bay windows to ground floor, two-bay two-storey return with later single-storey extensions to rear and single-storey contemporary conservatory to south. Pitched slate roof with overhanging eaves, smooth rendered eaves course to corbelled brackets over window openings, smooth rendered chimneystacks with stepped cornice coping, decorative timber bargeboards to gables, slate roofs to canted bays with wrought-iron ridge-cresting forming sill-guard to first floor windows, paired brackets to canted angles of canted bay at eaves, replacement rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls with cornice stringcourse to first floor and smooth rendered plinth. Square-headed window openings with smooth rendered surrounds, incorporating shouldered, corniced surrounds with articulated key-stones and circular motifs in relief to entablature, one-over-one horned timber sash windows with continuous sill course to first floor. Segmental-arch headed door opening with smooth rendered and moulded stucco surround with key-stone detail over with double-leafed timber panelled doors with frosted-glass overlight. Adapted three-bay two-storey outbuilding to rear. Set within own grounds with yard to rear, enclosed by roughcast rendered wall with smooth rendered plinth. Gateway comprising double wrought-iron gates with scroll detail surmounted by spear-head finials, mounted on fluted cast-iron piers with fluted balustrade finials, flanked by random rubble walls with upright rubble coping.
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).
Homes sold
Property Price Register
- Carrowtrasna, Greencastle8 sales
The townland
- Name
- Carrowtrasna · An Cheathrú Trasna
- Area
- 3,262,355 m² (326.24 ha, 806.15 acres)
- Civil parish
- Lower Moville, and its townlands
- Barony
- Inishowen East
- Electoral division
- Greencastle, the unit of the census
- Neighbouring townlands
- Carrowhugh, Glennagiveny, Stroove
- Placenames
- Carrowtrasna on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland
Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, 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.