# Derrynacarrow, Co. Donegal: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Lettermacaward, barony of Boylagh, Co. Donegal; in Irish Doire na Coradh.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 2,892,863 m² (289.29 ha, 714.84 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 60 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,445 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 3 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Lettermacaward, https://everytownland.com/donegal/parish/lettermacaward.md
- Barony: Boylagh
- Electoral division: Doocharry, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Doocharry electoral division: 82 people in 40 households; 36% of households own their home; 39% of homes were built since 2001; 25% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 16% were holiday homes.
- County: Co. Donegal, https://everytownland.com/donegal.md
- Gaeltacht: in an Irish-speaking area
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/14619
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 50911
- Centre: latitude 54.913856, longitude -8.225155 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

60 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Derrynacarrow, from 22 m² to 2,577,170 m² (257.72 ha, 636.83 acres); 11 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 1305466: 2,577,170 m² (257.72 ha, 636.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1305466.md
- Parcel 1426686: 52,111 m² (5.21 ha, 12.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1426686.md
- Parcel 4676877: 22,435 m² (2.24 ha, 5.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4676877.md
- Parcel 1318667: 21,516 m² (2.15 ha, 5.32 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1318667.md
- Parcel 1386850: 21,066 m² (2.11 ha, 5.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1386850.md
- Parcel 1323473: 20,508 m² (2.05 ha, 5.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1323473.md
- Parcel 1324064: 13,684 m² (1.37 ha, 3.38 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1324064.md
- Parcel 1392177: 12,012 m² (1.2 ha, 2.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1392177.md
- Parcel 5562853: 9,617 m² (0.96 ha, 2.38 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5562853.md
- Parcel 1332845: 7,664 m² (0.77 ha, 1.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1332845.md
- Parcel 1407807: 7,520 m² (0.75 ha, 1.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1407807.md
- Parcel 1382581: 7,091 m² (0.71 ha, 1.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1382581.md
- Parcel 1410747: 6,445 m² (0.64 ha, 1.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1410747.md
- Parcel 4620790: 6,057 m² (0.61 ha, 1.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4620790.md
- Parcel 1361837: 5,843 m² (0.58 ha, 1.44 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1361837.md
- Parcel 1343525: 5,808 m² (0.58 ha, 1.44 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1343525.md
- Parcel 1428458: 5,477 m² (0.55 ha, 1.35 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1428458.md
- Parcel 1414987: 5,322 m² (0.53 ha, 1.32 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1414987.md
- Parcel 1333795: 5,019 m² (0.5 ha, 1.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1333795.md
- Parcel 1412935: 4,599 m² (0.46 ha, 1.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1412935.md
- Parcel 3657743: 4,549 m² (0.45 ha, 1.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3657743.md
- Parcel 1387212: 4,243 m² (0.42 ha, 1.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1387212.md
- Parcel 4080845: 4,145 m² (0.41 ha, 1.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4080845.md
- Parcel 1329789: 4,053 m² (0.41 ha, 1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1329789.md
- Parcel 1308250: 3,739 m² (0.37 ha, 0.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1308250.md
- Parcel 1395915: 3,733 m² (0.37 ha, 0.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1395915.md
- Parcel 5609850: 3,566 m² (0.36 ha, 0.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5609850.md
- Parcel 4631680: 3,400 m² (0.34 ha, 0.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4631680.md
- Parcel 1319808: 3,281 m² (0.33 ha, 0.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1319808.md
- Parcel 1330469: 2,479 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1330469.md
- Parcel 1372087: 2,410 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1372087.md
- Parcel 3657742: 2,133 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3657742.md
- Parcel 1362995: 2,107 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1362995.md
- Parcel 4819361: 1,987 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4819361.md
- Parcel 1326338: 1,844 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1326338.md
- Parcel 1375060: 1,733 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1375060.md
- Parcel 3657740: 1,514 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3657740.md
- Parcel 1347901: 1,442 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1347901.md
- Parcel 4080725: 1,282 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4080725.md
- Parcel 1424024: 1,182 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1424024.md
- Parcel 1527096: 1,169 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1527096.md
- Parcel 1363789: 919 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1363789.md
- Parcel 1523812: 813 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1523812.md
- Parcel 4685381: 685 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4685381.md
- Parcel 1396778: 630 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1396778.md
- Parcel 5103310: 580 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5103310.md
- Parcel 5103363: 540 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5103363.md
- Parcel 3782095: 516 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3782095.md
- Parcel 5103373: 466 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5103373.md
- Parcel 5103637: 436 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5103637.md
- Parcel 5103638: 426 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5103638.md
- Parcel 5319325: 303 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5319325.md
- Parcel 1396781: 228 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1396781.md
- Parcel 5159579: 220 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5159579.md
- Parcel 1363790: 206 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1363790.md
- Parcel 5535000: 159 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5535000.md
- Parcel 1363791: 67 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1363791.md
- Parcel 1363792: 57 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1363792.md
- Parcel 1396779: 53 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1396779.md
- Parcel 1396780: 22 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1396780.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

No zone of a development plan covers Derrynacarrow 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)

3 applications, newest first.

- 24 Jul 2025, Donegal County Council 2561268: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. CHANGE OF USE OF THE FORMER MEDICAL CENTRE BUILDING TO A RESIDENTIAL DWELLING HOUSE. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2561268/0
- 29 Aug 2023, Donegal County Council 2351285: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING HOUSE INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2351285/0
- 18 Jun 2020, Donegal County Council 2050782: N/a. Retention. ANCILLARY ACCOMODATION TO THE SIDE OF EXISTING HOUSE. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2050782/0

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## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

- Special Area of Conservation: Gannivegil Bog SAC, site code 000142, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/000142
- Special Area of Conservation: Cloghernagore Bog and Glenveagh National Park SAC, site code 002047, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/002047
- Special Area of Conservation: West of Ardara/Maas Road SAC, site code 000197, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/000197
- Special Protection Area: Derryveagh And Glendowan Mountains SPA, site code 004039, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/spa/004039
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: West Of Ardara/Maas Road, site code 000197
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Gannivegil Bog, site code 000142
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Cloghernagore Bog And Glenveagh National Park, site code 002047

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Derrynacarrow.

## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage)

- Saint Conal's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1830–1835, Regional interest, registry number 40905801, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=DG&regno=40905801. Freestanding Catholic church, built 1833, having five-bay nave, projecting porch to southwest gable with addition to southeast side, and two-bay sacristy to northeast end of southwest wall of nave. Extensive alterations and improvements made in 1913; refurbished c.1990. Pitched artificial slate roof with exposed rafter ends, replacement rainwater goods, and timber bargeboards with timber cross finials, pitched artificial slate roof to porch with stucco cross finial, lean-to roof to extension, and pitched slate roof to sacristy. Painted wet-dash-rendered walls on smooth-rendered plinth course. Pointed-arch window openings to long walls and upper part of southwest gable of nave, with concrete sills, chamfered rendered surrounds, hood-mouldings and stained glass in leaded quarries, with secondary glazing. Double-light window to altar gable with block-and-start surround and trefoil heads, with quatrefoil above. Tudor-arch window openings to sacristy and trefoil-headed window to porch. Addition has square-headed replacement timber window. Shouldered doorway to porch with rendered surround and double-leaf timber battened door, and square-headed timber battened door to sacristy with overlight and chamfered surround. Site bounded by painted render granite rubble and concrete block wall with concrete coping and metal railing.
- Icehouse, 1850–1870, Regional interest, registry number 40905825, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=DG&regno=40905825. Freestanding round-plan icehouse, set into hillside, built c.1860, having two-cell structure. Entrance projection to front (southeast) face. Uncoursed rubble stone walls. Square-headed openings to front and rear faces with stone flat arches and timber lintels, lacking doors. Situated on roadside.

## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland)

- Radon: About 1 in 5 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: Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, 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 Derrynacarrow.
- 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/derrynacarrow.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/donegal/derrynacarrow.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/donegal/derrynacarrow.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

- Derrynacarrow, Doochary: 10 sales, https://everytownland.com/donegal/derrynacarrow-doochary.md

## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann)

- Coolvoy: https://everytownland.com/donegal/coolvoy.md
- Derryleconnell Far: https://everytownland.com/donegal/derryleconnell-far.md
- Derrynagrial: https://everytownland.com/donegal/derrynagrial.md
- Tangaveane: https://everytownland.com/donegal/tangaveane-52468.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.

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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.

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