Derrynacarrow

60 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Derrynacarrow, from 22 m² to 2,577,170 m² (257.72 ha, 636.83 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 11 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 Derrynacarrow 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.

• 24 Jul 2025Conditional

  CHANGE OF USE OF THE FORMER MEDICAL CENTRE BUILDING TO A RESIDENTIAL DWELLING HOUSE

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2561268

• 29 Aug 2023Conditional

  DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING HOUSE INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2351285

• 18 Jun 2020N/a

  ANCILLARY ACCOMODATION TO THE SIDE OF EXISTING HOUSE

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2050782

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Gannivegil Bog SAC 000142
• Special Area of Conservation: Cloghernagore Bog and Glenveagh National Park SAC 002047
• Special Area of Conservation: West of Ardara/Maas Road SAC 000197
• Special Protection Area: Derryveagh And Glendowan Mountains SPA 004039
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: West Of Ardara/Maas Road 000197
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Gannivegil Bog 000142
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Cloghernagore Bog And Glenveagh National Park 002047

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Derrynacarrow.

Architectural heritage

• Saint Conal's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1830–1835 · Regional interest
  Description

  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
  Description

  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.

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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

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: 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.

• Derrynacarrow, Doochary10 sales

Name

Derrynacarrow · Doire na Coradh

Area

2,892,863 m² (289.29 ha, 714.84 acres)

Civil parish

Lettermacaward, and its townlands

Barony

Boylagh

Electoral division

Doocharry, the unit of the census

Census 2022

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.

Neighbouring townlands

Coolvoy, Derryleconnell Far, Derrynagrial, Tangaveane

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Derrynacarrow 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.