Doocarrick
Doocarrick is a townland in the civil parish of Clondavaddog, barony of Kilmacrenan, Co. Donegal. Its name in Irish is Dúcharraig.
- Area
- 40.3 ha
- 100 acres
- Land parcels
- 11
- registered freehold, median 34,478 m² (3.45 ha, 8.52 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Doocarrick, from 915 m² to 65,469 m² (6.55 ha, 16.18 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 13 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Doocarrick 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
22 Nov 2023Conditional
CHANGE TO THE DESIGN OF THAT PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REFERENCE NO: 22/51693 FOR: (A) DEMOLITION OF THE EXISTING SINGLE STOREY PORCH TO THE SOUTHERN ELEVATION OF THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW SINGLE STOREY PORCH TO THE SOUTHERN ELEVATION OF THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, (B) A SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO THE EASTERN ELEVATION OF THE EXISTING DWELLING AND (C) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS INCLUDING CONNECTION TO THE PROPOSED TREATMENT SYSTEM PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REFERENCE NO. 22/51693. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) WHICH ACCOMPANIED PLANNING REFERENCE NO. 22/51693 ACCOMPANIES THIS PLANNING APPLICATION FOR INFORMATION PURPOSES (THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE REPLACED DWELLING HOUSE AT THE LOCATION OF THIS EXISTING BOATHOUSE PERMITTED UNDER PLANNING REFERENCE: 22/51693 IS NOT INCLUDED IN THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT BUT DOES INCLUDE DEMOLITION OF THE EXISTING BOATHOUSE PERMITTED UNDER PLANNING REFERENCE: 22/51693)
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2351794
10 Oct 2022Conditional
(A) CHANGE IN DESIGN OF REPLACEMENT DWELLING HOUSE PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER PLAN. REF. NO. 21/52085 WHICH ALSO INCLUDES DEMOLITION OF EXISTING BOATHOUSE AND REPLACEMENT DWELLING HOUSE, CONNECTION TO A NEW WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM WHEREBY THE DEMOLITION OF THE EXISTING BOATHOUSE AND NEW WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM ARE PREVIOUSLY PERMITTED UNDER PLAN. REF. NO. 21/52085, (B) DEMOLITION OF PART OF EXISTING SINGLE STOREY GARAGE ATTACHED TO EXISTING TWO-STOREY DWELLING, (C) CONSTRUCTION OF CARPORT BETWEEN THE EXISTING DWELLING AND REPLACEMENT DWELLING MENTIONED IN (A) ABOVE, (D) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING SINGLE STOREY PORCH TO THE EXISTING TWO-STOREY DWELLING AND CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW EXTENSION TO THE FRONT ELEVATION OF THIS BUILDING AND (E) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2251693
20 Oct 2021Conditional
(1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING BOATSHED (2) ERECTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING HOUSE WITH A NEW WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM (3) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING GARAGE (4) DECOMMISSIONING OF AN EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND INSTALLATION OF A NEW REPLACEMENT WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM TO SERVE AN ADJACENT EXISTING DWELLING (5) ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) ACCOMPANIES THIS APPLICATION
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2152085
3 Mar 2021Refused
(1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING TWO STOREY DWELLING HOUSE & BOATSHED (2) DECOMMISSIONING OF EXISTING SEPTIC TANK (3) ERECTION OF REPLACEMENT DWELLING HOUSE WITH A NEW WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2150374
24 May 2020Conditional
(1) FRONT PORCH (2) GARAGE (3) BOILER HOUSE AND (4)DOMESTIC SHED & BOATHOUSE INCLUDING ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2050480
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: Mulroy Bay SAC 002159
Recorded monuments
- DG017-011 Ringfort - unclassified
Description
The 'Fort' shown on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map is not now visible. It stood on level ground in wettish grassland. 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
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Doocarrick.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Doocarrick, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately low, low.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Doocarrick.
- Flooding
- The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Doocarrick with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Doocarrick · Dúcharraig
- Area
- 403,179 m² (40.32 ha, 99.63 acres)
- Civil parish
- Clondavaddog, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kilmacrenan
- Electoral division
- Fanad West, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 398 people lived in 155 households in the Fanad West electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 20% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 35% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyheerin, Muineagh, Umrycam
- Placenames
- Doocarrick 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.