Garrowcarry
Townland in the civil parish of Kilmacrenan, barony of Kilmacrenan, Co. Donegal
- Area
- 305.2 ha
- 754 acres
- Land parcels
- 90
- registered freehold, median 3,408 m² (0.34 ha, 0.84 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 17
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
90 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Garrowcarry, from 26 m² to 405,415 m² (40.54 ha, 100.18 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 27 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 Garrowcarry 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
15 Oct 2025Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND DOMESTIC GARAGE INCLUDING ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2561803
3 Oct 2023Conditional
DEMOLITION OF AN EXISTING DWELLING DUE TO THE PRESENCE OF DEFECTIVE PRECAST CONCRETE BLOCKS AND CONSTRUCTION OF A NEWLY DESIGNED REPLACEMENT PART SINGLE STOREY, PART ONE AND A HALF STOREY STYLE DWELLING, CONNECTION TO THE EXISTING SITE SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2351489
30 Aug 2022Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK / SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2251443
13 Apr 2022Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2250656
2 Feb 2022Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH INSTALLATION OF A SEPTIC TANK AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2250133
17 Nov 2021Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND DOMESTIC GARAGE
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2152289
30 Jun 2021N/a
CHANGE OF DWELLING HOUSE DESIGN AND POSITION AND CHANGE OF DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE DESIGN BOTH PREVIOUSLY APPROVED UNDER PLANNING REF: 18/50650 AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2151307
23 Jun 2021Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND DOMESTIC GARAGE
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2151246
5 May 2021N/a
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND DOMESTIC GARAGE
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2150824
24 Mar 2021Refused
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND DOMESTIC GARAGE
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2150524
10 Mar 2021Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A SLATTED AGRICULTURAL SHED WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2150436
14 Dec 2020Refused
INSTALLATION OF A SEPTIC TANK AND ASSOCIATED DRAINAGE WORKS
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2051913
25 Jul 2019Conditional
CHANGE THE HOUSE TYPE PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER REF: 16/51015
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1951143
27 Feb 2019Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND DOMESTIC GARAGE
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1950259
9 May 2018Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND DOMESTIC GARAGE
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1850735
25 Apr 2018Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK/SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1850650
2 Feb 2018N/a
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK/SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1850133
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Garrowcarry.
Recorded monuments
- DG053-001 Standing stone
Description
Marked as 'Standing Stone' on the 2nd edition of the OS 6-inch map and as 'Gallan (site of)' on the 3rd edition. Kinahan (1885-6, 426) noted that 'there was, till of late years, a standing stone' on the spot. There are no visible remains. Situated on low-lying pasture land close to a stream. 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
- DG053-006 Ringfort - rath
Description
Internal diam. c. 50m. Marked on the 1st and 2nd editions of the OS 6-inch maps as a complete monument its present condition is as shown on the 3rd edition i.e. only the SW arc survives. This confirms that originally a subcircular area was enclosed by an earthen bank, fosse and outer bank. The inner bank survives to a height of 1.4m and a section 21m long survives. It is partly overgrown as is the fosse, which is 1m in depth. A 33m section of the outer bank survives c. 1.9m in height. It is situated on the summit of a low hill in 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
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Garrowcarry.
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 10 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.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Garrowcarry.
- 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 Garrowcarry with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Garrowcarry
- Area
- 3,052,264 m² (305.23 ha, 754.23 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilmacrenan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kilmacrenan
- Electoral division
- Edenacarnan, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Edenacarnan electoral division: 1,824 people in 586 households; 69% of households own their home; 70% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Glenkeo, Gortalaban, Gortnacorrib, Legnahoory, Rathdonnell, Sockar
- Placenames
- Garrowcarry 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.