Carranadore

29 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carranadore, from 71 m² to 100,123 m² (10.01 ha, 24.74 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 11 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Carranadore 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.

• 21 Feb 2025Conditional

  EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING AND UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS ONTO PUBLIC ROAD AND PERMISSION FOR DECOMMISSIONING OF EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND INSTALLATION OF A NEW WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT, INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2560224

• 4 Jun 2024Conditional

  (1) RETENTION AND COMPLETION OF THE DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DERELICT BUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION OF REPLACEMENT BUILDING TO SERVE AS PREVIOUSLY APPROVED OFFICE & STORAGE BUILDING (PLANNING REF: 22/51805), (2) ALTERATIONS TO THE ELEVATIONS OF THE PREVIOUSLY APPROVED OFFICE BUILDING AND STORAGE BUILDING (PLANNING REF: 22/51805) WHICH INCLUDES ADDITIONAL OFFICE SPACE AT GROUND FLOOR LEVEL AND ALTERATIONS TO THE PROPOSED ELEVATIONS INCLUDING REMOVAL OF SPLIT-LEVEL ELEMENT, (3) ALTERATIONS TO THE CAR PARK LAYOUT AND REMOVAL OF SECOND ENTRANCE POINT AND (4) ALL ANCILLARY SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2460823

• 4 Nov 2022Conditional

  (1) CONVERSION AND REFURBISHMENT OF EXISTING DERELICT MILL BUILDING TO PROVIDE OFFICE SPACE AT FIRST FLOOR LEVEL AND STORAGE AT GROUND FLOOR LEVEL, (2) CONSTRUCTION OF 1 NO. GARAGE WITH CANOPY LINK TO THE EXISTING BUILDING AND 1 NO. DETACHED GARAGE TO ACCOMMODATE BOATS, VEHICLES AND EQUIPMENT, (3) CONNECTION TO A NEW SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA AND (4) ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS AND SITE WORKS INCLUDING PARKING, RETAINING WALLS ETC.

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2251805

• 30 Jun 2022Refused

  (1) CONVERSION AND REFURBISHMENT OF EXISTING DERELICT MILL BUILDING TO PROVIDE OFFICE SPACE AT FIRST FLOOR LEVEL AND STORAGE AT GROUND FLOOR LEVEL (2) CONSTRUCTION OF 1 NO. GARAGE WITH CANOPY LINK TO THE EXISTING BUILDING AND 1 NO. DETACHED GARAGE TO ACCOMMODATE BOATS, VEHICLES AND EQUIPMENT (3) CONNECTION TO A NEW SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA (4) ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS AND SITE WORKS INCLUDING PARKING & RETAINING WALLS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2251133

• 23 Oct 2019Conditional

  ERECTION OF DWELLING WITH EFFLUENT TREATMENT PLANT, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1951612

• 7 Oct 2019N/a

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING WITH EFFLUENT TREATMENT PLANT AND DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1951508

• 25 Feb 2019Unconditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DETACHED GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Extension of duration, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1950228

• 10 Jul 2018Conditional

  (1) CONSTRUCTION OF A DOMESTIC GARAGE/STORE INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND (2) RETENTION OF EXISTING VEHICULAR ENTRANCE WITH ACCESS ROAD

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1851066

• 23 Apr 2018Conditional

  (A) MACHINERY STORE, (B) DRY BED CATTLE SHED EXTENSION TO THE SIDE OF EXISTING CATTLE SHED, (C) DETACHED 3 BAY DRY BED CATTLE SHED AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 1850617

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: River Finn SAC 002301

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Carranadore.

Architectural heritage

• Liscooly Bridge, bridge, 1800–1810 · Regional interest
  Description

  Seven-arch humpbacked bridge carrying road over the River Finn, built c. 1801, having five arches over river and two dry arches to the south end. V-profile rubble stone cutwaters to piers on both the upstream and downstream elevations. Segmental-headed arches having roughly squared rubble stone voussoirs, rubble stone construction to arch barrels. Rubble stone construction to piers and spandrels; rubble stone construction to parapets with rubble stone soldier coping over. Modern concrete under pining to piers, modern cement repairs to parapets in places. Rubble stone wing walls to the south having two small segmental-headed arches with rubble stone voussoirs. Wing walls to south step out from bridge parapets. Further small segmental-headed arch to the south having rubble stone voussoirs. Tarmacadam deck with grass verges. Located to the south of Liscooly.

• Bridge, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arched bridge carrying road over unnamed stream\river flowing into River Finn to the north, built c. 1800. Segmental-headed arch with roughly dressed stone voussoirs; squared rubble stone construction to arch barrel with projecting stones beneath. Squared and rubble stone construction to spandrels. Rubble stone construction to parapets with modern cement repairs in places. Tarmacadam deck with grass verges. Located in the rural countryside to the south of Liscooly and to the east of Killygordon. Former corn and flax mill adjacent to the south-east and east (see 40907920).

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

At the centre of the townland of Carranadore, 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, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Carranadore.

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.

No address of the register names Carranadore with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Carranadore · Ceathrú na nDobhar

Area

548,526 m² (54.85 ha, 135.54 acres)

Civil parish

Donaghmore, and its townlands

Barony

Raphoe South

Electoral division

Cloghard, the unit of the census

Census 2022

621 people lived in 234 households in the Cloghard electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballygonigan, Drummurphy, Liscooly, Meenlougher

Placenames

Carranadore 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.