Carrowreagh

149 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carrowreagh, from 40 m² to 129,511 m² (12.95 ha, 32 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 43 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 Carrowreagh 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Carrowreagh in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Carrowreagh.

Recorded monuments

• DG028-005 Children's burial ground
  Description

  This 'Children's Burial Ground' consists of a subcircular platform 0.8m high and c. 18m in diameter. There are several stones on the surface including a block of white quartz (1.2m x .7m x .7m) which are presumably grave markers. It is situated on a low rise in undulating grazing 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

• House, 1850–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c.1860, having windbreak entrance and with integral three-bay two-storey outbuilding to south end. Pitched corrugated-metal roof to house, with rendered copings and rubble stone chimneystack, lacking rainwater goods; flat rendered coping to windbreak; pitched slate roof to outbuilding on rendered eaves course, rubble stone chimneystack and lacking rainwater goods. Limewashed rubble stone walls to house and outbuilding, north gable of house being exposed rubble stone. Square-headed openings, lacking sills, with replacement timber casement windows of c.1940 to house, and timber battened doors to house and outbuilding, latter having pitching door to first floor front and rear accessed at first floor level by flight of five steps. Set perpendicular to road, with six-bay single-storey vernacular house to north, laneways to west and east, within bogland to north of Rathmullan.

• House, 1890–1910 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c.1900, having bed outshot to rear. Pitched (formerly thatched) corrugated-asbestos roof, with replacement rainwater goods and with rendered chimneystacks to gables. Lime-rendered rubble stone walls. Square-headed openings with two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows, lacking sills, and timber battened door. Single-bay single-storey outbuilding recessed to north end, having lean-to corrugated-iron roof, painted rubble stone walls and timber battened door. Detached single-bay single-storey outbuilding to rear, having pitched corrugated-iron roof, exposed rubble stone walls and timber battened door. Buildings set perpendicular to road.

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 Carrowreagh, 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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.

• Carrowreagh, Glenvar6 sales

Name

Carrowreagh · An Cheathrú Riabhach

Area

1,899,173 m² (189.92 ha, 469.3 acres)

Civil parish

Clondavaddog, and its townlands

Barony

Kilmacrenan

Electoral division

Knockalla, the unit of the census

Census 2022

286 people lived in 112 households in the Knockalla electoral division. 84% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 19% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 25% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Anny Far and Near, Carngarrow, Creeveoughter, Lurganbrack, Meentaghmore, Tirlaydan

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Carrowreagh 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.