Carrickbrack

12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carrickbrack, from 918 m² to 165,653 m² (16.57 ha, 40.93 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 9 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 Carrickbrack 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.

• 13 Jun 2019Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO THE SIDE AND REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, WORKS INCLUDE AMENDMENTS TO THE INTERNAL LAYOUT AND EXTERNAL ELEVATIONS OF EXISTING PROPERTY AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1950898

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 Carrickbrack.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Carrickbrack.

Architectural heritage

• Bridge, 1820–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Double-arched bridge carrying road over the Deele River, built c. 1820 and altered/rebuilt c. 1860, having semi-circular ashlar cutwater to central pier to both upstream and downstream elevations. Segmental-headed arches having mildly rock-faced ashlar sandstone voussoirs to arch with rock-faced keystone detail; squared rubble stone construction to the arch barrel. Squared and coursed mildly rock-faced rubble stone construction to pier and spandrels with projecting squared and coursed mildly rock-faced rubble stone piers (on square-plan) to either end of bridge rising to parapet level with cement coping over. Squared rubble stone construction to parapets with projecting cut stone stringcourse at road deck level carried around piers. Tarmacadam deck. Squared rubble stone wing walls to ends of parapets. Located in the rural countryside to the north-east of Convoy and to the south-west of Raphoe.

• Bridge, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arched bridge carrying road over small tributary flowing into the Deele River, built c. 1800. Segmental-headed arch with roughly squared rubble stone voussoirs; rubble stone construction to arch barrel. Rubble stone construction to spandrels and to parapets. Parapets largely overgrown with ivy. Tarmacadam deck with grass verges. Located in the rural countryside to the south-west of Raphoe.

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 Carrickbrack, 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1813 (ZIP).

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 Carrickbrack with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Carrickbrack

Area

291,093 m² (29.11 ha, 71.93 acres)

Civil parish

Raphoe, and its townlands

Barony

Raphoe North

Electoral division

Convoy, the unit of the census

Census 2022

2,559 people lived in 926 households in the Convoy electoral division. 72% of households owned their home. 38% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrickbrack, Kiltole, Magherahee, Roosky Lower

Placenames

Carrickbrack 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.