Newtown Carradoan

27 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Newtown Carradoan, from 5 m² to 157,491 m² (15.75 ha, 38.92 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Newtown Carradoan 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.

• 3 Jun 2026N/a

  (1) RETENTION OF ROCK BREAKING ON SITE AND STOCK PILING OF BROKEN OUT ROCK, (2) REMOVAL OF PORTION OF EXISTING ROCK STOCK PILE AND (3) IMPORTATION OF SUBSOIL AND SOIL MATERIAL TO LEVEL ON SITE IN LAYERS INCORPORATING BROKEN OUT ROCK TO CREATE NEW FIELD AREA

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2661026

• 3 Dec 2025Conditional

  ERECTION OF NEW DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2562126

• 14 Nov 2018Conditional

  EXISTING ANCILLARY ACCOMMODATION TO DWELLING HOUSE CONSISTING OF A ONE BEDROOM APARTMENT AND SHED

  Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1851749

• 9 Jul 2018Refused

  EXISTING GRANNY FLAT & SHED WHICH WAS PREVIOUSLY GRANTED PLANNING PERMISSION AS A GAMES ROOM & DOMESTIC GARAGE UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 11/40046

  Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1851055

• 30 Mar 2017Conditional

  ERECTION OF A NEW VEHICLE SITE ENTRANCE TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1750461

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: Lough Swilly SAC 002287
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Swilly Including Big Isle, Blanket Nook & Inch Lake 000166

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Newtown Carradoan.

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Newtown Carradoan.

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 Newtown Carradoan, about 1 in 20 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Newtown Carradoan

Area

387,984 m² (38.8 ha, 95.87 acres)

Civil parish

Killygarvan, and its townlands

Barony

Kilmacrenan

Electoral division

Rathmullan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

965 people lived in 357 households in the Rathmullan electoral division. 75% of households owned their home. 32% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 47% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carradoan, Clondallan, Drumhallagh Lower, Drumhallagh Upper, Lugher

Placenames

Newtown Carradoan 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.