Carrowena
Townland in the civil parish of Ogonnelloe, barony of Tulla Lower, Co. Clare; in Irish Ceathrúin Uí Eidhne
- Area
- 143.8 ha
- 355 acres
- Land parcels
- 45
- registered freehold, median 14,194 m² (1.42 ha, 3.51 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
45 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carrowena, from 254 m² to 154,599 m² (15.46 ha, 38.2 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 32 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 Carrowena 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
9 Jun 2021Conditional
to erect a dwelling house, entrance, driveway, install an effluent treatment system and polishing filter and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 21593
12 Feb 2021Conditional
to RETAIN the following: (a) to RETAIN garden room structure as constructed to the rear of existing dwelling house (b) to RETAIN and continue temporary use of same garden room structure for residential purposes for a period of three years (c) to RETAIN a garden shed to the rear of existing dwelling house (d) to RETAIN and complete construction of roadside boundary and (e) all ancillary site works and services
Retention · Clare County Council, 21109
16 Oct 2020N/a
to RETAIN as constructed single storey garden rooms, adjacent garden shed and pump house (located at rear of main dwelling house which received planning under previous planning Ref P13-438. RETENTION is also sought to RETAIN and complete construction of roadside boundary including all ancillary site works and services
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 20757
28 Jun 2018Conditional
to demolish part extension to existing dwelling house & carry out alteration to the existing dwelling house & carry out associated site works.
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 18531
23 May 2018Conditional
to demolish part of a slatted shed and construct a milking parlour, dairy, plant room, and roofed collecting yard with slatted tanks and all associated site works
Permission · Clare County Council, 18421
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
- Special Protection Area: Lough Derg (Shannon) SPA 004058
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Derg 000011
Recorded monuments
- CL029-018 Ringfort - cashel
Description
The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Carrowena.
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, on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Carrowena.
- 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 Carrowena with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.
The townland
- Name
- Carrowena · Ceathrúin Uí Eidhne
- Area
- 1,437,811 m² (143.78 ha, 355.29 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ogonnelloe, and its townlands
- Barony
- Tulla Lower
- Electoral division
- Ogonnelloe, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Ogonnelloe electoral division: 794 people in 268 households; 91% of households own their home; 37% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballybran, Ballylaghnan, Bealkelly (Purdon), Caher, Rahena Beg, Rahena More
- Placenames
- Carrowena 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.