Carrowgar
Townland in the civil parish of Kilmanaheen, barony of Corcomroe, Co. Clare
- Area
- 108 ha
- 267 acres
- Land parcels
- 31
- registered freehold, median 6,184 m² (0.62 ha, 1.53 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
31 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carrowgar, from 163 m² to 208,708 m² (20.87 ha, 51.57 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 22 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 Carrowgar 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
17 Jun 2026N/a
to construct dwelling, garage, treatment system, create new entrance to public road and carry out ancillary site works
Outline permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 26168
17 Jun 2026N/a
to construct dwelling house, garage, treatment system, create new entrance to public road and carry out ancillary site works
Outline permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 26169
23 Nov 2023N/a
to vary the permitted access to the slatted shed in permission 07/1758 to the existing farm access
Permission · Clare County Council, 2360500
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Carrowgar.
Recorded monuments
- CL023-024 Ringfort - rath
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
- Moy House, house, 1820–1840 · Regional interest
Description
Detached H-plan five-bay single-storey house, built c. 1830, comprising three-bay recessed central block with single-bay gabled projecting end bays having canted bay windows to both facades. Renovated, c. 1860, with three-bay single-storey lean-to veranda added to front and single-bay three-storey Italianate tower added to rear. Pitched and hipped slate roofs with rendered chimneystacks. Rendered walls. Detached single-bay single-storey gable-fronted coach house to site. Cut-stone piers with cast-iron gates to site.
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 moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Carrowgar.
- 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 Carrowgar with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.
The townland
- Name
- Carrowgar
- Area
- 1,080,466 m² (108.05 ha, 266.99 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilmanaheen, and its townlands
- Barony
- Corcomroe
- Electoral division
- Moy, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Moy electoral division: 765 people in 302 households; 84% of households own their home; 31% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 35% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Calluragh South, Carrowntedaun, Crag, Moy Beg, Tullygarvan West
- Placenames
- Carrowgar 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.