Carrowkilla

30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carrowkilla, from 920 m² to 112,240 m² (11.22 ha, 27.74 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 25 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Carrowkilla 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.

• 1 Nov 2021Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house, wastewater treatment system, modification to existing road entrance and associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 211142

• 13 Oct 2021Conditional

  to (a) Demolish existing substandard house and roadside lean-to shed, (b) Construct a new replacement dwelling house, new driveway, new replacement waste water treatment system, upgrade entrance from public road and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 211083

• 4 Jun 2021N/a

  to (a) Demolish existing substandard house and roadside lean-to shed. (b) Construct a new replacement dwelling house, new driveway, new replacement waste-water treatment system, upgrade entrance from public road and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 21579

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 Carrowkilla.

Recorded monuments

• CL050-036001 Church
  Description

  On raised prominent ground with views over the Shannon Estuary from E to SE. Indicated and named ‘Kilchreest Church (in ruins)’ on the 1840 and 1923 eds of the 6-inch OS maps. On the 1804 ed. the surrounding graveyard (CL050-036002-) is confined to the S of the church but by the 1923 ed. it appears to have expanded to fully surround it. The date of the foundation of the church is not recorded, however, as MacMahon (1989, 9) has noted, the ‘rectory of the village of Christe’ was among lands granted to the Augustinian Canons of Clare Abbey in 1189 (Gwynn and Gleeson 1962, 205). The parish was not listed in the 1302 Ecclesiastical Taxation and MacMahon (1989, 9) has suggested that it was included under Clare Abbey in the assessment. He further suggests that the church may have been built as part of a phase of mid-15th century construction identified by Westropp (1897, 287) on Canons’ Island (Inisgad) monastery. The rectory and vicarage of Kilchreest were impropriate to the Augustinian Canons of Canon’s Island by the 16th century (Gaynor 1948, 12) and, as MacMahon (1989, 9) notes, likely for some time before that. Further support for the assertion that the Augustinians were responsible for the building of Kilchreest can be drawn from its striking similarity in form and size with Kilshanny church (CL015-027001-), a known Augustinian foundation (MacMahon 1993). During the reformation, the monastery and its possessions became property of the crown and in 1605 were granted to the Earl of Thomond (ibid.). In 1839, O’Donovan (Comber 1997, 161-2) recorded ‘symptoms of the action of fire’ on the interior the church ruin, locally said to have happened ‘during some religious commotion’ (ibid.).   A well-preserved and large E-W orientated medieval parish church (22m E-W; 7.1m N-S; wall T 0.98m), built of roughly dressed or undressed limestone blocks laid in a roughly coursed fashion, but with better dressed quoin stones and finely dressed stone around windows and doors. The gables and sidewalls stand to full height (c. 9m and 5.5m). Remnants of a roof of Liscannor-type stone survive. Opposing block-holes in the S and N walls, and corbels in the W gable suggest an upper floor to the W end of the church and a chancel arch near the E end.   The S wall contains two doors and four windows. The nave was entered through the main door, c. 6m from the W end and the chancel through a narrower door c. 3.5m from the E end. The W door (H 1.91m; Wth 1.1m) has a chamfered pointed arch; externally it is recessed and surmounted by a V-shaped hood-moulding; internally it is set in an embrasure (Wth 1.58m) splayed on its W side and straight to its E. A double stoup (hollow Wth 0.22m; D 0.11m) with two pointed and externally chamfered opes, sits in the internal corner on the E side of the doorway. MacMahon (1989) notes that this and other similar examples can be assigned confidently to the second half of the fifteenth century. A square beam-slot D 1.06m; (Wth 0.11m), also on the E side of the door is surmounted by a roughly dressed stone above which a small area in high relief has a hollow bolt-hole containing traces of iron. There are two windows W of the main door, one set high to light the upper floor. The ground-level window (H 0.66m; Wth 0.13m) is set within a splayed square embrasure (Wth 1.05m). Above this and slightly E, the upper-floor window is somewhat wider and taller and set in a splayed and stepped embrasure. There is one window (Wth 0.2m, H 1.44m) between the two doorways, just W of the block-holes that would have supported the chancel arch. It is slightly pointed with external chamfer and set in a splayed embrasure (Wth 1.36m; H 2m). The E door is a narrow pointed doorway (H 1.67m; Wth 0.54m) chamfered externally with ornate stops at its base. Internally it is in a plain and largely rebuilt embrasure (Wth 0.76m; H 1.76m). A round-headed rectangular window (Wth 0.2m; H 1.44m), chamfered externally and set in a splayed embrasure (Wth 1.36m; H 2m), is located E of the E door. The base of this embrasure contains a four-leafed piscina.   The W gable is largely covered in ivy. Westropp (1900-02, 162) recorded the remains of a broken belfry at the top; this is not visible but remains may be concealed beneath the ivy. Four corbels that would have supported the upper floor remain and there are two recesses at first-floor level.    The E gable contains a fine three-light window (Wth 2.3m; H 4.2m) with switchline tracery set in a slightly splayed embrasure and surmounted on the exterior by a plain hood moulding. The mullions and head of the tracery window are largely intact, but the base of the embrasure is damaged. On the exterior the base is partly blocked by cemented stones.   The N wall contains one small plain rectangular window in a splayed stepped embrasure (Wth c. 1m) high up near the W end reinforcing the impression of an upper floor here. A double line of coping stones run along the top of the wall externally there is a mostly intact corbel table internally.   Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin   Date of upload: 3 November 2025

• CL050-036002 Graveyard
  Description

  On raised prominent ground with views over the Shannon Estuary from E to SE. Indicated and named ‘Grave Yard’ on the 1840 and 1923 eds of the 6-inch OS maps. On the 1804 edition it is confined to the S of the church but by the 1923 edition it appears to have expanded to fully surround it. A roughly rectangular graveyard (c. 93m E-W; c. 56m N-S) around the site of Kilchreest medieval parish church (CL050-036001-) defined by a stone wall and opening to the roadside at SW. Most burials are marked by headstones facing E. Most of the remainder are marked by slabs, the earliest of which are S of the church and date to the early 18th century.   Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin   Date of upload: 3 November 2025

• CL050-061 Excavation - miscellaneous
  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 Carrowkilla.

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 Carrowkilla, 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 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 Carrowkilla.

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 Carrowkilla with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.

Name

Carrowkilla · Ceathrú na Cille

Area

931,851 m² (93.19 ha, 230.27 acres)

Civil parish

Kilchreest, and its townlands

Barony

Clonderalaw

Electoral division

Ballynacally, the unit of the census

Census 2022

231 people lived in 86 households in the Ballynacally electoral division. 81% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardnagla, Ballynacally, Knocksaggart, Lavally, Mount, Poulaphuca

Placenames

Carrowkilla 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.