Carrowmeer
Carrowmeer is a townland in the civil parish of Tomfinlough, barony of Bunratty Lower, Co. Clare. Its name in Irish is An Ceathrú Mír.
- Area
- 73.7 ha
- 182 acres
- Land parcels
- 58
- registered freehold, median 2,458 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres)
- Zoning
- O2
- Cluster
- Planning
- 8
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
58 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carrowmeer, from 3 m² to 121,860 m² (12.19 ha, 30.11 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 11 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- O2Cluster (General)
Carrowmeer Cluster, Clare · 25 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
4 Sept 2026N/a
the development will consist of the construction of 5 no. glamping pods together with car parking, wastewater treatment system and polishing filter, connection to water supply, upgrading of existing vehicular access, modifications to existing entrance gate, and all associated site works
Permission · Clare County Council, 2660584
1 Oct 2025Conditional
of a garage and tennis court to the rear of the dwelling
Retention, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2560602
5 Dec 2023Conditional
for alterations, changes to elevations and floor area increase to the existing dwelling house including all ancillary site works
Permission · Clare County Council, 2360527
22 Jun 2023Conditional
to change the design of dwelling house and garage granted under existing planning permission ref; P21/1159 and all associated siteworks. The application consists of a single storey extension to the south east side of the existing house and construction of a garage with all associated site works
Permission · Clare County Council, 23360
4 Nov 2021Conditional
to extend existing house and construct garage. The application consists of a single storey extension to the side of the existing house and construction of a garage with all associated site works
Permission · Clare County Council, 211159
9 Feb 2021Conditional
to extend existing house at Carrowmeer, Newmarket on Fergus, Co Clare The application consist of a single storey extension to the rear of the existing house and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2192
1 Jun 2017Conditional
to alter design of dwelling house from that previously granted under Planning Ref. No. P08-1339 and P14-5 ( Extension of Duration) together with all ancillary site works
Permission · Clare County Council, 17431
18 May 2017Conditional
for the construction of a dwellinghouse, garage, entrance & proprietary waste treatment plant including ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 17374
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
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Fin Lough (Clare) 001010
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Carrowmeer.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Carrowmeer.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Carrowmeer, about 1 in 5 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. Parts of the land are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Carrowmeer.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Carrowmeer with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.
The townland
- Name
- Carrowmeer · An Ceathrú Mír
- Area
- 736,952 m² (73.7 ha, 182.1 acres)
- Civil parish
- Tomfinlough, and its townlands
- Barony
- Bunratty Lower
- Electoral division
- Tomfinlough, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 681 people lived in 233 households in the Tomfinlough electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Finlough, Granaghan More, Mausnarylaan, Muckanagh (Vandeleur)
- Placenames
- Carrowmeer 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.