Carrowmore
Townland in the civil parish of Kilfintinan, barony of Bunratty Lower, Co. Clare; in Irish An Cheathrú Mhór
- Area
- 114.8 ha
- 284 acres
- Land parcels
- 67
- registered freehold, median 3,113 m² (0.31 ha, 0.77 acres)
- Zoning
- O2
- Cluster
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
67 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carrowmore, from 36 m² to 161,180 m² (16.12 ha, 39.83 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 35 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
- O2Cluster (General)
Castlequarter Cluster, Clare · 23 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
14 Oct 2025N/a
to construct a dwelling house, garage, a proprietary waste water treatment system and ancillary site works
Outline permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 25322
30 Jun 2025Conditional
of existing detached out building comprising gym / home office and storage area along with all associated ancillary site works
Retention, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2560392
29 Jun 2023N/a
to construct a dwelling house, garage, a proprietary waste water treatment system and ancillary site works
Outline permission · Clare County Council, 23374
23 May 2019Refused
for development which will consist of the construction of a dwelling house, garage, a proprietary waste water treatment system and ancillary site works
Outline permission · Clare County Council, 19412
1 Aug 2017Conditional
for an entrance, split level dwelling house, garage, domestic wastewater treatment system with polishing filter all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 17589
13 Jul 2017Conditional
to construct a dwelling house and garage, with effluent treatment system, new entrance from public road, and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 17539
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 Carrowmore.
Recorded monuments
- CL052-066 Enclosure
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 Carrowmore.
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
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_843 (ZIP).
- 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 Carrowmore with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.
The townland
- Name
- Carrowmore · An Cheathrú Mhór
- Area
- 1,148,117 m² (114.81 ha, 283.71 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilfintinan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Bunratty Lower
- Electoral division
- Mountievers, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Mountievers electoral division: 1,410 people in 471 households; 85% of households own their home; 49% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballybroughan, Ballyliddan West, Calluragh, Carrownerribul, Castlequarter, Gallowshill, Gortnanool, Heathmount
- Placenames
- Carrowmore 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.