Carrowroe
Townland in the civil parish of Quin, barony of Bunratty Upper, Co. Clare; in Irish An Cheathrú Ghearr
- Area
- 139.5 ha
- 345 acres
- Land parcels
- 30
- registered freehold, median 15,037 m² (1.5 ha, 3.72 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 10
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carrowroe, from 2,232 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres) to 313,450 m² (31.35 ha, 77.46 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 31 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 Carrowroe 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 Feb 2025Conditional
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, 2539
21 Oct 2024Conditional
to construct a dwelling house and garage, with effluent treatment system, new entrance from public road and all associated site works
Outline permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 24345
22 Feb 2024Conditional
for (a) Renovation of the exiting bungalow (b) storey and a half extension to the side of the existing bungalow and all associated site works and connections to existing services
Permission · Clare County Council, 2462
29 Aug 2023Conditional
to construct a single dwelling house, advanced wastewater treatment system along with ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2360333
13 May 2022Conditional
to construct a new dwelling house and a private garage, new entrance and sewerage treatment facilities along with all associated works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 22436
3 Dec 2021Conditional
to construct a single-storey dwelling house, detached garage, entrance, boundary walls, waste water treatment unit and polishing filter and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 211289
31 Mar 2020Conditional
for development as follows: Demolition of existing storage building, construction of extension and alterations to existing dwelling house, construction of detached garage behind house with all associated site works and connections to existing services
Permission · Clare County Council, 20220
23 Jul 2018Conditional
to construct a new dwelling house and a private garage, new entrance and sewerage treatment facilities along with all associated works.
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 18596
29 Sept 2017Conditional
to construct a new dwelling ( to replace existing sub-standard dwelling), including new proprietary treatment unit and percolation area, including all ancillary site works and using existing entrance, and also to demolish existing sub-standard dwelling
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 17741
9 May 2017N/a
to construct New dwelling (to replace existing sub-standard dwelling) including new proprietary treatment unit and percolation area, including all ancillary site works and using existing site entrance, and also PERMISSION to demolish existing sub-standard dwelling
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 17346
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 Carrowroe.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Carrowroe.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Carrowroe.
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 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 Carrowroe.
- 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 Carrowroe with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.
The townland
- Name
- Carrowroe · An Cheathrú Ghearr
- Area
- 1,395,155 m² (139.52 ha, 344.75 acres)
- Civil parish
- Quin, and its townlands
- Barony
- Bunratty Upper
- Electoral division
- Dangan, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Dangan electoral division: 245 people in 88 households; 93% of households own their home; 38% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Caherloghan, Dangan, Derrymore West, Gorteen, Lissofin, Moymore, Toonagh
- Placenames
- Carrowroe 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.