Carheendoo

10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carheendoo, from 362 m² to 121,211 m² (12.12 ha, 29.95 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 17 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Carheendoo 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.

• 27 May 2024Conditional

  for extension to dwelling house and to include granny flat, basement, decommission existing septic tank, install wastewater treatment system with percolation area and all associated site works on an extended site. Gross floor space of proposed works: 173.00 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2460625

• 12 Feb 2024Refused

  to extend dwelling house and to include granny flat, decommission existing septic tank, install a wastewater treatment system with percolation area and all associated site works on an extended site. Gross floor space of proposed works: 193 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2460138

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 Carheendoo.

Recorded monuments

• GA106-033 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In low-lying grassland. Roughly circular rath (diam. c. 44m), in fair condition, defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. No trace of the inner bank survives from ENE to ESE or from SSE to SSW. The outer bank is visible from NW through E to SW. Field walls radiate from the monument at NW and SW. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 19 January 2017

• GA106-034 Quarry
  Description

  A hachured feature marked on the 1933 edition of the OS 6-inch map proved on inspection in 1983 to be a disused gravel pit. As it is of post-AD 1700 date it does not come within the remit of the Archaeological Survey of Ireland. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 11 August 2014

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Carheendoo.

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

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility 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 Carheendoo.

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.

No address of the register names Carheendoo with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Carheendoo · An Caithrín Dubh

Area

295,501 m² (29.55 ha, 73.02 acres)

Civil parish

Leitrim, and its townlands

Barony

Leitrim

Electoral division

Leitrim, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Leitrim electoral division: 553 people in 179 households; 87% of households own their home; 45% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Glennaslat, Grallagh, Kilmacrah, Rafarn, Rafarn, Srahdoo

Placenames

Carheendoo 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.