Carn

30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carn, from 481 m² to 214,063 m² (21.41 ha, 52.9 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Carn 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 Jul 2025N/a

  for the construction of an all-weather playing pitch, car parking, drop off area, fencing and all associated site services

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2560867

• 20 Jan 2025Conditional

  to 1) construct a new agricultural shed 2) retention of existing slatted tank as well as all associated works and ancillary services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 446.15 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2560048

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 Carn.

Recorded monuments

• GA105-051 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  On a N-facing slope in pastureland. Poorly preserved circular cashel (diam. 25m) defined by a low grassed-over drystone wall. There is a break (Wth 5m) in the wall between NNE and ESE. A possible souterrain (GA105-051001-) lies in the WNW sector of the interior. (ASGAP 375:60) Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 19 January 2017

• GA105-051001 Souterrain
  Description

  Within the WSW sector of a cashel (GA105-051----). This collapsed souterrain is defined by an L-shaped depression (L >8m). Its long axis (L 4.7m; Wth 1.6m) runs ENE-WSW and the short axis (L 3.4m; Wth 1.7m) extends from its SW side and runs SSE. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 19 January 2017

• GA105-052 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  In low-lying marshy pastureland. Marked on the OS 6-inch maps as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 25m). No visible surface trace survives and a large quarry now occupies the site. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 18 February 2019

• GA105-209 Field boundary
  Description

  On a gentle S-facing slope in pastureland. Aerial reconnaissance in November 1987 (ASGAP 375:60) revealed an irregularly shaped field (c. 300m E-W; c. 70m N-S), which on inspection proved to be defined by a collapsed bank of earth and stone that was barely visible in places. Several modern field boundaries cut across the field and a number of natural hollows are visible in the interior. A house (GA105-219----) lies within the interior at SE. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 1 June 2017

• GA105-210 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In gently undulating pastureland. Aerial reconnaissance in November 1987 (ASGAP 375:60) revealed a poorly preserved enclosure with a depression in the interior that possibly marked the site of souterrain. On inspection this proved to be a rath (diam. 44.7m) defined by a bank of earth and stone. A low bank (Wth 1.5m) cut across the interior from E to W. The depression noted on the aerial photograph proved to be a quarried-out area in the NE quadrant. Low banks of earth and stone (Wth c. 2m) radiating from the monument at SW and NW are possibly an associated field system (GA105-210001-). Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 2 June 2017

• GA105-210001 Field system
  Description

  Aerial reconnaissance in November 1987 (ASGAP 375: 60) revealed a number of field boundaries radiating from a rath (see GA105-210----). These are defined by banks of earth and stone (Wth 2m; H 0.3m). One extends from the rath at SW and runs in a S direction for c. 60m. Another extends off it at NW and runs in a NW direction for c. 30m where it then runs into another boundary that extends c. 40m to its W and c. 100m to its NE. These boundaries may be part of a field system associated with the rath. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 2 June 2017

• GA105-219 House - indeterminate date
  Description

  Noted during aerial reconnaissance in November 1987 (ASGAP 375:60), this subcircular house (9.5m E-W; 8.5m N-S), located in the SE section of a field (see GA105-209----), is defined by a bank of earth and stone (Wth 1.5m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 0.3m). The interior slopes to the S and two nettle-filled hollows are visible within it. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 1 June 2017

Architectural heritage

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

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 Carn, 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1048 (ZIP).

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 Carn with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Carn · An Carn

Area

911,981 m² (91.2 ha, 225.36 acres)

Civil parish

Loughrea, and its townlands

Barony

Loughrea

Electoral division

Loughrea Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

898 people lived in 307 households in the Loughrea Rural electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrowmore, Fairfield, Gorteenapheebera, Knockadikeen, Moyleen

Placenames

Carn 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.