Carrigeen West

15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carrigeen West, from 1,051 m² to 238,009 m² (23.8 ha, 58.81 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 12 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 Carrigeen West 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.

• 4 Mar 2026Conditional

  for the construction of a dwelling, detached garage, treatment plant and percolation area and all associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2660328

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Rahasane Turlough SAC 000322
• Special Protection Area: Rahasane Turlough SPA 004089
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Rahasane Turlough 000322

Recorded monuments

• GA104-093 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  On a rise in scrubland. Classified by McCaffrey (1952, 223, no. 3) as a circular ‘Stone fort’ (diam. c. 32m) defined by a drystone wall which was ‘ruined to the foundations’. The monument is overgrown and field-clearance rubble has been piled around it. The enclosing element is indicated by a very low overgrown stony bank. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 23 January 2017

• GA104-094 Designed landscape - tree-ring
  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 Carrigeen West.

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 5 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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_799 (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.

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

Name

Carrigeen West · An Carraigín Thiar

Area

1,420,919 m² (142.09 ha, 351.12 acres)

Civil parish

Killeely, and its townlands

Barony

Dunkellin

Electoral division

Rahasane, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Rahasane electoral division: 363 people in 121 households; 93% of households own their home; 49% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynagran, Caheradine, Caherfurvaus, Carheenadiveane, Carrigeen East, Deerpark, Killeeneen Beg, Lissindragan, Rahasane, Shanbally

Placenames

Carrigeen West 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.