Carrowbeg

27 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carrowbeg, from 409 m² to 139,899 m² (13.99 ha, 34.57 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 47 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 Carrowbeg 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.

• 28 Apr 2026N/a

  for the construction of a serviced dwelling with an effluent treatment system and a garage/shed together with all associated services

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2660650

• 21 Nov 2023Conditional

  for the erection of a new single story dwelling house to contain 3no. bedrooms, 2no. bathrooms and ancillary accommodation. The erection of a new shed to the rear, provision of landscaping works to include 2no. car parking spaces to the rear of the site and associated site works to provide new septic tank and associated services to dwelling. Works to include new road entrance and associated visibility splays. Gross floor space of proposed works: 203.91 sqm (house) & 27.09 sqm (garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2361390

• 6 Nov 2023Conditional

  to construct a dwellinghouse, domestic garage/fuel store, septic tank, treatment system, percolation area & all ancillary site works. Gross floor space of proposed works 269.4 sqm (house) & 60 sqm (garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2361324

• 25 Oct 2023Conditional

  to construct a dwellinghouse, domestic garage/fuel store, septic tank, treatment system & percolation area & all ancillary site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 220 sqm (house) & 40 sqm (garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2361278

• 30 Jun 2022Refused

  sought for the erection of a new two storey dwelling house to contain, 3no. Bedrooms, 3no. Bathrooms and ancillary accommodation. The erection of a new Shed / fuel store to the rear, provision of landscaping works to include to car parking spaces to the rear of the site and associated site works to provide new septic tank and services associated to dwelling. Works to include new road entrance and associated visibility splays. Gross floor area of proposed works: 245sqm (dwelling house) and 43sqm (shed/fuel store)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2260670

• 30 May 2022N/a

  to construct a dwelling house, domestic garage/fuel store, septic tanks, and treatment system and percolation area and all ancillary site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 328 sqm (house) & 60 sqm (garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 22702

• 29 Apr 2022Refused

  to construct a dwelling house, domestic garage/fuel store, septic tank, and treatment system and percolation area and all ancillary site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 327 sqm (house) & 60 sqm (garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 22571

• 20 Dec 2018Conditional

  for the construction of a slatted agricultural shed, round bale storage area, a concrete apron, a new internal access road and associated services. Gross floor space of proposed works 265sqm.

  Permission · Galway County Council, 181849

• 12 Oct 2018Refused

  for the construction of a slatted agricultural shed, round bale storage area, a concrete apron and associated services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 265sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 181447

• 21 Jul 2017Conditional

  to erect a serviced Slatted Agricultural Shed. Gross floor space of proposed works 286sqm.

  Permission · Galway County Council, 171089

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 Carrowbeg.

Recorded monuments

• GA041-011 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  In level pastureland. This well consists of a natural spring delimited by a circular drystone surround (D 1.6m) and is accessible at W via five steps. There is a small aumbry inside the entrance on N side. The OS Letters (O'Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 181) note that 'stations were performed on every Sunday, but particularly on the 9th of September, which is said to be St. Kieran's Day'. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA041-012001 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  On a hill summit in undulating grassland. This poorly preserved cashel consists of an almost circular area (NW-SE c. 24.2m, NE-SW c. 23.5m) defined by a collapsed grassed-over drystone wall from E through S to N, and by a scarp from N to E. An irregularly shaped annexe (c. 13m by c. 9m), defined by a grass-covered collapsed stone wall, abuts the cashel wall at E. Traces of old field walls are visible to W. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA041-052 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

• House, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c.1800, having dormer attic, and late twentieth-century lean-to extension to most of rear elevation. Pitched thatched roof with shallow raised ridge, rendered copings and low rendered chimneystack. Whitewashed walls. Square-headed widened windows with replacement metal frames, and square-headed glazed timber door.

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 Carrowbeg, 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

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Carrowbeg.

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

Name

Carrowbeg · An Cheathrú Bheag

Area

959,971 m² (96 ha, 237.21 acres)

Civil parish

Killursa, and its townlands

Barony

Clare

Electoral division

Killursa, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,135 people lived in 397 households in the Killursa electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 39% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 10% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cahermacanally, Carrownacroagh, Carrownakib, Clerhaun, Ower

Placenames

Carrowbeg 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.