Carrowconlaun
Carrowconlaun is a townland in the civil parish of Donaghpatrick, barony of Clare, Co. Galway. Its name in Irish is Ceathrú Uí Chonalláin.
- Area
- 57.2 ha
- 141 acres
- Land parcels
- 14
- registered freehold, median 3,131 m² (0.31 ha, 0.77 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carrowconlaun, from 1,321 m² to 274,173 m² (27.42 ha, 67.75 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 17 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Carrowconlaun 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
9 Oct 2025Conditional
for the replacement (“restringing”) of the existing OHL circuit conductor wires with a new higher capacity conductor between structure no. 81 and 161; the replacement of angle masts in-situ at 3no. locations, with similar structures; the painting of a tower at 1no. location; the replacement of polesets at 54no. locations, with similar structures. The change in structures will result in standardised heights from 16 m to 23 m along the circuit. The majority of the height increases will be between 0.1 m and 2.0 m (at 40no. structures), with 13no. structure replacements resulting in no change in height. Structure no. 109 will increase in height by 3.0 m; the replacement of insulating and ancillary hardware at all structures from structure no. 81 to 160; the replacement of stay wire / anchors and associated fittings at 3no. locations; the replacement of crossarms at 59no. locations; the installation of fibre wrap on phase conductor between structure no. 1 and structure no. 161; all associated temporary site development works to gain access to the existing structures including the removal and reinstatement of 220m of hedgerow / field boundary (estimated using Táilte Éireann data), vegetation clearance and management, disassembly and reassembly of gate posts / piers and removal and reinstatement of existing fencing; and other temporary associated and ancillary site development works required for the purpose of the uprate of the existing circuit, including construction compounds, silt traps, silt fences, vegetation clearance and management, stone tracks, ground protection mats, infrastructure crossing support systems (i.e., guard poles) and a temporary watercourse crossing to access structure no. 160. Where required, an aerial catenary stringing system will be used to facilitate stringing operations over major obstacles, e.g., national roads, rivers, etc. A Natura Impact Statement will be submitted to the Planning Authority with the application
Permission · Galway County Council, 2561471
14 Dec 2021Conditional
for construction of a 4 bay slatted shed and all ancillary works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 203.6 sqm.
Permission · Galway County Council, 212367
10 Sept 2021Conditional
for demolition of existing dwelling house, water tank and fuel store, and construction of new dwelling house , sewage treatment plant and percolation area, along with all ancillary works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 296 sqm. Gross floor space of any demolition: 192 sqm & 33 sqm
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211663
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 Carrowconlaun.
Recorded monuments
- GA042-079 Ringfort - cashel
Description
In gently undulating grassland. Poorly preserved oval cashel (N-S c. 41m, E-W c. 36m) defined by a low drystone wall at S, otherwise no visible surface trace survives. Within the interior is a souterrain (GA042-019001-) 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
- GA042-079001 Souterrain
Description
In S half of a ringfort (GA042-079----). A partially stone-filled linear hollow is visible directly inside the enclosing wall of the cashel. This follows a N-S axis (L 5m) before curving gently to NE (L 4m). The S part is almost totally filled with stone but traces of stone-facing are visible on the sides of the curving N end. This averages 0.8m in width and up to 0.7m in depth. 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
- GA042-080 Ringfort - cashel
Description
On a W-facing slope in gently undulating grassland. Named on OS Fair Plan as 'Connells Fort' and marked on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map as an oval enclosure (c. 50m by c. 35m). No visible surface trace survives. 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
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Carrowconlaun.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Carrowconlaun, 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.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Carrowconlaun.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Carrowconlaun with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.
The townland
- Name
- Carrowconlaun · Ceathrú Uí Chonalláin
- Area
- 572,093 m² (57.21 ha, 141.37 acres)
- Civil parish
- Donaghpatrick, and its townlands
- Barony
- Clare
- Electoral division
- Kilcoona, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 662 people lived in 215 households in the Kilcoona electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Bohercuill, Donaghpatrick, Kildrum, Kilwullaun, Oltore, Stonepark or Bawnmore
- Placenames
- Carrowconlaun 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.