# Carrowconlaun, Co. Galway: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Donaghpatrick, barony of Clare, Co. Galway; in Irish Ceathrú Uí Chonalláin. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 572,093 m² (57.21 ha, 141.37 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 3,131 m² (0.31 ha, 0.77 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 3 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Donaghpatrick, https://everytownland.com/galway/parish/donaghpatrick.md - Barony: Clare - Electoral division: Kilcoona, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Galway, https://everytownland.com/galway.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/21712 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 60926 - Centre: latitude 53.481513, longitude -9.023028 (WGS 84) ## 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); 17 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 5765836: 274,173 m² (27.42 ha, 67.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5765836.md - Parcel 1950901: 111,614 m² (11.16 ha, 27.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1950901.md - Parcel 2000482: 78,775 m² (7.88 ha, 19.47 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2000482.md - Parcel 2000483: 77,183 m² (7.72 ha, 19.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2000483.md - Parcel 4738917: 6,141 m² (0.61 ha, 1.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4738917.md - Parcel 4619947: 4,397 m² (0.44 ha, 1.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4619947.md - Parcel 4738929: 3,287 m² (0.33 ha, 0.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4738929.md - Parcel 1950900: 2,975 m² (0.3 ha, 0.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1950900.md - Parcel 4629589: 2,854 m² (0.29 ha, 0.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4629589.md - Parcel 2112700: 2,701 m² (0.27 ha, 0.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2112700.md - Parcel 4635821: 2,589 m² (0.26 ha, 0.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4635821.md - Parcel 2000484: 2,304 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2000484.md - Parcel 4738941: 2,242 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4738941.md - Parcel 4629573: 1,321 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4629573.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 3 applications, newest first. - 9 Oct 2025, Galway County Council 2561471: Conditional. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/2561471/0 - 14 Dec 2021, Galway County Council 212367: Conditional. Permission. for construction of a 4 bay slatted shed and all ancillary works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 203.6 sqm.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/212367/0 - 10 Sept 2021, Galway County Council 211663: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/211663/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Carrowconlaun. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - GA042-079: Ringfort - cashel, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA042-079----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA042-079001-. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA042-080----. 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 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Carrowconlaun. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - 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: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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 flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/galway/carrowconlaun.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/galway/carrowconlaun.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/galway/carrowconlaun.kml ## Homes sold (Residential 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: https://everytownland.com/galway.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Bohercuill: https://everytownland.com/galway/bohercuill.md - Donaghpatrick: https://everytownland.com/galway/donaghpatrick.md - Kildrum: https://everytownland.com/galway/kildrum.md - Kilwullaun: https://everytownland.com/galway/kilwullaun.md - Oltore: https://everytownland.com/galway/oltore.md - Stonepark or Bawnmore: https://everytownland.com/galway/stonepark-or-bawnmore.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/galway/carrowconlaun - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/galway/carrowconlaun