Carrowcreevanagh
Carrowcreevanagh is a townland in the civil parish of Duniry, barony of Leitrim, Co. Galway. Its name in Irish is Ceathrú Chraoibhíneach.
- Area
- 63 ha
- 156 acres
- Land parcels
- 17
- registered freehold, median 26,678 m² (2.67 ha, 6.59 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carrowcreevanagh, from 2,185 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres) to 127,164 m² (12.72 ha, 31.42 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 22 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 Carrowcreevanagh 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
30 Sept 2025Conditional
for construction of dwelling house with domestic garage, sewage treatment system, and all associated site development works, demolition of derelict farm building
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2561414
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 Carrowcreevanagh.
Recorded monuments
- GA116-016 Enclosure
Description
In low-lying pastureland. Marked on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a subcircular enclosure curving from ESE to NW (dim. c. 60m) and bounded by a stream from NW to ESE. No visible surface trace survives. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 22 July 2019
- GA116-017 Quarry
Description
This is a disused quarry. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 21 August 2015
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Carrowcreevanagh.
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 Carrowcreevanagh, about 1 in 10 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Carrowcreevanagh.
- 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 Carrowcreevanagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.
The townland
- Name
- Carrowcreevanagh · Ceathrú Chraoibhíneach
- Area
- 630,067 m² (63.01 ha, 155.69 acres)
- Civil parish
- Duniry, and its townlands
- Barony
- Leitrim
- Electoral division
- Bracklagh, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 495 people lived in 171 households in the Bracklagh electoral division. 94% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Bracklagh Grange, Cartron, Cloonlee, Grange Beg, Ranamackan, Streamstown
- Placenames
- Carrowcreevanagh 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.