Carrowgorm

25 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carrowgorm, from 1,595 m² to 188,709 m² (18.87 ha, 46.63 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 13 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 Carrowgorm 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.

• 29 Sept 2026N/a

  to reduce the floor area of house plans & elevations to include an attached garage as per plans & elevations attached from those previously granted under pl ref no. 24/60295 to include all ancillary site development works

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2661625

• 7 Mar 2025Conditional

  to carry out amendments to the previously granted permission under planning reference number 16/259. The proposed amendments to the previously consented planning application will comprise of the following. Relocate the electrical control building/substation. Relocate the four number power inverter cabins and associated underground cable. Full planning permission also sought to construct an additional electrical control building/substation. Relocate the four number power inverter cabins and associated underground cable. Full planning permission also sought to construct an additional electrical control building/substation . Gross floor space of proposed works: 222.00 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2560236

• 18 Mar 2024Conditional

  for the construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage, treatment system, percolation area and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 360 sqm (house) & 60 sqm (garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2460295

• 2 Oct 2023Refused

  for a dwellinghouse, 7.0m to ridge, domestic garage, treatment system & percolation area & all associated site works

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2361182

• 6 Sept 2021Unconditional

  for development that will consist of the construction, operation and decommissioning of a solar photo-voltaic panel array to export electricity to the national grid. The solar panel array will consist of up to approximately 40,000 square metres of solar photovoltaic panels supported by ground mounted frames, one electrical control building, 4 number power inverter cabins, underground cable ducts, temporary laydown area, boundary security fence, CCTV, site entrance, and all associated site works (gross floor space 43.1375sqm)

  Extension of duration · Galway County Council, 211623

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 Carrowgorm.

Recorded monuments

• GA044-027 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Some 180m NW of a ringfort (GA044-028----). Marked on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map as an oval enclosure (N-S c. 40m, E-W c. 30m). What survives is a bank and external fosse from N through E to SSE. A field wall cuts the monument at N and SSE, and no visible surface trace survives to W of it. 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). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Updated by: Olive Alcock Date of revised upload: 15 September 2015

• GA044-028 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a rise in level grassland. Poorly preserved circular rath (D 44.5m) defined by a low bank and external fosse. Several breaches in the bank appear modern. The fosse is best preserved at W. A ringfort (GA044-027----) lies c. 180m to NW. 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 Carrowgorm.

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 Carrowgorm, 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. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Carrowgorm · An Cheathrú Ghorm

Area

761,423 m² (76.14 ha, 188.15 acres)

Civil parish

Killererin, and its townlands

Barony

Tiaquin

Electoral division

Killererin, the unit of the census

Census 2022

770 people lived in 271 households in the Killererin electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 32% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrowmanagh, Clogherboy, Feagh East, Garraun More

Placenames

Carrowgorm 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.