# Carrowholla, Co. Galway: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Ballymacward, barony of Kilconnell, Co. Galway; in Irish Ceathrú Thola. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 2,033,325 m² (203.33 ha, 502.45 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 33 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 28,555 m² (2.86 ha, 7.06 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Ballymacward, https://everytownland.com/galway/parish/ballymacward.md - Barony: Kilconnell - Electoral division: Killaan, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 572 people lived in 200 households in the Killaan electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 23% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Galway, https://everytownland.com/galway.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/17825 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 60938 - Centre: latitude 53.350071, longitude -8.487945 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 33 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carrowholla, from 295 m² to 320,257 m² (32.03 ha, 79.14 acres); 16 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 2008431: 320,257 m² (32.03 ha, 79.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2008431.md - Parcel 2008423: 161,590 m² (16.16 ha, 39.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2008423.md - Parcel 2008422: 154,233 m² (15.42 ha, 38.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2008422.md - Parcel 2008421: 137,016 m² (13.7 ha, 33.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2008421.md - Parcel 2008426: 118,452 m² (11.85 ha, 29.27 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2008426.md - Parcel 2008427: 107,966 m² (10.8 ha, 26.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2008427.md - Parcel 2008429: 83,626 m² (8.36 ha, 20.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2008429.md - Parcel 2008433: 83,571 m² (8.36 ha, 20.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2008433.md - Parcel 1943550: 79,958 m² (8 ha, 19.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1943550.md - Parcel 2008424: 79,556 m² (7.96 ha, 19.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2008424.md - Parcel 1943554: 79,400 m² (7.94 ha, 19.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1943554.md - Parcel 2008420: 73,909 m² (7.39 ha, 18.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2008420.md - Parcel 1943555: 72,844 m² (7.28 ha, 18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1943555.md - Parcel 2008432: 65,819 m² (6.58 ha, 16.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2008432.md - Parcel 1943551: 63,911 m² (6.39 ha, 15.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1943551.md - Parcel 2008418: 39,052 m² (3.91 ha, 9.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2008418.md - Parcel 1943549: 28,555 m² (2.86 ha, 7.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1943549.md - Parcel 2008428: 27,483 m² (2.75 ha, 6.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2008428.md - Parcel 2008425: 21,448 m² (2.14 ha, 5.3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2008425.md - Parcel 4462273: 19,680 m² (1.97 ha, 4.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4462273.md - Parcel 1943556: 19,019 m² (1.9 ha, 4.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1943556.md - Parcel 4665312: 14,413 m² (1.44 ha, 3.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4665312.md - Parcel 1943546: 14,046 m² (1.4 ha, 3.47 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1943546.md - Parcel 1943553: 11,376 m² (1.14 ha, 2.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1943553.md - Parcel 1943552: 11,268 m² (1.13 ha, 2.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1943552.md - Parcel 4635470: 3,938 m² (0.39 ha, 0.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4635470.md - Parcel 4462271: 3,507 m² (0.35 ha, 0.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4462271.md - Parcel 2008430: 3,501 m² (0.35 ha, 0.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2008430.md - Parcel 2008419: 3,340 m² (0.33 ha, 0.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2008419.md - Parcel 4462272: 2,261 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4462272.md - Parcel 5272818: 1,716 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5272818.md - Parcel 1943548: 1,204 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1943548.md - Parcel 1943547: 295 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1943547.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Carrowholla 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) 1 application, newest first. - 30 Apr 2020, Galway County Council 20531: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. for the following development: (a) Construction of a new dwelling (b) Construction of a domestic garage (c) Wastewater treatment system with percolation area (d) New site entrance and all associated site works: Gross floor space of proposed works:220.00 sqm (House), 40.00 sqm (Garage). File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/20531/0 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 Carrowholla. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - GA073-033: Ringfort - unclassified, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA073-033----. On a rise in undulating grassland. Circular rath (D 21m), in fair condition, defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. 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 - GA073-034: Ringfort - unclassified, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA073-034----. On a hillock in marshy grassland. Poorly preserved circular rath (D 24m) defined by an inner scarp, intervening fosse and outer bank. The latter survives from SE to NW, and is overlain by a field bank from SW to N. 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 - GA073-035: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA073-035----. On a natural rise in marshy land prone to flooding. A poorly preserved irregular enclosure (E-W c. 30m, N-S c 20m) defined by a bank which survives at W and N. A later earthen field wall appears to overlie the bank from N to NE. From SE to SW, the monument has been destroyed as a result of the construction of a farmhouse. Traces of an almost levelled field wall, running from E to W, are visible within the interior. 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 - GA073-036: Ringfort - unclassified, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA073-036----. On a rise in undulating grassland. Poorly preserved circular rath (D 25m) defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. The E half of this monument has been almost completely levelled. 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 Carrowholla. ## 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 Carrowholla, about 1 in 20 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Carrowholla. - 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/carrowholla.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/galway/carrowholla.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/galway/carrowholla.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Carrowholla 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) - Ballinlough: https://everytownland.com/galway/ballinlough-60217.md - Carrowmore: https://everytownland.com/galway/carrowmore-60966.md - Carrownea Upper: https://everytownland.com/galway/carrownea-upper.md - Greenhills: https://everytownland.com/galway/greenhills.md - Tullawicky: https://everytownland.com/galway/tullawicky.md - Woodlawn: https://everytownland.com/galway/woodlawn.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/carrowholla - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/galway/carrowholla