Carrowkeel

32 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carrowkeel, from 484 m² to 124,275 m² (12.43 ha, 30.71 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 30 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Carrowkeel 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.

• 3 Jan 2024Conditional

  for construction of a dwelling and garage, including an installation of a treatment plant and percolations and all associated site services and landscaping. Gross floor space of proposed works: 189.60 sqm (house) & 28.10 sqm (garage)

  Permission, 2 homes · Galway County Council, 2460003

• 21 Aug 2023Refused

  for construction of a dwelling & garage including the installation of a treatment plant & percolation area & all associated site services & landscaping. Gross floor space of proposed works (house) 189.6 sqm & (garage) 28.2 sqm

  Extension of duration · Galway County Council, 23334

• 17 Jun 2022Conditional

  for Installation of solar photo-voltaic modules to roof of existing community centre for the supply of electricity and all associated site development works.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2260620

• 8 Jun 2022Conditional

  to construct a dormer bungalow type dwelling & a domestic garage, new road access and a sewerage treatment system with all associated site works. Development includes the demolition of existing building ruins and removal of trees on the site. Gross floor space of proposed works: 225.3sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2260588

• 15 Mar 2022Conditional

  to construct a Dormer Bungalow type Dwelling & a Domestic Garage , new road access and a sewerage treatment system with all associated site works.Development includes the demolition of existing building ruins and removal of trees on the site.Gross floor space of proposed works 214.80 sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2260230

• 14 Feb 2022N/a

  to construct a Dormer Bungalow type Dwelling & a Domestic Garage, new road access and a sewerage treatment system with all associated site works. Development includes the demolition of existing building ruins and removal of trees on the site. Gross floor area of proposed works: 184 sqm (dwelling) & 41.3 sqm (garage).

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2260105

• 22 Dec 2021N/a

  to construct a dormer bungalow type dwelling & a domestic garage, new road access and a sewerage treatment system with all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 184 sqm (house) & 41.3 sqm (garage)

  Permission · Galway County Council, 212495

• 22 Dec 2021N/a

  to construct a dormer bungalow type dwelling, domestic garage, new road access and a sewerage treatment system with all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 173.5 sqm (house) & 41.3 sqm (garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 212503

• 10 Dec 2020Conditional

  for construction of a dwelling and garage at Carrowkeel, Loughrea including the installation of a treatment plant and percolation area and all associated site services and landscaping. Gross floor space of proposed works: House 200 msq & Garage 28.1 msq.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 201887

• 26 Nov 2020Conditional

  to construct a new dwelling house, domestic garage, treatment unit with percolation area and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 259.3 msq & 59.3 msq.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 201784

• 3 Feb 2020Conditional

  for (A) upgrading and widening existing walkway around pitch (B) for the installation of lighting for this walkway, (C) for the installation of rainwater harvesting system and (D) all associated site development works

  Permission · Galway County Council, 20116

• 19 Sept 2019Conditional

  for a domestic garage. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 97.8 sqm

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 191452

• 14 Mar 2019Conditional

  for extending wing walls to rear of existing ball wall, roof and close in area to rear of existing ball wall to create storage rooms, meeting rooms and open shed and all associated site development works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 181.3 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 19357

• 12 Jul 2018Conditional

  for construction of a dwelling and garage including the installation of a treatment plant and percolation area and all associated site services and landscaping. Gross floor space of proposed works (house) 189.6 sqm. (garage) 28.2 sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 18979

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 Carrowkeel.

Recorded monuments

• GA116-018 Standing stone
  Description

  In gently undulating pastureland. Indicated and named 'Stone' in Roman script on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map. No visible surface trace survives. A limekiln has been built here. The landowner did not recall there being a monument here. Possibly the site of a standing stone. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 16 December 2019

• GA116-019 Church
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• GA116-020 House - 18th/19th century
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

Architectural heritage

• Saint Andrew's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1855–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding gable-fronted Roman Catholic Church, dated 1858, having five-bay, and single-bay sacristy addition to north elevation. Church faces east, with altar to west. Pitched slate roofs with tooled limestone cross finials, pinnacles and copings to gables. Roughcast rendered chimneystack to sacristy. Lined-and-ruled rendered walls to gables, and roughcast rendered walls to long sides, with smooth rendered plinth course to latter. Tooled limestone string course and inscribed plaque to gable-front. Carved limestone quoins to all corners. Pointed arch window openings, lancet to nave, triple-light to gable-front, four-light to altar end, and double-light to sacristy, having tooled limestone surrounds, block-and-start to nave and sacristy, and having hood-mouldings to gable windows. Stained leaded-glass windows throughout, with intersecting limestone tracery glazing bars to gable windows. Pointed arch door openings with tooled limestone surrounds, that to sacristy being block-and-start, with timber panelled door, and that to main entrance being chamfered, with hood-moulding and double-leaf timber panelled door. Freestanding belfry to north of church. Marble altar furniture, some marble wall memorials. Timber gallery with ogee-headed arcader parapet. Glazed timber screen forming porch area. Recent priests' graves and numerous recent memorials and plaques to site. Two pairs of decorative cast-iron double-leaf gates, flanked by monolithic tooled limestone piers with chamfered edges, in turn flanked by similar cast-iron railings on tooled limestone plinths, with terminating matching piers. Rubble stone boundary walls to sides of site. Smooth rendered boundary wall to road opposite church having wrought-iron ring ties.

• Carrowkeel House, country house, 1750–1790 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c.1770, having lower four-bay two-storey return to rear (north), slightly recessed. Hipped slate roof with some clay ridge tiles, and symmetrically placed pair of tooled limestone chimneystacks to main block, and red brick chimneystacks to addition. Roughcast rendered walls with smooth rendered plinth course, rubble limestone showing to addition. Square-headed timber sliding sash windows, two-over-two pane to front and three-over-three pane without horns to addition. Some recent timber casement windows to addition. Round-headed window opening to addition, having four-over-four pane timber sliding sash window. Tooled limestone sills throughout. Elliptical-headed door opening with timber doorcase having moulded timber cornice with carved brackets, plain overlight and two-pane sidelights with rendered stall risers, and timber panelled door with limestone threshold. Terrace at front of house approached by five tooled limestone steps with rendered parapets having curved limestone copings and cut limestone piers with pointed caps, and with rendered plinth wall to terrace with wrought-iron railing with cut limestone piers to front of house. Yard to rear. ng L-plan multiple-bay range attached to north end of house return, north-south part being open-sided lean-to shed and east-west part being multiple-bay single-storey with pitched corrugated-iron roof, rubble limestone walls, segmental vehicular entrance, and square-headed doorway and window opening. Multiple-bay two-storey east range, running north-south, almost abutting north L-plan range, has pitched corrugated-iron roof, rubble limestone walls, elliptical-arch throughway with yellow brick voussoirs and having red brick oculus above, and square-headed door and window openings, including pitching doors to east elevation and doorway in first floor of west accessed by external steps. Multiple-bay single-storey range further to north and parallel to east-west part of L-plan range, has loft floor, pitched slate roof, rubble limestone walls, segmental arch vehicular entrances and square-headed door and widnow openings. Some terracotta ridge tiles to slated buildings, and some cast-iron rainwater goods. Some replacement timber casement windows having render surrounds to east range. Pointed arch window opening to east elevation of east range. Recent metal stable doors to same range. Tooled voussoirs and dropped keystones to vehicular entrances of north blocks. Some remaining cobbles to courtyard. Icehouse to west of house, comprising earthen mound over rubble limestone structure with square-headed door opening. Three-bay single-storey gardener's lodge to south-west, having pitched roof lacking covering, with rubble limestone walls, and square-headed window and door openings. Wrought-iron double-leaf vehicular gate to road entrance, set to tooled limestone piers. Rubble limestone flanking walls and boundary walls to site. Benchmark to base of southern centre pier.

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

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Carrowkeel with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Carrowkeel · An Cheathrú Chaol

Area

1,047,970 m² (104.8 ha, 258.96 acres)

Civil parish

Leitrim, and its townlands

Barony

Leitrim

Electoral division

Leitrim, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Leitrim electoral division: 553 people in 179 households; 87% of households own their home; 45% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Killeen, Kilmacrah, Leitrim More, Lisnagry, Lissaphuca, Rafarn

Placenames

Carrowkeel 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.