Carrowleana
Carrowleana is a townland in the civil parish of Kilkerrin, barony of Tiaquin, Co. Galway. Its name in Irish is Ceathrú an Léana.
- Area
- 80.1 ha
- 198 acres
- Land parcels
- 47
- registered freehold, median 3,387 m² (0.34 ha, 0.84 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 14
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
47 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carrowleana, from 41 m² to 151,466 m² (15.15 ha, 37.43 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 40 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 Carrowleana 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
15 Sept 2026N/a
to construct a fully serviced private dwelling house with waste water treatment system & private garage/store to include all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 26235
24 Mar 2025Conditional
to construct a new dwelling house with wastewater treatment plant, polishing filter, domestic garage and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 270.22 sqm(H), 22.72 sqm(G)
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2560311
22 Mar 2022N/a
for works consisting of a) New dwelling house, b) Domestic Garage & c) connection to existing public wastewater system and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 170 sqm
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 22384
3 Aug 2021Conditional
to construct a new dwelling house, domestic garage, and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 346.62 sqm
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211418
30 Mar 2021Conditional
to construct dwelling house, domestic garage, septic tank and percolation area along with associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: H: 214 sqm, G: 60 sqm
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 21491
6 Oct 2020Conditional
to construct a new dwelling house, domestic garage / fuel store and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 269.22 sqm
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 201452
9 Jul 2020Conditional
to construct dwelling house, domestic garage and fuel store, septic tank system and percolation area along with all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works:226.0 msq
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 20899
24 Jun 2020Refused
to construct a new fully serviced private dwelling house, private garage / fuel store and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed development: 295.54 sqm
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 20789
25 May 2020Refused
to construct a new dwelling house, domestic garage / fuel store and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 346.62 sqm
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 20632
9 Mar 2020N/a
to: Construct 10 no. Houses and associated siteworks/ services at the locations originally granted under permissions 09/2230 and 15/207 which permissions expire on 20th April 2020. This application relates solely to unit no.s 3, 4, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 of layout indicated under permission 09/2230. Gross floor space of proposed works: 864.8 sqm
Permission, 10 homes · Galway County Council, 20298
19 Dec 2019Conditional
of a domestic garage / fuel store and all associated site works. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 43.85 sqm
Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 191967
26 Mar 2019N/a
to construct a new dwelling house, domestic / garage fuel store with wastewater treatment system, percolation area and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 200.63 sqm - (Dwelling House - 141.13 sqm, Garage - 59.50 sqm)
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 19432
12 Feb 2019Conditional
to construct a new fully serviced private dwelling house, private garage/fuel store and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 290.1 sqm (House); 59.5 sqm (Garage)
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 19183
19 Jul 2018Refused
to construct a new dwelling house, domestic/garage fuel store with wastewater treatment system, percolation area and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works, house 141013sqm. garage 59.50sqm
Permission · Galway County Council, 181027
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 Carrowleana.
Recorded monuments
- GA031-010 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.
Architectural heritage
- Saint Joseph's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1810–1920 · Regional interest
Description
Freestanding T-plan Roman Catholic church, erected c.1830, having three-bay nave, single-bay transepts that to north having flat-roofed porch, and three-stage tower to west end with stepped profile and removed from Church of Ireland church in 1916. Exterior of building renovated recently. Pitched slightly sprocketed slate roof with shallow eaves and cast-iron rainwater goods. Tower has flat roof surmounted by cross. Rendered walls with render plinth and with plat bands to corners. Pointed windows have Y-tracery with heavy mullions and raised render surrounds. Tower has walls of squared blocks of limestone, step-backs having cut-stone copings. Moulded corbelling to corners of top of tower, with frieze between, that formerly supported pinnacles. Inscribed limestone plaque to west face of tower. Pointed windows to ground and top stages, latter having timber louvers, and oculus windows to middle stages, all with raised limestone surrounds. Pointed doorway to south face of tower has raised surround and timber battened double-leaf door with overlight. Further doorways to transepts, having square-headed opening to south transept within pointed-arch recess, with timber battened doors. Graves to south, and modern boundary wall to front.
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 Carrowleana, 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.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Carrowleana.
- 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 Carrowleana with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.
The townland
- Name
- Carrowleana · Ceathrú an Léana
- Area
- 800,760 m² (80.08 ha, 197.87 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilkerrin, and its townlands
- Barony
- Tiaquin
- Electoral division
- Shankill, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 355 people lived in 131 households in the Shankill electoral division. 79% of households owned their home. 39% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Carrowntober East, Castletown, Lehinch, Rockfield West, Tullaghaun
- Placenames
- Carrowleana 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.