Carrowmanagh

49 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carrowmanagh, from 500 m² to 109,190 m² (10.92 ha, 26.98 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 22 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 Carrowmanagh 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.

• 22 Apr 2025Conditional

  sought to renovate the existing derelict dwelling house and construct extensions to the front and rear of the dwelling house. Full planning permission also sought to install a new septic tank, treatment system and percolation area and all ancillary site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 30.20 sqm(extension). Gross floor space of work to be retained: 33.00 sqm(H)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2560451

• 21 Nov 2024Conditional

  for the construction of new single storey dwelling, garage/shed and private wastewater treatment system with all associated works and ancillary services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 215.70 sqm(house), 35.00 sqm(garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2461577

• 7 Aug 2024Conditional

  to construct dwelling house and domestic garage, wastewater treatment system and associated siteworks. Gross floor space of proposed work: (House) 200 sqm & (Garage) 48 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2461000

• 29 Nov 2021Conditional

  for a development consisting of new single storey extensions to front, side and rear of existing dwelling house with alterations to elevations, new wastewater treatment system and associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 103 sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 212223

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 Carrowmanagh.

Recorded monuments

• GA005-031 Earthwork
  Description

  On the summit of a low hill in grassland. Marked on 3rd ed. of OS 6-inch map (1930) as a small circular mound (D c. 20m). Described by Neary (1914, 118, no. 53) as a 'circular, earthen fort reduced by tillage operations to a mere mound'. Apart from an apparently natural rise, no visible surface trace survives. 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

• GA005-032 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a ridge in undulating grassland. Marked on OS 6-inch maps as a circular enclosure (D c. 43m). Described by Neary (1914, 118, no. 55) as a 'fort … all mutilated'. Apart from a low rise in ground level from S to SW, no visible surface trace survives. 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

• GA005-033 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a rise in level grassland. Marked on 3rd ed. of OS 6-inch map (1930) as a circular enclosure (D c. 45m). It is described by Neary (1914, 117, no. 54) as 'an earthen fort … much mutilated and deeply scarped on S. E. Large stones mark where outward bank lay on S. Its diameter was about 140 ft. [ 42.65m]'. No visible surface trace survives. There was a CBG (GA005-033001-) in 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

• GA005-033001 Children's burial ground
  Description

  Within an enclosure (GA005-033----). Traditionally known as a CBG and referred to by Neary (1914, 117, no. 54) as ' a cemetery'. No visible surface trace survives. According to local information, the last burial took place c. 70 years ago. 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 Carrowmanagh.

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, on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Carrowmanagh · An Cheathrú Mheánach

Area

1,827,672 m² (182.77 ha, 451.63 acres)

Civil parish

Dunmore, and its townlands

Barony

Dunmore

Electoral division

Dunmore North, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Dunmore North electoral division: 604 people in 221 households; 94% of households own their home; 27% of homes were built since 2001; 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrownaseer North, Cloonfad East (Co. Roscommon), Cloonkeen, Drumbane, Lisduff, Shrule

Placenames

Carrowmanagh 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.