Carrowmore

29 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carrowmore, from 687 m² to 68,814 m² (6.88 ha, 17 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 33 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 Carrowmore 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 Feb 2026Conditional

  for the construction of a new private dwelling house, proprietary effluent treatment unit, percolation area and domestic garage along with all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2660144

• 20 May 2025Conditional

  to construct a fully serviced dwelling house, a treatment plant system and garage, and permission to relocate the front boundary wall so to obtain the required sight distances. Gross floor space of proposed works: 242.36 sqm(G), 54 sqm(H)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2560626

• 26 Jul 2024Conditional

  for the construction of a serviced dwelling with an effluent treatment system and a garage/shed together with associated services. Gross floor space of proposed works: (House) 199 sqm & (Garage) 54.54 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2460957

• 9 Jul 2024Conditional

  for the construction of a serviced dwelling with an effluent treatment system, a garage/shed together with associated services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 237 sqm (house) & 50.76 sqm (garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2460848

• 30 Dec 2020Conditional

  to construct serviced dwelling house and domestic garage/store. Gross floor space of proposed works: house: 268 sqm, garage 60 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 202057

• 13 Dec 2019Conditional

  to construct serviced dwelling, garage /shed and effluent treatment system. Gross floor space of proposed works: House - 217 sqm, Garage - 60 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 191938

• 29 Oct 2019N/a

  to construct serviced dwelling, garage/shed and effluent treatment system. Gross floor space of proposed works: House - 217 sqm, Garage - 60 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 191678

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 Carrowmore.

Recorded monuments

• GA042-081 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In gently undulating grassland. Poorly preserved circular rath (D 35m) defined by three denuded banks and two intervening fosses. A field boundary cuts the monument at S and W, to SW of which ploughing has almost completely levelled the middle and outer banks. A second wall overlies the outer bank from E to S. Within the interior, traces of earthworks, possibly associated, are visible. A ringfort (GA042-082----) lies c. 200m to E. (Killanin and Duignan 1969, 304-5) 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

• GA042-082 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Some 200m E of a ringfort (GA042-081----). Poorly preserved circular rath (D c. 40m) defined by two banks and an intervening fosse from WSW through N to E. A field wall cuts the monument at E and WSW, and only a degraded scarp survives to SE 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). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Carrowmore.

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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility 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 Carrowmore.

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

Name

Carrowmore · An Cheathrú Mhór

Area

516,865 m² (51.69 ha, 127.72 acres)

Civil parish

Donaghpatrick, and its townlands

Barony

Clare

Electoral division

Donaghpatrick, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Donaghpatrick electoral division: 584 people in 210 households; 91% of households own their home; 35% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Abbeytown, Joyce's Park, Largan, Mirehill, Ralusk, Shrulegrove, Tonacooleen

Placenames

Carrowmore 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.