Carrowmore

78 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carrowmore, from 135 m² to 114,875 m² (11.49 ha, 28.39 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 13 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.

• 5 Feb 2026Conditional

  for the construction of a new slatted shed with calf creep area, manure pit and all associated works and ancillary services

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2660161

• 13 Feb 2025N/a

  for the construction of a new slatted shed with calf creep area, manure pit and all associated works and ancillary services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 308.90 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2560149

• 16 May 2024Conditional

  for change of house design previously granted under PL Ref No.2260623. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 236.84 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2460568

• 18 Jun 2022Conditional

  to (1) demolish an existing agricultural shed (2) construct a new dwelling house, garage, effluent treatment system and polishing filter as well as all ancillary site works and site services.Gross floor space of proposed works 282.90sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2260623

• 2 Jun 2022N/a

  construction of 38 No. residential units on existing infill residential site in the existing Cuil Na Canalacht housing development, the development will consisting of 2 no. 3 bed detached houses, 16 no. 3 bed semi-detached houses, 20 no. 3 bed townhouses, landscaping works, Associated car parking, Connection to existing surface water, foul sewer and watermain as approved under pl. ref. no. 12/9011 & 06/091 (Ballinasloe Town Council), All associated site development works and services. Access to the proposed development will be via existing access road serving Cuil Na Canalacht previously approved under pl. ref. no. 12/9011 & 06/091 (Ballinasloe Town Council)

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2260568

• 2 Jul 2020Conditional

  for construction of a new single storey extension refurbishment of existing dwelling, construction of domestic garage, relocation of existing septic tank [with percolation area remaining in existing location] and all associated site works. The site is adjacent to the Galway Bay Complex SAC, Galway Bay Complex NHA and Inner Galway Bay SPA and a screening for Appropriate Assessment will be provided with this application. Gross floor space of proposed development 178.72 msq.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 20858

• 9 Jun 2020Conditional

  to 1) modify and extend existing dwelling house including the removal of existing thatched roof and demolition of existing extensions to rear, 2) remove existing farm shed and rebuild on site and 3) install new wastewater treatment system percolation area and all associated services. Gross floor space of proposed works; 130.20sqm, Gross floor space of any demolition; 35.65sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 20706

• 14 Sept 2017Conditional

  to erect garage/fuel store. Gross floor space of proposed works 58.56.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 171376

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Galway Bay Complex SAC 000268
• Special Protection Area: Inner Galway Bay SPA 004031
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Galway Bay Complex 000268

Recorded monuments

• GA102-022 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a NW-facing slope in grassland. Well-preserved subcircular rath (36.2m N-S; 32m E-W) defined by two banks of earth and stone and an intervening fosse. No visible surface trace of the fosse and outer bank survive from NE to ESE. A gap (Wth 2m) in the inner bank at NE may be original. A field wall cuts across the fosse and outer bank from W to N. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 25 January 2017

• GA102-023 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On the S side of a peninsula overlooking Mweenish Island. Marked on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 50m) and classified by McCaffrey (1952, 175, no. 2) as an ‘Earthen fort’ of which only ‘a portion of the bank’ survived, the rest having been cleared as a result of ‘tillage operations’. Apart from a section of a grassed-over bank of earth and stone (L 22m) at W, no visible surface trace of the monument survives. (Holt 1912, 229) Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 25 January 2017

• GA102-024 Tide mill - unclassified
  Description

  At the S end of Shamullen Channel on the foreshore at Carrowmore townland on the inner reaches of Galway Bay. Holt (1911-12, 251) recorded the site of a tidal mill here and noted that the millstones were said to be extant. Following Storm Eleanor in January 2018, a millstone (Wth 0.59-0.64m T 0.33-0.34m), which had been partially exposed prior to the storm, became more fully exposed revealing that over half of it survived. While broken in the past, enough remained to indicate that it was an upper stone fashioned from pink granite. Half of the central perforation (diam. 0.18m), which is straight sided and smooth, survives. The fragment indicates that the overall diameter of the stone was between c. 1.18m and 1.28m. A narrow rebate visible inside the lip of the perforation was designed to take the ‘bridge’, a device which positioned the drive-shaft and facilitated the rotation of the stone. On present evidence it is not possible to determine whether the mill was a horizontal or vertical mill (Gosling 2018). According to local information, another millstone fragment is lodged in a nearby field wall (information from P. Gosling 12 January 2018). Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 31 July 2018

• GA102-046 Midden
  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.

• GA103-038 Midden
  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.

• GA103-097 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a ridge, c. 150m to the N of Tyrone Bay. Marked on the OS 6-inch maps as a roughly circular enclosure (diam. c. 40m) and classified by McCaffrey (1952, 191, no. 15) as a very denuded ‘Earthen fort’ defined by a bank. Not visible at ground level but its outline is evident on the OSi ortho_2005 aerial photograph. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 25 January 2017

• GA103-098 Castle - hall-house
  Description

  On flat pastureland that slopes away to the NNW towards a turlough. Described by Redington (1916, 123) as a small 13th-century keep castle. In 1574 it was in the possession of 'Willm McRichard' (Nolan 1901, 113). It consists of a rectangular two-storey high building (16.75m NNW-SSE; 10.6m ENE-WSW), in fair condition, though little of the walls of the 1st floor survive. It is constructed of well-coursed mortared masonry but all the quoinstones and dressed stonework has been robbed out and only small portions of the once prominent base-batter survives. Doorways to hall-houses are generally found at 1st-floor level but here what appears to be the original doorway is on the ground floor, towards S end of NE wall where a large breach still retains fragments of its arch and N jamb. There were four windows on this floor; two in the SW wall and one each in the NE and NW walls. They consisted of a narrow slit set in a wide embrasure. The interior is rubble-filled. Access from the ground to 1st floor was via an intramural stairs in the SE wall. On this floor the base of a window is visible in the NW wall. Only the joist holes survive to indicate the level of the wooden floor between the ground and 1st floor. A church (GA103-031----) lies 100m to the E and a settlement cluster (GA103-198----) c. 165m to the N. (Sweetman 1999, 91) Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 31 August 2021

Architectural heritage

• House, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c.1800, with recent single-storey extension to rear (north) elevation. Pitched thatched roof with low whitewashed chimneystack. Whitewashed walls. Square-headed window openings having painted stone sills and replacement timber windows. Square-headed door opening with timber battened half-door. Single-storey outbuilding to west side of forecourt to front of site having pitched corrugated-iron roof and whitewashed walls. Rendered boundary wall to site with stile.

• House, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay two-storey vernacular house with attic, built c.1800, having flat-roofed garage extension to east gable. Pitched thatched roof with scolloped slightly raised ridge, and red brick chimneystack. Whitewashed walls. Square-headed window openings having painted stone sills and two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows with horns. Square-headed door opening having timber panelled door. Rubble stone boundary wall having remnants of early render.

• House, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey vernacular house with attic, built c.1800, having recent single-bay extension with pitched tiled roof to rear. Pitched thatched roof with slightly raised scolloped ridge, and rendered chimneystack. Painted rendered walls with plinth course. Square-headed window openings having painted stone sills and replacement uPVC windows. Square-headed door opening having recent half-glazed timber door. Recent pedestrian gate with rendered rubble stone boundary wall to garden to front of site. Recent double-leaf vehicular gates with recent piers to site entrance.

• Seagal, house, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay single-storey vernacular house with dormer attic storey, built c.1800, having windbreak to front (south) elevation, recent extension to rear, and recent conservatory to west gable of house, also adjoining south gable of recently converted three-bay two-storey outbuilding. Pitched thatched roof with slightly raised scolloped ridge, eyebrow dormers to front eaves windows, and painted rendered chimneystacks. Painted roughcast rendered walls having smooth rendered eaves course and plinth course. Square-headed window openings having painted stone sills and one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows, and some replacement timber windows. Square-headed door opening having recent timber door. Wrought-iron pedestrian gate to front garden, with smooth rendered boundary walls. Double-leaf wrought-iron gates with rendered piers to yard entrance.

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

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_532 (ZIP).

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

1,497,285 m² (149.73 ha, 369.99 acres)

Civil parish

Ballynacourty, and its townlands

Barony

Dunkellin

Electoral division

Ballynacourty, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballynacourty electoral division: 1,233 people in 428 households; 88% of households own their home; 32% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynacloghy, Ballynacourty, Lahardaun

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.