Carrowmore

48 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carrowmore, from 367 m² to 126,840 m² (12.68 ha, 31.34 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 16 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.

• 24 Jul 2026N/a

  for demolition of dwellinghouse, construction of new dwellinghouse, garage and wastewater treatment system

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2661267

• 9 May 2024Conditional

  to construct a new dwelling house, a garage, treatment plant system and percolation area plus all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: (House) 146 sqm & (Garage) 60 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2460532

• 6 Jul 2023Conditional

  for the construction of a dwelling along with an on-site wastewater treatment system, domestic garage & all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 225 sqm (h) & 52.25 sqm (g)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 23274

• 4 Oct 2019Conditional

  to demolish existing dwelling house and decommission existing septic tank and construct a new dwelling house, domestic garage and septic tank with percolation area and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: House - 207.40 sqm, Garage - 35 sqm. Gross floor space of any demolition: 90.08 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 191548

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: Lough Corrib SAC 000297

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Carrowmore.

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, 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 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

1,020,522 m² (102.05 ha, 252.18 acres)

Civil parish

Moylough, and its townlands

Barony

Tiaquin

Electoral division

Derryglassaun, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Derryglassaun electoral division: 976 people in 332 households; 90% of households own their home; 40% of homes were built since 2001; 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballybaun, Carrowferrikeen, Clooncurreen, Esker, Garbally, Gorteendrishagh, Skehanagh

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.