Carrownagappul
Townland in the civil parish of Ballynakill (Mount Bellew Ra), barony of Killian, Co. Galway; in Irish Ceathrú na gCapall
- Area
- 429 ha
- 1,060 acres
- Land parcels
- 122
- registered freehold, median 13,019 m² (1.3 ha, 3.22 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
122 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carrownagappul, from 41 m² to 330,763 m² (33.08 ha, 81.73 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 96 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Carrownagappul 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
6 Mar 2026Conditional
to construct a five bay slatted cattle shed
Permission · Galway County Council, 2649
17 Nov 2025Conditional
to construct a four bay slatted cattle shed
Permission · Galway County Council, 25316
15 Jan 2020Conditional
for development at a site at Carrownagappul Bog. The development will consist of the provision of an educational and amenity park (approx. 0.361ha). Works within the park area will comprise of pedestrian access routes, viewing and demonstration areas, parking area (2 no. minibus spaces, 7 no. car parking spaces), fencing, signage and associated site development works. Access to the park is from the N63 via an existing private track. Planning permission is also sought for upgrade works to sections of this private road. The total site area of the proposed development is 0.766ha. A Natura Impact Statement will be submitted to the planning authority with the application
Permission · Galway County Council, 2029
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Carrownagappul Bog SAC 001242
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Carrownagappul Bog 001242
Recorded monuments
- GA046-032 Quarry
Description
In an area of meadow and pastureland. A series of about 30 subcircular, oval and irregularly shaped hachured depressions are marked in this townland on the 1932 edition of the OS 6-inch map. All are disused sand and gravel pits, probably of 19th/20th-century date, and most have been infilled. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 10 October 2014
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Carrownagappul.
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
- About 1 in 10 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 Carrownagappul.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Carrownagappul with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.
The townland
- Name
- Carrownagappul · Ceathrú na gCapall
- Area
- 4,290,297 m² (429.03 ha, 1,060.16 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ballynakill (Mount Bellew Ra), and its townlands
- Barony
- Killian
- Electoral division
- Ballynakill, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Ballynakill electoral division: 647 people in 225 households; 88% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballinlass, Ballynahowna, Ballynalahy, Carrownagannive, Cloonavihony, Cloonconore, Gunnode, Longford, Springlawn, Tully
- Placenames
- Carrownagappul 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.