Carrownakib

360 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carrownakib, from 65 m² to 32,711 m² (3.27 ha, 8.08 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 48 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 Carrownakib 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.

• 28 Nov 2025Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house, domestic garage/fuel store, septic tank, treatment system and percolation area and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2561751

• 20 May 2025Conditional

  of a garage into an additional bedroom & home office including minor alterations to the existing front elevation of the existing dwelling. Planning Reference number 97/3574 Refers. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 27.00 sqm

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2560625

• 1 Jul 2024Conditional

  for the demolition of an existing dwelling, the construction of a new replacement dwelling with an effluent treatment system and a garage/shed together with associated services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 145 sqm (house) & 50.76 sqm (garage). Gross floor space of any demolition 70 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2460809

• 22 Dec 2022Conditional

  of an existing garage/store on revised site boundaries.Gross floor space of work to be retained 95.00sqm.

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2261312

• 12 Apr 2022Conditional

  1. Retention Permission of part of the existing school building to an early year’s learning, pre-school, and community facility. 2. Planning Permission for external modifications to the school grounds to include fencing, gates, and outdoor play furniture. 3. Retention Permission of internal modifications to the building to facilitate the early year learning / pre-school facility and all associated site works

  Retention · Galway County Council, 2260335

• 25 Feb 2020Unconditional

  for the construction of a serviced dwelling with an effluent treatment system and a garage/shed (gross floor space 232sqm) Previous Planning Ref 14/1380

  Extension of duration · Galway County Council, 20237

• 13 Dec 2018Unconditional

  for an extension and alterations to an existing national school and all associated services (130sqm). Previous Planning Ref No. 13/990

  Extension of duration · Galway County Council, 181792

• 10 Mar 2017Conditional

  for the construction of a one and half storey dwelling, (230 sqm.) effluent treatment plant, percolation area, a new entrance and for all associated site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 17328

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 Carrownakib.

Recorded monuments

• GA041-017 Graveyard
  Description

  Within an enclosure (GA041-017001-). This graveyard consists of a poorly preserved oval area (N-S c. 13m, E-W c. 11m) within which are numerous uninscribed limestone grave-markers. No particular alignment is apparent. Three grave-markers are also visible outside the enclosure at E. Possibly a CBG. 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

• GA041-017001 Enclosure
  Description

  At SW end of a low ridge in pastureland. A poorly preserved subcircular enclosure (N-S 17.2m, E-W 15m) defined by the natural slopes of the ridge at NW and SE, by a curving td. boundary wall at NE and by a footpath at SW. The interior contains a graveyard (GA041-017----) and there is a house (GA041-023----) c. 30m to NE. 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

• GA041-018 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a hillock in gently undulating grassland. A very poorly preserved subcircular rath (N-S 32m) defined by a denuded bank from NW through N to NE, and by a scarp from SE through S to SW. Field walls overlie the enclosing element at E and W. There is a probable souterrain (GA041-018001-) 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

• GA041-018001 Souterrain
  Description

  In S half of a ringfort (GA041-018----). Named 'Uainmore' on 3rd ed. of OS 6-inch map (1915-16). According to the landowner, it was closed up many years ago. He indicated the former point of access, stated that it was constructed of stone, and that it led off to NE from this point. 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

• GA055-034 Megalithic tomb - court tomb
  Description

  On a low knoll amidst gently rolling pasture, 1.2km from E shores of Lough Corrib. The monument is very ruined. It consists of a gallery (L 5.5m), aligned roughly E-W, represented by two entrance jambs at E, two sidestones on N and a backstone at W. A single courtstone flanks N jamb, and a stone in a similar position adjoining the opposite jamb may also be a courtstone. The overall length of the gallery would indicate that it had at least two chambers. The structure is incorporated in a subrectangular mound (L 12.5m, Wth 10m). There is an unclassified megalithic tomb (GA055-070----) c. 130m to NW and an anomalous stone group (GA055-069----) c. 160m to NNW. (Aldridge 1965, 15; de Valera and Ó Nualláin 1972, 12; Ó Nualláin 1989, 118) 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 See linked document with details from Ruaidhrí de Valera and Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume III. Counties Galway, Roscommon, Leitrim, Longford, Westmeath, Laoighis, Offaly, Kildare, Cavan. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1972).

• GA055-069 Megalithic tomb - unclassified
  Description

  On S-facing slope of a low hill in gently rolling pasture. It comprises a gallery (L c. 2.2m, Wth 1.75m), aligned E-W, represented by two stones on N side, one on S and a tall backstone (H 1.8m) at W. There is an upright stone at E which appears to have been displaced from the tomb. A large displaced stone protrudes from the field stones which fill the chamber. The remains are incorporated into a field wall beside an outhouse. A court tomb (GA055-034----) stands c. 130m to SE. (Aldridge 1965, 15) 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

• House, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey with dormer attic vernacular house, built c.1800, having direct-entry plan. Late twentieth-century extension to rear with pitched thatched roof. Pitched thatched roof to house proper with flush ridge and rendered chimneystack, having stone copings to gables. Rendered and painted walls to front, lined and ruled rendered to gables and rear elevation. Square-headed openings with one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows to front, replacement timber casement windows to rear, with painted stone sills. Square-headed timber battened entrance door. Single-storey lime render over random rubble thatched outbuilding to rear, set perpendicular to house. House set back from road behind rendered boundary wall, with garden to front and yard to rear.

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 Carrownakib.

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

Name

Carrownakib · Ceathrú na Cibe

Area

2,097,636 m² (209.76 ha, 518.34 acres)

Civil parish

Killursa, and its townlands

Barony

Clare

Electoral division

Killursa, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Killursa electoral division: 1,135 people in 397 households; 86% of households own their home; 39% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 10% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Annaghkeen, Ballynacregga, Carrowbeg, Carrownacroagh, Clerhaun

Placenames

Carrownakib 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.