Carrownderry
Carrownderry is a townland in the civil parish of Templetogher, barony of Ballymoe, Co. Galway. Its name in Irish is Ceathrú an Doire.
- Area
- 114.5 ha
- 283 acres
- Land parcels
- 161
- registered freehold, median 2,724 m² (0.27 ha, 0.67 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
161 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carrownderry, from 12 m² to 172,810 m² (17.28 ha, 42.7 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 46 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Carrownderry 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
21 Dec 2022Conditional
to construct dwelling house and domestic garage, connection to public sewer along with associated site works.Gross floor space of proposed works 250.00sqm.
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2261282
5 Oct 2018Conditional
to retain groundworks for foundations and permission sought to complete storage shed and associated siteworks. Gross floor space of proposed works - 135 sqm. Gross floor space of work to be retained - 135 sqm.
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 181401
29 Mar 2018Conditional
of fuel store and construct storage shed and associated siteworks. Gross floor space of proposed works 135 sqm. Gross floor space of work to be retained 65 sqm. (SPLIT DECISION - REFUSE PERMISSION FOR THE STORAGE SHED GROSS FLOOR AREA 135 SQM)
Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 18388
20 Apr 2017Conditional
for the construction of a new dwelling house, domestic garage and all associated services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 268.8sqm
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 17545
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Carrownderry.
Recorded monuments
- GA001-005 Boundary mound
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.
- GA001-006 Kiln
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.
- GA006-019 Designed landscape - tree-ring
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.
- GA006-020 Hilltop enclosure
Description
Just off summit of a NW-SE running ridge in undulating grassland, overlooking the village of Williamstown to SE. Circular enclosure (D 110m), in fair condition, defined by two earthen banks and an intervening fosse. The inner bank is present from N through E to S; elsewhere a degraded scarp forms the enclosing element. The fosse and outer bank are best preserved from E to S. Either of two gaps at W or E could be original. 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
- GA006-022 Enclosure
Description
In undulating grassland. Very poorly preserved subcircular enclosure (N-S 37.5m, E-W 35.5m) defined by a bank, overlain by a field wall from NW to NE. A rectangular structure (E-W 21m, N-S 9m) abutting the bank at S is locally believed to have been an old school house. The 'Wicked Tree' (GA006-021----) lies c. 50m 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
- GA006-023 Crannog
Description
An enclosed roughly circular tree copse marked on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map proved on inspection in 1990 to be a natural gorse-covered hillock. Named 'Cnocanroe' on the 1930 edition of the OS 6-inch map. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 29 August 2014
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Carrownderry.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Carrownderry, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Carrownderry.
- Flooding
- The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Carrownderry with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.
The townland
- Name
- Carrownderry · Ceathrú an Doire
- Area
- 1,144,607 m² (114.46 ha, 282.84 acres)
- Civil parish
- Templetogher, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ballymoe
- Electoral division
- Kilcroan, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 596 people lived in 224 households in the Kilcroan electoral division. 75% of households owned their home. 40% of homes were built since 2001. 25% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyroe, Corralough, Croaghill, Derrywode, Fortyacres, Kilbeg, Moneen, Springfield
- Placenames
- Carrownderry 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.