Carrowpeter
Townland in the civil parish of Tuam, barony of Dunmore, Co. Galway; in Irish Ceathrú Pheadair
- Area
- 18.5 ha
- 46 acres
- Land parcels
- 30
- registered freehold, median 626 m²
- Zoning
- R2
- Residential Existing
- Planning
- 8
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carrowpeter, from 61 m² to 88,734 m² (8.87 ha, 21.93 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 14 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
- R2Residential Existing (Existing residential)
Tuam Local Area Plan 2023-2029, Galway · 18 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - P1Agriculture
Tuam Local Area Plan 2023-2029, Galway · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - M1Commercial / Mixed Use (Mixed Use, general development, opportunity/proposal site)
Tuam Local Area Plan 2023-2029, Galway · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - N1.5Transport Infrastructure (Mixed/general transport uses)
Tuam Local Area Plan 2023-2029, Galway · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - R4Residential (Phase 2) (Strategic Residential Reserve)
Tuam Local Area Plan 2023-2029, Galway · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
20 Nov 2024Conditional
for the demolition of an existing dwelling house, and for the construction of a replacement dwelling house, a domestic garage, effluent treatment system and all associated site works. Gross floor are of proposed works: 196.60 sqm(house), 35.00 sqm(garage), 74.60 sqm(extension), 74.60 sqm(demolision)
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2461573
20 Oct 2023Conditional
of the existing dwellinghouse & all ancillary site works (previously pl. app. ref. no. 09/786)
Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2361265
26 Jan 2023Conditional
for the provision of an Off Licence at the retail unit at Delaney’s Mace. Gross floor space of proposed works: 18.68 sqm
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2360046
1 Jun 2021Conditional
to erect a bungalow and complete all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 102.4 sqm
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 21949
19 Dec 2019Conditional
for the demolition of a single storey extension to the rear of an existing dwelling and for the construction of a new two-storey extension to same; the replacement of an existing septic tank with a proprietary treatment system and for alterations to the porch to the front of the dwelling house and for all other ancillary works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 45.2 sqm. Gross floor space of any demolition: 8.6 sqm
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 191961
4 Jun 2019Conditional
for the demolition of existing uninhabitable house and garage, construction of 2 storey dwelling, domestic garage, new proprietary sewerage treatment unit and percolation area, revisions to existing entrance and boundary onto the R332 Public road and all ancillary site works and connections. Gross floor space of proposed works: 240.46 sqm (House - 211.82 sqm, Garage - 41.69 sqm). Gross floor space of any demolition: 123.2 sqm
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 19845
21 Dec 2017Conditional
for the construction of a dwellinghouse, domestic garage and all ancillary site works and services. Permission is also sought for an entrance junction to serve the proposed dwelling and to maintain future access to the rear backlands (gross floor space 224.2sqm)
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 171844
6 Jan 2017Conditional
for the change of use of existing vacant building to Vehicle Testing Centre and ancillary offices. The proposal also includes the partial demolition and rebuilding of the existing building. (Gross floor space of proposed works: 515.39 sqm.)
Permission · Galway County Council, 175
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 Carrowpeter.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Carrowpeter.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Carrowpeter.
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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility low, on the 1:50,000 map; parts are made ground.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_749 (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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Carrowpeter with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.
The townland
- Name
- Carrowpeter · Ceathrú Pheadair
- Area
- 185,122 m² (18.51 ha, 45.74 acres)
- Civil parish
- Tuam, and its townlands
- Barony
- Dunmore
- Electoral division
- Tuam Rural, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Tuam Rural electoral division: 6,556 people in 2,346 households; 65% of households own their home; 51% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Barnacurragh, Carrowmoneen, Carrownagarraun, Rinkippeen, Toberjarlath
- Placenames
- Carrowpeter 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.