Carrowrevagh More

26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carrowrevagh More, from 188 m² to 101,392 m² (10.14 ha, 25.05 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 28 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 Carrowrevagh More 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.

• 4 Dec 2020Conditional

  for the construction of a rear single storey extension to existing dwelling house, new on site wastewater treatment system, garage and ancillary works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 224 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 201850

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 Carrowrevagh More.

Recorded monuments

• GA017-063 Enclosure
  Description

  Near the brow of a ridge in undulating pastureland. Marked on OS 6-inch maps as an irregular enclosure (NE-SW c. 40m) cut at NW and SE by a road. Only a slightly raised platform and external fosse survive to NE and SW of the road, 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

• GA017-064 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  On a ridge summit in grassland. Marked on 3rd ed. of OS 6-inch map (1932) as an oval enclosure. What survives is an oval area (NW-SE c. 55m, NE-SW 37m) defined by a Vegetation band, outside of which traces of a second are visible intermittently. There is a probable souterrain (GA017-064001-) in the interior. A moated site (GA017-104----) lies c. 250m 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

• GA017-064001 Souterrain
  Description

  In N half of a ringfort (GA017-064----). What survives is a T-shaped hollow, averaging 2m in width and 0.4m in depth. Its long axis (L 8.5m) runs E-W. Towards its E end a second hollow (L 4.5m) opens off its N side, running on a N-S axis. 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

• GA017-065 Enclosure
  Description

  On SW slope of a glacial ridge in rolling pastureland. Very poorly preserved circular enclosure (D 22m) defined by a degraded scarp from S through W to NE. A field bank cuts the monument at NE and S, and no visible surface trace survives to E of it. 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

• GA017-165 Enclosure
  Description

  In pastureland. A roughly circular enclosure (diam. c. 50m) is visible on Google Earth aerial imagery dated March 2014. A N-S running field boundary clips its E limits. Identified and reported by Jean-Charles Caillère. The following image has been uploaded: GA017-165----_01.jpg. Google Earth image (March 2014) Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 4 July 2022

• GA030-025 Enclosure
  Description

  Close to a hill summit in gently rolling pastureland and tillage. Very poorly preserved circular enclosure (D c. 30m) defined by a faint rise from NW through N to SE. The td. boundary wall delimits the monument elsewhere. Two small quarries are visible in the centre and NW quadrant of 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

• GA030-026 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On an E-facing slope in grassland. Circular rath (D 48.5m), in fair condition, defined by a bank and external fosse; the latter is visible from SSW through N to NE. There is an entrance at ESE. 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

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Carrowrevagh More.

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 moderately low, 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 Carrowrevagh More.

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

Name

Carrowrevagh More · An Cheathrú Riabhach Mhór

Area

899,519 m² (89.95 ha, 222.28 acres)

Civil parish

Tuam, and its townlands

Barony

Dunmore

Electoral division

Carrowrevagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Carrowrevagh electoral division: 485 people in 162 households; 93% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrowntanlis, Carrowrevagh Beg, Carrowroe West, Sylaun East

Placenames

Carrowrevagh More 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.