Carrickevy
Townland in the civil parish of Kiltoghert, barony of Leitrim, Co. Leitrim; in Irish Carraig Éimhigh
- Area
- 24.1 ha
- 60 acres
- Land parcels
- 4
- registered freehold, median 47,980 m² (4.8 ha, 11.86 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
4 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carrickevy, from 1,218 m² to 100,949 m² (10.09 ha, 24.95 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 8 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 Carrickevy 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
17 Apr 2025Conditional
ground floor & first floor rear extensions to the existing dwelling, demolition of the front porch and any ancillary works necessary.
Permission, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 2560088
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 Carrickevy.
Recorded monuments
- LE027-068 Enclosure
Description
Located in an open landscape with rock outcrop, and situated c. 100m from the SE shore of Carrickevy Lough (max. dims c. 450m NE-SW; c. 240m NW-SE). It is visible as a faint rectangular feature on aerial photographs (GSIAP: G 157-6). This is a grass-covered rectangular area (dims 30m NW-SE; 19m NE-SW) defined by a slight earth and stone bank (Wth 1.25m; max. ext. H 0.35m), with a slight external fosse or ditch (Wth 1.1m) at SW. The perimeter has been levelled at the NW side and for much of the SW. An original entrance is not identified. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 September 2008
- LE027-146 Enclosure
Description
Reported by Jean-Charles Caillere; visible on Google Earth aerial image (28-10-2018) as a roughly circular enclosure (est. diam. c. 23m) possibly defined by a low, grass-covered bank. Located on level pasture c. 100m SE of Carrickevy Lough. A second enclosure (LE027-068----) lies c. 20m to the NE. See attached image: LE027-146----_01 Snip of Google Earth aerial imagery dated 28-10-2018 Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 17 May 2023
- LE027-147 Enclosure
Description
Reported by Jean-Charles Caillere; visible on Google Earth aerial image (28-10-2018) as a roughly circular enclosure (est. diam. c. 27m) defined by a low, grass-covered bank NNW-NNE which is traceable as a cropmark NNE-S-NNW. Located on level pasture c. 200m SE of Carrickevy Lough. A second enclosure (LE027-068----) lies c. 150m to the W and a third (LE027-146----) just beyond that again to the W. See attached image: LE027-147----_01 Snip of Google Earth aerial imagery dated 28-10-2018 Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 17 May 2023
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Carrickevy.
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 moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1481 (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 Carrickevy with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Leitrim.
The townland
- Name
- Carrickevy · Carraig Éimhigh
- Area
- 241,201 m² (24.12 ha, 59.6 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kiltoghert, and its townlands
- Barony
- Leitrim
- Electoral division
- Gowel, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Gowel electoral division: 360 people in 132 households; 93% of households own their home; 31% of homes were built since 2001; 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Drumheckil, Farnagh, Fawn, Port, Tullylannan
- Placenames
- Carrickevy 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.