Carrickmurray

7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carrickmurray, from 2,148 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres) to 178,868 m² (17.89 ha, 44.2 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 13 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Carrickmurray 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.

• 6 Mar 2018Conditional

  (a) retain existing agricultural sheds and yards and (b) construct a dry bedded agricultural shed, yard and water harvesting facility

  Permission · Leitrim County Council, 1837

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 Carrickmurray.

Recorded monuments

• LE015-095 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a small area of rock outcrop in a low-lying landscape, with a small E-W stream c. 25m to the N. This is an overgrown D-shaped area (ext. dims c. 32m E-W; c. 25m N-S) backing on to a cliff (H c. 6m) at N, which was probably created by an E-W roadway, and defined by an earth and stone bank (Wth 4m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 1m) E-S-W. There is no visible fosse and the 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

• LE015-097 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  Situated on a low E-W ridge of rock outcrop. This is a D-shaped overgrown area (dims c. 26m NE-SW; c. 26m NW-SE) defined by a severe slope (H 4-6m) down at the straight SE side and by an earth and stone bank (Wth 5m; ext. H 0.6-1m) SE-S, which is reduced to a slight scarp elsewhere. There is no visible fosse or entrance. There is a square clearance cairn (dims 3.5m x 3.5m; H 0.4m) on exposed rock outcrop at the centre. 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

• LE015-102 Cairn - unclassified
  Description

  Situated on rock outcrop in an undulating low-lying landscape. it is depicted as an embanked enclosure described as a 'fort' in gothic lettering on the 1835 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. This is a subcircular or subrectangular cairn (dims 14.5m E-W; 9m N-S; H 0.3-1.4m), which is possibly field clearance or spoil from a quarry immediately adjacent to the S. 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

Architectural heritage

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

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

At the centre of the townland of Carrickmurray, 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Carrickmurray.

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.

No address of the register names Carrickmurray with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Leitrim.

Name

Carrickmurray · Carraig Mhuirígh

Area

269,507 m² (26.95 ha, 66.6 acres)

Civil parish

Killarga, and its townlands

Barony

Drumahaire

Electoral division

Drumahaire, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,714 people lived in 639 households in the Drumahaire electoral division. 75% of households owned their home. 52% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cashel, Cornamarve, Drumlumman Glebe, Geskanagh Glebe, Gortatresk

Placenames

Carrickmurray 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.