Carrigeen

31 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carrigeen, from 354 m² to 91,552 m² (9.16 ha, 22.62 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 4 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 Carrigeen 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.

• 20 Jul 2026N/a

  (a) Retention of Garage / Fuel store, (b) New upgraded and relocated WWTS and (c) new side & rear extension.

  Permission, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 2660181

• 3 Mar 2026N/a

  (a) permission for a new single storey side extension to include new kitchen/dining space, new velux roof windows with rear porch, including internal modifications, and (b) permission to retain existing domestic garage & fuel store.

  Permission, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 2660056

• 23 Nov 2017Conditional

  demolish an existing habitable house and to construct a two storey type domestic dwelling, domestic garage, new site access, new waste water treatment system to current EPA code of practice and all ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 17216

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 Carrigeen.

Recorded monuments

• LE032-057 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located towards the top of the W-facing slope of a drumlin. This is a grass-covered circular area (int. diam. 36m N-S; 36m E-W) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (at N: Wth of base 3.2m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H. 0.8m), with an external fosse (at NE: Wth of top 7.2m; Wth of base 2.7m; ext. D 0.5m at NE) N-SE. 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. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 23 September 2008 Amended: 6 December 2019

• LE032-058 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated in a col on the crest of a NW-SE drumlin ridge with summits to the NW and SE, and at the S-facing crest of the ridge overlooking Lough Erril, which is c. 190m distant. This is a grass and rush-covered D-shaped earthen platform (dims 20.7m NW-SE; 17.5m NE-SW) defined by a scarp (H 0.4m) SE-W-NW which is truncated by a WNW-ESE drain and road bank at NE. 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. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 23 September 2008 Amended: 6 December 2019

• LE032-060 Crannog
  Description

  Located within a bay (dims c. 200m NE-SW; c. 180m NE-SW) at the SE edge of Lough Machugh, a subrectangular lake (dims c. 650-850m N-S; c. 300m E-W at N to c. 500m E-W at S). This is an overgrown, circular, stony island (diam. 30.5m N-S; 27m E-W; max. H 1.5m) sometimes connected to the shore by a silt causeway and surrounded by intermittently visible timber piles and some planks lying in the water parallel to the edge. The cairn at the centre (diam. c. 15m) has a boulder edge W-N-E. 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. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 23 September 2008 Amended: 6 December 2019

Architectural heritage

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

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 20 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; parts are water.

Terrain model

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

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 Carrigeen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Leitrim.

Name

Carrigeen · An Carraigín

Area

819,336 m² (81.93 ha, 202.46 acres)

Civil parish

Mohill, and its townlands

Barony

Mohill

Electoral division

Drumdoo, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Drumdoo electoral division: 356 people in 116 households; 90% of households own their home; 18% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bunny Beg, Clarashinnagh, Cloonbo, Drumdart, Drumhany, Drumlara, Mucklougher, Shoalmore

Placenames

Carrigeen 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.