Carrigeengeare

10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carrigeengeare, from 334 m² to 133,191 m² (13.32 ha, 32.91 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 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 Carrigeengeare 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 Feb 2018Conditional

  construction of a sheep shed and ancillary works (i.e. concrete yard areas and external sheep handling area all for agricultural purposes only) all in existing farm yard area

  Permission · Leitrim County Council, 1819

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 Carrigeengeare.

Recorded monuments

• LE012-010 Megalithic tomb - court tomb
  Description

  Located in pasture on top of a small rise of a S-facing slope at the N edge of the Glenfarne valley. An oval cairn (dims 21.5m N-S; 17.5m E-W; H 1m) contains a single chamber (L c. 2.4m) consisting of two jambstones, a sidestone and a backstone, which are the scant remains of a gallery oriented NNW-SSE. (de Valera and Ó Nualláin 1972, 65-6) 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 See linked document with details from Ruaidhrí de Valera and Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume III. Counties Galway, Roscommon, Leitrim, Longford, Westmeath, Laoighis, Offaly, Kildare, Cavan. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1972).

Architectural heritage

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

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, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Carrigeengeare · An Carraigín Géar

Area

400,107 m² (40.01 ha, 98.87 acres)

Civil parish

Cloonclare, and its townlands

Barony

Rosclogher

Electoral division

Munakill, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Munakill electoral division: 186 people in 65 households; 87% of households own their home; 29% of homes were built since 2001; 22% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 21% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Kilmakerrill, Loughaphonta, Lughawnagh, Munakill, Tawnylust, Tawnyunshinagh

Placenames

Carrigeengeare 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.