Carrowcrin
Carrowcrin is a townland in the civil parish of Killanummery, barony of Drumahaire, Co. Leitrim. Its name in Irish is An Cheathrú Chruinn.
- Area
- 93.9 ha
- 232 acres
- Land parcels
- 57
- registered freehold, median 5,819 m² (0.58 ha, 1.44 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
57 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carrowcrin, from 449 m² to 156,610 m² (15.66 ha, 38.7 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Carrowcrin 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
18 Aug 2020Conditional
(A) retain the conversion of the garage to a habitable space within the existing domestic dwelling; and (B) retain the existing domestic garage and all ancillary works
Permission, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 20131
18 Aug 2020Conditional
(a) to retain the existing domestic dwelling; and (b) to upgrade the existing Waste Water Treatment System and all ancillary works
Permission, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 20127
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Lough Gill SAC 001976
Recorded monuments
- LE014-042 Ringfort - rath
Description
Located on a slight rise in a low-lying landscape. This is a grass-covered oval platform (dims 35m E-W; 29m N-S) defined by a scarp (H 0.7m at E, 1.6m at W, 1.8m at S) and hedge with an earthen bank (Wth 7m; int. H 0.9m; ext. H 0.8m) surviving NW-ENE. There are entrances at WNW (Wth 3.2m) and E (2.2m) and the monument is bisected by a N-S field bank. Archaeological testing (03E1431) c. 100m to the ESE produced no related material (Read 2006). 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
- LE014-043 Ringfort - rath
Description
Located on top of a drumlin. This is a grass and rush-covered circular area (int. diam. 26.7m E-W; 25.8m N-S) defined by a grass-covered earthen bank (Wth 3.7-6m; int. H 0.1m; ext. H 0.9-1.5m). An external fosse is indicated by a band of rushes (Wth of base 3-4m) NW-N-SE, and the monument is bordered by straight sections of field bank at S (E-W) and W (N-S). The entrance (Wth 1m) is at SE. See the attached aerial view taken from the N. 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
- Saint Mary's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1850–1860 · Regional interest
Description
Detached single-cell Roman Catholic church, built in 1859, with entrance tower to west and single-storey chancel to east. Pitched slate roof with cast-iron rainwater goods. Snecked limestone walls with eaves course, diagonal buttresses and date plaque to front wall. Pointed-arched window openings to nave with tooled limestone surrounds, hood mouldings and decorative timber tracery. Pointed-arched window openings to east and west ends have masks to dripstops. Pointed-arch door opening with timber sheet door to projecting tower with tooled limestone chamfered surround and hood moulding flanked by pointed-arched door openings in nave. Cast-iron vehicular and pedestrian gates flanked by ashlar gates piers to front of site. Church located on elevated site in a rural setting.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Carrowcrin, about 1 in 10 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 Carrowcrin.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
- Carrowcrin, Dromahair5 sales
The townland
- Name
- Carrowcrin · An Cheathrú Chruinn
- Area
- 939,451 m² (93.95 ha, 232.14 acres)
- Civil parish
- Killanummery, and its townlands
- Barony
- Drumahaire
- Electoral division
- Killanummery, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 366 people lived in 138 households in the Killanummery electoral division. 95% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Carrigeen, Cleighran, Drumrane, Killanummery, Mullaghdoo, Rathbaun
- Placenames
- Carrowcrin 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.