Carrowbane Beg
Carrowbane Beg is a townland in the civil parish of Loghill, barony of Shanid, Co. Limerick. Its name in Irish is An Cheathrú Bhán Bheag.
- Area
- 56.1 ha
- 139 acres
- Land parcels
- 63
- registered freehold, median 1,322 m²
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
63 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carrowbane Beg, from 4 m² to 209,714 m² (20.97 ha, 51.82 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 Carrowbane Beg 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
22 Nov 2025Conditional
an extension to the existing dwelling house, a Velux window to roof of existing dwelling house, reposition windows and doors within existing dwelling and a replacement waste water treatment & disposal system and all associated works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 2561218
23 Nov 2023Conditional
demolition of existing single storey rear annex to existing building and decommissioning of existing septic tank system. Change of use of existing domestic house and store incorporating existing former retail area to new use as a shop, cafe and public house. Construction of a single storey rear extension to contain toilets, store rooms and ancillary areas with an outdoor covered space. Undertake internal and external modifications along with elevational changes to existing building. Construction of external spaces and outdoor seating and associated areas, external signage, the installation of an onsite mechanical effluent treatment system with polishing filter system with all associated site development works and site services. A Natura Impact Statement accompanies the planning application.
Permission · Limerick County Council, 2360862
9 Dec 2020Conditional
agricultural storage and domestic storage sheds along with associated site works
Retention · Limerick County Council, 201307
12 Mar 2019Conditional
dwelling house, domestic garage, septic tank and percolation area and vehicle entrance
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 19224
14 Aug 2018N/a
construction of an extension to the rear of the house
Permission · Limerick County Council, 18813
21 Sept 2017N/a
the construction of a domestic garage at the rear of his house
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 17870
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: Lower River Shannon SAC 002165
- Special Protection Area: River Shannon and River Fergus Estuaries SPA 004077
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Carrowbane Beg.
Architectural heritage
- Bridge, 1820–1840 · Regional interest
Description
Four-arch bridge, built c. 1830, carrying road over the River White. Rubble stone walls having cut tooled limestone voussoirs to segmental arches and U-cutwaters to north and south elevations. Rubble stone pilasters extending vertically from each cutwater. Rubble copings to walls.
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 Carrowbane Beg, 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 Carrowbane Beg.
- 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
No address of the register names Carrowbane Beg with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.
The townland
- Name
- Carrowbane Beg · An Cheathrú Bhán Bheag
- Area
- 561,464 m² (56.15 ha, 138.74 acres)
- Civil parish
- Loghill, and its townlands
- Barony
- Shanid
- Electoral division
- Loghill, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 664 people lived in 253 households in the Loghill electoral division. 76% of households owned their home. 26% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Carrowbane More, Curra More, Loghill
- Placenames
- Carrowbane Beg 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.