Carrowclogh
Carrowclogh is a townland in the civil parish of Kilmoylan, barony of Shanid, Co. Limerick. Its name in Irish is An Cheathrú Chlochach.
- Area
- 42.6 ha
- 105 acres
- Land parcels
- 8
- registered freehold, median 33,409 m² (3.34 ha, 8.26 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 8
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carrowclogh, from 6,192 m² (0.62 ha, 1.53 acres) to 149,702 m² (14.97 ha, 36.99 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 9 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 Carrowclogh 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 Jul 2025Conditional
extension of permission for planning ref. 19/861: filling proposed land with suitable material to the proposed levels and all associated site works
Extension of duration · Limerick County Council, 257018
3 Mar 2025N/a
Extension of Duration for Planning Ref. 19/861: filling proposed land with suitable material to the proposed levels and all associated site works
Extension of duration · Limerick County Council, 257006
16 Feb 2023N/a
filling proposed land with suitable material to the proposed levels and all associated site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 23101
13 Dec 2021Conditional
construction of a two storey dwelling house, waste water treatment system, percolation area, entrance and all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 211724
30 Aug 2019Conditional
filling proposed land with suitable material to the proposed levels and all associated site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 19861
14 Jan 2019Conditional
a ten year permission for the complete development of a Solar PV Energy development with a total site area of 30.15 hectares, to include, electrical transformer and invertor station modules, Solar PV panels ground mounted on support structures, access roads and internal access roads and internal access tracks, fencing, electrical cabling and ducting, CCTV and other ancillary infrastructure, a temporary site compound area, additional landscaping and habitat enhancement as required and associated site development works located in the townlands of Deelish and Mullagh. The proposed solar farm will be connected to the National Grid via the adjoining Ellaha and Ballinknockane solar farm previously granted planning permission under Limerick city & County Council planning ref 17/1220
Permission · Limerick County Council, 1918
21 Dec 2017Conditional
a ten year permission for the complete development of a Solar PV Energy development with a total site area of 61.29 hectares, to include one Transmission System Operator (TSO) electrical substation with associated switchgear, TSO compound and control building, one customer substation with transformer, communications pole, compound and control building, electrical transformer and inverter station modules, Solar PV panels ground mounted on support structures, access roads and internal access tracks, spare parts storage containers, fencing, electrical cabling and ducting, CCTV and other ancillary infrastructure, a temporary site compound area, additional landscaping and habitat enhancement as required and associated site development works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 171220
29 Aug 2017N/a
the complete development of a Solar PV Energy development with a total site area of 65.76 hectares, to include two electrical substation buildings and associated compound, electrical transformer and inverter station modules, one customer substation with one communications pole attached, storage modules, Solar PV panels ground mounted on support structures, access roads and internal access tracks, spare parts storage container, fencing, electrical cabling and ducting, CCTV and other ancillary infrastructure, a temporary site compound area, additional landscaping and habitat enhancement as required and associated site development works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 17807
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Carrowclogh.
Recorded monuments
- LI019-035 Enclosure
Description
In pasture, on gentle E-facing slope. Monument, depicted on 1923 OS 6-inch map as ovoid enclosure (c. 20m E-W; c. 10m N-S), has been levelled. No trace of monument evident when inspected. Westropp (1916-17, 33) described it as ''a small, very-defaced house-ring'. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- LI019-038 Ringfort - cashel
Description
On elevated limestone crag, immediately to NE of derelict thatched roadside cottage. Monument, depicted on 1923 OS 6-inch map as circular embanked enclosure (diam. c. 20), is now inaccessible due to dense cover of thorn bushes and bramble. Westropp (1916-17, 33) described site as 'greatly defaced ... with a foundation of large blocks, 3 feet to 4 feet long'. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- LI019-234 Enclosure
Description
In pasture, on break in NW-facing slope. Slightly curved stretch of earthen bank (int. H 0.55m; ext. H 0.8m; C 24m) NNE->ESE, probably remains of enclosure. Mature trees grow along bank. Not shown on 1841 OS 6-inch map and 1923 OS 6-inch map just shows extant arc of bank. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Carrowclogh.
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 Carrowclogh, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The Geological Survey did not answer.
- Terrain model
- The Geological Survey did not answer.
- 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 Carrowclogh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.
The townland
- Name
- Carrowclogh · An Cheathrú Chlochach
- Area
- 425,994 m² (42.6 ha, 105.27 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilmoylan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Shanid
- Electoral division
- Craggs, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 258 people lived in 92 households in the Craggs electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 16% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballinknockane, Ballylin, Craggs, Deelish, Mullagh
- Placenames
- Carrowclogh 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.