Carn More

3 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carn More, from 23,657 m² (2.37 ha, 5.85 acres) to 129,182 m² (12.92 ha, 31.92 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 12 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

• C5Tourism and Leisure (Tourism and related)
  Louth County Development Plan, Louth · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• O1Strategic Reserve (Strategic reserve, White land)
  Louth County Development Plan, Louth · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

No planning application touches the townland of Carn More in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 Carn More.

Recorded monuments

• LH004-066001 Enclosure
  Description

  The following description is derived from both the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986) and the 'Archaeological Survey of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1991). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007 Cropmarks indicating a sub-circular enclosure (max. dims. c. 47m E-W, c. 42m N-S) on aerial photograph (CUCAP, BDH 4). Also suggestions of attached field system (LH004-066002-).

• LH004-066002 Field system
  Description

  The following description is derived from both the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986) and the 'Archaeological Survey of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1991). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007 Possible field system attached to enclosure (LH004-066001-).

• LH004-067001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  The following description is derived from both the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986) and the 'Archaeological Survey of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1991). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 November 2011 Revised by: Claire Breen Semi-circular cropmark representing NE half of a ringfort visible on AP (CUCAP, BDH 3). Partially excavated as part of the Dundalk Western by-pass project (Excavation Licence 03E0867). Circular area (diam. 30m) surrounded by a ditch (max Wth. 2.7m; D 1m) with causewayed entrance at W. Severely truncated with few internal features remaining. Finds included over 200 sherds of souterrain ware pottery which were recovered from the ditch. Associated souterrain (LH004-067002-). (Delaney 2006, 340) Reference: Delaney S. (2006) 'Carn More, Faughart Neolithic; Ringfort and Souterrain' in I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2003: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 340 (1272). Bray. Wordwell

• LH004-067002 Souterrain
  Description

  Excavated as part of the Dundalk Western by-pass project (Excavation Licence 03E0867). Associated with ringfort (LH004-067001-). W-shaped gallery (L 19m; Wth c. 0.9m; H 1m), of drystone construction with no chambers. Capstones not present, human bone was recovered from the backfill. (Delaney 2006, 340) Reference: Delaney S. (2006) 'Carn More, Faughart Neolithic; Ringfort and Souterrain' in I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2003: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 340 (1272). Bray. Wordwell Compiled by: Claire Breen Date of upload: 17 November 2011

• LH004-139 Habitation site
  Description

  Excavated as part of the Dundalk Western by-pass project (Excavation Licence No. 03E0867). Two probable hut sites and a third possible one were uncovered. The huts were circular shallow hollows (diam. 3m) with associated post/ stake holes and pits. They were originally thought to date to the Neolithic (Delaney 2006, 340), but more detailed analysis dated them as middle to late Bronze Age (Delaney 2009, 39). A single cremation pit (LH004-140----) was discovered c. 20m to W. The excavator suggests that more remains may possibly be outside the road take (Delaney 2009, 47). References: Delaney, S. 2006 Carn More, Faughart Neolithic; Ringfort and Souterrain. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2003: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 340 (No. 1272). Bray. Wordwell Delaney, S. 2009 M1 Dundalk Western by-pass site 124: Carn More 1 chainage 24.350-24.550 NGR: 304357 / 310846, Final report on behalf of Louth County Council and the National Roads Authority Licence. Unpublished Report, DAHG 03E0867, Irish Archaeological Consultancy. Compiled by: Claire Breen Date of upload: 18 November 2011

• LH004-140 Cremation pit
  Description

  Excavated as part of the Dundalk Western by-pass project (Excavation Licence No. 03E0867). The remains of one cremated adult female were uncovered in an oval pit (L 0.82m; Wth 0.61m; D 0.31m). The excavator suggested that it was probably associated with the Bronze Age Habitation site (LH004-139----) situated c. 20m to the E. (Delaney 2006, 340), (Delaney 2009, 18). References: Delaney, S. 2006 Carn More, Faughart Neolithic; Ringfort and Souterrain. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2003: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 340 (No. 1272). Bray. Wordwell Delaney, S. 2009 M1 Dundalk Western by-pass site 124: Carn More 1 chainage 24.350-24.550 NGR: 304357 / 310846, Final report on behalf of Louth County Council and the National Roads Authority Licence. Unpublished Report, DAHG 03E0867, Irish Archaeological Consultancy. Compiled by: Claire Breen Date of upload: 18 November 2011

Architectural heritage

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

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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility low, on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3026 (ZIP).

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 Carn More with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Louth.

Name

Carn More · An Carn Mór

Area

295,230 m² (29.52 ha, 72.95 acres)

Civil parish

Dundalk, and its townlands

Barony

Dundalk Upper

Electoral division

Dundalk Rural, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Annies, Balriggan, Carn Beg, Sportsmans Hall

Placenames

Carn More 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.