Carn More

27 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carn More, from 349 m² to 167,410 m² (16.74 ha, 41.37 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 24 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 Carn More 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.

• 15 May 2019Conditional

  CONSTRUCT A SLATTED CATTLE SHED TOGETHER WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS AND SERVICES

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 19349

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

• MA082-030 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In a thicket of overgrowth at the S end of a pasture field, located on a fold in sharply undulating terrain. Overlooked immediately to SW by the steeply rising slope of a ridge. Substantially raised, circular platform (c. 37.7m NNW–SSE) defined by a scarp, topped with a stony internal rim, and enclosed by a fosse with remnants of an external bank. The pronounced enclosing scarp (ext. H 1.75m at SSW, 1.8m at NNE) has a low internal rim (W 2–3m; int. H 0.3-0.4m) of earth and stone, giving an overall width of the scarp/bank of 6–6.5m. At ESE–S it is topped by a low jumble (Wth 2-2.5m) of stones, set 1.5-2m in from the top edge of the scarp; this appears to be the remnants of a later field. The fosse (Wth c. 3m) can be traced as a shallow depression for much of the circuit, but is not evident at NE−ESE; at SE–S it is filled with heaps of loose stones/field clearance debris. Remnants of the external bank (Wth c. 2-2.5m; int. 0.45m; ext. H 0.4m, at N) can be traced at N and SE; it cannot be traced at NE–ESE. At S–NNW there is a later field fence at the outer edge of the fosse, which may preserve the original curve of the external bank. The entrance is at the NE where there is a gap (Wth 2m) in the inner scarp/bank, faced with a low stone kerb on its W terminal and blocked with field clearance debris at its outer edge. The rath interior is level, the surface largely denuded of sod due to the dense canopy of overgrowth. In the SW quadrant there is a low, linear heap (8m NE–SW; 3m NW–SE) of earth and stone, partly moss-covered, probably a field clearance heap; a fragment of a quern stone (max. dim. 0.29m; radius 0.19m central perforation to outer edge), including part of the central perforation (diam. 7cm; D 5cm), was noted amongst the loose stones. Dense blackthorn and brambles engulfs the rath interior; hazel and hawthorn trees ring the perimeter. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 20 December 2021

• MA082-045 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  In pasture, located on a terrace on a SW-facing slope, with good views SE–SW. Circular area (35m E–W; 36.8m N–S) defined by a collapsed limestone wall (Wth 2.6-3m; H 0.2m). The wall is evident as a low, moss-covered stony rise with in situ facing stones visible in parts on the inner face. The N third of the interior is higher, sloping markedly down from there towards the centre then levelling out. The original entrance may have been at the E where a low section (Wth 4-5m) of the enclosing wall is evident, facing a continuation of the natural terrace to E. A ruined wall (Wth 1m; H 0.3m) extends through the centre of the interior from the cashel wall at E for 16m to WNW ending 2m short of a horseshoe-shaped stone structure/possible hut site (MA082-045001-) located in the NW quadrant. Hawthorn, hazel and blackthorn scrub engulf the W third of the cashel interior. A field wall/townland boundary crosses the W edge of the cashel on a roughly N–S axis. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 22 December 2021

• MA082-045001 Hut site
  Description

  Located in the NW quadrant of a cashel (MA082-045----). A horseshoe-shaped structure (4.5m E–W; 5.5-6m N–S) defined by a rough drystone wall (Wth 1.4m; H 0.2m), open to the S. When inspected in 1997 it was obscured by overgrowth and difficult to examine; it appeared to be rather crudely constructed. It may be the remains of a hut site, or perhaps it simply served as a sheep fold. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 22 December 2021

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 5 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

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

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. Mayo.

Name

Carn More · An Carn Mór

Area

799,544 m² (79.95 ha, 197.57 acres)

Civil parish

Aghamore, and its townlands

Barony

Costello

Electoral division

Aghamore, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Aghamore electoral division: 650 people in 241 households; 82% of households own their home; 27% of homes were built since 2001; 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carn Beg, Cartron North, Cashels, Coolnaha North, Laralae, Scregg

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.