Carrowcor

13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carrowcor, from 2,671 m² (0.27 ha, 0.66 acres) to 169,336 m² (16.93 ha, 41.84 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 11 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 Carrowcor 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Carrowcor 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 Carrowcor.

Recorded monuments

• MA102-013 Enclosure
  Description

  In pasture, located on fairly level terrace on a SE-facing slope, just below the top of a ridge. The slope rises gently to NW and falls away steeply to S giving expansive views over pasture and expanses of bog. Not indicated on the 1838 OS 6-inch map; shown on the 1916 edition as a subrectangular hachured enclosure incorporated into a field boundary at NW−N. Raised subrectangular or oblong area (47m NE–SW; 25m NW–SE), with rounded corners, defined by a scarp (H 0.9 at SW; 1.4m at SE). A few large stones protrude from the sod on the scarp slope at SE and SW –some of these may be field clearance stones. The scarp on the SE side is sharply defined and is slightly indented or concave in plan; it has clearly been modified and cut into in the past. On the NW side the scarp has been partly levelled, surviving only as a low rise. A field boundary (shown on the 1916 OS 6-inch map) which intersected with the N end of the enclosure has been removed. The interior is grassy and featureless, with a slight slope from centre down to NE. This is an enclosure is unusually elongated in shape; it may be a rath that has been extended or modified. There is a souterrain (MA102-064----) c. 45m to S. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 23 September 2022

• MA102-058 Fulacht fia
  Description

  Located at the interface of a glacial ridge and an area of lowlying, deep peat. This fulacht fia was discovered during archaeological monitoring of the Lough Mask Regional Water Supply Scheme (2001-2002) and was subsequently excavated (01E0680) (Guinan 2015, 52-62; 72-73, Carrowcor I). The fulacht fia, which had been disturbed by land reclamation and past farming activity, consisted of a low, irregular mound of sandstone fragments in charcoal rich soil. Part of the mound extends to S beyond the acquired pipeline wayleave and remains intact. The remainder of the mound (10.25m N–S; 8m E–W) was excavated. At the W of the excavated area, there was a shallow rectangular feature (1.5m NW–SE; 0.8m NE–SW), cut into the underlying marl layer, which may have been the remains of a trough. Ten artefacts of chert, flint and quartz were found, including a flint hollow scarper, a flint end scarper and a retouched chert blade. Also recovered were 147 fragments of pig and cattle bones. Two charcoal samples produced a radiocarbon dates of 3450 +/-45 BP (1889-1676 BC) and 3465 +/-41 BP (1896-1685 BC) which dates activity at the site to the latter stages of the Early Bronze Age. Another fulacht fia (MA102-059----) is located 30m to E. (Guinan 2015, 52-62; 72-73). Compiled by: Jane O’ Shaughnessy Date of upload: 3 March 2016

• MA102-059 Fulacht fia
  Description

  Located at the interface of a glacial ridge and an area of lowlying, deep peat. This fulacht fia was discovered during archaeological monitoring of the Lough Mask Regional Water Supply Scheme (2001-2002) and was subsequently excavated (01E1081) (Guinan 2015, 52-53; 62-73, Carrowcor II). The fulacht fia, which had been disturbed by land reclamation and past farming activity, consisted of a spread of sandstone fragments in charcoal-rich peaty soil. It overlay a layer of marl which in turn overlay peat. Part of the fulacht fia, which extended to S beyond the acquired pipeline wayleave, remains intact. The remainder of the mound (6.2m N–S; 6m E–W; D 0.27m) was excavated. At the W of the excavated area, there was a shallow rectangular feature (1.5m NW–SE; 0.8m NE–SW), cut into the underlying marl layer, which may have been the remains of a trough. Ten chert flakes, a quartz flake, a chert end scraper, a quartz hammerstone and a polished stone axe were found. Also recovered were 58 fragments of pig, cattle and horse bones. A charcoal sample produced a radiocarbon date of 2890 +/-45 BP (1220-920 BC) which dates the site to the early stages of the Late Bronze Age. Another fulacht fia (MA102-058----) is located 30m to W. (Guinan 2015, 52-53; 62-73). Compiled by: Jane O’ Shaughnessy Date of upload: 3 March 2016

• MA102-064 Souterrain
  Description

  In pasture, located in a slight rise c. 45m SSW of an enclosure (MA102-013----). There is an ENE−WSW field fence immediately to S. According to local information, this is a blocked up access hole to a souterrain which extends N towards the enclosure (MA102-013----). A shallow surface depression (c. 1.5m N–S; 1m E–W) is evident, with small stones protruding from the grass-covered surface. It is bordered at its S edge by the ENE−WSW field fence. Two large, prostrate slabs (max. dim. 1.3-1.7m), possibly displaced roof lintels from the souterrain, lie against a field fence. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 26 September 2022

Architectural heritage

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

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 moderately low, 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 Carrowcor.

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 Carrowcor with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.

Name

Carrowcor · An Cheathrú Chorr

Area

497,140 m² (49.71 ha, 122.85 acres)

Civil parish

Knock, and its townlands

Barony

Costello

Electoral division

Knock South, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Knock South electoral division: 799 people in 322 households; 79% of households own their home; 39% of homes were built since 2001; 22% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cloonfaughna, Curraghlahan, Lissaniska, Magheramore, Srah

Placenames

Carrowcor 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.