Carrowcor
Carrowcor is a townland in the civil parish of Kilbride, barony of Tirawley, Co. Mayo. Its name in Irish is An Cheathrú Chorr.
- Area
- 147.5 ha
- 364 acres
- Land parcels
- 44
- registered freehold, median 13,444 m² (1.34 ha, 3.32 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
44 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carrowcor, from 221 m² to 257,649 m² (25.76 ha, 63.67 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 12 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 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
21 Apr 2026N/a
single storey dwelling house with domestic garage, boundary fencing/treatment and septic system
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2694
11 Nov 2019Refused
CONSTRUCT A ONE STOREY SPLIT LEVEL THREE BEDROOM RESIDENCE AT THE REAR OF THE EXISITING HOUSE. A NEW ACCESS DRIVEWAY CONNECTING THE PROPOSED RESIDENCE TOTHE EXISTING ENTRANCE GATE LOCATED TO THE LEFT OF THE EXISTING RESIDENCE AND FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF A SEPTIC TANK PLUS PERCOLATION AREA AND TIMBER BOUNDARY FENCE SEPARATING BOTH PROPERTIES
Permission · Mayo County Council, 19910
16 Oct 2019Conditional
CONSTRUCT NEW DWELLING HOUSE, PROPRIETARY EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM, PERCOLATION AREA AND DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 19811
3 May 2019N/a
CONSTRUCT A ONE STOREY SPLIT LEVEL THREE BEDROOM RESIDENCE AT THE REAR OF THE EXISTING HOUSE
Permission · Mayo County Council, 19315
23 Feb 2018Conditional
RETENTION OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, GARAGE AND ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS AS CONSTRUCTED ON SITE, P99/748 REFERS
Retention · Mayo County Council, 18117
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 Carrowcor.
Recorded monuments
- MA007-011 Ringfort - unclassified
Description
The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
- MA007-012 Ringfort - unclassified
Description
The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Carrowcor, about 1 in 5 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 high, 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 Carrowcor.
- 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 Carrowcor with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.
The townland
- Name
- Carrowcor · An Cheathrú Chorr
- Area
- 1,474,758 m² (147.48 ha, 364.42 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilbride, and its townlands
- Barony
- Tirawley
- Electoral division
- Lackan North, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 306 people lived in 139 households in the Lackan North electoral division. 84% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 24% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Carrowneden, Doonadoba, Moyny
- 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.