Carrowcushlaun West
Townland in the civil parish of Kilmoremoy, barony of Tireragh, Co. Mayo; in Irish Ceathrú an Chaisleáin Thiar
- Area
- 7.8 ha
- 19 acres
- Land parcels
- 37
- registered freehold, median 287 m²
- Zoning
- R2
- Existing Residential
- Planning
- 7
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
37 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carrowcushlaun West, from 1 m² to 14,550 m² (1.45 ha, 3.6 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 14 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
Ballina Local Area Plan, Mayo · 45 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - M2Town Centre Outer (City/Town/village Centre, central area)
Ballina Local Area Plan, Mayo · 6 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G5Recreation & Amenities (Mixed/general 'green'/recreation/conservation, other)
Ballina Local Area Plan, Mayo · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - R1New Residential (New/proposed residential)
Ballina Local Area Plan, Mayo · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G1Open Space (Open space, park)
Ballina Local Area Plan, Mayo · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
8 Dec 2025Conditional
The development will consist of the construction of (1) a single storey extension at ground floor level to accommodate enlarged day room, (2) extensions at first floor level to accommodate 5 no. bedrooms and day room together with elevational alterations and ancillary site development works to existing nursing home.
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2560888
20 Mar 2025Conditional
The development will consist of: 1) the demolition of existing derelict buildings and all ancillary structures 2) construction of 2 no. detached 3 bedroom 3 storey residential units 3) construction of a 2 storey building comprising of 4 independent 1 bedroom living units with staff support areas The application will include for associated car parking, site infrastructure, services, landscape and all ancillary site works.
Permission, 6 homes · Mayo County Council, 2560158
23 Sept 2022Conditional
EXTENSION AND ALTERATIONS TO THE EXISTING MSLETB TRAINING CENTRE CONSISTING OF AN 38.9M2 EXTENSION TO THE EXISTING BUILDING AND INTERNAL ALTERATIONS COMPRISING OF THE CONSTRUCTION OF A 24M2 OFFICE ALONG WITH ANCILLARY WORKS
Permission · Mayo County Council, 22821
22 Jun 2022Conditional
DEMOLITION OF A DERELICT SHED/STORE AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF 2 NO. TOWNHOUSES, CONNECTION TO PUBLIC UTILITIES TOGETHER WITH ANCILLARY SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Mayo County Council, 22512
24 Aug 2020Conditional
EXTENSION TO EXISTING MSLETB TRAINING CENTRE. CONSTRUCTION OF 195 SQM SINGLE STOREY TRAINING ROOM TO THE REAR OF THE EXISTING BUILDING INCLUDING EXTENDED SITE BOUNDARY AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS AND SERVICES. PERMISSION IS ALSO SOUGHT TO REVISE SITE LAYOUT PERMITTED UNDER P19/348 FOR MOY RIDGE NURSING HOME. THIS WILL CONSIST OF REVISING THE PERMITTED EXTERNAL LAYOUT AND PROVIDING A REVISED EXTERNAL GARDEN/AMENITY AREA TO THE REAR OF THE PREMISES
Permission · Mayo County Council, 20584
14 May 2019Conditional
DEMOLISH EXISTING BUILDER'S OFFICES AND YARD AND CONSTRUCT A TWO STOREY EXTENSION TO MOY RIDGE NURSING HOME INCLUDING ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS AND SERVICES
Permission · Mayo County Council, 19348
11 Dec 2017Conditional
CONSTRUCT FIRST FLOOR EXTENSION TO SINGLE STOREY ANNEX TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, ALTERATIONS TO FRONT, REAR AND SIDE ELEVATIONS, TOGETHER WITH ALL INTERNAL ALTERATIONS AND ANCILLARY WORKS.
Permission · Mayo County Council, 17978
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
- Special Area of Conservation: River Moy SAC 002298
Recorded monuments
- MA030-087 Castle - unclassified
Description
On the E side of Ballina town, located on the E bank of the Moy. This castle, more than likely a tower house, was known as Ardnaree castle and is shown on the Down Survey Barony (Tirreragh) and Parish (Kilmoremoy) maps (1656-58). O’Donovan recorded it in the 1830’s in the OS Letters as follows: ‘I find the site of the Castle of Ardnaree is well known, and that some fragments of the walls are still remaining. It stood on top of the hill which is situated immediately over the Moy to the south of the Church, and which is generally called Castle Hill. The hill is Tulach na Fairscena and the Ard na Riagh of the ancient Irish writers and it has all the appearance of having been the site of an ancient fort before the modern castle was erected, and seems to have derived the appellation Port Righ (Seat of the King) applied to it in the Dinnseanchus.’ (O’Flanagan, 88 (42-3). However, on another occasion, he gives a slightly different account, recording that ‘There is a tradition that O’Dowd built and occupied a castle on a little hill in Ardnaree immediately south of the Church, which stands close to the Moy, and that within a few years past, the very ruins of the castle were totally removed with almost the whole of the fort on which, or at which, it stood.’ (O’Flanagan, 352 (147)). The castle is mentioned a number of times in the Annals of the Four Masters, accounts which give a flavour of its chequered history: 1266 ‘Donall O’Hara was killed by the English while he was in the act of burning Ard-na-riagh’ 1371 O’Dowd (Donall) committed great depradations in Tireragh on the Moy; he ravaged the entire country and took its Castles, viz. the castle of Ardnariagh and Castleconor and drove out all the English who has been in them and he afterwards divided the country among his brothers and people.’ 1532 ‘The castle of Ardnariagh was taken at night by the sons of O’Dowd from the sons of John Burke’ 1533 ‘The castle of Ardnariagh was taken at night by the sons of Thomas Burke from the sons of O’Dowd’ 1586 'They (the Scots)….were pursued by the Governor’s people and an engagement took place at Ardnaree in which the Scots were totally defeated.’ [note: This account does not mention the castle. The Scots (MacDonalds) had come to assist the Burkes in their rebellion against the Sir Richard Bingham, who had been appointed Provincial President of Connacht in 1584. The 'engagement' was a serious and bloody military campaign, known as the Battle of Ardnaree.] There are no upstanding remains of the castle, and its exact location is uncertain but may have been on a small prominent hill overlooking the Moy at approx. ITM 524475 818407 in what is now Carrowcushlan townland. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 6 June 2018
Architectural heritage
- Saint Michael's Church (Kilmoremoy), church/chapel, 1760–1770 · Regional interest
Description
Detached five-bay double-height Board of First Fruits Church of Ireland church, built 1763-8, on a cruciform plan originally three-bay double-height single-cell comprising three-bay double-height nave opening into single-bay (single-bay deep) double-height transepts centred on single-bay double-height chancel to crossing (west); single-bay three-stage tower (north) on a square plan supporting octagonal spire. Reconstructed and reoriented, 1815-6. "Improved", 1892, producing present composition. Reroofed. Replacement pitched slate roof on a cruciform plan with ridge tiles, slate-covered dragged cut-limestone coping to gables, and uPVC rainwater goods on dragged cut-limestone eaves retaining cast-iron octagonal or ogee hoppers and downpipes. Roughcast walls with drag edged dragged cut-limestone quoins to corners; roughcast surface finish to tower with lichen-covered dragged cut-limestone stringcourses including lichen-covered dragged cut-limestone stringcourse (bell stage) supporting crow stepped battlemented parapet having lichen-covered dragged cut-limestone coping. Pointed-arch window openings with drag edged dragged cut-limestone sills, timber Y-mullions, and drag edged dragged cut-limestone block-and-start surrounds centred on keystones framing fixed-pane timber fittings having cast-iron square glazing bars. "Venetian Window" to transept (south) with drag edged dragged cut-limestone sill, and drag edged dragged cut-limestone surround centred on keystone framing iron mesh storm panels over fixed-pane fittings having leaded stained glass panels. Lancet "Trinity Window" to chancel (west) with cut-limestone sill, and concealed dressings framing iron mesh storm panels over fixed-pane fittings having leaded stained glass panels. "Venetian Window" to entrance (east) front with drag edged dragged cut-limestone sill, and drag edged dragged cut-limestone block-and-start surround centred on archivolt framing iron mesh storm panels over fixed-pane fittings having leaded stained glass panels. Segmental-headed door openings to tower with cut-limestone step thresholds, and drag edged dragged cut-limestone block-and-start surrounds centred on keystones framing replacement timber panelled doors having fanlights. Quatrefoil openings (bell stage) with dragged cut-limestone surrounds. Full-height interior with stained glass memorial "Venetian Window" (1900), fret work-detailed timber panelled galleries (1815) on cast-iron pillars, carpeted tessellated terracotta tiled central aisle between timber pews (1821), timber panelled wainscoting with carved timber dado rail, cut-white marble Classical-style wall monuments (ob. ????), stained glass memorial "Venetian Window" (1890; ob. 1840) to transept (south) with cut-white marble Classical-style wall monuments (????) to transept (north), moulded plasterwork cornice to ceiling, timber panelled pulpit (1892) on an octagonal plan with Gothic-style timber clerk's desk, and pair of cut-white marble Classical-style wall monuments (ob. ????) centred on pointed-arch chancel arch framing carpeted encaustic tiled stepped dais to chancel to crossing (west) with cloaked timber altar table below stained glass memorial "Trinity Window" (1892). Set in landscaped grounds on a corner site with drag edged tooled limestone ashlar piers to perimeter having stringcourses below shallow pyramidal capping supporting wrought iron double gates.
- Loyola, house, 1931–1950 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay two-storey house, post-1931, on a rectangular plan with two-bay two-storey side elevations. Hipped slate roof with clay ridge tiles, paired rendered central chimney stacks having concrete capping supporting terracotta pots, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods on timber eaves boards on box eaves. Rendered walls with rendered "bas-relief" band to eaves. Square-headed central door opening with concealed dressings framing glazed timber panelled door having stained glass overlight. Square-headed window openings with concrete sills, and concealed dressings framing timber casement windows with two-over-two timber sash windows to side elevations. Street fronted with rendered piers to perimeter having stepped capping supporting wrought iron-detailed flat iron gate.
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
- About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are made ground.
- Terrain model
- The Geological Survey did not answer.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Carrowcushlaun West with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.
The townland
- Name
- Carrowcushlaun West · Ceathrú an Chaisleáin Thiar
- Area
- 77,742 m² (7.77 ha, 19.21 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilmoremoy, and its townlands
- Barony
- Tireragh
- Electoral division
- Ardnaree South Urban, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Ardnaree South Urban electoral division: 2,416 people in 990 households; 54% of households own their home; 23% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ardnaree or Shanaghy, Glebe, Mullauns
- Placenames
- Carrowcushlaun West 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.