# Carrowgowan, Co. Mayo: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Bohola, barony of Gallen, Co. Mayo; in Irish Ceathrú an Ghabhann.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 678,494 m² (67.85 ha, 167.66 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 36 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 6,727 m² (0.67 ha, 1.66 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 4 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Bohola, https://everytownland.com/mayo/parish/bohola.md
- Barony: Gallen
- Electoral division: Strade, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 647 people lived in 239 households in the Strade electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.
- County: Co. Mayo, https://everytownland.com/mayo.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/35911
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 150654
- Centre: latitude 53.902788, longitude -9.082237 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

36 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carrowgowan, from 156 m² to 85,959 m² (8.6 ha, 21.24 acres); 20 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 1009524: 85,959 m² (8.6 ha, 21.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1009524.md
- Parcel 1004909: 63,302 m² (6.33 ha, 15.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1004909.md
- Parcel 5169262: 62,440 m² (6.24 ha, 15.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5169262.md
- Parcel 941312: 55,105 m² (5.51 ha, 13.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/941312.md
- Parcel 962426: 44,246 m² (4.42 ha, 10.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/962426.md
- Parcel 5169270: 42,293 m² (4.23 ha, 10.45 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5169270.md
- Parcel 994742: 41,020 m² (4.1 ha, 10.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/994742.md
- Parcel 995330: 40,349 m² (4.03 ha, 9.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/995330.md
- Parcel 873033: 39,955 m² (4 ha, 9.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/873033.md
- Parcel 963329: 32,973 m² (3.3 ha, 8.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/963329.md
- Parcel 932889: 25,167 m² (2.52 ha, 6.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/932889.md
- Parcel 1005967: 23,159 m² (2.32 ha, 5.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1005967.md
- Parcel 886570: 21,653 m² (2.17 ha, 5.35 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/886570.md
- Parcel 943859: 21,147 m² (2.11 ha, 5.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/943859.md
- Parcel 1005491: 19,618 m² (1.96 ha, 4.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1005491.md
- Parcel 985298: 15,567 m² (1.56 ha, 3.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/985298.md
- Parcel 884141: 10,215 m² (1.02 ha, 2.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/884141.md
- Parcel 1008673: 8,780 m² (0.88 ha, 2.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1008673.md
- Parcel 1001413: 4,674 m² (0.47 ha, 1.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1001413.md
- Parcel 997749: 4,242 m² (0.42 ha, 1.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/997749.md
- Parcel 990376: 3,065 m² (0.31 ha, 0.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/990376.md
- Parcel 886572: 1,845 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/886572.md
- Parcel 987062: 1,770 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/987062.md
- Parcel 5169302: 1,734 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5169302.md
- Parcel 991725: 1,504 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/991725.md
- Parcel 989022: 1,432 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/989022.md
- Parcel 5169307: 1,250 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5169307.md
- Parcel 984211: 1,138 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/984211.md
- Parcel 1007945: 987 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1007945.md
- Parcel 977718: 774 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/977718.md
- Parcel 987392: 411 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/987392.md
- Parcel 999659: 279 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/999659.md
- Parcel 990899: 210 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/990899.md
- Parcel 896951: 175 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/896951.md
- Parcel 928549: 168 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/928549.md
- Parcel 900214: 156 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/900214.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

No zone of a development plan covers Carrowgowan in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.

## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)

4 applications, newest first.

- 12 May 2026, Mayo County Council 2660370: Conditional. Permission. The Proposed Replacement Of An Existing Septic Tank System With An Onsite Sewerage System With Polishing Filter In Accordance With EPA Code of Practice 2021 To Service An Existing Dormer Type Dwelling House And All Ancillary Works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MayoCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660370/0
- 12 May 2026, Mayo County Council 2660371: Conditional. Permission. The Proposed Replacement Of An Existing Septic Tank System With An Onsite Sewerage System With Polishing Filter In Accordance With EPA Code of Practice 2021 To Service An Existing Dormer Type Dwelling House And All Ancillary Works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MayoCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660371/0
- 7 May 2026, Mayo County Council 2660353: N/a. Permission. The Proposed Replacement Of An Existing Septic Tank System With An Onsite Sewerage System With Polishing Filter In Accordance With EPA Code of Practice 2021 To Service An Existing Dormer Type Dwelling House And All Ancillary Works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MayoCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660353/0
- 7 May 2026, Mayo County Council 2660355: N/a. Permission. The Proposed Replacement Of An Existing Septic Tank System With An Onsite Sewerage System With Polishing Filter In Accordance With EPA Code of Practice 2021 To Service An Existing Dormer Type Dwelling House And All Ancillary Works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MayoCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660355/0

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## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Carrowgowan.

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- MA071-072: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMA071-072----. In rough to average pasture, located on top of a rise, with a fall of ground to NW, overlooking an expanse of lowlying wet ground. There is undulating/rising ground to E and SE. Oval platform (34m NE−SW; 24. 3m NW−SE) defined by a scarp (H 2m), outside which it is encircled by a fosse (Wth 5m) and external bank (Wth 5.5m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 1.2m, at SW). The fosse and external bank are well preserved at S−NW, with a number of large stones the external bank incorporates at W. At NW−NE the fosse and external bank are reduced to a terrace (Wth 6.8m) defined on its outer edge by a scarp (H 1.2m). A field fence on a NW−SE axis overlies the fosse and truncates the external bank at NE−E. At E−SE the platform scarp has been adapted to serve as a field fence and the fosse and external bank are not evident. The scarp is lowest (H 0.6m) at NE where it faces the spine of the ridge; this is a likely location for the original entrance. The interior is level. There is a low stony heap (max. dim. 2m; H 0.3m) in the N half. A shallow roughly square depression (2m by 2m) abuts the scarp at W. The perimeter is thickly ringed with blackthorn bushes, which are encroaching on the grassy interior at S and W. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 13 August 2021
- MA071-073: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMA071-073----. In pasture, in the grounds of Carrowgowan House, a 19th-century house now razed to the ground. The ringfort is sited on a N-S ridge, affording good views along a stream valley to W−NW and of the surrounding undulating pastureland at S−NW. Modern houses lie immediately to SE and S of the rath. Raised circular area (34.2m N-S; 33.2m E-W) defined by an earthen bank, outside which it is enclosed at NE−WSW by remnants of a fosse (Wth 2.5m at SW) and outer bank (Wth 5m; int. H 0.3m; 1.6m at SW). The inner bank (Wth 4.5m; int. H 0.1m; ext. H 2.2m at SW) retains a low internal lip at NE−SW but is elsewhere reduced to a scarp. The height of the bank is enhanced at SW−NW by the natural fall of the ridge slope. The outer bank is overlain or truncated by later field boundaries at NE-SSW, but a short section remains well defined at SSW−WSW. The interior is level and grassy, with a few ash trees. The entrance may have been at ENE where the scarp is lowest and there is a gap (2.7m) in the inner bank. A gap (Wth 2.2m) at NNE appears to be recent. A stone-built belvedere, undoubtedly contemporary with Carrowgowan House, stands at the SW edge of the interior. It is oval in plan (int. 1.55m E-W; 2.3m N-S; wall T 0.6m) with three pointed-arch windows and two flat-headed windows, a flat-topped doorway, a small fireplace and dovecote niches in the upper courses of the interior wall face. The windows have brick surrounds. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 13 August 2021
- MA071-074: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMA071-074----. In pasture, prominently sited on a ridge overlooking a broad expanse of lowlying, damp pasture. Ground falls away steeply immediately to N−NE of the enclosure. This possible rath is shown on the 1838 OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m); it is shown as an oblong hachured enclosure (c. 60m N-S; c. 30m E-W) on the 1931 edition. It has been levelled. The outline of a roughly circular flat area (c. 26m NE–SW; c. 28m NW–SE) is defined by a slight undulation/cropmark: An encircling band (Wth c. 4m) of yellowish grass, sloping outwards slightly, probably indicates a levelled bank or scarp, and outside that a band of richer, green grass -clearest on the W arc -is suggestive of an external fosse. The E edge of the enclosure has been dug away and a field fence on a NNE−SSW axis lies immediately to E. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 13 August 2021
- MA071-075: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMA071-075----. In rough pasture, located on a low SE-facing slope overlooking an expanse of lowlying damp pasture. A circular ringfort-sized enclosure (diam. c. 25m) is shown on the 1838 OS 6-inch map; it is not shown on later map editions. When inspected in 1998, an impenetrable thicket of blackthorn (diam. 20-30m) covers this location and prevented examination. A field boundary on a roughly NW−SE axis crosses the location. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 13 August 2021

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).

## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage)

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

## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland)

- Radon: at the centre of the townland of Carrowgowan, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887
- Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately low, low.
- Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Carrowgowan.
- Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use.

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.

## Downloads

- DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/mayo/carrowgowan.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/mayo/carrowgowan.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/mayo/carrowgowan.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Carrowgowan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo: https://everytownland.com/mayo.md

## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann)

- Bohola: https://everytownland.com/mayo/bohola.md
- Carroward: https://everytownland.com/mayo/carroward.md
- Carrowcastle: https://everytownland.com/mayo/carrowcastle-150632.md
- Lisgormin: https://everytownland.com/mayo/lisgormin.md
- Rathrowan: https://everytownland.com/mayo/rathrowan.md

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.

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Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged.

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