Carrowkeel

19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carrowkeel, from 406 m² to 90,391 m² (9.04 ha, 22.34 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 Carrowkeel 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.

• 30 Sept 2025Conditional

  The development will consist of: (A) Permission to retain an existing detached domestic garage to the south west side of my existing dwelling. At this site Carrowkeel, Swinford, Co Mayo.

  Retention · Mayo County Council, 2560686

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 Carrowkeel.

Recorded monuments

• MA071-088 Enclosure
  Description

  At the narrow N end of a roughly triangular modern field of rough, wet pasture, located on a low rise, with good views. A circular embanked enclosure (diam. c. 20m) is shown on the 1838 OS 6-inch map; it is not shown on later map editions. It has been levelled, but the outline of a roughly circular, slightly raised area (c. 25m E−W; c. 28m N−S) can still be traced. It is evident as an island of short green grass surrounded by rushes. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 17 August 2021

• MA071-089 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture incorporated into the SW corner of a modern rectangular field, located on top of a low ridge, at the break of slope on the gently falling S side. Views quite good over undulating terrain, wet in the lowlying hollows. Circular platform (40.5m NW−SE; 43.6m NE−SW) defined by a high scarp (H 2m at SW, 1.7m at NE). A section of the scarp and a portion of the adjacent interior have been quarried out at NE−E in the past (grassed over now). The scarp is lowest and rather slumped at NNE. It retains a slightly raised inner lip at SE−S. It serves as a field boundary at ESE−S−WSW, and its exterior slope is covered in hawthorn and ash trees. At W the scarp is subsumed into a N−S field fence and is topped with a stone wall and engulfed in a hedgerow. There is a very slight rise in interior ground level in the N half, to NW of centre, with a gently slope down from there to E and S. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 17 August 2021

• MA071-122 Enclosure
  Description

  In pasture, on elevated ground. An embanked circular enclosure (diam. 25-30m) is shown on the 1838 OS 6-inch map; it is not shown on the 1931 edition, where a sub-rectangular field plot with a curving SW boundary is shown. This enclosure has been leveled and partly subsumed into a sub-rectangular field plot (16m NE–SW; c. 8-10m NW-SE) which is defined on the NE, SE and SW sides by field fences and is open on the NW side (where a field fence has been removed). On the SE and SW sides the field fence tops a steep scarp (H c. 2m) marking a pronounced drop in ground level to S and SW. The SE side is bordered by a farm track. The original form and extent of the circular enclosure can no longer be traced. Modern houses are located immediately to SW and NW. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 25 August 2021

• MA071-125 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, straddling the narrow top of a low NW−SE ridge. There are good views over the surrounding gently undulating landscape, with a river 350m to E. Raised oval platform (40.4m NNW−SSE; 26.5m ENE−WSW) defined by a scarp, outside which on the W half it is enclosed by a fosse and external bank. It is enhanced on the W side by the natural ridge slope. The scarp (H 2.8m) on the E half is broadly slumped (Wth slope 5-6m) and rather dilapidated; the base of the slope has been faced with stone to serve as a field fence. A short length of fosse (Wth 3m; D 0.9m) is evident at the base of the scarp at SSE, with remnants of a possible external bank (Wth 4-5m) which merges on its external slope with the natural ridge slope. At S−NW, the fosse becomes a terrace (Wth c. 2.5-4.5m) cut into the ridge slope at the base of the rath scarp (H 3.15m at WSW). The terrace is defined on its outer edge by a steep slope/scarp (H 1.5m). At the NNW end of the terrace is another short length of sunken fosse (Wth 2.4m) with remnants of an external bank (Wth 4.4m; int. H 0.35m; ext. H 1.5m). A break (Wth 1.6m) in the scarp at SSE, now dilapidated and eroded by cattle, possibly marks an original entrance. A spine of slightly elevated ground extends roughly N−S through the centre of the interior. It has a slight slope down on its W side; on the E side, there is a marked drop to NE, E and SE, which then levels out, with the result that the E third of the interior is at a noticeably lower level than the W half. The interior is grassy; the scarp is ringed with hawthorn and blackthorn scrub and brambles. An old farm track skirts the base of the slope on the W side of the rath. There is another rath (MA071-126----) 125m to NE. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 25 August 2021

• MA071-126 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located on a low rise in gently undulating damp, rush-grown pasture, overlooked 100m to S by higher ground on which a rath (MA071-025----) is located. There is a stream 200m to E. Circular platform (22.8m NE−SW; c. 25m NW−SE) defined by a scarp (H 2.1m at NE, 1.7m at SW; 1.55m at SSE; Wth slope c. 3m), which scarp retains a slightly raised internal lip at SW. The scarp is consistently high for most of the circuit, and is enhanced by the natural fall of ground. It is lowest at SE where there is an eroded slumped area (Wth 1.4m), now engulfed in overgrowth, possibly the site of an original entrance. The interior is level. A field fence/property boundary on a NE−SW axis crosses the rath to NW of centre. Brambles and overgrowth have encroached on the interior; the perimeter is ringed with hawthorn and ash trees. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 27 August 2021

Architectural heritage

• Dan's Cottage, farm house, 1850–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached six-bay single-storey direct entry thatched farmhouse with dormer attic, dated 1855; extant 1895, originally two separate three-bay single-storey direct entry houses. "Restored", 1995. Replacement pitched reed thatch roof on collared timber construction with chicken wire-covered exposed hazel or sally lattice stretchers to raised ridge having exposed scallops, cement rendered chimney stacks, and flagged coping to gables. Replacement cement rendered battered walls. Square-headed central door openings with concealed dressings framing replacement timber boarded or tongue-and-groove timber panelled half-doors. Square-headed flanking window openings with shallow sills, and concealed dressings framing replacement two-over-two timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes. Interior including kitchen retaining hearth. Road fronted with gravel verge to front.

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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Carrowkeel · An Cheathrú Chaol

Area

751,240 m² (75.12 ha, 185.64 acres)

Civil parish

Bohola, and its townlands

Barony

Gallen

Electoral division

Toocananagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Toocananagh electoral division: 464 people in 170 households; 78% of households own their home; 32% of homes were built since 2001; 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Clooneen, Lismiraun, Lissaniska, Listrisnan, Shanaghy, Toocananagh

Placenames

Carrowkeel 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.