Carrowkeel

95 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carrowkeel, from 24 m² to 140,981 m² (14.1 ha, 34.84 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 12 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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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.

• 3 Sept 2026N/a

  Proposed detached family dwelling house with on site waste water treatment system and all associated site works and landscaping.

  Outline permission · Mayo County Council, 2660701

• 11 May 2026Conditional

  (1) THE RETENTION OF NEW DINING ROOM WINDOW FENESTRATION TO FRONT ELEVATION OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND (2) THE RETENTION OF AS-BUILT HOME OFFICE/GYM TO REAR OF DELLING HOUSE, TOGETHER WITH ANCILLARY SITE SERVICES AT CARROWKEEL, MURRISK, WESTPORT, CO. MAYO.PREVIOUS REF: P20/942.

  Retention · Mayo County Council, 2660365

• 11 Sept 2024Conditional

  The development will consist of the construction of an Extension to the rear of the existing dwelling

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2460572

• 27 Oct 2023Conditional

  retention of a single masonry constructed workshop and storage area and a single storey metal profile storage shed at the rear of the existing property

  Retention · Mayo County Council, 23589

• 6 Mar 2023Conditional

  change of design of previously approved planning reference P22/479

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 23122

• 23 Jan 2023Conditional

  The installation of approximately 15Km of 250mm OD water Trunk Main, which will extend from a position approximately 1Km from Westport at the junction of Pound Road and the R355 in the townland of Carrownalurgan to Kilsallagh Lower at the road junction between the R355 and the L1826 road to Drummin and the installation of approximately 29.3Km of a mains distribution network to supply water to 473 No Consumers along the route of the Trunk Main and in the area to the Townlands to the West of Croagh Patrick. All associated temporary site development works to gain access including clearance of vegetation, disassembly and reassembly of gate posts/ piers and removal and reinstatement of existing fencing, walls, and hedging; and any other temporary associated and ancillary development works required for the purposes of the proposed watermain, including the installation of stone tracks and temporary watercourse crossings. The watermain pipeline is located within the townlands of Cloghan, Clooneen, Knockfin, Ardoley, Churchfield, Knockaraha East, Knockaraha West, Streamstown, Belclare, Killadangan, Deerpark West, Murrisknaboll, Carrowkeeran, Bellataleen, Carrowkeel, Murrisk Demesne, Meermihil, Glaspatrick, Thornhill, Carrowmacloughlin, Leckanvy, Killsallagh Lower, Killsallagh Upper, Kinknock, Kilgeever, Cuilleen, Mullagh, Cartoor, Glenbaun, Glencally, Furgill, Cregganroe and Boheh in County Mayo.

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 2360016

• 5 Dec 2022Conditional

  Construct a home office at the rear of dwelling house comprising office space, kitchenette, toilet and a meeting area with all associated site works

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 221094

• 21 Sept 2022Conditional

  CONSTRUCT EXTENSION TO THE REAR AND SIDE OF THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE ALONG WITH ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 22823

• 14 Sept 2022Conditional

  RETAIN EXTENSIONS AND ALTERATIONS AND ALL ANCILLARY SITEWORKS AND SERVICES TO HOUSE CONSTRUCTED ON FOOT OF PLANNING PERMISSION P09/591 AND P04/2280

  Retention, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 22790

• 13 Jun 2022Conditional

  The development consists of the connection of the main house with apartment to make one complete house. Single storey extension of same to the side and rear with dormer structure to the rear and roof terrace, with alterations to existing windows, roof and elevations plus associated site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 22479

• 3 Mar 2022Conditional

  EXTENSION AND ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING HOUSE AND ALL ANCILLARY SITEWORKS AND SERVICES

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 22157

• 4 Dec 2020Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DETACHED HOME OFFICE AND GYM, TOGETHER WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE SERVICES

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 20942

• 6 Nov 2020N/a

  CONSTRUCT HOME OFFICE/GYM (TO INCORPORATE EXISTING GARAGE) TOGETHER WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE SERVICES.

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 20843

• 29 Jul 2020Conditional

  Construction of a 15 metre high free-standing communications structure with its associated antennae, communications dishes, ground equipment and all associated site development works. The development will form part of Eircom Ltd existing telecommunications and broadband network.

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 20516

• 1 Apr 2019Conditional

  CONSTRUCT A SUN ROOM EXTENSION OF AREA 38.5 SQM TO THE EXISTING GARAGE

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 19224

• 15 Mar 2019Conditional

  CONSTRUCT NEW TWO STOREY EXTENSION TO THE REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING WITH ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING ELEVATIONS AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 19181

• 13 Jul 2018Conditional

  CONSTRUCT DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND EFFLUENT TREATMENT UNIT TOGETHER WITH ASSOCIATED STIE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 18533

• 14 May 2018N/a

  CONSTRUCT DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND EFFLUENT TREATMENT UNIT TOGETHER WITH ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 18342

• 27 Feb 2017N/a

  CONSTRUCT DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH CONNECTION TO EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA, TOGETHER WITH ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 17116

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Clew Bay Complex SAC 001482
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Clew Bay Complex 001482

Recorded monuments

• MA087-012 Ringfort - cashel
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• MA087-013 Ringfort - cashel
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• MA087-031001 Religious house - Augustinian friars
  Description

  Named ‘Murrisk Abbey’ on the OS 6-inch map, this 15th-century Augustinian friary stands close to the southern shore of Clew Bay, on a S-facing slope at the foot of Croagh Patrick. It is a National Monument in State ownership (no. 196). The friary was established in 1456, when Hugh O’Malley, a friar from the Observant Augustinian friary (SL) in Banada, Co. Sligo, received papal permission to build a friary at ‘the place called Leithearmursge [Murrisk] …for the purpose of building a house of the said order with church, cloister, bell-tower, bell, refectory, dorter [dormitory] and other necessary offices…’ (Cal. Papal Letters). The land was granted by ‘Thady Omaylly [O’Malley]…chief of his sept, for the welfare of his soul and the souls of his progenitors..’ (Cal. Papal Letters). This is likely to have been Tadhg mac Diarmaid Ó Máille (d. 1467), who ruled Umaill at the time, and to whom Hugh O’Malley was probably related (Martin 1956, 378). The O’Malleys (Uí Mháille), a seafaring family, were Lords of Umaill, controlling most of what is now the barony of Murrisk. A 1656 document states that the founder of the friary was Lady Maeve O’Connor, wife of Diarmuid Bacach O’Malley, the latter probably an uncle of Thady O’Malley (McDermott 2008, 25). As often with the mendicant orders, it is likely that several benefactors were involved in the foundation and in funding the various phases of building. In the papal permission, the reason given for the foundation of the friary is that ‘the place is far remote from cities, towns and castles, etc., and that the inhabitants of those parts have not hitherto been instructed in the faith…’. This suggesting that the parish was lacking in suitable pastoral care. The friary was dedicated to St Patrick, and it is believed that relics of the saint, the shrine of St Patrick’s tooth (Fiacail Phadraig), now in the National Museum of Ireland, and St Patrick’s Black Bell, acquired by the Royal Irish Academy, were at one time kept in the church (McDermott 2008, 29). It became the starting point for pilgrims undertaking the traditional devotional climb to the summit of Croagh Patrick. Following the Dissolution of the monasteries, a report in 1574 to Queen Elisabeth’s Lord Deputy mentions that Moyrishe [Murrisk] was ‘possessed either by friars or rebels, so as Her Majesty hath no commodity in the same.’, and in 1578 the property was granted to James Garvey, brother of John Garvey, Protestant arch bishop of Armagh (O’Flanagan and O’Connell 1986, 129-131). It appears, however, that the friars were able to stay on up to the 18th-century, thanks to the remoteness of the site and the protection of powerful local patrons. This is evidenced by two chalices made for the monastery in the 17th-century: the Viscount Mayo Chalice of 1635 was commissioned by Maeve/Maud O’Conor in memory of her late husband Theobald Burke (d. 1629), and the 1648 Murrisk Chalice was commissioned by Augustinian friar, John de Burgh, and made in Galway by Richard Joyce. The extant remains are L-shaped in plan, consisting of an undifferentiated nave and chancel church, with a collapsed bell tower at its W end, and one range of domestic buildings extending N from the E end of the church. The majority of the walls still stand to original roof level, and are constructed of roughly coursed dressed limestone blocks. The stones in the N wall of the church are more carefully cut and dressed than those in the S wall of the church and in the E range. The stones may have been prepared by different teams of masons, perhaps because of periodic lulls in the construction of the friary, not unusual in the context of mendicant construction, which relied on lay donations. The position of the tower (int. 6.10m N–S; 1.95m E–W) at the W end of the church is unusual in a mendicant context, as a central location between the nave and the chancel is the norm. All that remains of the tower is the E wall with its large cut-stone arch, sections of the the rib vault springing from corbels at the N and S end of that wall, and remnants of the S and W walls. There was a single light in the S wall, but only the lower section of the internal splay survives. The large arch originally opened into the nave; it is now blocked up, with a small, flat-headed doorway inserted into the infilling masonry. While the main entrance to the nave was probably originally through the tower, there is also a pointed doorway, with chamfered arch and jambs, at the W end of the S wall of the nave, which gives direct access from outside. The church (int. 24.9m E−W; 6.15m) now has no clear structural division between the nave and chancel. A low step may mark the division, but could also be associated with the rise of the ground level due to later burial use. Three windows towards the E end of the nave, two in the S wall and one in the N wall, may mark the location of a timber rood screen, which probably originally divided the nave and chancel (Leask 1943, 139): In the S wall are a double ogee-headed light, placed low in the wall, and c. 0.50m to the E a single ogee-headed light; on the external face both are cusped, with concave spandrels and square hood mouldings; directly opposite in the N wall is another single ogee-headed light. The chancel has two double-light windows, now missing the central mullions, at the E end of the S wall. They are round-headed lights, with a circular opening above; externally, both have pointed hood-mouldings with pyramidal stops. There is a small carved stone head on the external wall face to the W of these windows. The E gable has a tall, elegant five-light window, with graceful switchline tracery and trefoil heads, a pointed, chamfered hood-moulding, and mullions chamfered on all sides; Leask (1943, 140) regarded it as ‘perhaps the best window of its type in the west of Ireland’. There is carved stone head on the external wall face on the S side of this window. The high altar still stands underneath the E window against the wall. In the S wall of the chancel are a piscina recess and a rectangular niche, perhaps where the sedilia used to be. There are a number of 19th-century wall monuments and memorial inscriptions on the walls. In the N wall a pointed doorway, with chamfered arch and jambs leads into the E range. To its W side is a small stoup within an ogee-headed recess. The doorway opens into a small vestibule that gives access at N to the sacristy, at E to a spiral staircase, lit by a small rectangular window, leading to the dormitory above, and at W to a short passage to the cloister area. The short passage opens through a pointed doorway into the remains of a small porch-like structure (2.15m N–S; 2.55m E–W) abutting the corner of the E range and the church; a pointed doorway, with chamfered jambs, in its N wall, opening into the cloister area. Although a cloister is specified in the original papal permission, there is now no trace of it. Corbels and a string course along the W wall of the E range and the N wall of the church indicate that a covered walkway with a lean-to roof may have existed, perhaps resting on a timber structure rather than a stone arcade. It is also uncertain whether N and W ranges ever existed; traces of walling off the N end of the W wall of the E range suggest there may have been a N range. In the ground floor of the extant E range, the sacristy consists of a rectangular barrel-vaulted room (c. 6.25 m E–W; c. 2.4m). It has a single round-headed light in the E wall. Immediately to N of the sacristy is another vaulted room (c. 6. 25m E–W; c. 6m N–S), probably the chapter room, entered through a large pointed doorway with chamfered arch and jambs in the W wall, and lit by a double-light, with trefoil heads and an unadorned mullion, in the E wall. The room (6.15m E–W; 5.20m N–S) to the N of the chapter room was probably also vaulted, but the ceiling is gone, and the interior is infilled to the level of the sill of the W wall single light. The upper floor

• MA087-031002 Graveyard
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• MA087-031003 Cross
  Description

  In the sacristy of Murrisk Augustinian friary. A fragment of a stone cross bearing a relief carving of the crucified Christ. Only one arm of the cross and a small portion of the shaft survive, exhibiting the left side of Christ’s head with his hair depicted as linear grooves, the upper portion of his torso and his out-stretched left arm, with the individual fingers of the hand delineated, and a small circular-headed nail pierces the palm. The style of the carving suggests that the cross dates to the period late 16th to late 17th century. Attached image: MA087-031003-_01 Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 20 April 2023

• MA087-053 Souterrain
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• MA087-057 Mound
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• MA087-067 Mound
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Architectural heritage

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

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, 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.

• Carrowkeel, Murrisk7 sales

Name

Carrowkeel · An Cheathrú Chaol

Area

473,026 m² (47.3 ha, 116.89 acres)

Civil parish

Oughaval, and its townlands

Barony

Murrisk

Electoral division

Croaghpatrick, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Croaghpatrick electoral division: 699 people in 259 households; 81% of households own their home; 45% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 24% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bellataleen, Carrowkeeran, Murrisk Demesne

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.