Carrowkeel
Carrowkeel is a townland in the civil parish of Manulla, barony of Carra, Co. Mayo. Its name in Irish is An Cheathrú Chaol.
- Area
- 55.9 ha
- 138 acres
- Land parcels
- 82
- registered freehold, median 3,836 m² (0.38 ha, 0.95 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
82 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carrowkeel, from 34 m² to 41,542 m² (4.15 ha, 10.27 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 30 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 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
15 Aug 2025Conditional
construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage, proprietary treatment unit and percolation area and all ancillary works
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 25338
23 Jun 2025N/a
construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage, proprietary treatment unit and percolation area and all ancillary works
Permission · Mayo County Council, 25245
2 Dec 2021Conditional
RETENTION OF AN EXISTING TELECOMMUNICATIONS SUPPORT STRUCTURE PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER P05/2749 TOGETHER WITH ASSOCIATED GROUND EQUIPMENT CABINETS AND SECURITY FENCE
Retention · Mayo County Council, 211265
12 Oct 2021N/a
RETAIN EXISTING TELECOMMUNICATIONS SUPPORT STRUCTURE PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER P06/1107 TOGETHER WITH ASSOCIATED GROUND EQUIPMENT CABINETS AND SECURITY FENCE
Retention · Mayo County Council, 211085
7 Mar 2019Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 19156
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 Carrowkeel.
Recorded monuments
- MA079-065 Ringfort - rath
Description
Raised circular area (diam. 30.6m) defined by a low scarp (H 1.8m at SE). The perimeter and a large portion of the rath itself have been removed at WNW−ESE as a consequence of the construction of outbuildings and a laneway. The grassed-over remains of a possible souterrain (MA079-065001-) are visible in the NW quadrant of the interior. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 1 May 2019
- MA079-065001 Souterrain
Description
Located within the NW quadrant of a rath (MA 079-065----). A grassed-over, shallow rectangular depression (L 4.2m; Wth. 3.3m) may represent the remains of a souterrain. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 1 May 2019
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Carrowkeel, about 1 in 10 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 moderately high, moderately low, low.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Carrowkeel.
- 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 Carrowkeel with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.
The townland
- Name
- Carrowkeel · An Cheathrú Chaol
- Area
- 558,753 m² (55.88 ha, 138.07 acres)
- Civil parish
- Manulla, and its townlands
- Barony
- Carra
- Electoral division
- Manulla, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 991 people lived in 349 households in the Manulla electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballinhoe, Carrowmore, Carrowntober Eighter, Prison North, Rathredmond
- 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.