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

Townland in the civil parish of Burrishoole, barony of Burrishoole, Co. Mayo; in Irish An Cheathrú Chaol.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 360,126 m² (36.01 ha, 88.99 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 15,464 m² (1.55 ha, 3.82 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010
- Civil parish: Burrishoole, https://everytownland.com/mayo/parish/burrishoole.md
- Barony: Burrishoole
- Electoral division: Newport East, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Newport East electoral division: 1,318 people in 516 households; 68% of households own their home; 40% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 9% were holiday homes.
- County: Co. Mayo, https://everytownland.com/mayo.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/37388
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 150669
- Centre: latitude 53.900738, longitude -9.572815 (WGS 84)

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

19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carrowkeel, from 72 m² to 54,350 m² (5.43 ha, 13.43 acres); 18 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 904195: 54,350 m² (5.43 ha, 13.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/904195.md
- Parcel 1004883: 50,962 m² (5.1 ha, 12.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1004883.md
- Parcel 962376: 45,201 m² (4.52 ha, 11.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/962376.md
- Parcel 1004569: 35,077 m² (3.51 ha, 8.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1004569.md
- Parcel 910676: 30,025 m² (3 ha, 7.42 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/910676.md
- Parcel 963295: 25,233 m² (2.52 ha, 6.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/963295.md
- Parcel 918520: 22,745 m² (2.27 ha, 5.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/918520.md
- Parcel 930142: 18,079 m² (1.81 ha, 4.47 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/930142.md
- Parcel 1003520: 17,046 m² (1.7 ha, 4.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1003520.md
- Parcel 927660: 15,464 m² (1.55 ha, 3.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/927660.md
- Parcel 895065: 13,789 m² (1.38 ha, 3.41 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/895065.md
- Parcel 938187: 10,818 m² (1.08 ha, 2.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/938187.md
- Parcel 5930475: 6,183 m² (0.62 ha, 1.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5930475.md
- Parcel 921281: 5,618 m² (0.56 ha, 1.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/921281.md
- Parcel 5140667: 2,450 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5140667.md
- Parcel 916588: 2,242 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/916588.md
- Parcel 900070: 216 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/900070.md
- Parcel 5379909: 197 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5379909.md
- Parcel 5296065: 72 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5296065.md

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

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.

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

1 application, newest first.

- 3 Nov 2017, Mayo County Council 17872: Conditional. Permission. ESSENTIAL REPAIRS TO EXISTING 38KV LINE BETWEEN NEWPORT STATION AND ACHILL STATION. WORKS WILL INCLUDE REPLACING EXISTING DOUBLE WOOD POLES, STAYS AND HEADGEAR IN THE TOWNLANDS OF CARRICKANEADY, CLOONESHIL, DRUMLONG, CAMCLOON, DERRYLOUGHAN, DERRINTAGGART, KILTARNAGH, SHANVALLYHUGH, DERRADA, DERRYCOOLDRIM, CARROWSALLAGH, KNOCKBREAGA, TIERNAUR, ROSSGALIV, ROSSTUR, BUNNAHOWN, MURREVAGH, MALLARANNY, COIS LEICE, AN ABHAINN DUBH, TON RE GAOTH, POLL RAITHNI. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MayoCC/AppFileRefDetails/17872/0

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## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

- Special Area of Conservation: Clew Bay Complex SAC, site code 001482, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/001482
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Clew Bay Complex, site code 001482

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

- MA067-013001: Castle - unclassified, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMA067-013001-. The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
- MA067-013002: Settlement deserted - medieval, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMA067-013002-. The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
- MA067-014001: Religious house - Dominican friars, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMA067-014001-. On a low elevation on the shores of a sheltered tidal inlet which opens off the NE end of Clew Bay, and merges at N with a narrow channel connecting with the S end of Furnace Lough. Burrishoole castle (MA067-013001-) is 125m to N. Burrishoole Abbey, a well built, compact 15th-century Dominican priory dedicated to St. Mary, is a National Monument in state guardianship (no. 235). It is located within the ancient territory of Umhall, which at the time the priory was built was a nexus of rivalries, alliances and intermarriage within and between the O’Malleys, a Gaelic clan, and the Bourkes, descendants of the Anglo-Norman de Burgos. The priory was founded for the mendicant order of the Dominicans in 1469 by Richard Bourke of Turlough, known as Risteard an Cuarscidh (Richard of the Curved Shield). He was elected the Mac William Íochtar, chief of the Mayo Bourkes in 1460, but having established the priory, he resigned his lordship, took the habit and joined the community at Burrishoole, dying there four years later in 1473 (Gwynne and Hadcock 1970, 222). Initially, the establishment of the priory proved controversial as the Archbishop of Tuam, who granted permission for the foundation, had neglected to obtain the necessary papal approval, thus exposing the friars to the threat of excommunication. This distressing situation was finally resolved in 1486 when Pope Innocent VIII issued a Papal Bull absolving the friars, regularising the status of the priory and authorising the construction of a church, steeple and bell, as well as dormitories, cloisters, cemetery and refectory. The priory continued to enjoy generous patronage. The de Burgo O’Malley chalice, a very fine gilt silver chalice now in the National Museum, is associated with Burrishoole. It has an inscription on its base which dates it to 1494 and indicates that it was commissioned by Thomas de Burgo, grandson of Richard Bourke, and his wife Grania Ni Malle (O’Malley). As was the case for other Irish monasteries, especially those in remoter locations, the protection of local lords allowed the friars to remain at the priory for several decades following the Dissolution of the Monasteries initiated in the mid 1530’s by Henry VIII. However by 1580 the priory was in the hands of Sir Nicholas Malby, Governor of Connacht, who wrote a vivid evaluation of its assets: ‘an abbey standing very pleasant upon a riverside, within three miles of the sea, where a ship of five hundred tons may lie at low tide. It hath a goodly and large lough on the upper part of the river, full of great timber, grey marble, and many other commodities of all sides, not without great store of good ground, both arable land and pasture. Specially it hath a very plentiful iron mine and abundance of wood every way. Towards the sea coast there lieth islands rich and plentiful in all commodities; there cometh hither every year about fifty English ships for fishing. They have been before this time compelled to pay a great tribute to the O’Malleys. It is accounted one of the best fishing places in Ireland for salmon, herring and all kinds of sea fish.’ (cited in Knox 1908, 108). This helps explain why Malby established a military base at the priory, fortifying and garrisoning the buildings. In succeeding years the fortunes of the friars became increasingly precarious. In 1606 James I gave the abbey and its lands to John Kinge of Dublin, who sold it on immediately to Michael Cormick of Innishmayne. In 1653 the priory was occupied by Cromwellian troops. Throughout the 17th century, a few Dominican friars continued to live and work in the locality. By the 18th century the abbey was in ruins, although it remained in use as a graveyard (MA067-014002-) and as a focus for religious devotion. The ruins consist of a nave and chancel church, a crossing tower/belfry, a large chapel extending S from the E end of the nave, and fragmentary remains of the cloister and the domestic ranges to the N of the church. The buildings are all 15th century in date, but show evidence of successive construction phases. An incremental approach to construction was not uncommon, particularly in mendicant foundations, where funds may have been insufficient to complete the build in a single operation. Here, the nave and chancel church was erected first; the S chapel, the cloister and domestic buildings were added slightly later, though the time-lag was probably short, as the tracery window in the chapel is stylistically identical to the E window in the chancel; and in the final phase, the tower was inserted at the junction of the nave and chancel, partly obstructing the E archway into the S chapel. The buildings are of roughly coursed limestone blocks and rubble masonry, with dressed quoin stones. The church walls stand more or less to original height, and remnants of plaster still adhere to the walls in parts. The main entrance to the church is in the W gable of the nave. The doorway has a chamfered cutstone surround with a pointed arch, splaying inwardly to a round-headed arch. There is a single-light window above, and a stoup on a free-standing octagonal pillar (H 0.92m) at the S side of the doorway. The nave (14m E–W; 6.10m N–S. Fig. 3) has two other doorways, one, now blocked up, towards the W end of the S wall with a stoup within a conical corbel to the E of it, and the other, a pointed arched doorway in the N wall, giving access to the cloister garth. Two pointed arches in the S wall of the nave open into the S chapel or transept (c. 10.5m N–S; 6.55m E–W), the E arch slightly obscured by the later tower. The two arches are reinforced by internal ribs and rest on circular pillars, the central one with a moulded capital. The chapel is lit by a three-light pointed arch switchline tracery window with pointed and chamfered external hood-moulding. Recessed into the wall to E of the window are a square aumbry and a piscina niche with a chamfered pointed arch. The latter were associated with the southern of two altar recesses in the E wall of the chapel, each recess with twin ogee-headed lights embellished externally with projecting square hood-moulding with concave spandrels. The N recess retains its stone-built altar (L 1.86m; Wth 0.64m; H 0.95m). A 17th-century burial monument (MA067-014005-) now occupies the S altar recess. Two recessed gunloops at the NW end of the W wall of the chapel are a legacy of the garrisoning of the priory in the late 16th/early 17th centuries. High on the exterior face of the E wall of chapel a neat row of gutter stones can be seen. The stocky rectangular tower (ext. 6.10m N–S; 4.40m E–W) divides the nave from the chancel. It has a barrel vault, with pointed E and W arches which have central ribs with plain stops. Two holes, through which the bell ropes were threaded, are visible in the vault. To the N, the vault rests on a simple rounded arch. The S wall of the tower has a passage providing access to the S chapel, and also incorporates spiral stairs leading to the upper storeys, which are lit by simple rectangular opes. At ground floor level in the N wall of the tower, there is a finely carved double ogee-headed window; externally the cusps have multiple receding mouldings continuing into the jambs and mullion, with a similar pattern replicated in the projecting square hood-moulding which has squared stops and concave spandrels. At the base of the NE pier beneath the tower vault, there are three corbels resting on straight, rectangular jambs, remnants of a small table altar, and a similar feature is visible at the base of the W wall of the tower, facing the nave. Four corbels projecting from high on the W wall of the tower, facing the nave, may have supported the beam that held the rood, above a rood screen integrated within the tower arch. On the E face of the tower, the imprint of the original steep-pitched chancel roof is still clearly visible. The chancel (8.90m E–W; 6.10m N–S. Fig. 13) is dominated by the restrained elegance of its t
- MA067-014002: Graveyard, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMA067-014002-. At Burrishoole 15th-century Dominican friary (MA067-014001-), encompassing the low hill on which the friary is sited. On the 1838 OS 6-inch map the graveyard is depicted as a subrectangular walled area bordering the E side of the friary. By the time of the 1920 edition it had expanded to its current extent, fully surrounding the friary, its limits defined by the waters of the tidal sea inlet (Burrishoole Channel) at W and N and by stone walls at S and E, with an entrance through a metal gate at NE. There is a moderate density of graves on the grassy slopes surrounding the friary, and a higher density within the friary itself. The oldest graves, mostly 19th-century graveslabs and headstones, are found to the E of the friary, throughout the interior of the church and in the area of the cloister and the E range. The oldest known burial monument is a chest tomb (MA067-014005-) dating to 1623, which can be seen in an altar recess in the S chapel of the church. In the nave is a cross erected to the memory of Father Manus Sweeney, who took part in the 1798 rebellion and was hanged in Newport in 1799. Most of the graves to the S, W and N of the friary date to the early 20th century. The graveyard is still in use but only for existing family plots. There are 20th-century extensions to the graveyard at S and E. Attached images: MA067-014002-_01.JPG Graveyard viewed from SW MA067-014002-_02.JPG Viewed from S MA067-014002-_03.JPG Viewed from S MA067-014002-_04.JPG Graves extend to the waters edge MA067-014002-_05.JPG Graves within the nave of the church MA067-014002-_06.JPG Memorial to Fr. Manus Sweeney within the church Compiled by: Anne-Julie Lafaye and Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 12 January 2022
- MA067-014003: Earthwork, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMA067-014003-. The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
- MA067-014004: Metalworking site, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMA067-014004-. Iron works in the possession of Burrishoole Dominican priory (MA067-014001-) were first recorded in 1580 when Sir Nicholas Malby, Governor of Connacht included them in a list of the abbey’s assets: ‘Specially it hath a very plentiful iron mine…’ (Knox 1908, 108). Samuel Lewis (1837) recorded that 'There are two large lakes in the parish called Lough Feagh and Lough Furnace, and on the narrow neck of land between these are the ruins of an old smelting furnace [MA067-045----]; there is also another at the old abbey '. The exact location of the abbey's iron works is uncertain. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 12 January 2022
- MA067-014005: Tomb - chest tomb, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMA067-014005-. In Burrishoole Dominican friary (MA067-014001-) incorporated into an altar recess at the S end of the E wall of the S chapel. A 17th-century limestone chest tomb surmounted by a cut-stone round-headed arch is inserted into the 15th-century altar recess, partly blocking the double ogee-headed light. The edges of the coffin lid are sculpted with mouldings mirrored by similar mouldings along the base of tomb. A Latin inscription is carved in false relief along the front of the tomb just underneath the coffin lid: Orate pro anima Davidis oge Kelly qui me fieri fecit sibi et heredibus suis Anno Domini 1623 et ejus uxori Anabala Barrett. It translates as: Pray for the soul of David Kelly junior who had me made and his heirs AD 1623 and [for the soul] of his wife Anabla Barrett.’ Attached images: MA067-014005-_01.JPG 17th-century wall monument/O’Kelly tomb in 15th-century altar recess MA067-014005-_02.JPG Dedication carved on side of tomb MA067-014005-_03.JPG Date: 1623 Compiled by: Anne-Julie Lafaye and Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 12 January 2022

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)

- Burrishoole Bridge, bridge, 1700–1838, Regional interest, registry number 31306714, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=MA&regno=31306714. Seven-arch road bridge over channel, extant 1838. Bypassed, 1950. Part creeper- or ivy-covered random rubble stone walls centred on triangular cutwaters to piers with lichen-covered rubble stone soldier course coping to parapets. Series of seven round arches with squared rubble stone voussoirs. Sited spanning Burrishoole Channel with unkempt banks to channel.
- Abbeyville, farm house, 1700–1838, Regional interest, registry number 31306715, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=MA&regno=31306715. Detached five-bay single-storey farmhouse, extant 1838, on a rectangular plan. Occupied, 1901. Vacant, 1911. Pitched slate roof with ridge tiles, concrete or rendered coping to gables with rendered chimney stacks to apexes having stringcourses below capping supporting yellow terracotta octagonal pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves with cast-iron downpipes. Rendered walls bellcast on rendered plinth. Hipped square-headed central door opening with rendered surround framing replacement glazed uPVC panelled door having sidelights. Square-headed window openings with sills, and rendered surrounds framing two-over-two timber sash windows. Set in landscaped grounds with rock faced limestone ashlar piers to perimeter having shallow pyramidal capping supporting wrought iron-detailed flat iron "farm gate".

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

- Radon: the EPA radon map gives no estimate at the centre of the townland of Carrowkeel.
- Landslides: Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.
- Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_187, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_187.zip (ZIP).
- 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/carrowkeel-150669.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/mayo/carrowkeel-150669.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/mayo/carrowkeel-150669.kml

## Homes sold (Residential 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: https://everytownland.com/mayo.md

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

- Aghadooey Glebe: https://everytownland.com/mayo/aghadooey-glebe.md
- Corraunboy: https://everytownland.com/mayo/corraunboy.md
- Drumbrastle West: https://everytownland.com/mayo/drumbrastle-west.md
- Kiltarnaght: https://everytownland.com/mayo/kiltarnaght.md
- Shanvallyhugh: https://everytownland.com/mayo/shanvallyhugh.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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