Carrowkibbock Lower
Carrowkibbock Lower is a townland in the civil parish of Doonfeeny, barony of Tirawley, Co. Mayo. Its name in Irish is Ceathrú Mhic Giobac Íochtarach.
- Area
- 70.8 ha
- 175 acres
- Land parcels
- 40
- registered freehold, median 1,667 m²
- Zoning
- M4
- Rural Settlements Consolidation Zoning
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
40 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carrowkibbock Lower, from 23 m² to 255,228 m² (25.52 ha, 63.07 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 18 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
- M4Rural Settlements Consolidation Zoning (Built up area)
Mayo County Development Plan 2022-2028, Mayo · 28 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
7 Nov 2025N/a
The application will consist of planning permission to (1) Construct new dwelling house, (2) Construct new domestic garage, (3) Construct new domestic entrance, and (4) Carry out all ancillary works on site.
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2560794
4 Mar 2020Conditional
RETAIN DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC SHEDS INCLUDING ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS (PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER P79/813)
Retention · Mayo County Council, 20156
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 Carrowkibbock Lower.
Recorded monuments
- MA007-051 Ringfort - rath
Description
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.
- MA007-084 Enclosure
Description
In flat, lowlying damp ground. The Heathfield river, which follows a meandering course to N, is located c. 50m to E. Ground rises gradually to N. Ground rises gradually to N. This enclosure, which has been levelled, was noted in aerial photographs in the early 1990’s (SMR file 1994). At ground level, the outline is barely discernible of a roughly circular, flat area (diam. c. 20m N−S) defined on the perimeter by a gapped, indistinct cropmark/band of drier ground (Wth c. 2m). Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 21 June 2017
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Carrowkibbock Lower.
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 Carrowkibbock Lower, 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 low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Carrowkibbock Lower.
- 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 Carrowkibbock Lower with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.
The townland
- Name
- Carrowkibbock Lower · Ceathrú Mhic Giobac Íochtarach
- Area
- 708,278 m² (70.83 ha, 175.02 acres)
- Civil parish
- Doonfeeny, and its townlands
- Barony
- Tirawley
- Electoral division
- Ballycastle, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 585 people lived in 256 households in the Ballycastle electoral division. 74% of households owned their home. 25% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 22% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Carrowkibbock Upper, Carrownisky, Crott, Rathoonagh
- Placenames
- Carrowkibbock Lower 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.