Carrowleagh

134 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carrowleagh, from 184 m² to 4,848,841 m² (484.88 ha, 1,198.17 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 56 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 Carrowleagh 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.

• 21 Mar 2022Conditional

  RETAIN TEMPORARY METEOROLOGICAL MAST AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS THAT WILL OPERATE FOR A FURTHER 2 YEARS. THE METEOROLOGICAL MAST WILL RETAIN ITS FINISHED HEIGHT NOT EXCEEDING 80M ABOVE EXISTING GROUND LEVEL CONSISTING OF A LATTICE TUBULAR FRAME, GUY WIRES AND ANCILLARY EQUIPMENT

  Retention, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 22221

• 20 Aug 2021Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND FOR ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 21905

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: Ox Mountains Bogs SAC 002006
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Ox Mountains Bogs 002006

Recorded monuments

• MA031-003 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located on the SW-facing slope of a natural elevation, 50m NW of a river that flows through an expanse of mixed rough pasture and bogland. The area is now covered in coniferous forestry. Broadly oval area (c. 35m NE-SW; c. 25m NW-SE) defined by a low earthen bank, largely reduced to a scarp (H 0.45m at NW), and enclosed by a fosse (Wth 4.5m) with an external bank (Wth 3.5-4m; int. H 0.85m; ext. H 1m). Dense overgrowth impeded inspection of the rath. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 5 June 2018

• MA031-004001 Burial ground
  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.

• MA031-004002 Souterrain
  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.

• MA031-004003 Souterrain
  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.

• MA031-005 Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb
  Description

  See linked document with details from Ruaidhrí de Valera and Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume II. County Mayo. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1964) Date of upload: 3 January 2012

• MA031-012 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on a low ridge, with good views. To W ground slopes to a lowlying expanse of wettish pasture. This enclosure is not shown on the 1837-8 OS 6-inch map; it is shown on the 1922 edition as a penannular hachured area, open to NE. It consist of a slightly raised, semi-circular area (30m E-W; c. 25m N-S) defined on the curving side at E-WNW by a scarp with a low internal lip (Wth 4m; int. H 0.35; ext. H 1.05 to S, 1.5m to W), from which stones protrude. To N−NE the enclosure has been levelled, here there is an area of rough, uneven ground, dotted with field clearance heaps. There is a slight depression (Wth c. 2m) outside the bank to E, possibly indicating an infilled fosse, but it cannot be traced elsewhere. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 13 June 2018

• MA031-034 Megalithic tomb - court tomb
  Description

  See linked document (MA031-034----_01.pdf) with details from Ruaidhrí de Valera and Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume II. County Mayo. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1964) Attached images: MA031-034----_01.JPG opening to gallery viewed from E MA031-034----_02.JPG interior of gallery looking towards the backstone MA031-034----_03.JPG outline of cairn, marked by grass and dry fern litter Date of revised upload: 5 June 2015

Architectural heritage

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

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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Carrowleagh · Ceathrú Bhlaoch

Area

12,703,056 m² (1,270.31 ha, 3,138.99 acres)

Civil parish

Kilgarvan, and its townlands

Barony

Gallen

Electoral division

Kilgarvan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kilgarvan electoral division: 857 people in 323 households; 85% of households own their home; 35% of homes were built since 2001; 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carha, Carrownaglogh, Cloonkeelaun (Co. Sligo), Farranimrish (Co. Sligo), Fiddandarry (Co. Sligo), Muingwore (Co. Sligo)

Placenames

Carrowleagh 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.