Carrowlisdooaun

44 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carrowlisdooaun, from 25 m² to 71,331 m² (7.13 ha, 17.63 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 21 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 Carrowlisdooaun 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.

• 15 Oct 2024N/a

  Section 5 Declaration: 53km of cattle fencing along waterways throughout the Lough Carra Catchment Area

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 24426

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

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Carrowlisdooaun.

Recorded monuments

• MA100-068001 Cairn - unclassified
  Description

  In good pasture. Now destroyed, covered cist (MA100-071002-) (JRSAI 1935, 82). The above description has been derived from D. Lavelle (compiler), An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District including Lough Mask and Lough Carra. Lough Mask and Lough Carra Tourist Development Association (1994), No. 31. Date of upload: 1 February 2013

• MA100-068002 Cist
  Description

  Short cist in cairn (MA100-068001-), opened in September 1932. It contained a cinerary urn and a piece of bronze (not preserved). No other details survive (JRSAI 1935, 82). The above description has been derived from D. Lavelle (compiler), An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District including Lough Mask and Lough Carra. Lough Mask and Lough Carra Tourist Development Association (1994), No. 15. Date of upload: 5 December 2012

• MA100-069 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In rough pasture, on E-facing slope. Raised, circular area (40m N-S; 40m E-W), enclosed by earthen bank (H 0.9m), heavily overgrown. Large tract of marsh to E. The above description has been derived from D. Lavelle (compiler), An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District including Lough Mask and Lough Carra. Lough Mask and Lough Carra Tourist Development Association (1994), No. 125. Date of upload: 1 February 2013

• MA100-070 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In low-lying marshy ground, 210m SE of ringfort (MA100-069----). Raised, circular area (33m N-S; 36m E-W), enclosed by earthen bank (H 0.8m), with external fosse on E. Possible entrance feature on SE. The above description has been derived from D. Lavelle (compiler), An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District including Lough Mask and Lough Carra. Lough Mask and Lough Carra Tourist Development Association (1994), No. 126. Date of upload: 1 February 2013

• MA100-071001 Barrow - bowl-barrow
  Description

  On summit of hill, overlooking Ballyglass Lough to N. Reconstructed after excavation. Circular mound (diam. 8.5m N-S; H 1.4m), proved upon excavation (Hencken 1935, 75-82) to be enclosed by fosse (D 0.5m), levelled E to ESE, and external earthen bank SSE to NNE, with break (Wth 1m) in NW. Erection of stone fence probably led to site disturbance on E. Contained burials (MA100-071002-). The above description has been derived from D. Lavelle (compiler), An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District including Lough Mask and Lough Carra. Lough Mask and Lough Carra Tourist Development Association (1994), No. 41. Date of upload: 4 February 2013

• MA100-071002 Burial
  Description

  Found on excavation of barrow (MA100-071001-), in 1934. Traces of a fire and ashes were found on the old ground surface. Tiny fragments of bone, covered by a small flat slab, were found on the E side. They represented an adult burial and possibly that of an infant. Finds included a number of flint scrapers, a bronze axe, pot sherds and a flint point (JRSAI 1935, 75-82). The above description has been derived from D. Lavelle (compiler), An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District including Lough Mask and Lough Carra. Lough Mask and Lough Carra Tourist Development Association (1994), No. 16. Date of upload: 5 December 2012

• MA100-072 Cist
  Description

  On high ground, 35m ENE of barrow (MA100-071001-), in good pasture. Short, rectangular cist (L 1m; Wth 0.5m; D 0.5m) with long axis orientated E-W. Covered with a flag capstone and contained a gravel floor. First discovered c. 1850, it was examined in 1933. It contained the remains of a vase and a crouched inhumation of an adult male, with the head facing E (JGAHS 1934, 57). The above description has been derived from D. Lavelle (compiler), An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District including Lough Mask and Lough Carra. Lough Mask and Lough Carra Tourist Development Association (1994), No. 17. Date of upload: 5 December 2012

Architectural heritage

• Ballyglass Garda Síochána Station, garda station/constabulary barracks, 1925–1935 · Regional interest
  Description

  Attached three-bay two-storey Garda Síochána station, surveyed 1929; built 1933, on a cruciform plan centred on single-bay single-storey flat-roofed projecting porch to ground floor; single-bay (single-bay deep) two-storey central return (west). Refenestrated, 2009. Pitched and hipped slate roof on a T-shaped plan centred on pitched slate roof (west), clay ridge tiles, paired rendered central chimney stacks having stringcourses below lichen-covered capping supporting terracotta pots, rooflights (west), and replacement uPVC rainwater goods on cut-limestone eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Fine roughcast walls on rendered plinth. Square-headed window opening (porch) with concrete sill, and concealed dressings framing replacement uPVC casement window replacing two-over-two timber sash window. Square-headed window openings with concrete sills, and concealed dressings framing replacement uPVC casement windows, 2009, replacing six-over-six timber sash windows. Set in landscaped grounds on a corner site.

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 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 Carrowlisdooaun.

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

Name

Carrowlisdooaun · Ceathrú Lios Dubháin

Area

861,340 m² (86.13 ha, 212.84 acres)

Civil parish

Touaghty, and its townlands

Barony

Carra

Electoral division

Burriscarra, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Burriscarra electoral division: 453 people in 166 households; 86% of households own their home; 27% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyglass, Ballynaglea, Carrowbrack, Carrownahaltore, Deerpark, Drumrud, Kilgreana, Kiltaugharaun, Stuckeen

Placenames

Carrowlisdooaun 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.