Carrowmoney

31 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carrowmoney, from 1,402 m² to 135,158 m² (13.52 ha, 33.4 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 21 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Carrowmoney 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

• 14 Jul 2021Conditional

  CONSTRUCT A 3 BAY SLATTED SHED WITH UNDERGROUND SLURRY STORAGE TANK ALONG WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS, APPLICATION INCLUDES A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 21756

• 20 Jul 2020Conditional

  EXTENSION OF EXISTING AGRICULTURAL SHED AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 20483

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: Lough Carra/Mask Complex SAC 001774
• Special Protection Area: Lough Carra SPA 004051
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Carra/Mask Complex 001774

Recorded monuments

• MA109-014001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In good pasture, atop N-S running ridge, gentle slope to E. Circular area (29m N-S; 28m E-W), enclosed by two heavily overgrown earthen banks with intervening fosse. Inner bank (H 1.4m), outer bank (H 1.8m), with causeway entrance to interior (Wth 2.8m) in the NE. Gap in inner bank to SW. Souterrain (MA109-014002-) in S of interior. 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. 127. Date of upload: 22 February 2013 This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 2/1990).

• MA109-014002 Souterrain
  Description

  In S half of ringfort (MA109-114001-). Three stone-built chambers (unconnected), roofed with lintels. Interpretation difficult due to collapse. Entrance near bank gives access to a small, narrow chamber. Second entrance in interior of fort gives access to a chamber (L 6m; H 1.4m). Third entrance gives access to chamber, largely infilled. 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. 505. Date of upload: 22 February 2013 This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 2/1990).

• MA109-015 Field system
  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.

Architectural heritage

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

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

At the centre of the townland of Carrowmoney, about 1 in 5 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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.

No address of the register names Carrowmoney with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.

Name

Carrowmoney · Ceathrú an Mhuine

Area

1,157,932 m² (115.79 ha, 286.13 acres)

Civil parish

Ballyovey, and its townlands

Barony

Carra

Electoral division

Portroyal, the unit of the census

Census 2022

603 people lived in 220 households in the Portroyal electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 32% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 9% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballygarry, Cloonlagheen, Kilkeeran, Knockaleanore, Knocknagool, Tooreen

Placenames

Carrowmoney 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.