Carrowmore

38 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carrowmore, from 67 m² to 92,786 m² (9.28 ha, 22.93 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 23 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 Carrowmore 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.

• 30 Sept 2021Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DETACHED DWELLING HOUSE, PROPOSED EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA, AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 211040

• 16 Dec 2020Conditional

  CONSTRUCT CUBICLE SHED WINTERING FACILITY; COW COLLECTION AND DRAFTING YARD; UNDERGROUND SLURRY STORAGE TANK; ROTARY MILKING PARLOUR AND MEAL BIN; SILAGE SLAB AND CONCRETE APRON SLAB ALONG WITH ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 20991

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: Lackan Saltmarsh and Kilcummin Head SAC 000516
• Special Protection Area: Killala Bay/Moy Estuary SPA 004036
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lackan Saltmarsh And Kilcummin Head 000516

Recorded monuments

• MA014-014 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.

• MA014-020 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.

Architectural heritage

• Carrowmore House, farm house, 1800–1838 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey farmhouse, extant 1838, on an L-shaped plan with three-bay (south-west) or two-bay (north-east) two-storey side elevations. Occupied, 1911. Hipped slate roof on an L-shaped plan with clay ridge tiles, rendered central chimney stack on axis with ridge having corbelled stepped stringcourse below capping supporting terracotta or yellow terracotta pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on cut-limestone eaves having consoles retaining cast-iron octagonal or ogee hoppers and downpipes. Part creeper-covered lime rendered or fine roughcast walls over coursed rubble limestone construction. Segmental-headed central door opening approached by flight of four lichen-covered cut-limestone steps with dragged cut-limestone surround having chamfered or splayed reveals framing timber panelled door having fanlight. Square-headed window openings including square-headed window openings to rear (north-west) elevation centred on segmental-headed window opening (first floor) with drag edged dragged cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings framing six-over-six timber sash windows including six-over-six timber sash windows to rear (north-west) elevation centred on sixteen-over-sixteen timber sash window having fanlight. Interior including (ground floor): central entrance hall retaining carved timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors; and carved timber surrounds to door openings to remainder framing timber panelled doors with carved timber surrounds to window openings framing timber panelled shutters. Set in landscaped grounds with fluted cast-iron colonette piers to forecourt supporting wrought iron "farm gate".

• Carrowmore House, gates/railings/walls, 1840–1896 · Regional interest
  Description

  Gateway, extant 1896, on a symmetrical plan comprising pair of drag edged tooled cut-limestone octagonal piers on plinths having cornices below capping supporting "Lotus"-detailed cast-iron double gates with paired drag edged tooled cut-limestone octagonal outer piers on plinths having cornices below capping supporting "Lotus"-detailed cast-iron railings. Road fronted at entrance to grounds of Carrowmore House.

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 Carrowmore, 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Carrowmore · Ceathrú Mhór Leacan

Area

1,934,715 m² (193.47 ha, 478.08 acres)

Civil parish

Lackan, 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

Ballynaleck, Barnhill Upper, Cloonalaghan, Foghill, Killogeary, Lissadrone East, Lissadrone West

Placenames

Carrowmore 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.