Carrowmore

30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carrowmore, from 129 m² to 306,014 m² (30.6 ha, 75.62 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 15 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.

• 17 Dec 2020Conditional

  CONSTRUCT DWELLING HOUSE ALONG WITH DOMESTIC GARAGE, NEW TREATMENT SYSTEM, PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 20997

• 21 Oct 2020N/a

  CONSTRUCT DWELLING HOUSE ALONG WITH DOMESTIC GARAGE, NEW TREATMENT SYSTEM, PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 20787

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 Carrowmore.

Recorded monuments

• MA119-047001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, located on elevated ground on a gentle SE-facing slope, with good views, especially NE–S. Circular area (53m WNW–ESE; 65.8m NNE–SSW) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 4.8m at NW, 3.6m at SE; int. H 1m at NW, 0.7m at SE; ext. H 1.9m at NW, 1m at SE), and enclosed at SW–N by a fosse (Wth 4m) with an external bank (Wth 2m; int. H 0.75m; ext. H 0.55m). The inner bank is best preserved on the W half of its circuit, where it is quite substantial with a rather flattened top. It appears to be largely of earthen construction but incorporates stones and occasional boulders. At N–E it has been modified and incorporated into a field fence, which respects the curve of the enclosure; here it is narrower (Wth 2.4m) with a pointed top, giving it an almost triangular profile. There are several breaks in the inner bank, but it is not possible to pinpoint the original entrance. The largest break (Wth 10.4m) is at E–ESE. There are also breaks at SSE (Wth 8m), at SSW (W 4m) and at N (Wth 7.4m). The external bank respects the curve of the enclosure at W–NW, but at N diverges outwards to intersect with a later field fence which lies 6-7m N of the rath. This suggests that the external bank has been modified in the recent past or is a secondary feature. The interior does not appear noticeably raised relative to exterior ground level and has a slight slope down to SE in the E half. There is a burial (MA119-047002-) in the SW quadrant, which is marked ‘Grave’ on the 1915 OS 6-inch map. A large sub-rectangular quarry pit (c. 24m NE–SW; c. 15m NW–SE; D 1-1.4m) has destroyed much of the NW quadrant. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 10 August 2023

• MA119-047002 Burial
  Description

  In the SW quadrant of a rath (MA119-047001-), close to the enclosing bank. Indicated as ‘Grave’ on the 1915 OS 6-inch map; not shown on the 1838 edition. The rectangular grave is (4.5m NW–SE; 3.55m NE–SW) is outlined by a low, well built, dry-stone limestone wall (Wth 0.6m; H 0.2m), and its surface is strewn with a scattering of loose stone. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 10 August 2023

Architectural heritage

• Saint Joseph's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1955–1965 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay double-height single-cell Catholic church, designed 1960; built 1961-2; dedicated 1962, on a rectangular plan with single-bay single-storey gabled projecting porch to entrance (east) front. Pitched slate roofs including pitched (gabled) slate roof (porch), clay ridge tiles with copper-covered louvered bellcote to apex to entrance (east) front, and concealed rainwater goods in concrete box eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Roughcast walls on rendered chamfered plinth. Triangular-headed window openings with concrete sills, concrete Y-mullions, and concealed dressings framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fittings having margins centred on leaded stained glass panels. Triangular-headed window opening (porch) with concrete sill, concrete Y-mullion, and concealed dressings framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fittings having margins centred on leaded stained glass panels. Triangular-headed opposing door openings ("cheeks") with concealed dressings framing timber panelled doors. Interior including vestibule (east) with cut-veined white marble wall monument (1979); triangular-headed door opening into nave with glazed timber double doors having overlight; full-height interior open into roof with carpeted central aisle between timber pews, paired stations between stained glass memorial windows (1961), exposed timber roof construction on corbels, and pointed-arch chancel arch framing herring bone-pattern timber parquet stepped dais to sanctuary (west) with monolithic timber communion railing centred on cut-veined white marble Gothic-style altar. Set in landscaped grounds with rendered piers to perimeter having concrete capping supporting flat iron-detailed wrought iron double gates.

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 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 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 · An Cheathrú Mhór

Area

1,299,881 m² (129.99 ha, 321.21 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcommon (Ballinrobe Ra), and its townlands

Barony

Kilmaine

Electoral division

Kilcommon, the unit of the census

Census 2022

676 people lived in 257 households in the Kilcommon electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 17% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyheeragh (Caslane), Ballyheeragh (St. Leger), Ballyweela, Blindwell (Co. Galway), Cloonanaff, Frenchgrove, Lecarrow

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.