Carrowmore
Townland in the civil parish of Aghagower, barony of Murrisk, Co. Mayo; in Irish An Cheathrú Mhór
- Area
- 189.8 ha
- 469 acres
- Land parcels
- 66
- registered freehold, median 6,835 m² (0.68 ha, 1.69 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 13
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
66 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carrowmore, from 128 m² to 174,778 m² (17.48 ha, 43.19 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 27 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
20 Aug 2026N/a
Planning permission to construct dwelling house, garage, car port, wastewater treatment unit and percolation area
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2660666
17 Feb 2025Conditional
The development will consist of 1) retention of works completed, namely the removal of a chimney stack. 2) permission to renovate and extend existing dwelling house. 3) permission for the construction of a private garage and a separate home office. 4) permission to replace the existing effluent treatment system together with all ancillary site works.
Retention · Mayo County Council, 2560081
12 Jun 2023N/a
construct a building for use ancillary to the dwelling house as overflow accommodation together with connection to effluent treatment system and percolation area together with associated site services
Permission · Mayo County Council, 23325
27 Sept 2022Conditional
Change of house design from that granted under P20/311
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 22848
27 May 2022Refused
CHANGE OF HOUSE DESIGN FROM THAT GRANTED ON P20/311
Permission · Mayo County Council, 22417
31 Jan 2022Conditional
CHANGE OF HOUSE TYPE TO THAT PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER P16/182 AND TO RETAIN AND COMPLETE WORKS COMPLETED TO DATE, ALONG WITH CONSTRUCTION OF A DOMESTIC GARAGE, P01/218 ALSO REFERS
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2247
6 Dec 2021Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE, TOGETHER WITH DETACHED GARAGE, NEW PACKAGED WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM, AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 2 homes · Mayo County Council, 211278
22 Oct 2021Conditional
PROPOSED DWELLINGHOUSE, GARAGE, ONSITE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA, NEW ENTRANCE GATES AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 211125
20 May 2021N/a
PROPOSED DWELLING HOUSE, GARAGE, ONSITE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA, NEW ENTRANCE GATES AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Mayo County Council, 21523
18 May 2020Conditional
CONSTRUCT A NEW SINGLE STOREY DWELLING HOUSE, TOGETHER WITH A DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE, NEW PACKAGED WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND POLISHING FILTER AND OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS.
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 20311
2 Aug 2019Conditional
CONSTRUCT EXTENSION AND TO CARRY OUT ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE WITH NEW VEHICULAR ENTRANCE TOGETHER WITH ASSOCIATED SITE SERVICES
Permission · Mayo County Council, 19606
19 Nov 2018Refused
CONSTRUCT DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND WORKSHOP WITH CONNECTION TO EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM TOGETHER WITH ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Mayo County Council, 18923
6 Nov 2017Conditional
FRONT AND SIDE EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Mayo County Council, 17875
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
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
- MA098-007001 Crannog
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.
- MA098-007002 Building
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.
- MA098-012 Enclosure
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.
- MA098-013 Enclosure
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.
- MA098-023 Enclosure
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 Carrowmore.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility 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 Carrowmore.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Carrowmore with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.
The townland
- Name
- Carrowmore · An Cheathrú Mhór
- Area
- 1,898,250 m² (189.83 ha, 469.07 acres)
- Civil parish
- Aghagower, and its townlands
- Barony
- Murrisk
- Electoral division
- Slievemahanagh, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Slievemahanagh electoral division: 525 people in 168 households; 88% of households own their home; 41% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Carrowrevagh, Cordarragh North, Glinsk, Keelkill, Lanmore, Liscarney, Raigh, Rooghaun
- 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.