Carrownacross

10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carrownacross, from 3,184 m² (0.32 ha, 0.79 acres) to 288,098 m² (28.81 ha, 71.19 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 16 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 Carrownacross 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.

• 14 Jul 2025N/a

  construct a private dwelling house, proprietary effluent treatment unit and percolation area along with all associated services

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 25283

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 Carrownacross.

Recorded monuments

• MA070-166001 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  Located in damp, rush-grown ground. This holy well is indicated on the 1838 and 1920 OS 6-inch maps, where it is named ‘Loughkeeraun Well’. On the 1838 edition a lake (max. dim. c. 50m) is shown. On both the 1838 and 1920 a ‘Fair Green’ is indicated close by to SE. The name of the well suggests that it was dedicated to St. Ciaran. In the 1838 OS Letters, O’Donovan recorded the well and the traditional practices associated with it as follows: ‘At this Lough, which is a small pool in a bog to left of the road…there is usually a patron held on the Sunday commonly called Garlick but recte Garland Sunday, a named assumed from the circumstances of Ceres, the Goddess of Corn, being worshiped on that day, on which occasion garlands made of the stalks of corn with the ears on were, it is said, worn in her honour. This Sunday is in Irish called Domhnach Chrom Dubh…The people it is said swim their horses in the lake on that day to defend them against incidental evils during the year, and throw spancels and halters in to it, which they leave there on the occasion. They are also accustomed to throw butter into it with the intention that their cows may be sufficiently productive of milk and butter during the year…After the crowd have gone away the poor, who have not the necessities of life otherwise than by obtaining them by alms from liberal or charitable people, assemble and carry off as much butter as they can gather out of the lake. There was formerly a tree (SL070-166002-) at this place, around which the people were in the habit of fastening by a noose, cords (búaracha) that were used in tying cows…The Priests have dissuaded the people from getting on with their ceremonies at the lake so far that they are altogether giving them up. The stations are still practiced on the patron day, but the people are ceasing from throwing butter into it or going on with their other practices at it’ (O’Flanagan 1927, 366-370 (151-152)). The holy well consists of a semi-circular pool (diam. c. 1m) defined by a stone wall (H 0.5m), which appears to be of recent date. The enclosing wall is open on the N side where a channel extends to N from the well. The channel expands into another pool c. 3m N of the well, from which two smaller channels branch to N and NE. On the 1838 OS 6-inch map, three small upright features, named ‘Monuments’, are shown to E of the well; they are indicted on the 1920 edition as ‘Monuments (Site of)’. There are no visible traces of these monumental structures (MA070-166003-; MA070-166004-; MA070-166005-), and it is unknown what they represented; one possibility is that they were penitential cairns. There is a church (MA070-167001-) c. 400m to ENE, and a rath (MA070-168----) c. 170m to S. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 29 January 2018

• MA070-166003 Monumental structure
  Description

  This is one of three small upright features (MA070-166003-; MA070-166004-; MA070-166005-), named ‘Monuments’, which are shown to E of Loughkeeran holy well (MA070-166001-) on the 1838 OS 6-inch map. They are indicted on the 1920 edition as ‘Monuments (Site of)’. There are no visible remains of these monumental structures, and it is unknown what they represented; one possibility is that they were penitential cairns. There is a church (MA070-167001-) c. 400m to ENE, and a rath (MA070-168----) c. 170m to S. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 29 January 2018

• MA070-166004 Monumental structure
  Description

  This is one of three small upright features (MA070-166003-; MA070-166004-; MA070-166005-), named ‘Monuments’, which are shown to E of Loughkeeran holy well (MA070-166001-) on the 1838 OS 6-inch map. They are indicted on the 1920 edition as ‘Monuments (Site of)’. There are no visible remains of these monumental structures, and it is unknown what they represented; one possibility is that they were penitential cairns. There is a church (MA070-167001-) c. 400m to ENE, and a rath (MA070-168----) c. 170m to S. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 29 January 2018

• MA070-166005 Monumental structure
  Description

  This is one of three small upright features (MA070-166003-; MA070-166004-; MA070-166005-), named ‘Monuments’, which are shown to E of Loughkeeran holy well (MA070-166001-) on the 1838 OS 6-inch map. They are indicted on the 1920 edition as ‘Monuments (Site of)’. There are no visible remains of these monumental structures, and it is unknown what they represented; one possibility is that they were penitential cairns. There is a church (MA070-167001-) c. 400m to ENE, and a rath (MA070-168----) c. 170m to S. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 29 January 2018

Architectural heritage

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

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 moderately high, moderately low, 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 Carrownacross.

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

Name

Carrownacross · Ceathrú na Croise

Area

451,173 m² (45.12 ha, 111.49 acres)

Civil parish

Kildacommoge, and its townlands

Barony

Gallen

Electoral division

Bellavary, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Bellavary electoral division: 1,084 people in 399 households; 89% of households own their home; 35% of homes were built since 2001; 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrowconnell, Carrownaraha, Carrowroger, Grallagh, Knockatemple

Placenames

Carrownacross 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.