Carrowndangan

50 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carrowndangan, from 139 m² to 142,777 m² (14.28 ha, 35.28 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 15 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Carrowndangan 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.

• 28 Sept 2022Conditional

  Construct dwellinghouse, domestic garage, septic, percolation area and all ancillary works.

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 22847

• 15 Oct 2020Conditional

  CONSTRUCT NEW EXTENSIONS TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE.

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 20768

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 Carrowndangan.

Recorded monuments

• MA080-046001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on top of a NE−SW ridge, close to the break of slope on the NW side where the ground falls steeply into a valley bordered on the opposite side by a high ridge. There are clear views of Croagh Patrick to W. To SE ground falls away more gradually, with extensive views over undulating pastureland. This well preserved rath consists of a circular raised area (47.3m NNW−SSE; 50.2m ENE−WSW) defined by a substantial earthen bank (Wth c. 5m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 2.5m at NW, 1.45m at SE) with an external fosse (Wth 3-4m, base c. 2m, at NW). The inner face of the bank is quite well defined and incorporates stones at NW but is levelled to a broad low lip elsewhere around the circuit, giving the rath interior a slightly dished or saucer shaped profile. The external slope of the bank is high and pronounced, especially so on the NW arc. The fosse is evident as a broad but very shallow silted-up depression. The interior dips down slightly from centre to NE−E. It is crossed slightly N of centre by a NW−SE property fence, thickly covered in gorse. Remnants of cultivations ridges traverse the interior on a roughly E−W axis. The entrance may have been at E−ESE where the bank appears lower and there is a hint of a break in the fosse. A holy well named St. Patrick’s Well (MA080-046002-) is a 40m meters to SE. According to tradition, this rath was ‘called Lisnacrus, or the fort of the Cross’ because of its association with the holy well: ‘The country people say that stations used to be held, marked by wooden crosses, starting from the well and round the rath back to the well.’ (Knox 1902, 188-9). Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 3 December 2021

• MA080-046002 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  In pasture, located on a gentle slope c. 40m SE of a rath (MA080-046001-). Named ‘St Patrick’s Well’ on the 1838 and 1919 OS 6-inch maps, this consist of a circular sod-covered earth and stone mound (diam. 6-7.5m; H 0.6m) with a shallow central hollow (diam. 0.8-1m; D 0.25m). Unusually, the well is not located at a spring but, according to tradition, utilised water gathered in the hollow of a bullaun stone (MA080-046003-). An account of this was recorded by Knox (1902, 188-9): ‘The well consists of a hollow in a large stone which is slightly below ground level, and has the appearance of being having been built around. The hollow is oval, 17 inches by 15 inches, and 7 inches deep [0.43m by 0.39m by 0.18m]. Although there is no spring, it is said that there is always water in it…The country people say that stations used to be held, marked by wooden crosses, starting from the well and round the rath back to the well.’ When inspected in 1998, there was no trace of the bullaun stone in the central hollow of the mound. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 3 December 2021

• MA080-046003 Bullaun stone
  Description

  Part of a holy well (MA080-046002-) named St. Patrick’s Well on the 1838 and 1919 OS 6-inch maps. According to Knox (1902, 188-189), a bullaun stone formed an integral part of St Patrick’s Well. He noted that ‘The object of veneration is the water in an artificial hollow in a stone, not that of a natural spring.’ There was no visible trace of the bullaun stone when the well was inspected in 1998. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 3 December 2021

• MA080-046004 Church
  Description

  This record is based on a reference in Knox (1904, 174) to a possible chapel (site of) in Ballinamore Demesne in Carrowdangan townland, which may have been associated with a rath (MA080-046001-) and a holy well (MA080-046002-). There is no visible trace. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 3 December 2021

• MA080-047 Enclosure
  Description

  In pasture, at the base of the N-facing slope of a ridge. A circular enclosure (diam. c. 15m), outlined by a solid line and planted with trees, is shown on the 1838 OS 6-inch map; it is not shown on later map editions. There is no visible trace at ground level. A rath (MA080-046001-) is located on top of the ridge c. 50m to SSW, and there is a holy well (MA080-046002-) c. 70m to S. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 3 December 2021

• MA080-056 Burnt mound
  Description

  In rough, scrubby woodland, adjacent to a spring in a natural basin of wet ground at the base of a steep NNW-facing ridge slope. The area is marked ‘Carrowdangan Wood’ on the 1919 OS 6-inch map. A roughly oval mound (c. 6m NW–SE; c. 4-5m NE–SW; H 0.3m) of firm dry ground amidst an expanse of soft, wet terrain. It is composed of heat-shattered stones and occasional charcoal fragments in dark soil. The exact limits of the mound are obscured by a large willow tree, whose roots have spread over the mound. A spring/drain lies immediately to E, and flows to NNE flanked on the E side by a field fence. A rath (MA080-046001-) crowns the ridge is c. 150m to S. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 6 December 2021

• MA080-061 Burnt mound
  Description

  In pasture at the base of an E-facing slope. There is a stream/drain 6m to W, bordered by a road. A prominent, sod-covered circular rise (diam. 14.4m; H 0.8m) composed of aa concentration of stones in black, charcoal-rich soil. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 6 December 2021

• MA091-003 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In average pasture, located on a rise, with a band of wet, rush-grown ground c. 10m to E–SE. Raised circular area (35m N–S; 34.5m E–W) defined by a high scarp (Wth slope 3.4m at E, 4.6m at W; H 2.35m at E, 2.45m at W). A property fence on a NE–SW axis crosses the NW edge of the rath. On the NW side of this fence there is a parallel field ditch (Wth 1.8; D 0.45m). The rath interior is level, traversed by faint relict cultivation ridges on a NE–SW axis. A slumped section (Wth c. 3m) of scarp at SSW that may be the site of an original entrance. According to local tradition, there is a souterrain (MA091-003001-) in the rath. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 7 February 2022

• MA091-003001 Souterrain
  Description

  Located in a rath (MA091-003----). According to local tradition, there is a souterrain in the rath, which was blocked up in the early 20th century. There is now no visible trace at ground level and its exact location within the rath is uncertain. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 7 February 2022

Architectural heritage

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

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 Carrowndangan, 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. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Carrowndangan · Ceathrú an Daingin

Area

2,199,567 m² (219.96 ha, 543.52 acres)

Civil parish

Killedan, and its townlands

Barony

Gallen

Electoral division

Ballinamore, the unit of the census

Census 2022

342 people lived in 118 households in the Ballinamore electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 23% of homes were built since 2001. 20% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinamore, Ballinlough, Ballintaffy, Derrowel More, Derrynagower, Derryvohy, Largan, Tawnylough

Placenames

Carrowndangan 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.