Carrowscoltia
Townland in the civil parish of Aghamore, barony of Costello, Co. Mayo; in Irish An Cheathrú Scoilte
- Area
- 59.1 ha
- 146 acres
- Land parcels
- 20
- registered freehold, median 21,004 m² (2.1 ha, 5.19 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carrowscoltia, from 555 m² to 121,704 m² (12.17 ha, 30.07 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 9 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 Carrowscoltia 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 Feb 2025Conditional
The development will consist of the replacement and relocation of the aggregate processing plant to a new location within the quarry void, including all associated site works, within an application area of 2.3 hectares, and entirely within the existing permitted quarry area (Plan File Ref. No. P04/1843).
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2560088
20 Dec 2024N/a
Section 5 Declaration: temporary use of an additional mobile crushing and screening plant within the quarry void at Carrowscoltia Quarry. It will be used for processing quarried materials during an interim period while permission is sought for the permanent relocation of the fixed plant within the quarry void
Permission · Mayo County Council, 24542
26 Sept 2024N/a
Section 5: The proposed development involves the temporary use of a mobile crushing and screening plant within the quarry void at Carrowscoltia Quarry, Aghamore. This plant will replace the existing fixed crushing plant, which is located at original ground level and has been a source of noise and dust complaints from nearby residents.
Permission · Mayo County Council, 24403
16 Nov 2023N/a
Continued use of an existing limestone quarry with all associated operations including; controlled blasting, crushing, grading and transport of materials from the site and all ancillary site works and services over circa 5.135 hectares or thereabouts. A ten-year permission is requested to extract reserves from circa 0.45 hectares within the existing quarry
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2360478
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 Carrowscoltia.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Carrowscoltia.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Carrowscoltia.
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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility high, 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 Carrowscoltia.
- 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 Carrowscoltia with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.
The townland
- Name
- Carrowscoltia · An Cheathrú Scoilte
- Area
- 591,022 m² (59.1 ha, 146.04 acres)
- Civil parish
- Aghamore, and its townlands
- Barony
- Costello
- Electoral division
- Aghamore, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Aghamore electoral division: 650 people in 241 households; 82% of households own their home; 27% of homes were built since 2001; 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Arderry, Ballyhine, Ballynacloy, Carrowbaun, Scardaun
- Placenames
- Carrowscoltia 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.