Lecarrow

26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lecarrow, from 988 m² to 82,926 m² (8.29 ha, 20.49 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 17 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 Lecarrow 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Lecarrow in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: River Moy SAC 002298

Recorded monuments

• MA071-024 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located on a slight rise in lowlying, boggy pasture bordered to NE by the Gweestion River. Ground falls away gently towards the river, which is 100m to E, and there is rising ground immediately to S–SW. Good views E−SE along the river valley. A circular enclosure (30-35m) is shown on 1838 OS 6-inch map; it is not shown on later map editions. The outline of a levelled circular enclosure is visible as a very low grassy platform (32m N–S; 34.5m E–W) surrounded by rush-grown land. It is slightly truncated on the N edge by an NE−SW field fence. Ephemeral remains of cultivation ridges on a N–S axis traverse the platform. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 2 July 2021

• MA071-084 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In improved pasture, straddling a rise with good views, in an area of generally poor-wet pasture. Ground rises to N and falls away to SW to a wet, boggy area. A low oval earthen platform (21.2m WNW−ENE; 17m NNE−SSW) defined by a scarp (Wth 0.8m at W; 0.85m at E). The scarp incorporates large stones in parts –possibly remnants of stone facing. At NE−SE, the scarp drops to a terrace (Wth 5m) defined by a low scarp (H 0.4m) at its outer edge. At W there is a shallow depression (Wth c. 2m) outside the scarp, possibly a fosse. The entrance may have been at E, where there is a low area/slump (Wth 1.4m) in the scarp. The interior has a low E−W central spine, giving it a slightly domed profile. The slope is slightly more pronounced from centre down to S, where the contours of the scarp are indistinct, merging smoothly with the natural fall of ground. The rath is ringed by hawthorn; the interior is grassy and dotted with a few hawthorn trees. There are several breaks in the scarp eroded by cattle. There is a possible rath (MA071-024----) 215m to N. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 17 August 2021

Architectural heritage

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

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 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 Lecarrow.

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

Name

Lecarrow · An Leithcheathrú

Area

638,840 m² (63.88 ha, 157.86 acres)

Civil parish

Meelick, and its townlands

Barony

Gallen

Electoral division

Meelick, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Meelick electoral division: 541 people in 208 households; 88% of households own their home; 30% of homes were built since 2001; 20% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Barleyhill, Clooneen, Newcastle

Placenames

Lecarrow 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.