Lecarrow

7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lecarrow, from 1,551 m² to 63,499 m² (6.35 ha, 15.69 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 11 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

• MA090-044 Ringfort - rath
  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

• Bridgemount House, farm house, 1840–1879 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey over part raised basement farmhouse, extant 1879, on an L-shaped plan centred on single-bay two-storey recessed breakfront with single-bay single-storey flat-roofed projecting porch to ground floor; single-bay (north) or three-bay (south) two-storey side elevations. Occupied, 1911. Sold, 1916. Hipped slate roof on an L-shaped plan with moss-covered clay ridge tiles, paired rendered central chimney stacks having stringcourses below capping supporting terracotta or yellow terracotta pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on slightly overhanging eaves on paired timber consoles retaining cast-iron octagonal or ogee hoppers and downpipes. Rendered wall to front (west) elevation with rusticated rendered piers to ends; rendered surface finish (remainder) with part creeper- or ivy-covered fine roughcast surface finish to rear (east) elevation. Segmental-headed door opening into farmhouse with timber pilasters on padstones supporting "Cyma Recta"- or "Cyma Reversa"-detailed cornice on fluted consoles, and concealed dressings framing timber panelled door having sidelights below fanlight. Square-headed window openings (first floor) with cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings with hood mouldings on fluted consoles framing two-over-two timber sash windows. Square-headed window openings (remainder) with cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings framing two-over-two timber sash windows. Set in landscaped grounds.

• Bridgemount House, gates/railings/walls, 1840–1894 · Regional interest
  Description

  Gateway, extant 1894, on a symmetrical plan comprising pair of drag edged rusticated limestone ashlar piers on cushion courses on drag edged tooled cut-limestone plinths having pyramidal capping supporting cast-iron double gates with drag edged rusticated limestone ashlar outer piers having cut-limestone pyramidal capping supporting cast-iron railings. Road fronted at entrance to grounds of Bridgemount House.

• Bridgemount House, gate lodge, 1840–1894 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey gate lodge, extant 1894, on a rectangular plan. Vacant, 1911. Now disused. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, lichen-covered coping to gables with rendered chimney stacks to apexes having corbelled stepped capping, and cast-iron rainwater goods on scalloped rendered eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Rendered walls. Square-headed central door opening with moss-covered threshold, and concealed dressings with fitting now boarded-up. Square-headed flanking window openings in square-headed recesses with cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings with fittings now boarded-up. Square-headed window openings (first floor) with cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings with fittings now boarded-up. Road fronted opposite entrance to grounds of Bridgemount House.

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 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

200,775 m² (20.08 ha, 49.61 acres)

Civil parish

Drum, and its townlands

Barony

Carra

Electoral division

Ballinafad, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballinafad electoral division: 621 people in 221 households; 90% of households own their home; 35% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinafad, Cloghannageeragh, Gweeshadan, Walshpool

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.