Lecarrow
Townland in the civil parish of Crossmolina, barony of Tirawley, Co. Mayo; in Irish An Leithcheathrú
- Area
- 112.3 ha
- 277 acres
- Land parcels
- 82
- registered freehold, median 763 m²
- Zoning
- M4
- Self-Sustaining Consolidation Zoning
- Planning
- 10
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
82 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lecarrow, from 233 m² to 150,104 m² (15.01 ha, 37.09 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 38 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
- M4Self-Sustaining Consolidation Zoning (Built up area)
Mayo County Development Plan 2022-2028, Mayo · 78 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
30 Jun 2026N/a
Bord na Móna Powergen Ltd., intend to apply for permission for proposed minor temporary and permanent works to facilitate the delivery of turbine components to the permitted Oweninny Wind Farm Phase 3 (Ref. PA16.316178). The Turbine Delivery Route (TDR) will originate at the port of entry at Killybegs Harbour, Co. Donegal, runs through Co. Sligo, Co. Leitrim and terminate at the consented Oweninny Wind Farm Phase 3 site, Co. Mayo. The total length of the TDR is c.188km of which c.65km is within Co. Donegal, c.57km in Co. Sligo, and c.36km in Co. Mayo. Minor temporary and permanent works are not proposed along this entire route but only at select locations. The total area of the works proposed in Co. Mayo is 5.87 Hectares (Ha). The proposed development within Co. County Mayo comprises both temporary and permanent works located in the townlands Lecarrow, Crossmolina, Abbeytown, Knockalegan, Glebe, Gortskeddia, Ballina, Abbeyhalfquarter, Knocknalyre and Bunree. The works are required to accommodate delivery of Abnormal Indivisible Loads (AIL) and will consist of: • Laying of temporary load bearing surfaces at 6 No. locations • Temporary modification to street furniture (traffic lights, bench, junction boxes, wall and part of a bridge parapet/railing) at 1No. location • Temporary removal of street lighting, bollard and tree removal at 1No. location. • Temporary removal of a wall and gate, berm regarding, hedge trimming and temporary modification to street furniture at 1No location. • Temporary removal of wall and vegetation as well as temporary modifications to street furniture at 1No. location • Temporary entrance to be constructed at 3 No. locations • Construction of a dual-purpose permanent access and public amenity track of approx. 2.7km at Crossmolina, Co. Mayo • Construction of permanent bridge crossing of the River Deel at Crossmolina, Co. Mayo • Installation of permanent lighting along the access and amenity track at Crossmolina, Co. Mayo • Installation of permanent sustainable drainage system along the access and amenity track at Crossmolina, Co. Mayo • Installation of temporary construction compound to include site offices, welfare facilities and car parking at Crossmolina Co. Mayo. • Reinstatement of all temporary works areas to previous condition • All associated and ancillary works required for the accommodation works and construction for the TDR. Permission is sought for a period of 10 years. Separate applications wil
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2660511
16 Mar 2026Conditional
The development will consist of: (a) retain existing vacant detached shed behind existing detached dwelling house, (b) convert existing detached shed to one detached dwelling house, (c) subdivide existing property into two sites, each containing one detached dwelling house, (d) existing driveway to become a shared driveway serving the two separate detached dwelling houses with access off the adjacent public road through the existing gateway.
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 2660200
9 Feb 2026N/a
The development will consist of: (a) retain existing vacant detached shed behind existing detached dwelling house, (b) convert existing detached shed to one detached dwelling house, (c) subdivide existing property into two sites, each containing one detached dwelling house, (d) existing driveway to become a shared driveway serving the two separate detached dwelling houses with access off the adjacent public road through the existing gateway.
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2660098
3 Nov 2025N/a
Change of use on an existing commercial building to residential
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2560771
21 Oct 2025N/a
Change of use on an existing commercial building to residential
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2560734
27 Nov 2024Refused
construct detached domestic garage/shed including all ancillary site works
Permission · Mayo County Council, 24495
27 Jul 2022Conditional
RETENTION OF EXISTING EXTENSION TO THE SIDE AND REAR OF THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE ALONG WITH ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS
Retention · Mayo County Council, 22639
4 Jul 2022Conditional
DEMOLISH EXISTING DETACHED DWELLING HOUSE, CONSTRUCT REPLACEMENT DETACHED TWO STOREY DWELLING HOUSE, TOGETHER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 22539
22 Sept 2021Conditional
EXTENSION TO REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND CONNECTION TO PUBLIC SEWER TOGETHER WITH ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 211012
19 Jan 2018Conditional
CONSTRUCT 2 STOREY DWELLINGHOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, CONNECT TO PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRY OUT ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 1824
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
- Special Area of Conservation: River Moy SAC 002298
Recorded monuments
- MA038-015 Barrow - embanked barrow
Description
In pasture, located below the crest of a N–S ridge, close to the E–facing slope. Nephin Mountain looms to SSW and the Nephin Beg range defines the skyline at S–W. Slightly raised, flat-topped circular area (13m E–W; 12.5m N–S) defined by remnants of a stony earthen bank (Wth 1.5m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.5m). The bank survives sporadically, in short, discrete sections, mainly where it has been protected by the roots of hawthorn bushes; elsewhere it is eroded to a low scarp (H 0.3m). It is poorly preserved. It may be the remains of a mound barrow; the diameter is small for a rath. A short straight length of E-W bank (L 6m; Wth 1.2m; H 0.3m), with a hawthorn bush growing on it, lies 2.6m to S of the barrow. There is no indication that this curved around the barrow; it may be the remnant of a field fence. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 17 July 2019
Architectural heritage
- Rosevale, farm house, 1840–1896 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay two-storey farmhouse, extant 1896, on an F-shaped plan centred on single-bay full-height gabled breakfront abutting single-bay two-storey gabled projecting end bay. Now disused. Pitched slate roof on an F-shaped plan centred on pitched (gabled) slate roof with roll moulded clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks having stringcourses below capping supporting yellow terracotta octagonal pots, remains of decorative timber bargeboards to gables, and no rainwater goods surviving on timber eaves boards on exposed timber rafters retaining cast-iron downpipes. Rendered walls. Hipped segmental-headed central door opening with overgrown threshold, and concealed dressings framing timber panelled double doors with sidelights below fanlight now boarded-up. Square-headed window openings with cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings with fittings now boarded up. Set in unkempt grounds with rendered piers to perimeter having stepped capping supporting flat iron gate.
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 moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_323 (ZIP).
- 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 Lecarrow with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.
The townland
- Name
- Lecarrow · An Leithcheathrú
- Area
- 1,122,765 m² (112.28 ha, 277.44 acres)
- Civil parish
- Crossmolina, and its townlands
- Barony
- Tirawley
- Electoral division
- Crossmolina North, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Crossmolina North electoral division: 1,105 people in 445 households; 76% of households own their home; 37% of homes were built since 2001; 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballingrogy, Cloonawillin, Crossmolina, Fotish, Mullenmore North
- 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.