Carrowgar

24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carrowgar, from 787 m² to 376,580 m² (37.66 ha, 93.05 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Carrowgar 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.

• 2 Dec 2025Conditional

  for the construction of a new dwelling house, wastewater treatment system and percolation area, new entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2560755

• 14 Feb 2024Conditional

  for the construction of a dwelling house, a proprietary waste water treatment system and ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2460052

• 17 Nov 2021Refused

  to construct dwelling house, garage, waste water treatment system, percolation area, entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 211215

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 Carrowgar.

Recorded monuments

• CL034-246 Children's burial ground
  Description

  Situated on a SE-facing slope in rough pasture. A children’s burial ground is indicated and named ‘Burial Ground for Children’ on the 1840 OS 6-inch map (dims. c. 15m NW-SE; c. 10m NE-SW). A possible outline is visible on Digital Globe aerial photography but this could not be seen at ground level. The location used is that shown on the 1st edition, superimposed on the current OS mapping. There are no headstones visible. Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 7 June 2016

• CL042-050 Enclosure
  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

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

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 Carrowgar, about 1 in 5 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_770 (ZIP).

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 Carrowgar with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.

Name

Carrowgar · An Cheathrú Ghearr

Area

1,194,206 m² (119.42 ha, 295.09 acres)

Civil parish

Quin, and its townlands

Barony

Bunratty Upper

Electoral division

Quin, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,524 people lived in 533 households in the Quin electoral division. 79% of households owned their home. 53% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballymacloon North, Cant, Coogaun, Cragbwee, Creevagh Beg, Cullenagh, Cutteen, Dangan

Placenames

Carrowgar 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.