Carrownamaddra

298 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carrownamaddra, from 17 m² to 234,618 m² (23.46 ha, 57.98 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 30 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 Carrownamaddra 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.

• 24 Sept 2026N/a

  for; 1. extension to house. 2. Seperate residential unit/store/home office in back garden. 3. Re-locate & upgrade sewage treatment system. 4. All ancillary site works

  Permission · Galway County Council, 26254

• 25 Jun 2026Conditional

  for the construction of a dwelling house, garage, wastewater treatment system, and all associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2661063

• 5 Jun 2026Conditional

  to (a) construct a two-storey extension, along with modifications to the existing dwelling house. (b) To construct a wastewater treatment plant, and replace the existing septic tank. (c) Relocate the vehicular entrance to the property. (d) Refurbish and convert an existing building at the front of the house to a home office

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2660903

• 25 Mar 2026Conditional

  for the construction of a dwellinghouse, domestic garage, proprietary treatment system and percolation area and for all ancillary services and site works

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2660446

• 19 Sept 2025Conditional

  for the change of dwellinghouse & garage plans to those previously approved under pl ref no. 22/60003 and for all ancillary services and site works

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2561357

• 20 May 2025Refused

  for the change of dwellinghouse & garage plans to those previously approved under Pl ref no. 22/60003 and for all ancillary services and site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 212.00 sqm(H), 40 sqm(G)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2560622

• 23 Oct 2024Conditional

  of cattle handling facilities. Proposed area of retention: 273 sqm

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2461409

• 11 Jul 2023Refused

  for the construction of a new dwellinghouse, domestic garage, sewage treatment system & all associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2360779

• 29 Dec 2022Conditional

  for the change of dwellinghouse plans to those previously approved under pl. ref. no. 20/1412 and for all ancillary services and site works.Gross floor space of proposed works 151.00sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2261337

• 25 Aug 2022Conditional

  PERMISSION IS SOUGHT FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLINGHOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, PROPRIETARY TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA AND FOR ALL ANCILLARY SERVICES AND SITE WORKS. Gross floor space of proposed works 163.00sq m.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2260851

• 4 Aug 2022Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house, garage, treatment unit and all associated services. Gross floor space of proposed works 185.00 sq m.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2260795

• 30 Mar 2022Conditional

  of elevation alterations and increase in roof pitch to dwelling house from that granted under Planning Reference No. 03/1254 and also to retain domestic garage and associated works.

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2260295

• 10 Feb 2022Conditional

  for the construction of a dwellinghouse, domestic garage, proprietary treatment system and percolation area and for all ancillary services and site works. Gross floor area of proposed works: 214sqm (dwellinghouse) and 40sqm (domestic garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2260084

• 6 Jan 2022Conditional

  for the construction of a dwellinghouse, domestic garage, proprietary treatment system and percolation area and for all ancillary services and site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2260003

• 9 Sept 2021Conditional

  to construct dwelling house, garage, on site wastewater treatment and all associated services. Gross floor space of proposed works: House: 199.6 sqm, Garage: 60 sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211648

• 16 Dec 2020N/a

  for the Construction of a new Dwelling House, Domestic Garage, Sewage Treatment System, and all Associated Site Development Works. Gross floor space of proposed works: H: 244.7 sqm, G: 22.39 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 201937

• 1 Oct 2020Conditional

  for dwelling house, on site wastewater treatment / percolation and all associated services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 228.2 msq

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 201412

• 26 Jun 2019Conditional

  for the construction of a dwelling house, garage, treatment unit and all associates services. Gross floor space of proposed works: House - 153 sqm, Garage - 40.4 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 19962

• 28 Jun 2018Conditional

  of dwelling house on revised site boundaries, revised percolation area and type of treatment plant, location and size of garage, location of site entrance. Gross floor space of work to be retained 22.4sqm.

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 18893

• 3 May 2018Conditional

  of a dwelling house, garage, septic tank and all associated services on revised site boundaries to that previously granted under 61186. Gross floor area house 136m2, garage 23.8m2.

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 18571

• 16 Feb 2018Conditional

  to construct a slatted cow wintering shed including all associated works & services. Gross floor space of proposed works 259 sqm.

  Permission · Galway County Council, 18172

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 Carrownamaddra.

Recorded monuments

• GA112-001 Mass-rock
  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.

• GA112-002 Souterrain
  Description

  In gently undulating pastureland. According to local information, a ‘cave’ known as the 'lair' of the 'Gadaí Dubh (Black Thief)' was uncovered by during bulldozing operations just inside a field wall on the E side of a roadway. It appears to have been aligned E-W as on the other side of the roadway 'slab stones' where found when the area beside the wall was dug to a depth of about '5ft' (c. 1.5m); this was subsequently blocked up. No visible surface traces survives. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 9 September 2019

• GA112-054001 Children's burial ground
  Description

  In pastureland immediately to the E of a N-S running road. According to local information a children's burial ground was located in this reclaimed field. Some loose stones are visible but there is no evidence of any set stones. A cross-inscribed slab (GA112-054002-) is built into the field wall at W. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 29 August 2019

• GA112-054002 Cross-inscribed stone
  Description

  In a reclaimed field immediately to the E of an N-S running road and associated with a children's burial ground (GA112-04001-). A trapezoidal-shaped slab (H 0.58m; Wth 0.44m; D 0.37m), built into the W field boundary, is carved with a Latin cross in low relief. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 29 August 2019

Architectural heritage

• Rosevilla, house, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c.1800, having pitched thatched roof with decoratively scolloped raised ridge, rendered chimneystack and render coping. Smooth render to walls. Square-headed openings to front (south) elevation having timber panelled door and two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows with painted sills. Yard to front accessed by single-leaf vehicular gate. Single-bay single-storey outbuilding with pitched corrugated-iron roof and rubble stone walls to west gable.

• House, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c.1820, having pitched thatched roof with decoratively scolloped raised ridge, rendered chimneystack and render copings. Smooth rendered walls. Square-headed openings to front (north) elevation having timber battened door and replacement uPVC windows with stone sills. Yard to front with cast-iron pedestrian gate set to square-plan rendered piers having painted stone capping, and rendered boundary walls. Single-bay single-storey outbuilding to west having corrugated-iron roof, rubble stone walls, and square-headed openings.

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 Carrownamaddra, 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. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_534 (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 Carrownamaddra with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Carrownamaddra · Ceathrú na Madradh

Area

3,132,405 m² (313.24 ha, 774.03 acres)

Civil parish

Kinvarradoorus, and its townlands

Barony

Kiltartan

Electoral division

Kinvarra, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,558 people lived in 552 households in the Kinvarra electoral division. 80% of households owned their home. 49% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cartrontrellick, Crossooha, Kinvarra, Mountscribe or Moneyscreebagh, Moy, Roo Demesne, Shanclogh, Trellick

Placenames

Carrownamaddra 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.