Carrowmunna

30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carrowmunna, from 68 m² to 158,866 m² (15.89 ha, 39.26 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 17 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 Carrowmunna 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.

• 1 Nov 2023Conditional

  to relocate & substitute existing wastewater treatment system with a pumped soil polishing filter wastewater system to service the existing dwellinghouse

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2361309

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 Carrowmunna.

Recorded monuments

• GA104-097 House - indeterminate date
  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.

• GA105-058 Cairn - unclassified
  Description

  In a hollow in pastureland, to the NW of Carramina House. This oval cairn (24.6m ENE-WSW; 16.6m ESE-WNW) is composed of small loose stones and a number of large boulders. The foundations of a field wall surround it. Possibly a field-clearance cairn. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 12 November 2019

• GA105-060001 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  In marshy land. Classified by McCaffrey (1952, 256, no. 20a) as a circular ‘Stone fort’ (c. 25m E-W; c. 24m N-S) defined by a collapsed drystone wall which was obscured by debris. Traces of four rectangular house sites (GA105-060001-) lay immediately to the E. A large mound of field-clearance rubble now occupies the site and no visible surface trace of the monument survives. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 19 February 2019

• GA105-060002 House - indeterminate date
  Description

  In marshy land. According to McCaffrey (1952, 256, No. 20a), the remains of old field walls were visible to the N of the cashel (GA105-060001-) and immediately to its E were the remains of four similar sized stone house sites, measuring 7.6m x 6m overall and defined by walls 0.79m wide and 0.6m high. No visible surface trace survives. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 19 February 2019

Architectural heritage

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

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 Carrowmunna, 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Carrowmunna.

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 Carrowmunna with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Carrowmunna · Ceathrú Mhuineach

Area

771,074 m² (77.11 ha, 190.54 acres)

Civil parish

Killogilleen, and its townlands

Barony

Dunkellin

Electoral division

Killogilleen, the unit of the census

Census 2022

981 people lived in 308 households in the Killogilleen electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 57% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballygarraun, Ballymoneen, Cartron, Tonbaun

Placenames

Carrowmunna 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.