Carheenard

36 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carheenard, from 46 m² to 254,235 m² (25.42 ha, 62.82 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 Carheenard 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 Jul 2025Conditional

  to construct a serviced dwelling house, with a connection to a new wastewater treatment system, and domestic garage. Gross floor space of proposed works: 246.00 sqm(H), 45.00 sqm(G)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2561011

• 16 Dec 2021Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house and wastewater treatment system and all associated works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 244.9 sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 212389

• 9 Aug 2019Conditional

  for change of use of Creche granted permission under planning ref. 07 / 5178, to a domestic dwelling and all associated works at No. 1 Carheen Ard. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 300 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 191256

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Turlough O'Gall 000331

Recorded monuments

• GA042-071 Enclosure
  Description

  In a level ploughed field. Named 'Carheenard Ford' on OS Fair Plan, and marked as a circular enclosure (D c. 50m) on OS 6-inch maps. No visible surface trace survives. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA042-072 Enclosure
  Description

  In grassland. A circular enclosure (D 38m) cut at N and S by a field wall, and defined to W of this by a low scarp. Ploughing to E of the wall has destroyed the monument, save for a cropmark. A second wall cuts it at SW. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA042-073 Church
  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.

• GA042-074001 Enclosure
  Description

  In level grassland. Circular enclosure (D 31m) recently levelled during land reclamation; all that now survives is a circular band of earth and stone. A field system (GA042-074002-) surrounded the monument. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA042-074002 Field system
  Description

  Associated with an enclosure (GA042-074001-). Aerial reconnaissance in December 1984 (ASGAP 226:27) revealed faint traces of field banks radiating from the enclosure. These have since been levelled as a result of field clearance and no visible surface trace survives. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

Architectural heritage

• Catholic Church of Mary Immaculate and Saint Joseph, church/chapel, 1860–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding gable-fronted cruciform-plan limestone-built Gothic Revival Roman Catholic church, built c.1870, having four-bay nave, lower two-bay transepts and single-bay chancel, gabled sacristy to south side of chancel, and gabled porch to gable-front apparently salvaged from elsewhere. Steeply pitched slate roof with stone copings, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Walls of rusticated stone with buttresses to corners. Pointed lancet windows, two to west and east gables, latter also having rose window above, and triple-lights to transept gables, all with stained glass. Hexafoil windows to front walls of transepts. Porch has paired pilasters to faces, with plinths and moulded capitals and with large paterae and slight cornice. Stonework to gable of porch is recent. Sacristy has square-headed doorway with trefoil-headed overlight, and square-headed narrow lights to one side. Interior has timber scissors truss roof with decorative panelled ceiling, supported on hanging posts and stone corbels, carved timber Stations of the Cross, twentieth-century marble altar and reredos, pointed arches to transepts, and pointed arch doorway to nave set within shouldered arch opening having pintles for hanging heavy timber doors now replaced by glazed timber doors. To front of church is decorative cast-iron bell stand and bell, by Byrne of Dublin and dated 1918.

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 Carheenard, 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

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

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

Name

Carheenard · An Caithrín Ard

Area

1,114,664 m² (111.47 ha, 275.44 acres)

Civil parish

Donaghpatrick, and its townlands

Barony

Clare

Electoral division

Beaghmore, the unit of the census

Census 2022

394 people lived in 136 households in the Beaghmore electoral division. 84% of households owned their home. 41% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballintleva, Beagh Beg, Beagh More, Caherakeeny, Raheen

Placenames

Carheenard 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.