Carheenshowagh

25 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carheenshowagh, from 1,019 m² to 143,628 m² (14.36 ha, 35.49 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 31 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Carheenshowagh 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.

• 28 Mar 2022Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house, domestic garage/fuel store, septic tank, and treatment system and percolation area and all ancillary site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 257 sqm (house) & 59 sqm (garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 22412

• 3 Feb 2022N/a

  to construct a dwelling house, domestic garage/fuel store, septic tank, and treatment system and percolation area and all ancillary site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 235 sqm (house) & 59 sqm (garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 22118

• 27 Mar 2020Conditional

  for a two storey dwelling house domestic garage, sewage treatment plant, and percolation area. Gross floor space of proposed works: H: 240 sqm, G: 45 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 20405

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 Carheenshowagh.

Recorded monuments

• GA057-073 Enclosure
  Description

  On level reclaimed ground. Marked on 3rd ed. of OS 6-inch map (1933) as a subcircular enclosure (N-S c. 50m, E-W c. 40m). All that survives are slight traces of a raised area, subcircular in plan (NE-SW 47m, NW-SE 40m), defined by a gentle scarp. 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

• GA057-074001 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  On a low hillock in grassland. Oval cashel (NW-SE 44.5m, NE-SW 39m) defined by a collapsed grassed-over drystone wall. A series of grassed-over stones are visible just N of the centre of the interior. A field system (GA057-074002-) lies immediately to NNE. 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

• GA057-074002 Field system
  Description

  Immediately NNE of a ringfort (GA057-074001-). A series of grassed-over collapsed limestone walls cover a rectangular area 45m N-S by 25m E-W. The remains of a rectangular structure (E-W; L 4m, Wth 2.2m) are also visible. (CUCAP BDN 79) 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

• GA057-075 Quarry
  Description

  In flat pastureland. No visible surface trace survived of a hachured feature marked on the 1933 edition of the OS 6-inch map when inspected in 1983. According to the landowner, it was a pit that had been infilled with the rubble from an old house. As the pit was of post-AD 1700 date it does not come within the remit of the Archaeological Survey of Ireland. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 10 July 2014

• GA057-177 Barrow - ring-barrow
  Description

  In rough pastureland. A possible ring-barrow, roughly circular in plan (max. diam. c. 15m) is most clearly visible on Google Earth aerial imagery dated March 2019. Identified and reported by Jean-Charles Caillère. The following image has been uploaded: GA015-177----_01.jpg Google Earth image (12 March 2019) Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 4 July 2022

Architectural heritage

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

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

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility 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_668 (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.

No address of the register names Carheenshowagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Carheenshowagh · Caithrín Seoigheach

Area

1,183,998 m² (118.4 ha, 292.57 acres)

Civil parish

Cummer, and its townlands

Barony

Clare

Electoral division

Cummer, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Cummer electoral division: 1,160 people in 353 households; 88% of households own their home; 51% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Clogh South, Pollacossaun Eighter, Pollacossaun Oughter, Stripe, Tawnaghmore, Turloughour

Placenames

Carheenshowagh 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.