Carrowreagh

38 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carrowreagh, from 179 m² to 82,187 m² (8.22 ha, 20.31 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 26 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 Carrowreagh 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.

• 27 Mar 2026Conditional

  to construct a two bay domestic store

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2665

• 28 Nov 2025Refused

  to construct a two bay domestic store

  Permission · Galway County Council, 25330

• 17 Nov 2025N/a

  to construct a two bay domestic store

  Permission · Galway County Council, 25315

• 4 Aug 2021Conditional

  to construct a four bay slatted sheep shed on his lands. Gross floor space of proposed works: 280 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 211424

• 26 Feb 2021Conditional

  of a three bay sheep shed. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 285 sqm

  Retention · Galway County Council, 21249

• 4 Dec 2018Conditional

  to amend a window unit to a door unit at the rear of the protected structure "Rathville house", permission is also to include the removal of metal security bars in front of lower level windows

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 181736

• 28 Aug 2018N/a

  to amend a window unit to a door unit at the rear of the protected structure "Rathville House". permission is also to include the removal of metal security bars in front of lower level windows.

  Permission · Galway County Council, 181216

• 13 Jun 2018Conditional

  for construction of extensions to front, side and rear of existing dwelling including the installation of an upgraded treatment plant and percolation area, amended landscaping and all associated site services. Gross floor space of proposed works (front porch) 9.7 sqm. (rear) 17 sqm. side 75 sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 18798

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 Carrowreagh.

Recorded monuments

• GA097-071 Designed landscape feature
  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.

• GA097-072 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a rise in undulating grassland. Marked on the 3rd edition of the OS 6-inch map (1933) as a bivallate subcircular enclosure (c. 58m N-S; c. 48m E-W). The monument has been levelled but its outline is indicated by a darker band of vegetation. Otherwise no visible surface trace survives. A children's burial ground (GA097-072001-) lay within the NE quadrant of the interior. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 19 February 2019

• GA097-072001 Children's burial ground
  Description

  Within the NE quadrant of an enclosure (GA097-072----). Marked on the 3rd edition of the OS 6-inch map as an unenclosed rectangular area (c. 18m N-S; c. 10m E-W) and named 'Children's Burial Ground. No visible surface trace of any grave-markers survive. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 19 February 2019

Architectural heritage

• Rathville House, country house, 1840–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached double-pile house, built c.1850, comprising three-bay single-storey front block over raised basement having projecting porch, single-bay two-storey end elevations, west having full-height canted bay window. Lean-to single-bay link to full width of rear, and two bay deep full-width rear block having multiple-bay rear elevation, with shallow lean-to projections to rear elevation. Hipped slate roofs, catslide to link, with rendered chimneystacks. Coursed rubble limestone walls, render removed. Square-headed window openings with yellow brick block-and-start surrounds, tooled limestone sills, having timber sliding sash windows, double to front of porch, with nine-over-nine pane to front block, two-over-two pane to lower level of side elevations of front block. Margined two-over-two pane double windows to link and upper floor of rear block, and some two-over-two and four-pane windows. Square-headed door opening to porch with yellow brick block-and-start surround, timber panelled door having cut limestone steps. Square-headed doorway to rear elevation having timber battened door with overlight. Ranges of converted outbuildings to west of site, comprising nine-bay single-storey block, six-bay single-storey block and five-bay two-storey block with four-bay first floor. Now in use as apartments. Pitched artificial slate roofs and coursed rubble stone walls. Square-headed window openings with replacement uPVC windows and cut-stone sills. Square-headed door openings to single-storey blocks, vehicular openings to five-bay single-storey block, and segmental arched to two-storey block with cut-stone voussoirs, all openings having replacement uPVC doors. Set within its own grounds.

• Rathville House, gates/railings/walls, 1840–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Gateway, erected c.1860, comprising double-leaf cast-iron vehicular gate having ornate cast-iron piers connecting to curving wrought-iron railings. Set at entrance to Rathville House.

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 Carrowreagh, about 1 in 20 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 Carrowreagh.

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

Name

Carrowreagh · An Cheathrú Riabhach

Area

604,712 m² (60.47 ha, 149.43 acres)

Civil parish

Killimordaly, and its townlands

Barony

Athenry

Electoral division

Raford, the unit of the census

Census 2022

645 people lived in 217 households in the Raford electoral division. 84% of households owned their home. 52% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrownaglogh, Clashaganny, Galboley, Killescragh, Knocknadaula, Raford

Placenames

Carrowreagh 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.