Carrowntemple

23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carrowntemple, from 294 m² to 112,754 m² (11.28 ha, 27.86 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 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 Carrowntemple 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Carrowntemple in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 Carrowntemple.

Recorded monuments

• GA043-032 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On higher E-facing slope of a platform between Knockmaa Hill to W and Knockacarrigeen Hill (see GA043-033002-) to SE, overlooking a turlough and the Clare River to N. A large subcircular rath (NE-SW 67m, WNW-ESE 63m), in fair condition, defined by a bank and external fosse cut by a field wall at N and S. Sections of the fosse have been quarried out. A gap (Wth 2.6m) at E could be original. There is a CBG (GA043-032001-) within W sector of the interior. 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

• GA043-032001 Children's burial ground
  Description

  Within a ringfort (GA043-032----). Small subrectangular mound (NW-SE c. 9m, NE-SW c. 6.5m), in fair condition, which is occupied by only a handful of randomly placed set stones indicating grave-markers. 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

• GA043-033005 Cairn - unclassified
  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.

• GA043-034 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.

Architectural heritage

• Catholic Church of the Sacred Heart, church/chapel, 1920–1925 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding gable-fronted irregular-plan Hiberno-Romanesque Revival Roman Catholic church, dated 1923, having transepts with catslide roofs, flat-roofed sacristy to north-east at re-entrant corner of transept and chancel, and gabled porches to long elevations. Late twentieth-century flat-roof porch to east side of sacristy and gabled glazed porch of c.1985 to gable-front. High-pitched roof of small slates, sprocketed over projections, with cast-iron rainwater goods, and having bellcote to north half of gable-front rising directly from ground and built of coursed rubble stone with rusticated limestone at top. Carved limestone Celtic cross finials to gables. Low chimneystack to south side of roof at junction of nave and chancel. Painted roughcast rendered walls with raised skirting of rusticated limestone, flat limestone quoins and limestone dressings to openings. Round-headed windows to nave having tapering cut-stone surrounds and stained glass, gable-front has paired round-headed windows with recessed dressed stone block-and-start surrounds with stained glass, and east gable having triple-light window with similar detailing. Windows to side walls of chancel, to transepts, sacristy and sides of porches are square-headed with tapered jambs and cut-stone surrounds. Square-headed doorway in gable-front obscured by later porch, having glazed doors. Porches have battered side walls, high-pitched slate roofs, gable-fronts with round-arched doorways having tapered jambs, chamfered imposts, plaques over doorways with incribed Celtic cross, doorway having double-leaf timber battened door with cast-iron strap hinges and set in rusticated stone walling higher than springing of arches, and with diminutive square-headed vents to upper gables. Interior has round chancel arch with stone voussoirs and chamfered imposts, modern marble altar and backdrop, and arch-braced timber truss roof, ceiled in above collars and borne on hanging posts on corbels. Timber gallery to west end.A glazed porch has been added to the west front.

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 Carrowntemple, 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Carrowntemple · Ceathrú an Teampaill

Area

423,235 m² (42.32 ha, 104.58 acres)

Civil parish

Belclare, and its townlands

Barony

Clare

Electoral division

Claretuam, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,132 people lived in 394 households in the Claretuam electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrowbeg South, Cartron, Knockacarrigeen, Pollaturk or Newgarden, Thomastown

Placenames

Carrowntemple 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.