Carrowmore

49 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carrowmore, from 33 m² to 197,789 m² (19.78 ha, 48.87 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 32 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 Carrowmore 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.

• 12 Feb 2026Conditional

  for the construction of a domestic garage together with all ancillary site works and services

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2660210

• 19 Sept 2024Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house, shed, sewage system and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 193.48 sqm (house) & 28.16 sqm (garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2461235

• 14 Sept 2023Conditional

  to construct a dwellinghouse, shed, sewage system & all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2361097

• 17 Jul 2023Conditional

  to construct a dwellinghouse, shed, sewage treatment system & all associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 23288

• 21 Oct 2022Conditional

  of treatment system, percolation area and associated services originally granted under ref. 20/1688

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2261066

• 16 Sept 2022Conditional

  to replace a 10m wooden pole with an 21m high telecommunications monopole together with antennas, dishes and associated telecommunications equipment

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 221057

• 23 May 2022Conditional

  to construct a dwelling., shed, waste water treatment system and all associate site works .

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 22660

• 14 Mar 2022Conditional

  to construct a new dwelling house, shed, waste water treatment system and all associated site development works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 259.5 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 22344

• 26 Oct 2021Conditional

  to construct a fully serviced private dwelling house with wastewater treatment system and private garage/fuel shed to include all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works:188.54 sqm (house) &b 53.94 sqm (garage/fuel shed)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211986

• 30 Sept 2021Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house, sewage treatment system and all associated site development works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 202.82 sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211799

• 18 Aug 2021Conditional

  to construct a fully serviced private dwelling house with waste water treatment system and private garage/fuel shed to include all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works is; House 200.18 sqm, Garage 53.94 sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211489

• 29 Jul 2021Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house, sewage treatment system and all associated site development works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 192.72 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211388

• 12 Nov 2020Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house, garage, sewage treatment system and all associated site development works: Gross floor space of proposed works: 193.37 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 201688

• 6 Dec 2018Conditional

  for agricultural entrance to farm lands

  Permission · Galway County Council, 181754

• 23 Oct 2017Conditional

  for the construction of a new single storey dwelling house (Area 217msq) private garage/shed (area 67sqm) wastewater treatment system and vehicular entrance and associated site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 171524

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 Carrowmore.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Carrowmore.

Architectural heritage

• Woodlawn Railway Station, locomotive shed, 1840–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey limestone-built goods shed, built c.1850, now derelict, north and south long elevations having twin gables and stepped buttresses flanking bays, two of latter to south, front, elevation now removed. Pitched natural slate roof with stone chimneystacks to apexes of south elevation gables, with stone copings. Coursed rubble walls with dressed stone coping to plinth. Tie-bars to north end of west gable. Tudor-arch window openings to upper ground floor and gables of long elevations and to upper gables of short elevations with chamfered surrounds and metal fixed small-pane windows. North elevation has pointed-arch vehicular entrance to westmost bay and blocked segmental-arched vehicular entrance to eastmost, former with dressed voussoirs and corrugated-metal doors and latter with brick voussoirs. Two pointed-arch recesses to outer bays of rear elevation. Square-headed possibly later doorway to north elevation having timber battened door, lintel also being sill of window above. Set adjacent to railway line with access to west end of platform.

• Worker's house, 1840–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached limestone-built house, built c.1850, formerly semi-detached pair of railway workers' cottages, having three-bay half-dormered south elevation with gables, and four-bay two-storey rear. Entrance to western house being in east gable, and that of eastern being set in gabled shallow stone porch to south elevation. Pitched slate roof with central four-offset brick chimneystack on dressed stone plinth, and dressed stone copings with kneelers supported on corbels. Coursed limestone walls to house and porch with sparrow-pecked quoins having draughted margins, and projecting plinth. Square-headed window openings with raised stone surrounds and tooled limestone sills, having stone label-mouldings to front ground floor windows, and replacement uPVC windows. Tudor-arched outer opening to porch in south elevation, having dressed stone surround and copings to gable with kneelers and supprted on corbels, with stone step and replacement square-headed uPVC inner door. House is set in line and symmetrically placed with two others, having gardens to front and rear and limestone and rendered boundary walls to road.

• Woodlawn Railway Station, railway station, 1850–1855 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding Tudor Revival-style limestone-built railway station, built 1851, comprising three-bay two-storey station master's house with single-storey stationhouse at right angles and slightly projecting to platform, latter building having three-bay elevation to platform and five-bay elevation to north elevation, and stationmaster's house having shallow two-storey entrance porch to east and slight entrance projection to south. Lower single-storey block to west having M-profile roof. Pitched slate roof with offset four-stack dressed stone chimneystack to stationmaster's house and catslide roof with dressed stone chimneystack to stationhouse, with string courses, decoratively carved bargeboards to west gable, cast-iron ogee gutter held on decorative timber brackets to north elevation, and cast-iron downpipes. Stationmaster's house has moulded stone brackets to eaves, dressed stone copings with kneelers on moulded corbels. Timber canopy to platform elevation of stationhouse, supported on decorative cast-iron brackets on limestone corbels. Squared rubble walls to stationhouse, coursed rubble walls to western block and crazy-paving stone walls to stationmaster's house, with dressed plinth. Stationmaster's house also has gablet detail to south gable with moulded cornice and shield device, and buttress to north gable. Square-headed window openings to platform elevation of stationhouse with two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows and dressed stone surrounds, having fixed-frame windows to north. Window openings to stationmaster's house have chamfered stone surrounds, with square-headed triple-lights to first floor front, square-headed double-lights to north gable, Tudor-arch double-lights to ground floor front with diamond lights over, and Tudor-arch double-lights to upper south gable with hood-mouldings. Square-headed entranceway to south elevation of stationhouse having modern glass sliding doors, and blocked-up Tudor-arch entrance to south gable of stationmaster's house with stone retaining arch. Further Tudor-arch doorway to rear of stationhouse. Set adjacent to railway track with car park to north.

• Worker's house, 1840–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached limestone-built railway cottage, built c.1850, formerly semi-detached pair, having three-bay half-dormered south elevation with gables, and four-bay two-storey rear. Entrance to western house being in east gable, and that of eastern being set in gabled shallow stone porch to south elevation. Pitched slate roof with central four-offset brick chimneystack on dressed stone plinth, and dressed stone copings with kneelers supported on corbels. Coursed limestone walls to house and porch with sparrow-pecked quoins having draughted margins, and projecting plinth. Square-headed window openings with raised stone surrounds and tooled limestone sills, having stone label-mouldings to front ground floor windows, and replacement uPVC windows. Tudor-arched outer opening to porch in south elevation, having dressed stone surround and copings to gable with kneelers and supprted on corbels, with stone step and replacement square-headed uPVC inner door. House is set in line and symmetrically placed with others, having gardens to front and rear and limestone and rendered boundary walls to road.

• Worker's house, 1840–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached limestone-built house, built c.1850, having three-bay half-dormered south elevation with gables, and two-storey rear. Entrance in gabled full-height shallow stone porch to south elevation. Pitched slate roof with central clustered brick chimneystack on stone plinth, and having dressed stone copings with kneelers supported on corbels to main gables and to dormers. Coursed limestone walls to house and porch with sparrow-pecked quoins having draughted margins, and projecting plinth. Square-headed window openings with raised stone surrounds and tooled limestone sills, having stone label-mouldings to front ground floor openings and to opening in upper part of porch, and replacement uPVC windows. Square-headed doorway with replacement part-glazed timer panelled door. House is set in line and symmetrically placed with others, having gardens to front and rear and limestone and rendered boundary walls to road.

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 Carrowmore, 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Carrowmore · An Cheathrú Mhór

Area

1,039,990 m² (104 ha, 256.99 acres)

Civil parish

Kilconnell, and its townlands

Barony

Kilconnell

Electoral division

Killaan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

572 people lived in 200 households in the Killaan electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 23% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrowholla, Cloonacalleen, Cloonahinch, Moneyveen, Tullawicky, Woodlawn

Placenames

Carrowmore 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.