Carrowkeel

72 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carrowkeel, from 62 m² to 165,026 m² (16.5 ha, 40.78 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 35 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 Carrowkeel 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 Apr 2025Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house and domestic garage, wastewater treatment system and associated siteworks. Gross floor space of proposed works: 230 sqm(H), 50.00 sqm(G)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2560484

• 28 Sept 2020Conditional

  to demolish existing old milking parlour and construct a three bay milking parlour with slatted tank and roofed collecting area. Gross floor space of proposed works: 171 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 201392

• 27 Jul 2017Conditional

  to construct extension to existing dwellinghouse together with all ancillary site works and services. Gross floor space of proposed works 99sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 171126

• 3 Mar 2017Unconditional

  to demolish existing shed and construct dwelling house, septic tank and percolation area, domestic garage and fuel store (gross floor space demolition 36.60sqm; proposed 257.50sqm) Previous planning ref. no. 11/1646

  Extension of duration · Galway County Council, 17294

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 Carrowkeel.

Recorded monuments

• GA017-033 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On an E-facing slope in otherwise level grassland. Subcircular rath (E-W 48m, N-S 46.5m), in fair condition, defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. The inner bank is present from NE through S to SW; elsewhere a scarp forms the enclosing element. The fosse and outer bank survive only from SE to S. A road cuts the monument at SW and W and a field bank encircles it from W to N. A ringfort (GA017-034----) lies c. 500m to W. (Neary 1914, I, no. 94) 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

• GA017-034 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Near the summit of a hill in undulating grassland. Well-preserved subcircular rath (E-W 35m, N-S 32m) defined by a bank and external fosse. Possible entrance at ENE. A small quarry lies just outside the fosse at SSE. A ringfort (GA017-033----) lies c. 500m to E. (Neary 1914, 114, no. 93) 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

• GA017-035 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On N-facing slope of a rise in low-lying grassland. Known locally as 'Flaherty's Fort' (Neary 1914, 116, no. 91), this subcircular rath (N-S 50.5m, E-W 49m), in fair condition, is defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. No visible surface trace of the enclosing elements survives from ESE through S to W, apart from a short section of the fosse from ESE to SSE. A field bank overlies the outer bank from NW to NE. An enclosure (GA017-036----) lies c. 300m to ESE. 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

• GA017-036 Enclosure
  Description

  Near the summit of a hill in undulating pastureland. Marked on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map as a subcircular enclosure (E-W c. 50m). Known locally as 'Flaherty's Fort' (Neary 1914, 116, no. 92). Apart from a small section of an earthen bank at S, no visible surface trace survives. A ringfort (GA017-035----) lies c. 300m to WNW. 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

• GA017-164 Enclosure
  Description

  In pastureland. This cropmark enclosure (c. 72m NW-SE; c. 66m NE-SW), visible on Google Earth aerial imagery dated March 2009 and 2016, was dentified and reported by Jean-Charles Caillère. A roadway immediately to its W appears to respect it and curves around it from SW to W. The following image has been uploaded: GA017-164----_01.jpg Google Earth image (March 2016) 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 Carrowkeel.

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 Carrowkeel, about 1 in 10 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 Carrowkeel.

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

Name

Carrowkeel · An Cheathrú Chaol

Area

2,126,334 m² (212.63 ha, 525.43 acres)

Civil parish

Dunmore, and its townlands

Barony

Ballymoe

Electoral division

Carrownagur, the unit of the census

Census 2022

405 people lived in 143 households in the Carrownagur electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 25% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Brackloon, Carrownagur, Carrowntryla, Gorteen, Killavoher, Kilmurry, Knockroe

Placenames

Carrowkeel 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.