Lecarrow

39 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lecarrow, from 190 m² to 59,336 m² (5.93 ha, 14.66 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 25 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 Lecarrow 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.

• 17 Jul 2025Conditional

  for the construction of a single storey extension to the rear of a single storey dwelling with minor elevational alterations to the existing dwelling, construction of a domestic garage, decommission an existing septic tank and install a new wastewater treatment system with percolation area, demolition of an existing agricultural building to the side and an outbuilding to the rear of the existing dwelling and all associated external site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 154 sqm (extension), 40sqm (garage). Demolition: 207.81 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 25181

• 22 Nov 2024Conditional

  for (a) dwelling house, wastewater treatment system, polishing filter and all associated services. (b) Permission sought for change of use of old dwelling house to storage barn. Gross floor space of proposed works: 234.80 sqm(house), 48.00 sqm(agri), 148.20 sqm(extension)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2461592

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 Lecarrow.

Recorded monuments

• GA117-064001 Ritual site - holy tree/bush
  Description

  Within an ecclesiastical enclosure (GA117-064002-) and to the E of children’s burial ground (GA117-064003-). Named ‘Holy Well (Site of)’ on the 1917 edition of the OS 6-inch map and ‘Bile (Site of)’ on the 1947 revision. The latter term refers to a large ancient tree that was held in veneration (Joyce 1923, 96). No visible surface trace survives. According to local information, the tree died in the early 1900s. Water that collected in a small pool in the trunk of the tree probably resulted in it being named as a holy well on the 1917 map. When the tree died the well transferred to an ash tree to the N - see GA117-064005-. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 13 October 2017

• GA117-064002 Ecclesiastical enclosure
  Description

  On a rise in undulating pastureland. Marked on the 2nd edition of the OS 6-inch map (1917) as a roughly oval enclosure (c. 120m NE-SW; c. 60m NW-SE). All that survives is a length of stony bank (L c. 35m) at E and a curving scarp (L c. 30m) at W. A church (GA117-064004-), children’s burial ground (GA117-064003-) and two holy trees/wells (GA117-064001- and GA117-064005-) are associated. These remains, when coupled with the name of the adjacent townland to the E (Kilmurry), are indicative of a possible early Christian monastic settlement. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 6 October 2017

• GA117-064003 Children's burial ground
  Description

  Associated with a possible ecclesiastical enclosure (GA117-064002-). Named 'Billew Burial Ground on the OS 6-inch maps, this very poorly preserved children’s burial ground is defined by an unenclosed roughly rectangular area (L 15m, W 10m). It contains numerous set stones indicating graves aligned E-W. A holy tree (GA117-064001-) was located to its E. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 6 October 2017

• GA117-064004 Church
  Description

  Within an ecclesiastical enclosure (GA117-064002-). Named ‘Church (in Ruins)’ on the 1917 edition of the OS 6-inch map. No visible surface trace survives. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 6 October 2017

• GA117-064005 Ritual site - holy tree/bush
  Description

  On a slight rise in hilly pastureland and to the N of a children’s burial ground (GA117-064003-). Named ‘Holy Well’ on the 1917 edition of the OS 6-inch map and ‘Bile’ on the 1947 revision. The latter term refers to a large ancient tree that was held in veneration (Joyce 1923, 96). A number of coins have been placed on this old ash tree and in some cases the bark has grown around then, encasing the coins. The tree is still visited as the well, which consists of a pool of water that collects in the trunk, but which was dry at the time of the site visit, is believed locally to be a cure for warts. Apparently this well transferred from the tree (GA117-064001-) when it died. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 13 October 2017

Architectural heritage

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

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 Lecarrow, 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Lecarrow · An Leithcheathrú

Area

694,271 m² (69.43 ha, 171.56 acres)

Civil parish

Tynagh, and its townlands

Barony

Longford

Electoral division

Pallas, the unit of the census

Census 2022

406 people lived in 140 households in the Pallas electoral division. 83% of households owned their home. 26% of homes were built since 2001. 22% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinsmaul, Boleynaminna, Derrybeg, Feebrack or Nutgrove, Kilmurry, Redpark, Skehanagh, Tynagh

Placenames

Lecarrow 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.