Carrownanty

272 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carrownanty, from 7 m² to 74,279 m² (7.43 ha, 18.35 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 40 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• R2eRES – existing and infill residential use (Existing residential)
  Sligo County Development Plan 2024-2030, Sligo · 232 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G3GB – green belt (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
  Sligo County Development Plan 2024-2030, Sligo · 22 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G1OS – open space (Open space, park)
  Sligo County Development Plan 2024-2030, Sligo · 14 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• S3CF – community facilities (Community facilities)
  Sligo County Development Plan 2024-2030, Sligo · 9 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R1nRES – new residential uses (New/proposed residential)
  Sligo County Development Plan 2024-2030, Sligo · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• C2.1BIE – business, industry, enterprise (Industrial, enterprise, employment)
  Sligo County Development Plan 2024-2030, Sligo · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R4SLR - Strategic Land Reserve (Strategic Residential Reserve)
  Sligo County Development Plan 2024-2030, Sligo · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• M1MIX – mixed uses (Mixed Use, general development, opportunity/proposal site)
  Sligo County Development Plan 2024-2030, Sligo · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• N6TU – transport and utilities-related infrastructure (Other networks and basic infrastructure/utilities uses)
  Sligo County Development Plan 2024-2030, Sligo · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 3 Dec 2025Conditional

  1.5 story pitched roof extension to the southern boundary of an existing 2 story semi-detached dwelling, and all associated ground works. The total floor area of the extension will be 32m2; 19m2 at ground floor and 13m2 at first floor. Extension to be finished with concrete roof tiles and nap render to match existing.

  Permission · Sligo County Council, 2560499

• 19 Nov 2025Conditional

  to construct 74 no. houses and associated site works. The development will consist of the construction of; • 7 no. one bedroom single storey dwellings, • 15 no. two bedroom 2 storey terraced dwellings, • 38 no. three bedroom 2 storey semi-detached dwellings, • 14 no. four bedroom 2 storey semi-detached dwellings. The proposed development will also include for; • Provision of communal open space areas to include for natural play spaces and kick about areas, • Private open spaces, roads & footpaths, public lighting, soft and hard landscaping and revised boundary treatments. • Proposed new vehicular and pedestrian entrance along the R296 (Tubbercurry road), to include for provision of footpath and road setback along the southern edge of the R296, and a pedestrian crossing to the northern edge of the R296, to provide for enhanced connectivity. • 157 no. car parking spaces (including e-charging points) • Provision for ESB Substation. • Connection to public watermain, surface water drainage, together with all associated site works and services. • Connection to the public sewer along the R296 (Tubbercurry road) and provision of on-site pumping station. • Connection to existing mains water infrastructure and on site surface water drainage works, to serve the development, together with all associated site works and services. A Natura Impact Statement will be submitted to the planning authority with this application.

  Permission · Sligo County Council, 2560484

• 8 Jul 2025Conditional

  Permission to demolish existing detached dwelling house and associated outbuildings on site. Permission to construction 12 dwelling houses on site in a mix of the following; 2*semi-detached single storey 1 bed dwelling houses. 10*terraced 2 storey dwelling houses in 3 blocks(2 blocks of 3 dwellings and 1 block of 4 dwellings) with 6*3 bed dwellings and 4*2 bed dwellings with connection to public services, vehicular access to the public road and all other associated site works at Carrownanty, Ballymote, Co. Sligo. F56 YH10

  Permission · Sligo County Council, 2560277

• 9 Oct 2024Conditional

  (1) new tap room extension to the front of the existing unit (2) change from a “tap room licence” to full seven day liquor licence to include the sale of alcohol on and off the premises (3) and all associated site works

  Permission · Sligo County Council, 2460347

• 14 Jan 2022Conditional

  Development consisting of the construction of 58 No. residential units (10 No. 1 bed, 20 No. 2 bed, 18 No. 3 bed & 10 No. 4 bed) and all associated site and external works including the widening of the existing site entrance serving an existing adjacent dwelling house (PL Ref. 2451/70) and amendments to the boundaries of that dwelling's site

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 2213

• 20 Oct 2021Conditional

  Development consisting of (1) new extension to the rear of the existing unit (2) retain modifications to the existing elevations as previously granted under 01673 (3) change of use of part of the existing unit to a tap room and visitor centre to include the sale of alcohol on and off the premise and ancillary office space (4) to retain existing storage shed to the side and rear of the unit (5) and all associated site works

  Retention · Sligo County Council, 21423

• 14 Oct 2021N/a

  Development consisting of the following; (1) new extension to the rear of the existing unit (2) retain modifications to the existing elevations as previously granted under 01673 (3) change of use of part of the existing unit to a tap room and visitor centre and ancillary office space (4) to retain existing storage shed to the side and rear of the unit (5) and all associated site works

  Retention · Sligo County Council, 21414

• 11 Oct 2021Conditional

  Development consisting of: 1. Removal of the existing roof over the existing utility room to allow it to be incorporated into the proposed extension, 2. Construction of a 44 m2 extension to the right hand side of the existing dwelling house, 3. and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 21408

• 7 Oct 2020Conditional

  development consisting of a) Construction of new extensions (Total Area 113.31m2) consisting of single storey extension, within existing covered proch area at front elevation, single storey side extension and two storey rear extension b) Demolition of existing garage to side of existing dwelling, two storey annex and single storey conservatory to rear of existing dwelling (Total Area 32.60m2) c) Amendments to front and eastern elevations d) Construction of new garage together with all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 20346

• 31 Jan 2019Conditional

  for development consisting of the retention of a single storey extension to the gable of existing dwelling house

  Retention, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 1929

• 29 Sept 2017Conditional

  for development consisting of revisions to previously approved planning application PL 14/111. The revisions are to include a) Change of house types and design b) the inclusion of an external stores and c) change to site layout at this site

  Permission · Sligo County Council, 17372

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 Carrownanty.

Recorded monuments

• SL033-089 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Near the base of a N-facing slope of a drumlin, overlooking a road to N and a railway line to E. A raised circular area (int. diam. 23.8m N-S; 23m E-W) defined by a scarp (H 1.6m). The interior slopes down to NE. An access lane to a recently constructed house is to W. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

• SL033-092 Castle - Anglo-Norman masonry castle
  Description

  In low-lying level terrain, skirted by a stream, on the W side of Ballymote town. A late 13th-century Anglo-Norman fortress built by Richard de Burgh c. 1300 (Leask 1941, 69-70; Sweetman 1985-6; McNeill 1997, 101 and fig. 56; Sweetman 1999, 105-8). It appears to have been occupied for a short time before it was taken by the MacDonaghs in 1317 though probably not held permanently by them until after 1350 when the de Burgh influence started to wane. It is a large enclosure castle typical of the period and having close affinities with the castles built by Edward I in Wales. The castle is almost square in plan (int. dims. 41.9m E-W; 40.1m N-S) and consists of a large twin-towered gateway, in the middle of the N wall, four angle towers and a tower midway along the E and W curtain walls (see plan Sweetman 1985-6, fig. 2). Similar castles of the same period are to be found at Ballintober and Roscommon town in county Roscommon, as well as at Ballyloughan, county Carlow (Brindley and Kilfeather 1993, Inv. no. 699). Another castle with close connections is the no longer extant Sligo Castle (O'Conor 2002). The gatehouse is much ruined and has only its southern portion (back wall) standing to its full height. The northern section has been destroyed down to ground level. Partial excavation in 1981 revealed the full plan of the twin-towered gatehouse. The towers are three storeys high with a central gate passage which has the remains of a portcullis slot at its northern end. The chambers over the gate passage no longer exist nor do the upper chambers of the towers. Steps in the eastern tower give access to the first-floor level but there is now no evidence of how the upper floor was reached. There are the remains of a fireplace in each tower at ground-floor level. The first-floor level of the gatehouse, which has only its S wall standing, has mural passages and small chambers in it. The windows in the S wall central area, overlooking the passage, are smaller and out of line with those of the towers and are alterations. The outer curved walls of the towers had a double facing and were up to 3.2m thick. The towers are D-shaped (int. dims.: W tower 5.9m E-W; 3.3m N-S; E tower c. 6m N-S; 4.5m E-W). The gate passage is c. 9.5m long by 2.4m wide. The S face of the gatehouse has water spouts which would allow run-off into the enclosed area of the castle. The NE angle tower is single storey, five-sided internally (5.5m SE-NW) and externally almost horseshoe-shaped. There are two opes with six steps up from ground level to each. The centre E wall tower is D-shaped with a solid or closed back or straight side and is 3 storeys high (int. ground floor 2.6m by 2.8m). The first floor is accessed from the battlement level only, the second floor via steps from the wall-walk level of the curtain wall. The first and second floors have fireplaces in the S wall. The ground floor appears to have been for storage only and can only be accessed at ground level. Along this section of the curtain wall, just below the wall-walk, is a large horizontal slot to take a wall-plate. The much-ruined SE tower is also D-shaped with a closed back and is three storeys high. Internally it is five-sided with a stairs in the W wall, a chamber in the NE wall and with an arrow-loop. The garderobe at ground-floor level exits into a shallow ditch. The S curtain wall has a central doorway which leads to intramural steps at each side that lead to the wall-walk level. The total wall thickness here is 2.6m, the wall-walk is c. 1m wide. The SW tower is single storey and is open-backed. It is D-shaped externally and three-sided internally. It is very similar to the NE tower except that it has a garderobe, which exits into a drain outside the wall. The central W curtain tower is three storeys high and is D-shaped with a closed back. Immediately inside the doorway at each side are intramural stairs. Those at the S lead directly to the parapets of the curtain wall but the other leads to the first and second floor chambers as well as the wall-walk. The wall-walk is one storey higher at this side than that of the E curtain. This was a residential tower with a garderobe at both ground- and first-floor levels. The NW tower is five-sided internally although two sides are very short. It appears now as a single storey tower but must have been originally two because of the height of the curtain wall adjoining it. Excavations in 1981 (Sweetman 1985-6) showed that there was no moat on the S side of the castle but merely a flooded area. There is a slight base-batter on the towers and curtain walls which may be slightly greater if the low-lying flooded area continued around the castle originally. However there is no evidence at the gatehouse that there was ever a drawbridge and the garderobe exits are clearly visible as if they emptied into a shallow ditch or swamp. The castle was repaired by Sir George Bingham c. 1580 when his 'arms' were erected on one of the towers (Ó Muraíle 2002, 241), but this plaque is now lost. The manuscript, known as the Book of Ballymote, is said to have been written, at least in part in Ballymote Castle c. 1391. It is now housed in the Royal Irish Academy, Dublin. The 'Red' Earl's Road (SL033-147----) was reputedly built by Richard de Burgh to link Ballymote Castle to Boyle Abbey, county Roscommon (RO006-068005-). According to Timoney and Timoney (2001, 21), de Burgh is also credited with building the road known as 'Bothar an Corrann' (SL033-145----) to get from his castle at Ballymote into county Roscommon. (Sweetman 1985-6, 114-24) This is a national monument in State care (no. 638). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

Architectural heritage

• Ballymote Railway Station, railway station, 1860–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay two-storey stone railway station, built c. 1875. Rectangular on plan with lean-to arcaded platform canopy to west side (platform) extending as single-storey ancillary building to south. Hipped slate roof to main building, single-pitch to platform canopy and ancillary building, clay ridge tiles, smooth-rendered corbelled chimneystacks, half-round steel gutters on painted timber fascia on exposed rafter ends. Squared-and-snecked rubble limestone walling, punched and margined quoins, chamfered plinth. Segmental-headed rebated window openings, stone sills, painted timber casement windows at ground floor, painted two-over-two sash windows at first. Square-headed entrance archway to north end of platform canopy. Segmental-headed main door opening within platform canopy, hardwood door with plain-glazed sidelights and fanlight. Platform canopy with square painted timber posts, painted stone bases, chamfered corners and simple mouldings, profiled corbel blocks carrying beam, varnished timber sheeting to sloping ceiling. Stone slab paving to covered platform, bitmac paving to main platform to west, contiguous coursed rubble stone free-standing walls with ashlar copings to north and south, cast-iron drinking fountain built into west side of north wall, railway bridge to south, bitmac carpark to east.

• Bridge, 1860–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-span road-over-railway limestone bridge, built c. 1875. Symmetrical on plan about a north-south axis with flanking steps from road down to either side of track on north side. Squared-and-snecked rubble limestone walling rising uninterrupted to parapets and battered to either side of arch, rock-faced copings to upper flight of steps and to parapets. Elliptical arch over track, rock-faced ashlar limestone voussoirs. Concrete steps, painted steel balustrading c. 1995 to track side. Spanning east-west, twin carriageway bitmac road, concrete pavements with concrete kerbs to both sides.

• Ballymote Railway Station, fountain, 1900–1920 · Regional interest
  Description

  Wall-mounted painted cast-iron drinking fountain, installed c. 1910, no longer functioning and in use as flower box. Half-hemispherical bowl with leaf motif rim, round-headed back-panel with embossed inscription 'KEEP THE PAVEMENT DRY', embellishment depicting two swallows in flight, outward projecting curved bracket at head. Operating mechanism missing. Mounted in west side of uncoursed limestone wall on platform of railway station.

• Ballymote Railway Station, building misc, 1860–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached single-storey rendered waiting room, built c. 1875. Now unused. Pitched slate roof, clay ridge tiles, painted timber projecting bargeboards, painted timber overhanging eaves carried on timber gallows brackets, half-round cast-iron gutters. Painted smooth-rendered walling. Rectangular painted vertically-sheeted timber panels to either side of square-headed central opening, painted vertically-sheeted timber doors. Set to west side of west platform with station on opposite side of track and bridge to south.

• Ballymote Railway Station, building misc, 1880–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached water tower, built c. 1890, now disused. Painted steel water tank c. 1940 with rounded corners, steel inspection ladder on south side, insitu stepped concrete base. Coursed squared-and-snecked rock-faced ashlar walling to base. Round-headed door opening to south elevation, rock-faced ashlar voussoirs with tooled margins to intrados, painted vertically-sheeted timber door c. 1980. Fronting platform to east, station, waiting room and bridge to south.

• Ballymote Railway Station, signal box, 1880–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached two-bay two-storey brick and timber signal box, built c. 1890, now disused. First floor jettied on west side, steel staircase on south side. Pitched artificial slate roof, clay ridge tiles, painted timber bargeboards, half-round cast-iron gutters on painted timber projecting eaves, brick corbelled chimneystack with tall pots on east side. Painted brick walling to ground floor, chamfered plinth, oblong painted timber moulded panel on west elevation below jetty with embossed lettering 'BALLYMOTE STATION CABIN', painted horizontally-boarded walling to first floor. First floor jetty carried on cast-iron gallows brackets each with engaged ring in spandrel set on stone corbel. Segmental-headed window openings to ground floor, brick dressings, painted masonry sills, painted timber fixed-light windows. Square-headed window openings to north, west and east sides of first floor, aluminium-framed horizontally-sliding windows between painted timber mullions. Square-headed door opening to south side of first floor, painted vertically-sheeted timber door c. 1980. Set at ramp at north end of east platform of Ballymote railway station, railway line to west.

• Bridge, 1860–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-span road-over-railway limestone bridge, built c. 1875. Squared-and-snecked rubble limestone walling rising uninterrupted to parapets and battered to either side of arch, rock-faced copings to parapets. Squared-and-snecked rubble limestone abutments to embankments. Elliptical arch over track, rock-faced ashlar limestone voussoirs. Twin carriageway bitmac road. Spanning in splay south-east to south-west, Ballymote railway station to south.

• Castleview House, house, 1880–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey rendered house, built c. 1890. Rectangular on plan. Hipped slate roof, clay ridge tiles, yellow brick corbelled chimneystacks, uPVC rainwater goods on painted timber fascias on projecting exposed rafter ends. Unpainted roughcast walling, chamfered smooth-rendered plinth. Square-headed window openings, painted smooth-rendered reveals, stone sills, painted two-over-two horizontally sub-divided timber sash windows. Segmental-headed entrance door opening, painted moulded render surround, painted timber stop-chamfered frame, painted timber door with four bolection-moulded panels, horizontally sub-divided sidelights with moulded panels under, vertically sub-divided fanlight, limestone step. Two-storey hipped roof outbuilding to south-west. Set back from road to north, wrought-iron entrance gates with cast-iron embellishments, square rubble stone piers with tooled limestone caps, roughcast stone flanking walls.

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 Carrownanty, 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 low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are made ground.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1039 (ZIP).

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.

• Carrownanty, Ballymote5 sales

Name

Carrownanty · Ceathrú na Neanta

Area

565,020 m² (56.5 ha, 139.62 acres)

Civil parish

Emlaghfad, and its townlands

Barony

Corran

Electoral division

Ballymote, the unit of the census

Census 2022

2,269 people lived in 927 households in the Ballymote electoral division. 64% of households owned their home. 46% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballybrennan, Ballymote, Camross, Keenaghan, Maghera, Stoneparks, Tieveboy

Placenames

Carrownanty 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.