Carrowcrin

12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carrowcrin, from 197 m² to 170,545 m² (17.05 ha, 42.14 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 20 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 Carrowcrin 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.

• 11 Oct 2023Conditional

  the construction of a new wastewater treatment system and associated percolation area and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Sligo County Council, 2360271

• 2 Jun 2017Conditional

  retention of an existing domestic garage

  Retention · Sligo County Council, 17214

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 Carrowcrin.

Recorded monuments

• SL021-054 Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb
  Description

  On rolling pasture with a view northwards to Slieve Daeane and north-westwards to Knocknarea. The structure is aligned W-E and stands in a mound of irregular plan (L 16.7m; max. Wth 8.8m; H 1.5m at W falling to 0.2m at E). Three collapsed stones at the W may represent a facade. To the E of these there is a gallery (L at least 7m; max. Wth 1.8m) represented by five orthostats to the N and six to the S. About 1.5m beyond the E end of the S side of the gallery there is another stone which could be an outer-wall stone or buttress. A line of outer-walling represented by three orthostats and two fallen examples lies to the N of the gallery. At the E end of this line there are three small displaced stones and another just south of them. A further example rests on the E end of the mound. There are three displaced stones in the gallery the largest of which stands on end. (Ó Nualláin 1989, 52, no. 81) 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 See linked document with details from Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume V. County Sligo. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1989)

• SL021-119 Enclosure
  Description

  In gently undulating pasture, bordering the S side of an area of marshy ground. A roughly circular platform (13m N-S; 13m E-W) encompassing a low rise, is defined by a scarp (H 0.8m at E; H 1.5m at W) which merges with a steep fall of ground NNW-NE. The top of the platform is level. The remains of a levelled field-boundary wall skirts the base of the platform at S. A rath (SL021-052----) lies c. 50m to ESE. 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

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

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 Carrowcrin, 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 low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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 Carrowcrin with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Sligo.

Name

Carrowcrin · An Cheathrú Chruinn

Area

666,590 m² (66.66 ha, 164.72 acres)

Civil parish

Ballysumaghan, and its townlands

Barony

Tirerrill

Electoral division

Ballynakill, the unit of the census

Census 2022

462 people lived in 163 households in the Ballynakill electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Doonally, Doonamurray, Falnashammer, Knockatober, Tully Beg

Placenames

Carrowcrin 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.