Carrowkeel

39 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carrowkeel, from 52 m² to 207,970 m² (20.8 ha, 51.39 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 31 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.

• 1 Dec 2025Conditional

  to build a new dwelling house, install a waste water treatment system and all associated and ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 25368

• 2 Apr 2025Conditional

  for the construction of a Sunroom onto the existing dwelling & all other associated site and ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2596

• 17 Jan 2024Conditional

  to build a dwelling, install a waste treatment system & all other associated site and ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 248

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

• CL015-025 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In marshy pasture on the summit of a prominent hillock with clear views in all directions. Hachured on the 1840 and 1916 eds. OS 6-inch maps and named ‘Liscooleen’ on the latter map. A rath (29m N-S; 26.25m E-W) defined by a bank (ext. H 1-2.5m), a fosse (Wth 1m), with an outer bank (L 7m; Wth 2m; H 0.6m) at SSE, and an outer scarp with stones along its edge from W to NE forming a berm (Wth 3.5m). The inner bank is lowest at SE, and the outer bank may form part of an entrance feature here. Quarrying of the bank is evident at SW. The interior is flat with a dense covering of rushes. Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Eve Campbell Date of upload: 29 June 2023

• CL015-026 Barrow - bowl-barrow
  Description

  On the summit of a prominent hill in partly drained pasture with clear views in all directions. Hachured on the 1840 and 1916 eds. OS 6-inch maps. A bowl-barrow comprising a central flat-topped mound (diam. 11.5m N-S; 11.4m E-W) defined by a scarp (H 0.65-1.2m), a fosse (Wth 1.4-4m; ext. D 0.25-0.9m), and an external flat-topped bank (Wth at base 2.7m; Wth at top 0.90m; ext. H 0.3m). At NNE stone-facing slabs are evident along the edge of the mound. An entrance gap (Wth 2.55m) flanked by two upright stones is present in the bank at WSW with a causeway (Wth 1.8m) crossing the fosse. The larger (S) upright slab measures 0.5m x 0.6m. Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Eve Campbell Date of upload: 28 June 2023

• CL015-028 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  In a fenced-off area in low-lying scrubby damp ground c. 15m S of the Carrowkeel River, c. 170m north of Kilshanny Church (CL015-027001-) and accessed from a small lane that leads to the church. Marked and labelled ‘St Augustine’s Well’ on the 1840 and 1916 OS 6-inch maps. The well is dedicated to St Augustine and Eugene Curry (OS Letters, Comber, 1997, 98) reported a pattern at the site on St Augustine’s Day, 28 August which formerly attracted large crowds of pilgrims with associated horse-racing up until the 1940s (Lenihan 1997, 53). The well was visited all year round; Lenihan (ibid.) reported that the round consists of ‘five Paters, five Aves and five Glorias said while moving clockwise around the well. The pilgrim does this five times, then finishes at the front of the well, where a further Pater, an Ave and a Creed are said’. The cure at this well is for all ailments and the visit to the well concluded by drinking the well water or rubbing it on the afflicted part of the body, if possible, with moss from the well. Water from the well and sprigs from the large ash tree that formerly grew through the well house were also taken home (ibid.). A holy well with a N-facing D-plan drystone wellhouse. The N façade (Wth 4m; H 2.05m) contains two rectangular recesses, the E recess (H 0.85m; Wth 0.8m) is slightly larger than the W recess (H 0.9m; Wth 0.5m). Both contain glass cases with plaster statues of Our Lady and St Augustine. At ground level beneath the W recess is an oblong opening (Wth 0.4m; H 0.25m) with a step providing access to the well. A slab pavement runs along the N face of the monument. A stream runs N from the well to the adjacent Carrowkeel River. A large ash tree formerly grew from the S half of the monument, and it appears that the wellhouse was built around the tree. The tree was in-situ but dead c. 1998 but has since been completely removed and the central area of the well has been converted to a flower bed (Houlihan 2021). The following images have been uploaded: CL015-028----_01.jpg View of well from NE in 1998 CL015-028----_02.jpg View from SE Reference: Houlihan, M. 2021 Saint Augustine’s Well, Carrowkeel. The Clare Holy Wells Project. Available @ Saint Augustine’s Well, Carrowkeel – County Clare Heritage Office Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Eve Campbell Date of upload: 3 July 2023

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. Clare.

Name

Carrowkeel

Area

1,125,199 m² (112.52 ha, 278.04 acres)

Civil parish

Kilshanny, and its townlands

Barony

Corcomroe

Electoral division

Smithstown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

161 people lived in 60 households in the Smithstown electoral division. 84% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 18% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyalla, Ballytarsna, Carrowduff, Porsoon, Tooreen

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.