Carrownagark

42 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carrownagark, from 28 m² to 145,096 m² (14.51 ha, 35.85 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 27 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 Carrownagark 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.

• 15 Sept 2026N/a

  Construct a dwelling house, domestic garage, entrance by boundary wall and install an on-site wastewater treatment & disposal system

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 2660379

• 27 Oct 2020Refused

  development consisting of the construction of a 39m metre high multi-user lattice tower telecommunications structure, carrying antenna and dishes enclosed within a 24 metre high palisade fence compound together with associated ground equipment and associated site works

  Permission · Sligo County Council, 20372

• 22 Feb 2017Conditional

  development consisting of the construction of a 4 bay slatted shed with creep at the rear plus services and site works as necessary

  Permission · Sligo County Council, 1762

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 Carrownagark.

Recorded monuments

• SL034-008001 Enclosure
  Description

  In gently undulating poorly drained pasture. Indicated on the 1838 OS 6-inch map as an oval enclosure (diam. c. 30m) abutting a field boundary to E; the area of the enclosure is indicated as a quarry and the name 'Dooneen (site of)' is added on the 1914 OS 6-inch map. It is not visible at ground level. A possible enclosure (SL034-008002-) lies c. 50m 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

• SL034-008002 Enclosure
  Description

  In gently undulating poorly drained pasture. Visible in an aerial photograph (GSIAP, G 268-9) as a D-shaped area on the E side of a field boundary. It is not visible at ground level. A natural rise (10m N-S; 14m E-W; H 0.7m) was noted in the area. The site of an enclosure (SL034-008001-) is c. 50m to E. 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

• SL034-010 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  In marshy ground, to S of a ridge and on the N side of a road. The well, is enclosed in a concrete structure (H 1.2m; L 1m), open to S. Wood-Martin (1892, 355-6, n. 1) noted that this well was 'formerly held in estimation as "holy"'. 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 Carrownagark.

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 Carrownagark, 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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1165 (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.

No address of the register names Carrownagark with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Sligo.

Name

Carrownagark · Ceathrú na gCearc

Area

872,306 m² (87.23 ha, 215.55 acres)

Civil parish

Tawnagh, and its townlands

Barony

Tirerrill

Electoral division

Drumfin, the unit of the census

Census 2022

412 people lived in 151 households in the Drumfin electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 37% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrowkeel, Cloonlurg, Kilmorgan, Kingsbrook, Knockadoo, Tawnagh

Placenames

Carrownagark 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.