Carra

40 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carra, from 60 m² to 226,116 m² (22.61 ha, 55.87 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 Carra 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.

• 12 Oct 2024Conditional

  to construct (i) slatted shed with loose area & crush yard, (ii) access roadway & (iii)new agricultural entrance and all associated site works. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) is submitted with this application. Gross floor space of proposed work: 324.00 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2461349

• 30 Aug 2022Unconditional

  to construct a dwelling house, domestic garage and septic tank with percolation area including all associated works and services. (Gross floor space of proposed works: 211 sqm.)

  Extension of duration · Galway County Council, 221012

• 11 Oct 2021Conditional

  for change of design pursuant to planning permission number 17/620.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211880

• 4 May 2017Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house, domestic garage and septic tank with percolation area including all associated works and services. (Gross floor space of proposed works: 211 sqm.)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 17620

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 Carra.

Recorded monuments

• GA106-035 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In marshy grassland. Circular rath (diam. 42m), in fair condition, defined by a bank, no visible surface trace of which survives from SE to S or from SSW to SW. A gap at N could be original. A number of earthworks within the interior may be internal divisions. An old field bank radiates from the monument at N. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 23 January 2017

• GA106-036 Children's burial ground
  Description

  In low-lying grassland adjacent to a road. This poorly preserved children's burial ground (L 23m; Wth 5.1m)is roughly triangular in plan. It is delimited by modern field walls. Within the interior a number of randomly scattered stones indicate graves; only two examples remain in situ. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 29 August 2019

Architectural heritage

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

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 Carra, 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.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Carra · Cartha

Area

1,804,878 m² (180.49 ha, 446 acres)

Civil parish

Killoran, and its townlands

Barony

Leitrim

Electoral division

Kilmeen, the unit of the census

Census 2022

672 people lived in 233 households in the Kilmeen electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynahistil, Ballynamurdoon, Carrowroe, Castlenancy, Cooleeny, Cooracurkia, Glenmeen, Gortdrishagh

Placenames

Carra 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.