Carrowkeel

80 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carrowkeel, from 19 m² to 184,160 m² (18.42 ha, 45.51 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 30 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.

• 13 Feb 2017Conditional

  RETENTION OF STABLES, SHED, FARM YARD MANURE PIT AND SAND LUNGING RING, AS CONSTRUCTED UNDER P06/1419

  Retention · Mayo County Council, 1768

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

• MA118-093001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In level pasture. Circular area (40m N-S; 41m E-W), enclosed by two earthen banks, with intervening fosse. Interior bisected by a stone wall NW- SE. Inner bank (H 1.8m) with stone facing, overlain by stone field fence. Outer bank (H 0.2m) and fosse (D 0.3m) levelled NW to SE. E side of interior heavily overgrown. Possible souterrain (MA118-093002-) in NW of interior. The above description has been derived from D. Lavelle (compiler), An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District including Lough Mask and Lough Carra. Lough Mask and Lough Carra Tourist Development Association (1994), No. 108. Date of upload: 20 December 2013

• MA118-093002 Souterrain
  Description

  In a rath (MA118-093001-). This drystone souterrain extends from the inner bank of the rath at WNW through the NW quadrant. When inspected in 1980 it was found to have suffered considerable disturbance, with some of the lintels removed and broken up. The in situ lintels of a passage were still visible in the edge of a circular disturbance depression in the inner bank at WNW (SMR file). When inspected in 1990 the souterrain was inaccessible (Lavelle 1994, 73, no. 538). Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 20 December 2013

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 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.

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. Mayo.

Name

Carrowkeel · An Cheathrú Chaol

Area

1,106,100 m² (110.61 ha, 273.32 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmolara, and its townlands

Barony

Kilmaine

Electoral division

Neale, the unit of the census

Census 2022

879 people lived in 298 households in the Neale electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballymartin, Ballytrasna, Cahernablauhy, Carrownakilly, Coollisduff, Creevagh North, Creevagh South, Knockroe, Thomastown

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.