Carrowmore

26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carrowmore, from 99 m² to 165,907 m² (16.59 ha, 41 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 28 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 Carrowmore 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.

• 28 Aug 2026N/a

  for the construction of a new bungalow type domestic dwelling house, formation of a site entrance, installation of a waste water treatment plant and construction of a percolation area as well as all associated and ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2661476

• 20 Apr 2026Refused

  for the construction of a new bungalow type dwelling house, domestic garage, wastewater treatment plant, percolation area, formation of a site entrance and all associated and ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2660599

• 8 Oct 2025N/a

  for the construction of a new bungalow type dwelling house, domestic garage, wastewater treatment plant and percolation area, formation of a site entrance and all associated and ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2561463

• 7 Jul 2025Conditional

  for: lateral extension of the existing permitted quarry area (Plan File Ref. No. 46752) over an area of c.10.2 ha. area to a final floor level of c. 100 mOD; All related ancillary development and associated site works including processing (crushing and screening) and stockpiling of materials; provision of landscaped screening berm and all other related activities; Rehabilitation of the application area to natural habitat after uses following completion of extraction; The proposed development is within an overall application area of c. 24.7 hectares and is for a total period of 25 years. The planning application is accompanied by an Environmental Impact Assessment Report

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2560906

• 10 Jan 2025Conditional

  to construct a new dwelling house, connect to existing septic tank and percolation area, remove existing mobile home when new dwelling is complete and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2560023

• 18 Oct 2023Conditional

  of alterations to an existing dwelling which includes an extension to the dwelling & the construction of a domestic garage including all associated works & services

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 23421

• 29 Jun 2023N/a

  of alterations to an existing dwelling which includes an extension to the dwelling & the construction of a domestic garage including all associated works & services

  Retention · Galway County Council, 23261

• 3 Nov 2021Conditional

  for a new dwelling house with a domestic garage, an on site sewage treatment system, a new site access and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 308.14 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 212044

• 9 Aug 2021Conditional

  for the construction of a dwelling house with an attached garage, treatment plant and percolation area and all associated works. Gross floor space of proposed works is Dwelling 261 sqm, Garage 40 sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211450

• 30 Jul 2021Conditional

  to construct a single storey dwelling house, domestic garage, waste water treatment system, polishing filter & all associated works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 228 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211395

• 23 Mar 2018Conditional

  to construct a three bay single slatted shed. Gross floor space of proposed works 106.6 sqm.

  Permission · Galway County Council, 18354

• 16 Feb 2018Conditional

  of existing domestic garage approved under Planning Ref. No. 14/329 & 15/868 and all associated site development works. Gross floor space of work to be retained 44.7 sqm.

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 18173

• 14 Aug 2017Conditional

  for the construction of a Slatted Agricultural shed and ancillary works. Gross floor space of proposed works 267.8sqm.

  Permission · Galway County Council, 171226

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 Carrowmore.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Carrowmore.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Carrowmore, 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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1048 (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 Carrowmore with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Carrowmore · An Cheathrú Mhór

Area

1,210,373 m² (121.04 ha, 299.09 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmeen, and its townlands

Barony

Leitrim

Electoral division

Loughrea Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

898 people lived in 307 households in the Loughrea Rural electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carn, Kilmeen, Knockadikeen, Knockbaron, Knockshangarry, Knockshangarry, Moyleen, Traskernagh

Placenames

Carrowmore 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.