Carrow Beg

48 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carrow Beg, from 153 m² to 98,377 m² (9.84 ha, 24.31 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 25 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 Carrow Beg 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.

• 18 Dec 2024Conditional

  the following; (a) partial demolition works to a side annex of an existing dwelling (b) internal renovations and elevational changes to the existing dwelling together with the construction of extensions to the sides and rear along with the conversion of a flat roof annex to a pitched roof (c) revised site boundaries with modifications to the existing vehicle entrance (d) upgrade of the existing wastewater treatment system with the installation of a new sewerage treatment unit and percolation area (e) along with all other associated site works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 2460308

• 3 Feb 2023Conditional

  proposed astroturf surface football pitch with associated fencing and ancillary site works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 2327

• 5 Aug 2020N/a

  proposed slatted shed with creep area and manure pit and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 20176

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Slawn 001443

Recorded monuments

• LF021-051 Enclosure
  Description

  On a gentle S-facing slope in pasture. Depicted as a roughly oval-shaped enclosure with the designation 'Fort' on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. A raised oval area (73.7m N-S; 61.9m E-W) enclosed by a much-denuded, low bank of earth and stone (Wth 3.7m; H 0.75m max.) with a shallow external fosse (Wth 5.2m; D 0.3m), which is identifiable only from NW-N-SSE. Elsewhere it has been infilled and replaced with a modern laneway. The original entrance is not recognisable. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Architectural heritage

• Thomas Ashe Hall, hall, 1915–1920 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay single-storey former Sinn Fein hall, built 1917, having lean-to to the northeast elevation. Possibly incorporating fabric of earlier building to site. Now in use as an outbuilding. Pitched natural slate roof with rendered chimneystack to the southwest gable end. Roughcast render over roughly coursed rubble limestone masonry walls with carved limestone plaque to northeast elevation. Square-headed window openings with six-over-six timber sliding sash windows and concrete sills. Square-headed door opening having glazed overlight and timber battened door. Fronts onto the road. Located down small lane to the south end of the village of Newtown-Cashel. Vernacular house adjacent to the southwest

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 Carrow Beg, 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

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

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 Carrow Beg with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Longford.

Name

Carrow Beg · An Cheathrú Bheag

Area

912,361 m² (91.24 ha, 225.45 acres)

Civil parish

Cashel, and its townlands

Barony

Rathcline

Electoral division

Cashel West, the unit of the census

Census 2022

651 people lived in 238 households in the Cashel West electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 9% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballagh, Ballyrevagh, Carrow More, Cornadowagh, Culnagore, Leab

Placenames

Carrow Beg 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.