Carrowbaun

74 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carrowbaun, from 8 m² to 29,450 m² (2.95 ha, 7.28 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 19 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

• M4Self-Sustaining Consolidation Zoning (Built up area)
  Mayo County Development Plan 2022-2028, Mayo · 59 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 3 Jul 2026Conditional

  We, HIBERNIAN CELLULAR NETWORKS LTD. intend to apply for Permission for development at this site: Carrowbaun, Newport, Co. Mayo. The development will consist of the erection of a 36m tall Telecommunication Lattice Support Structure carrying antennas and dishes together with associated ground-based equipment all enclosed in security fencing with site access formed from an existing access road off the L1401 Knocknatinnyweel Road in the townland of Carrowbaun, Newport, Co. Mayo. The planning application may be inspected, or purchased at a fee not exceeding the reasonable cost of making a copy, at the offices of the planning authority during its public opening hours. A submission or observation in relation to the application may be made in writing to the planning authority on payment of the prescribed fee, €20, within the period of 5 weeks beginning on the date of receipt by the authority of the application and such submissions or observations will be considered by the planning authority in making a decision on the application. The planning authority may grant permission subject to or without conditions, or may refuse to grant permission.

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2660532

• 30 Jun 2026N/a

  We, HIBERNIAN CELLULAR NETWORKS LTD. intend to apply for Permission for development at this site: Carrowbaun, Newport, Co. Mayo. The development will consist of the erection of a 36m tall Telecommunication Lattice Support Structure carrying antennas and dishes together with associated ground-based equipment all enclosed in security fencing with site access formed from an existing access road off the L1401 Knocknatinnyweel Road in the townland of Carrowbaun, Newport, Co. Mayo. The planning application may be inspected, or purchased at a fee not exceeding the reasonable cost of making a copy, at the offices of the planning authority during its public opening hours. A submission or observation in relation to the application may be made in writing to the planning authority on payment of the prescribed fee, €20, within the period of 5 weeks beginning on the date of receipt by the authority of the application and such submissions or observations will be considered by the planning authority in making a decision on the application. The planning authority may grant permission subject to or without conditions, or may refuse to grant permission.

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2660514

• 22 Aug 2025Conditional

  construct dwelling house, wastewater treatment unit and percolation area

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 25347

• 11 Jun 2025N/a

  Section 5 Declaration: removal of the existing external lighting fixtures and replacement with a new Dark Skies Friendly lighting arrangement incorporating under-lighting of the arches, side elevation spotlight, ground evel lighting and standard lights with projectors along the viaduct deck, utilizing the existing ducting to minimize any impact

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 25228

• 7 Apr 2025N/a

  construct dwelling house, garage, wastewater treatment unit and percolation area

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 25132

• 28 Aug 2024Conditional

  renovate and extend existing commercial/ residential property to 2 no. apartments with a storage shed at the rear, a ground floor change of use from post office to residential use together with all ancillary site works

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2460538

• 3 Jan 2024Conditional

  upgrading of windows and door style on the front facade

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 241

• 9 Oct 2023Conditional

  carry out alterations and subdivision of existing premises to include 1. Internal alterations and renovations to restaurant and takeaway with apartment over. 2. Redesign of vacant public house, B and B and commercial unit to 2 no. townhouses, all with existing connections to public services together wtih associated site services. Planning reference P04/1048 & P12/325 refer

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 23567

• 2 Dec 2022Conditional

  demolish existing rear single storey extension and construct new rear extension, make revisions to front elevation fenestration including all ancillary site works and services

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 221078

• 10 Jun 2022Conditional

  Demolish existing glass conservatory and build new garden room extension in lieu to existing house-a protected structure. NIAH Ref:31208026-with associated repairs to west gable, French drains, site works and landscaping works and services.

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 22476

• 1 Jun 2022Conditional

  RETENTION OF THE EXISTING DRY STORE WAREHOUSE, TOGETHER WITH ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND SERVICES

  Retention · Mayo County Council, 22435

• 31 Mar 2022N/a

  SECTION 5 DECLARATION: REPAIR/REPLACE 2 NO. DEFECTIVE EXISTING CHIMNEY STACKS ON THE MAIN HOUSE INCLUDING ALL LEAD FLASHINGS/TRAYS AND ANY REPAIRS TO SLATES, GUTTERS ADN DOWNPIPES TO FURTHER PREVENT WATER INGRESS

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 22237

• 8 Sept 2021Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A COMMEMORATIVE GRACE O'MALLEY STATUE AND ALL ASSOCIATED ANCILLARY WORKS

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 21961

• 1 Mar 2019Refused

  CONSTRUCT A DWELLING HOUSE, CONNECTION TO PUBLIC SERVICES TOGETHER WTIH ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 19133

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Clew Bay Complex SAC 001482
• Special Area of Conservation: Newport River SAC 002144
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Clew Bay Complex 001482

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Carrowbaun.

Architectural heritage

• Tunnel, 1890–1895 · Regional interest
  Description

  Railway tunnel, dated 1892; opened 1894; extant 1897. Closed, 1934. Reopened, 1936. Closed, 1937. Now disused. North: Tuck pointed snecked rock faced sandstone battered wall with cut-limestone stringcourse on "Cavetto" consoles supporting parapet having rock faced cut-limestone coping centred on tooled cut-limestone date stone ("1892"). Single horseshoe-profile tunnel with drag edged rock faced limestone ashlar voussoirs. Sited spanning uprooted railway line with unkempt embankments to railway line.

• Handball alley, 1945–1950 · Regional interest
  Description

  Handball alley, built 1948, with ivy-covered rendered mass- or reinforced concrete boundary wall to perimeter having rounded coping. Now disused. Set in overgrown grounds.

• Carrowbaun House, house, 1840–1897 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey house with half-dormer attic, extant 1897, on a T-shaped plan centred on single-bay single-storey gabled projecting open porch abutting single-bay (single-bay deep) full-height gabled advanced end bay. Now disused. Pitched slate roof on a T-shaped plan centred on pitched (gabled) slate roof with clay ridge tiles, concrete or rendered coping to gables, and remains of cast-iron rainwater goods on timber eaves boards on cut-limestone eaves. Creeper- or ivy-covered limewashed roughcast walls. Tudor-headed central opening approached by three benchmark-inscribed cut-limestone steps with drag edged tooled cut-limestone surround having concave reveals. Square-headed door opening into house with dragged cut-limestone step threshold, and drag edged tooled cut-limestone surround having chamfered reveals framing glazed timber panelled door. Square-headed window openings in bipartite arrangement (ground floor) with pointed-arch window openings (half-dormer attic), timber mullions including timber Y-mullions (half-dormer attic), and drag edged tooled cut-limestone surrounds having chamfered reveals framing timber casement windows having square glazing bars. Set back from line of street in overgrown grounds with rendered piers to perimeter having pyramidal capping supporting wrought iron gate.

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

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately low, low, on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_213 (ZIP).

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Carrowbaun with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.

Name

Carrowbaun · An Cheathrú Bhán

Area

241,942 m² (24.19 ha, 59.79 acres)

Civil parish

Burrishoole, and its townlands

Barony

Burrishoole

Electoral division

Derryloughan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Derryloughan electoral division: 771 people in 280 households; 84% of households own their home; 37% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 12% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Kilbride, Knockaveely Glebe, Knocknatinnyweel, Mullaun, Sandymount

Placenames

Carrowbaun 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.