Carrowroe North

Area

243 m²

Buildings

No building touches it.

Zoning

No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.

Townland

Carrowroe North

Planning applications on this parcel

No planning application touches this parcel in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 this parcel.

Recorded monuments around it

This parcel is in the zone of notification of 4 recorded monuments.

• GA097-084001 Castle - tower house
  Description

  On a gentle rise in pastureland, this much-ruined tower house (8.2m N-S; 7.1m E-W) overlooks a bend in the Clogharevaun River to the E and commands a crossing point on the river c. 90m to the SSW. It was incorporated into the E wall of an associated bawn (GA097-084002-). Records indicate that it was in existence in 1574 when it was in the possession of 'Hugh McSwyne' (Nolan 1901, 121). Originally four storeys high with a base-batter, it is constructed of roughly coursed blocks; ashlar quoins survive at the upper levels. Its entire S half has collapsed. Only the N wall and adjoining portions of the E and W walls still stand to anything like their full height but following a lightning strike most of the outer wall-face of the E wall has collapsed. The much-collapsed original pointed doorway, set off-centre in the N wall, gave access to a lobby with an overhead murder-hole. From the lobby, further doorways led to spiral stairs in the NE corner and to the main ground-floor room (now choked with rubble). There were stone vaults between the ground/1st floor and 2nd/3rd floors but both are now largely destroyed. There were small chambers to the N of the main rooms on the 1st and 2nd floors. The 3rd floor was undivided. An intramural passage is visible in the thickness of the E wall on the 2nd floor. Remains of vertical loops that lit the stairwell survive at ground and first-floor levels and the only surviving window is a single light with an ogee-head on the 2nd floor in the N wall. Two doorways in this wall, one visible at a height of c. 1.95m and the other at c. 4.3m, connected the tower with an adjoining house that was subsequently constructed against its N face. Little of the latter building survives save a short portion of its W side-wall (Wth 0.9m) which abuts the NW corner of the tower. However, a grassed-over stony surface to the N of the castle, plus the shadow of a gable on its N face, suggest that it was a rectangular two-storey structure (L c. 20m, Wth 7.1m). Two putlog holes above the original doorway to the tower are most likely associated with the house and may have held timber beams or corbels that supported a floor. A field system (GA079-084001-) is associated. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 5 September 2018 This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 2/1995).

• GA097-084002 Field system
  Description

  On a gentle rise in pastureland overlooking a bend in the Clogharevaun River to the E. This field system was located to the SE and S of a tower house (GA097-084001-) and bawn (GA097-084003-). It comprised three rectangular fields and traces of two others that were defined by grass-covered earthen banks (Wth 1-2.5m; H 0.7m max.). The largest field (14 hectares) lay alongside and to the S of the S wall of the bawn. Two smaller fields adjoined it to the SE. About 20m to the NE of these traces of the two other fields were visible (Cody 1989, 361, Fig. 22). Cody (ibid.) suggested that the field system was most likely associated with the occupancy of the tower house. In September 1995 land reclamation had removed all traces of the field system (Connolly 1995, 7). Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 5 September 2018 This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 2/1995).

• GA097-084003 Bawn
  Description

  This rectangular bawn (47m N-S; 32m E-W) is associated with a tower house (GA097-084001-) which is incorporated into its E side. Its S half was artificially raised by c. 0.5m to make a level interior, thus creating a shallow platform appearance (Cody 1989, 357). When inspected in May 1983 only fragmentary traces of the enclosing wall survived. It was best preserved at SW (H 5-6m; Wth 0.6m) where the remains of a ruined building were incorporated into it. Substantial lengths of walling were visible along its W side but its E side and most of the N and S sides survived only as a grassed-over stony bank (Wth 2m; H 0.5-1m). Extending from the SW corner the S wall survived for a length of 17m, varying in height from 0.2m to 1.7m. More than half of it was incorporated into a later shed that was constructed on its line. Along the W side, N of the building in the SW corner, two 15m stretches of wall ranged in height from 0.5m to 2m. To the N of these a similar length was ruined almost to ground level. Between that and the NW corner two short lengths both 2m high survived. On the N side only a 3m length of wall, c. 5m from the NW corner survived. The E end of this stretch marked a wall end that was probably one side of an entranceway into the bawn. Here the wall was 1.5m thick. Within the bawn, as noted above, the SW corner appeared to have been incorporated into a rectangular building (c. 5m N-S; 2.6m E-W). Its E wall (Wth 0.65m) was ruined to ground level and there was no visible surface trace of the N wall. An offset at a height of c. 4m in the S and W walls probably carried a floor of which there was no trace. Two opes in both the S wall and W walls lit the upper room. Two other lengths of grass-covered walling running from the W wall to the interior of the bawn may be the remains of other buildings. In September 1995 it was noted that the surviving walling at the NW corner had been destroyed (Connolly 1995, 7). Aerial imagery http://map.geohive.ie/ last accessed 5 September) shows that by 2000 most of the S wall had been levelled. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 5 September 2018 This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 2/1995).

• GA097-084004 Fulacht fia
  Description

  In level pastureland, some 125m to the S of Clogharevaun Castle (GA097-084001-). Described by Cody (1989, 159, no. 16) as a flat-topped grass-covered mound (12m E-W; 8m N-S; H 0.6m), roughly crescentic in plan and open to the N. The Clogharevaun River flows E-W immediately to its S. Some apparently burnt stone was visible in the river bank towards the W end of the mound. According to Cody (ibid.), the S edge of the fulacht fia was removed when the course of the river was straightened some time between 1838 and 1892. It was originally located c. 10-12m to N of the river. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 25 November 2019

Architectural heritage

• Clogharevaun Bridge, bridge, 1760–1910 · Regional interest
  Description

  Three-arch limestone humpback road bridge over Dooyeriha River, built c.1780, having central river arch and flanking flood arches, now blocked. Central arch rebuilt c.1890, with coursed rock-faced rusticated walls, copings to parapets, segmental arch with similar voussoirs. Lower flanking segmental arches have cut-stone voussoirs. Arch to north has pedestrian opening with cut-stone lintel. Rubble walls to older sections. Remains of medieval towerhouse and bawn to north-east.

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).

Ground and risks

Radon

At the centre of this parcel, 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, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.

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.

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Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.