Carrowculleen

31 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carrowculleen, from 73 m² to 190,225 m² (19.02 ha, 47.01 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 Carrowculleen 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.

• 30 Jun 2023Conditional

  to construct a dwellinghouse, domestic garage/fuel store, septic tank with treatment system & percolation area & all ancillary site works. Gross floor area of proposed works: 182sqm (dwelling house) & 46sqm (domestic garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2360732

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 Carrowculleen.

Recorded monuments

• GA017-028 Earthwork
  Description

  Beside a stream in low-lying flat marshy terrain. Marked on 3rd ed. of OS 6-inch map (1932) as a small mound (D c. 15m) in an area dotted with hollows. What is visible are a number of low grassed-over mound-like features, possibly natural hummocks or 'eskers' (Topgr. Files, OPW). That shown on OS 6-inch map is a slightly raised circular area (D 25m). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA017-029 Earthwork
  Description

  On a low rise in bogland close to the td. boundary. A well-preserved subcircular earthen round-topped mound (D 9m, H 1.2m). A drain cuts through S section of the monument. Possibly a boundary mound or a fulacht fiadh. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA017-030 Enclosure
  Description

  Near the summit of a hill in rolling pastureland. Described by Neary (1914, 122, no. 133) as a 'circular, earthen fort, but only the outline remains'; it was known locally as 'Killeen Fort'. A poorly preserved square platform (E-W 32m) defined by a denuded scarp survives. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA017-031 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On W-facing slope of a ridge in grassland. Known locally as 'Gannon's Fort' (Neary 1914, 122, no. 132), this D-shaped rath (NNE-SSW 33m, WNW-ESE 28.9m), in fair condition, is defined by a bank at NNE and elsewhere by a scarp. An intervening fosse and outer bank survive from W to N. A ringfort (GA017-032----) and enclosure (GA017-030----) lie c. 130m to SW and W respectively. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA017-032 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Some 130m SW of a ringfort (GA017-031----). This well-preserved subcircular rath (N-S 34.5m, E-W 32m), known locally as 'Water Fort' (Neary 1914, 122, no. 134), is defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. The inner bank survives only at NE; elsewhere a scarp forms the enclosing element. There is an entrance at E. An enclosure (GA017-030----) lies c. 130m to N. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

Architectural heritage

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

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 Carrowculleen, 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 low, low.

Terrain model

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

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 Carrowculleen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Carrowculleen · Ceathrú an Choillín

Area

961,925 m² (96.19 ha, 237.7 acres)

Civil parish

Dunmore, and its townlands

Barony

Dunmore

Electoral division

Doonbally, the unit of the census

Census 2022

626 people lived in 210 households in the Doonbally electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 42% of homes were built since 2001. 17% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrowculleen (Hoare), Carrowmunniagh, Kilnaslieve, Roy, Sylaun West, Sylaunnagran, Tooreen

Placenames

Carrowculleen 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.