Carrowgarriff South

45 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carrowgarriff South, from 13 m² to 527,478 m² (52.75 ha, 130.34 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 21 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 Carrowgarriff South 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.

• 24 Sept 2023Refused

  for 10-years for the development of a solar farm on a site of 125 hectares consisting of the following: 570,952sqm of solar photovoltaic panels on ground mounted steel frames; 18 hardstanding locations, with each containing 3no. electrical skids (each hardstanding location will be surrounded by a palisade fence & gates); underground power & communications cables & ducts, including cabling along the L-8560, L-4506, L-4505 & R347 public roads; 4 joint bays; new internal access tracks; a new access from the R347 public road; upgrade to existing access points along the L-4505 and R347 public roads; access gates; landscaping & biodiversity enhancement measures; security gates; boundary fencing & all associated ancillary development, site works & services. The solar farm will be operational for 40 years. A Natura Impact Statement will be submitted to the planning authority with the application

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2361143

• 22 Feb 2023Refused

  for the construction of a dwelling house, waste water treatment/percolation and all associated services.Gross floor space of proposed works 260.00sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2360154

• 23 Jun 2022Refused

  for dwelling house, waste water treatment/percolation and all associated services.Gross floor space of proposed works 260.00sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2260641

• 31 Mar 2022Conditional

  for the construction of a new slatted shed with a loose bedded area and all associated ancillary concrete works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 384.48sqm.

  Permission · Galway County Council, 22422

• 15 Mar 2022Refused

  Permission for dwelling house, waste water treatment/percolation and all associated services .Gross floor space of proposed works 260 sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2260232

• 28 Feb 2022Refused

  to construct a new dwelling house, garage, septic tank, treatment system, percolation area and all associated services. Gross floor space of proposed works: House: 167.5sqm, Garage: 53.5sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 22257

• 9 Dec 2021N/a

  for dwelling house, wastewater treatment/percolation and all associated services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 260 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 212316

• 9 Apr 2021Refused

  for construction of dwelling house, waste water treatment system/percolation and all associated services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 189.8 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 21556

• 25 Nov 2020Refused

  for construction of dwelling house, waste water treatment system and all associated services. Gross floor space of proposed works; 189.8sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 201777

• 20 Oct 2017Conditional

  to retain and complete ground floor plan extension and elevations (previous planning application reference number 16/1356), and for permission to construct a first floor extension to an existing dwelling and all associated services. Gross floor space of work to be retained 21.76sqm , proposed extension 50.47sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 171513

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 Carrowgarriff South.

Recorded monuments

• GA113-080 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  On an E-facing slope in pastureland. Classified by McCaffrey (1952, 267, no. 23) as an oval ‘Stone fort’ (c. 41.4m N-S; c. 32.6m E-W) defined by a drystone wall. No visible surface trace survives. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 24 January 2017

• GA113-081 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  On an E-facing rocky slope in pastureland. Classified by McCaffrey (1952, 267, no. 24) as a circular ‘Stone fort’ (diam. c. 27m), which was cut by a laneway. The latter runs through the cashel from NNE to SSW and no visible surface trace of the enclosing element survives to the E of it. To its W, the overgrown cashel wall is evident but field-clearance rubble has been piled on top of it. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 24 January 2017

• GA113-082 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  On a gentle rise in an area of outcropping rock and grassland. Poorly preserved circular cashel (diam. 20.5m) defined by a collapsed drystone wall which is overlain by a modern field wall. A roughly rectangular enclosure (L 15m; Wth 12m), defined by a low drystone wall, abuts it at S. (McCaffrey 1952, 267, no. 25) Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 24 January 2017

• GA113-205 Road - road/trackway
  Description

  In an area of rock outcrop with cleared pastureland immediately to the N and S. This gently winding trackway runs N-S for 70m and is defined by two parallel lines of boulders set 3.5m apart. A cashel (GA113-082----) lies c. 100m to the S. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 13 June 2017

Architectural heritage

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

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 Carrowgarriff South, 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 low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_684 (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 Carrowgarriff South with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Carrowgarriff South · An Cheathrú Gharbh Theas

Area

1,398,121 m² (139.81 ha, 345.48 acres)

Civil parish

Ardrahan, and its townlands

Barony

Dunkellin

Electoral division

Cahermore, the unit of the census

Census 2022

620 people lived in 198 households in the Cahermore electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 50% of homes were built since 2001. 3% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Caherawoneen North, Caherawoneen South, Carrowgarriff North, Drumharsna North, Drumharsna South, Lisheeneenaun East, Parkroe

Placenames

Carrowgarriff South 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.