Lecarrow

30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lecarrow, from 825 m² to 138,392 m² (13.84 ha, 34.2 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 20 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 Lecarrow 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.

• 14 Apr 2025Conditional

  planning permission for (1) alterations and refurbishment to the existing dwelling house (2) extensions to the front, side and rear of the existing dwelling house (3) new garage (4) a new effluent treatment system and percolation area (5) and all associated site works all at Lecarrow, Bunnanaddan, County Sligo, F56CC86.

  Permission · Sligo County Council, 2560142

• 7 Dec 2023N/a

  Retention of an existing dwelling house as-built and an existing garage as-built and construction of a two storey extension to the existing dwelling and to install a new waste water treatment system together with all ancillary site works & services

  Permission · Sligo County Council, 2360338

• 5 Jul 2018Conditional

  for development consisting of the construction of new dwelling house with proprietary wastewater treatment system, polishing filter and associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 18257

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 Lecarrow.

Recorded monuments

• SL039-036 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on the SE-facing slope of a drumlin. This rath has been levelled and the remains consist of an oval area (int. diam. 23.1m N-S; 30.7m E-W) defined by a scarp (max. H 1.55m) except along the W arc. The E and SE portions of the interior are raised to compensate for the hillslope. Indicated as an embanked circular area (diam. c. 20m) on the 1914 OS 6-inch map and on the 1838 OS 6-inch map. A field boundary, which was indicated as incorporating the bank SSE-W on the 1914 OS 6-inch map, has also been levelled. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

• SL039-037001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on the N-facing slope of a drumlin. A circular area (int. diam. 41m N-S; 45m E-W) enclosed by an earthen bank (Wth 3.2m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 1.25m) with an intervening fosse (Wth 2.6m) and an outer earth and stone bank (Wth 2.6m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 0.75m). The entrance (Wth 1.6m) is at S with a causeway (Wth 4m) across the fosse. The interior is slightly concave and slopes down to N. There is a possible hut site (SL039-037002-) in the E half of the interior. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

• SL039-037002 Hut site
  Description

  In the E half of the interior of a rath (SL039-037001-), adjacent to the bank of the rath. An arc of a bank (H 0.4-0.5m) may be the remains of a hut site (diam. c. 11m). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

Architectural heritage

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

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 Lecarrow, 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.

Terrain model

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

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 Lecarrow with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Sligo.

Name

Lecarrow · An Leithcheathrú

Area

880,355 m² (88.04 ha, 217.54 acres)

Civil parish

Cloonoghil, and its townlands

Barony

Corran

Electoral division

Cloonoghill, the unit of the census

Census 2022

307 people lived in 119 households in the Cloonoghill electoral division. 83% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 22% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyfahy, Ballynaraw South, Carrowloughlin, Drumfarnoght, Everlaun, Rinnarogue

Placenames

Lecarrow 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.