Carrickacroghery
Carrickacroghery is a townland in the civil parish of Drumlease, barony of Drumahaire, Co. Leitrim. Its name in Irish is Carraig an Chrochaire.
Parcel 610821
- Area
- 54,463 m² (5.45 ha, 13.46 acres)
- Buildings
- 10 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 862 m².
- 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
- Carrickacroghery
Planning applications on this parcel
12 Jun 2018Conditional
the as constructed dwelling and its ancillary works including elevational amendments and floor area modifications
Retention, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 18112
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: Lough Gill SAC 001976
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Gill 001976
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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 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 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.
- Area
- 73.2 ha
- 181 acres
- Land parcels
- 61
- registered freehold, median 4,378 m² (0.44 ha, 1.08 acres)
- Zoning
- R2
- Existing Residential
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
61 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carrickacroghery, from 226 m² to 75,076 m² (7.51 ha, 18.55 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 27 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
Leitrim County Development Plan 2023-2029, Leitrim · 13 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - P1Agriculture
Leitrim County Development Plan 2023-2029, Leitrim · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - S5Social & Community (Mixed/general community services/facilities uses)
Leitrim County Development Plan 2023-2029, Leitrim · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
21 Jan 2026Unconditional
extension of duration for 3 years
Extension of duration · Leitrim County Council, 2602
26 Aug 2021Conditional
development consisting of (a) An upgrade of the existing Gaelic football field to modern day standards; (b) The development of an adjoining multi-use training field; (c) Ancillary works will include: Installation of a 1.2m high powder coated galvanized perimeter fence (around the GAA field); Installation of 2 no. player dugouts to the GAA field; Installation of Ball Stop nets behind the existing GAA goals; (d) Flood Defence Measures Stage 1: regrading of the exiting footpath to the north of the proposed training area, including the provision of a 600mm high retaining wall along the northern limits of the site
Permission · Leitrim County Council, 21169
7 May 2021Conditional
will consist of the erection of a single storey dwelling house, domestic shed to the rear , domestic effluent treatment unit and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 2193
12 Jun 2018Conditional
the as constructed dwelling and its ancillary works including elevational amendments and floor area modifications
Retention, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 18112
6 Feb 2017Conditional
erect a replacement utility building comprising storage area and toilets
Permission · Leitrim County Council, 1715
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
- Special Area of Conservation: Lough Gill SAC 001976
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Gill 001976
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Carrickacroghery.
Architectural heritage
- Drumlease House, house, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay two-storey double-pile house, built c.1820, with return to rear. Hipped slate roof with rendered chimneystacks and terracotta pots. Roughcast rendered walls with plinth course. Replacement timber sash windows with stone sills. Segmental-headed door opening with spoked fanlight and timber panelled door with sidelights within modern glazed porch. Roughcast rendered single- and two-storey outbuildings. Random limestone boundary wall with stone piers and cast-iron gates.
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, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Carrickacroghery, 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 high, 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 Carrickacroghery.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Carrickacroghery with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Leitrim.
The townland
- Name
- Carrickacroghery · Carraig an Chrochaire
- Area
- 731,579 m² (73.16 ha, 180.78 acres)
- Civil parish
- Drumlease, and its townlands
- Barony
- Drumahaire
- Electoral division
- Drumahaire, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,714 people lived in 639 households in the Drumahaire electoral division. 75% of households owned their home. 52% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Drumahaire, Friarstown, Greenaun North, Mullagh, Sriff, Stonepark
- Placenames
- Carrickacroghery 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.