Callowhill

47 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Callowhill, from 31 m² to 189,463 m² (18.95 ha, 46.82 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 26 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 Callowhill 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.

• 6 Aug 2024Conditional

  Renovate and extend existing two-storey dwelling with the construction of two-storey and single storey extensions to front and gable elevations, replacement roof finish, alterations to elevations, connection to existing services and associated site development works.

  Permission, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 2460160

• 2 Sept 2021Conditional

  1. construct a dormer type domestic dwelling. 2. To construct a domestic garage. 3. To construct a new site entrance. 4.To construct a Waste Water Treatment System to current EPA Code of Practice and all ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 21176

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 Callowhill.

Recorded monuments

• LE025-001 Crannog
  Description

  Situated towards the SE end of the oval Callowhill Lough (dims c. 300m NW-SE; c. 200m NE-SW). It is indicated as a small feature (diam. c. 5m) on the 1944 revised edition of the OS 6-inch map where it is described as a 'Crannóg'. An earthen mound (diam. c. 15m) is visible beneath the surface of the water. On the E shore of the lake are two timbers; one is a dug-out canoe (L 4.7m; Wth 0.45m), and the other (dims 0.4m x 0.2m; L 5.35) has two mortises on one face and two half-mortises on another face. The crannog was disturbed by divers in the 1970s (National Museum of Ireland, Topographical file). The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 September 2008

• LE025-002 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  Situated on a local prominence in an area of rock outcrop. It is indicated as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 35m) with bushes on the perimeter only on the 1835 edition of the OS 6-inch map. It was described in 1943 as a 'D-shaped area cut by a field bank at E' with internal dimensions of about 21 yards N-S x about 24 yards E-W (c.19m N-S; c. 22m E-W) (OSFM). The area is now occupied by a grass-covered quarry. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of revised upload: 24 January 2017

• LE025-003 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated in a slight fold on a gently undulating landscape. This is a grass-covered circular area (diam. 31.5m N-S; 31.5m E-W crest to crest; int. diam. 26.3m N-S; 24.6m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 4-5m; int. H 0.5-1m; ext. H 1-1.3m) and hedge, with an outer fosse (at W: Wth of top 4.3m; Wth of base 1.5m; D 0.6m) WSW-NNW. The entrance (Wth 1.7m) at S is probably modern, and the perimeter is slightly truncated by a road bank at E-SE. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 September 2008

• LE025-025 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located towards the S end of a low N-S ridge. This is a grass-covered subcircular area (dims 21m E-W; 19m N-S) defined by a fosse (at W: Wth of top 2m; D 0.4m; at N: Wth of top 6m; D 0.4m) W-NE and a scarp (Wth 2.3m; H 0.4m) NE-SE. The platform is truncated slightly by an E-W field bank at S. The original entrance is not identified. It remains unplanted in a forest (Bing c. 2013). The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 September 2008

Architectural heritage

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

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 Callowhill, 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 moderately high, moderately low, 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_1688 (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 Callowhill with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Leitrim.

Name

Callowhill · Collchoill

Area

1,248,554 m² (124.86 ha, 308.52 acres)

Civil parish

Oughteragh, and its townlands

Barony

Carrigallen

Electoral division

Ballinamore, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,317 people lived in 516 households in the Ballinamore electoral division. 66% of households owned their home. 39% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 10% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Castlerogy, Creevy, Derrinkeher (McDonnell), Drumbad, Kiltygerry, Liscuilfea, Mayo, Moher, Tullyoscar

Placenames

Callowhill 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.