Lecarrow

9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lecarrow, from 792 m² to 150,411 m² (15.04 ha, 37.17 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 11 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Lecarrow in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Kilglass And Grange Loughs 000608

Recorded monuments

• RO017-190 Crannog
  Description

  Near the SE angle of triangular triangular Lough Elia (dims. c. 500m N-S; c. 200m E-W at N to c. 450m E-W at S), and indicated on the 1837 and 1909 eds of the OS 6-inch map as being c. 25m from the S shore. This is an oval overgrown area (dims. 39m E-W; 30m N-S) of earth and stone (H 0.5m) with no evidence of artificial construction on the S shore of the lake, but the dug-out canoe discovered in 1897 may be from near this site (Anon. 1897, 431). Crannog (RO017-144----) is c. 250m to the NW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revised upload: 20 April, 2015

• RO017-191 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Just off the crest of the gentle NW-facing slope of a drumlin, c. 180m from the SE corner of triangular Lough Elia (dims c. 500m N-S; c. 470m E-W at S). Circular overgrown area (diam. 32m E-W; 29m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 4.2m; int. H 0.7-0.9m; ext. H 1.5m) and an outer fosse (Wth of top 4.6-5.2m; Wth of base 2.6-2.9m; D 0.6-0.8m). There is no visible entrance. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO017-192 Church
  Description

  On a level landscape. The present Roman Catholic church of Clooncraff was built in 1844, Rev. Edward Keogh being parish priest, and it is located c. 230m SSW of this site which was just newly abandoned as the Roman Catholic church at the time of the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map where it is depicted as a shell (dims c. 10m N-S; c. 5m E-W). The present church was renovated in the 1970s and dedicated to St Oliver Plunkett on 11th Dec. 1994, Bishop Christopher Jones officiating. There is no visible evidence of the old chapel. (Beirne 2000, 198) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO017-193 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a gentle NE-facing slope. Oval grass-covered area (dims 37m N-S; 30m E-W) defined by an earthen bank and hedge (Wth 2.6-2.8m; int. H 0.4-0.6m; ext. H 0.5-0.8m) SE-W, which is reduced to a scarp (H 0.6m) hedged as a field boundary elsewhere, and with an outer fosse (Wth of top 3m; Wth of base 1.3m; D 0.2m) at NW. There is no visible entrance. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

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

The EPA radon map gives no estimate at the centre of the townland of Lecarrow.

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately low, low. Parts of the land are water.

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. Roscommon.

Name

Lecarrow

Area

1,099,446 m² (109.94 ha, 271.68 acres)

Civil parish

Clooncraff, and its townlands

Barony

Roscommon

Electoral division

Elia, the unit of the census

Census 2022

137 people lived in 52 households in the Elia electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 20% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cloonglasny Beg, Cloonglasny More, Curry

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.